Tech

Trump’s proposed university endowment tax could hurt funding, VC warns

University endowments could be taxed much higher under Trump. That may harm VCs, an investor warns. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...

M4 MacBook Air References Found In macOS Sequoia 15.2 Update, Revealing That Apple Will Introduce Two Refreshes In Early 2025

Apple’s officially released macOS Sequoia 15.2 to the public, with the new update bringing some welcome changes but also providing ...

What OpenAIs Sora means for the future of truth

There’s a story from the earliest days of cinema that seems applicable to Sora, the text-to-video creation tool launched by ...

Hyper Light Breaker Set To Release In Early Access Come January

Today, Heart Machine revealed that Hyper Light Breaker, the 3D follow-up to Hyper Light Drifter, will be released in Early ...

YouTube Kids app now actually looks like YouTube

Your small children being on YouTube is inevitable at this point. From experience, I know kids master how to swipe ...

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 and Flip FE will share a chipset you might not like

Samsung has apparently confirmed to Korean media that its Exynos 2500 production yields are improving, following a few months of ...

Google’s Gemini 2.0 is here: a new era of AI agents that can get things done

Google’s Gemini 2.0 is here: a new era of AI agents that can get things done

Honda cuts funding to robotaxi venture with Cruise and GM in Japan

Honda Motor Co. will stop funding a joint venture with General Motors and Cruise to launch a robotaxi service in ...

Gemini in Google Drive now supports folder-level queries

Gemini in Google Drive now supports folder-level queries

Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal is moving its HQ from DC to California

Hyundai’s electric vertical takeoff and landing startup Supernal is shifting its global headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Irvine, California and ...

It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem

OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-generating AI. But from the looks of ...

The truth about dyslexics in tech

When I was growing up, I didn’t realize I had dyslexia. I just knew I wasn’t keeping up with other ...

Pentagon doesn’t know where mystery drones over New Jersey come from

In a press briefing on Wednesday, the Pentagon said it has no evidence that the mysterious drones that have been ...

Mystery solved as report tells us which chip powers Huawei’s Mate 70 series

A teardown of the Huawei Mate 70 Pro+ shows that the 7nm Kirin 9020 AP powers the phone.

These are the color names for all Galaxy S25 models

These are most likely the color names and storage options for the upcoming Galaxy S25 phones.

vivo to launch a new sub-brand next year

Chinese smartphone makers love to create sub-brands to cater to different areas of the market – think Redmi, Poco, iQOO, ...

Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. ...

YouTube attempts to break down language barriers by bringing auto-dubbing to more channels

YouTube attempts to break down language barriers by bringing auto-dubbing to more channels

Founder who built Snap’s AI launches a snappy new take on video chatbots

A deep learning scientist whose last startup was acquired by Snap to build its My AI chatbot has raised seed ...

This Week in AI: Seeking balance in the deluge of news

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Longtime ...

Apple brings ‘Layered Recordings’ to Voice Memos app in iOS 18.2 update

Alongside the release of a host of new AI features, Apple is also updating the Voice Memos app in iOS ...

Meta apps experience global outage

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads on Wednesday were all experiencing issues to varying degrees as a result of a ...

Green ammonia startup Amogy is trying to raise $90M to reduce truck pollution

The company is focused on various transportation markets, including maritime shipping, long-haul trucking, and agriculture. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights ...

Watch Google DeepMind’s Genie 2 generate playable 3D worlds

Last week, Google DeepMind announced Genie 2, a new video model that generates plausible, consistent, playable 3D environments based on ...

Microsoft begins testing the ability to share files between iPhones and Windows PCs

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it’s starting to roll out a way for users to share files between their iPhone ...

Get your head in the game with 50% off gaming headsets at Best Buy

SAVE UP TO 50%: As of Dec. 11, you can score up to 50% off select gaming headsets at Best ...

Score a pair of Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro earbuds with a $20 Amazon gift card

SAVE $80 + FREE $20 GIFT CARD: As of Dec. 11, get a pair of Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro for ...

Fortnite Ballistic Out Now; Creators Can Publish Islands in First Person

Epic Games has confirmed that Fortnite Ballistic is now available on early access as planned. This is a 5-versus-5 tactical ...

Stigg makes it easy to change your SaaS pricing

Stigg (not The Stig, just Stigg) describes itself as “the first scalable monetization platform for the modern billing stack.” There’s ...

Download: Apple Has Finally Released iOS 18.2 Update For The iPhone With ChatGPT Support, Image Playground, Genmoji, More

Last week, Apple seeded the first release candidate build of iOS 18.2 to developers for final testing and filtering of ...