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One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward an attempted rescue of NASA’s $500 million Swift gamma-ray observatory suddenly spun out of control. It didn’t look good. The spacecraft, named Link, was rotating on multiple ax

Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he’s recently found solo success with the track “Rubberz,” which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were raised about the song’s origin

Republicans can win the House in 2026 through Puerto Rican voters Midterm elections have historically cost the party in power seats in Congress, and this November could be no different as Republicans face a difficult path to keeping their narrow majority in the U.S. House. Republ

Trump rips Pirro decision as DOJ looks to drop Reflecting Pool case: ‘I don’t agree’ President Trump called out U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Saturday for agreeing to dismiss the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism case against former Olympian David Hearn. The Justice Dep

Despite fears about AI spending, the latest earnings from Big Tech show that demand for AI infrastructure remains resilient. Strong cloud growth at Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet suggests their AI investments are beginning to pay off. The companies also committed aggressive capit

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seemed excited to share what he called a “cool use case” on Friday, posting that parents could “connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests” to the company’s new product ChatGPT Work, then “every morning for the drive to school, have it ma

Dell founder shows how a $100 billion empire started 42 years ago — CEO says ‘This one page changed my life’ $135,000 in 1984 is a lot of money. Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Technologies Inc., shared his company’s quarterly earnings report dated July 31, 1984, saying, “This

Screen-time apps aren’t effective for many people because, in the end, they depend on your willpower. They remind you to stop scrolling or let you set timers, but such notifications can be easy to ignore. Autonomous Key takes a different approach to this issue simply by being a p

Apple's latest earnings reignited the race for the world's most valuable company, briefly pushing it ahead of Nvidia before the AI chipmaker reclaimed the crown days later. The changing rankings bring an even debate to the table – which is worth more, a company that’s sitting out

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been a lightning rod for controversy ever since the first casting and design reveals, igniting afresh with each new trailer. The film has garnered plenty of well-deserved accolades (and earnings) since its release, and yet somehow the debates r

Score the ultimate AMD AM4 starter pack with a six-core CPU and 16GB RAM for only $280 — kickstart your next PC build with $138 in savings Cutting costs without cutting corners. The PC hardware industry is facing an unprecedented challenge at the moment: a component crisis. Durin

Supermicro has introduced an expanded rack portfolio for high-density AI and other mission-critical data center deployments. The lineup includes rack options based on NVIDIA MGX platforms, Open Compute Project Open Rack v3 (ORv3), and conventional EIA 19-inch designs, with config

Uber has partnered with — and in some cases made direct investments in — more than 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years. And it’s taking a global approach. Here, TechCrunch tracks every one of those moves in one place. But first, a bit of history. Uber was, at

Ahead of FMS 2026, Kioxia launched its new CM10 series, marking the company’s entry into PCIe 6.0 enterprise storage with direct liquid cooling capability for AI infrastructure deployments. These new SSDs leverage Kioxia’s BiCS FLASH generation 10 memory technology and target hig

Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 fly on 8GB RAM amid memory shortage — optimizations to reduce OS memory footprint have begun Windows 11 is about to go on a diet Microsoft said that it’s planning to optimize Windows 11 for systems with 8GB of RAM and above as part of its promise

(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Berkshire shares hit eight-month high Berkshire Hathaway shares rallied to an eight-month h

Trump Media and Technology Group's new paid data service launched on Aug. 1, providing faster access to Truth Social posts from President Donald Trump and other top accounts on the platform. "Truth API," the new application programming interface, is designed to give firms "a dire

10x Times Zero Is Still Zero: The #1 Thing to Understand About AI SDRs AI SDR and AI GTM agents are everywhere now. Every vendor promises they’ll 10x your pipeline. And they do work. They really do. We have the data 😉 From Agentforce to Artisan to Qualified to Monaco and more, a

In pushing back against mass autonomous vehicle deployment efforts, labor unions have found an unlikely ally — Uber. A controversial bill currently being considered by the Washington, D.C. Council is a prime example of where this emerging political alliance is being tested. The D

