Who’s been messing up everything? It’s been Agatha all along… More than three years have passed since Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness revealed she hexed the Scarlet Witch and killed Sparky in WandaVision. The villain spent the entire season tricking Wanda Maximoff, trapping her in the town of Westview, New Jersey, but she then wound up
Month: October 2024
Character.AI is starting a new chapter after its $2.7 billion licensing deal with Google, which involved CEO Noam Shazeer returning to the search giant. It hired Erin Teague as a chief product officer, a YouTube exec who was the global head of sports movies and shows product management. Teague, who has been working at Google
During COVID-19, Wiley Webb embarked on a year-long trip with his wife to try to figure out the most pressing issues in the food system. He talked to people at more than 70 farms and consistently heard that they wanted more buyers. Large buyers told Webb they wanted to find these farm suppliers but couldn’t
The offices of plant-based protein startup Heura are tucked away down a narrow street a short distance from one of Barcelona’s main tourist draws. But the team of entrepreneurs and food scientists won’t be remixing their protein cocktails in close proximity to La Sagrada Família for much longer — they’re moving to new, larger digs
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands and Connections puzzles. The New York Times Crossword Puzzle is legendary. But if you don’t have that much time, the Mini Crossword is an entertaining substitute. The Mini Crossword is much easier
The iPhone 16 series and Apple Watch Series 10 are officially here, as well as Apple’s latest mobile software release – iOS 18. But if you didn’t decide to upgrade your tech, you might be left wondering whether the iPhone you’re still chugging along with supports the new software. It’s quite possible, as many older devices can use
Every October, without fail, I recommit to watching and playing as many horror movies and games as I can possibly fit. For one reason or another, however, I always drop off about halfway through the month with just a handful of accomplishments to actually show for my effort, and I’m sure this year will be
1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced the world to a new slasher icon: Freddy Krueger. The burned-up child murderer with a razor glove who hunts kids in their sleep to kill them was played by Robert Englund in eight films and a TV series. And while many might wish he would return to the
Another Nintendo Switch emulator has been taken offline as Nintendo’s crackdown on the homebrew scene continues. Work on the open-source emulator Ryujinx will cease and downloads for it have been removed after its creator was approached by the Mario maker, approximately seven months after Switch emulator Yuzu also bit the dust. Suggested Reading This Stylish
Saturday Night Live apparently has a new enemy and it’s everyone’s favorite seasonal Halloween pop-up shop empire Spirit Halloween. After a recent skit joked about the company’s low-quality items and six-week stores, Spirit fired back online and called SNL an “irrelevant 50-year-old show.” Suggested Reading Horror Game You’ve Never Heard Of Is Scientifically The Scariest
/ Google says it’s experimenting with adding background playback to the live TV streaming service on its iOS and Android apps. By Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, a smart home reporter who’s been testing connected gadgets since 2013. Previously a contributor to Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, and US News. Share this story Illustration by Alex Castro / The
When Harry Jones, Tom Leathes, and Alex Buttle set out to found Motorway, a startup that connects car owners with dealers looking to buy and resell their vehicles, in 2017, it wasn’t the founding teams’ first startup rodeo. Nor was it their second. Motorway was actually the founding team’s fifth startup, Jones, Motorway’s CPO, said
You’re the toughest Helldiver in Super Earth’s arsenal, but even a super soldier capable of defeating a Bile Titan single-handedly requires the support of a well-equipped Destroyer. That’s where Ship Modules enter the fray. They’re passive upgrades—resource and credit sinks—that improve your in-mission capabilities, such as the potency of turrets or the number of Eagle
Occasionally a TV show surprises you with something so unexpected you can’t stop thinking about it for hours, days, even weeks after an episode airs. The latest episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power did just that, offering up a moment that immediately etched itself onto my brain and has remained
For the past few years, direct air capture has been seen as a potential silver bullet to the climate crisis. But now a startup originally from the snowy wastes of Iceland is taking a new approach: removing carbon from seawater. The industry standard for removing carbon with direct air capture methods costs anywhere between $230
Sometimes, a demo is all you need to understand a product. And that’s the case with Runware. If you head over to Runware’s website, enter a prompt and hit enter to generate an image, you’ll be surprised by how quickly Runware generates the image for you — it takes less than a second. Runware is
Fusion startups have been on a fundraising tear lately, and a young startup, Acceleron Fusion, is joining the pack, having raised $15 million of a targeted $23.7 million round, according to an SEC filing. The fusion sector recently has been showered with interest from investors, who no doubt have been encouraged by the breakthrough experiment
Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Effie Epstein, announced a new $265 million AI fund that was betting big on large language model companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face. In fact, the plan was to invest in just six companies
While Real ID was on track to go into effect on May 7, 2025, it now looks as though it won’t happen until 2027. The latest delay comes in the form of a proposal from the TSA that would give you more time to get your paperwork up to date and your new ID ready to go. The
/ The $34.99 Pebblebee Universal comes in three versions with rechargeable batteries and lights that make them easier to locate. By Andrew Liszewski, a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Share this story Pebblebee’s Universal trackers
To wrap up its case, Google tried to fit it into a Supreme Court precedent that could undermine the government’s argument. By Lauren Feiner, a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content
/ The button debuts alongside two new Chromebooks from Samsung and Lenovo. The Quick Insert button replaces the search or launcher key that’s usually where the caps lock key would be on a Chromebook.Image: Google Google is announcing a pair of new Chromebooks today — Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook Plus and Lenovo’s Chromebook Duet 11 — and
Google is announcing new Chromebook models today with Samsung and Lenovo. With Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook Plus model in particular, the company is also introducing a new multifunctional quick insert key. But Google doesn’t want to leave existing Chromebook users behind as it added new AI-powered features for existing devices. The quick insert key, which also
/ Serve’s robots will bring food from restaurants to nearby Wing stations to be delivered by drones. By Andrew Liszewski, a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Share this story Serve’s robots will bring packages to
Tier and Dott, two leading European scooter- and bike-sharing services, are becoming one service called Dott. The two startups have already laid out plans to merge and form a single company back in January 2024. With this merger, the companies didn’t want to build a conglomerate of micromobility services; the operation was all about scale.
Apple just launched the iPhone 16 lineup, but don’t forget about the company’s cheaper, smaller model: the $429 iPhone SE. The pint-size iPhone made a comeback in 2020 and 2022, and another new version is expected to arrive in early 2025, according to Bloomberg. Unlike Apple’s flagship iPhone family, the iPhone SE’s launch timing is somewhat irregular.