Doomscrolling can be addictive. It’s common to end up on the couch for hours, mindlessly scrolling through feeds, which inevitably messes up your posture and, in the end, just ends up making you feel bad about yourself. Your eyes definitely don’t like it, either. Fortunately, the

Quick commerce major Zepto has officially confirmed that it will undertake a pre-IPO private placement ahead of its planned public listing, while indicating that it will continue to focus on business execution before launching its IPO. In a statement issued on Friday, the company

It's been less than a year since 26-year-old Logan Sudeith became a full-time trader on prediction markets and in one month alone he managed to collect $250,000. That doesn't happen from simply checking the odds of an event contract on the platform, he said. A clever trade requir

Raamdeo Agrawal, Chairman of Motilal Oswal Financial Services feels that the Indian equity market has lost a number of foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) over the past two years for various reasons. Speaking to news agency ANI today, Agrawal said Indian equity valuations have bee

It’s summer. You are sweaty. There’s some unprecedented heat wave that’s even worse than the last unprecedented heat wave. You are uncomfortable. You’re getting sweatier by the second. What do you do? This predicament — one that’s becoming more and more common — just flat out suc

It’s practically an adage on Wall Street by now: You know you’re in trouble when Ken Griffin calls. This time, it was Situational Awareness—once one of Wall Street's hottest AI hedge funds—that found itself in distress. Few were surprised that Griffin leapt in to pick up the piec

Prospective homebuyers eyeing a condominium may soon discover that mortgage lenders are as interested in the condo building as they are in the buyer. New condo-lending policies taking effect on Aug. 3 from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — government-sponsored enterprises that purchas

With the Q1 FY27 earnings season in full swing, quarterly results remained the biggest driver of investor sentiment for listed Indian new-age tech companies this week. While logistics company Shadowfax emerged as the top gainer following its strong Q1 performance, fintech major P

Like any company, Reddit reports quarterly earnings, and its CEO, Steve Huffman, addresses investors during those reports. It’s not always about just sharing numbers, though: This quarter, Huffman took the opportunity to voice concerns and criticisms about Google’s AI Overviews f

As more Americans use GLP-1 weight-loss drugs to shrink their waistlines, retail giants are betting on a bottom-line bump tied to a shift in the way the drugs are priced and purchased. Employers are dropping coverage for GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound in greater numbers, nu

Anthropic's Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — test environment with internet access and unwitting targets' lax cybersecurity practices led to bots running rampant Impressive hacking skills on display, but the incidents illustrate a lack o

'Nozzlegate' erupts as Prusa CORE One 3D printer kits arrive with soft steel nozzles — Bondtech admits machining flaws with no quick fix Founders Edition buyer launches “Nozzle Gate” website in response Bondtech, the creator and manufacturer of the INDX toolchanger system used to

For months, cybersecurity leaders warned that artificial intelligence would reshape the threat landscape, compressing weeks- and dayslong cyberattacks into a matter of minutes. Until last week, those threats still felt like a distant risk. The OpenAI agent hack on Hugging Face il

Best Buy is at a critical juncture as the consumer electronics retailer aims to revitalize its performance under incoming CEO Jason Bonfig, who spoke exclusively with CNBC about his strategy for the company. The company has been struggling with slumping sales over the past few ye

Only two years ago, Leopold Aschenbrenner was hailed as the “Nostradamus” of AI — a young oracle with a bold prophecy for the future. “Before long, the world will wake up,” Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher turned hedge-fund manager, predicted in 2024. This week, it did —

A local judge has ruled that Waymo can no longer use its side-by-side charging facilities overnight in Santa Monica, California, as these may pose a “public nuisance.” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bradley S. Phillips granted this week the City of Santa Monica’s motion for a p

Indian startups raised $662 million in July, a sharp decline from the blockbuster $2 billion recorded in June, when Meta's investment in CRED accounted for a significant share of the month's funding. July saw only one funding round above $100 million as Emergent raised fresh capi

For nearly two years, the biggest question hanging over the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has been whether Big Tech's massive spending spree would eventually translate into stronger earnings or simply become an expensive race for market share. Microsoft's and Amazon's latest