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San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking like relatively unassuming office buildings. But that's changed in recent years, as data centers have grown into massive "hyperscale" facilities spanning millions of square feet and housing the physical infrastructure for AI. There are now more […]

Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner's allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls. "Sometimes people will tell me they have a shellfish allergy, and I'll come back, and they won't ask me any questions," says Madison, who asked that her last name be withheld to […]

The podracing scene in The Phantom Menace is one of my favorite movie sequences ever. It's just so dang cool: The futuristic racers tear over treacherous Tatooine terrain while various Star Wars aliens bark at each other in incomprehensible sci-fi languages. Eventually a young Anakin Skywalker proves his mettle by clawing his way from the […]

Although I count the original Game Boy as one of my first tech obsessions, I still consider Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance to be my favorite console of all time thanks to its more comfortable horizontal design (for my big hands) and its expansive catalog of excellent 32-bit and 16-bit games. Ayaneo isn’t the first company […]

The open-source smart home platform Home Assistant is kicking the cloud to the curb - in name at least. "We are renaming Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link, because we hate clouds," founder Paulus Schoutsen told The Verge in an interview ahead of today's announcement. "Big tech ruined the cloud, so we're out." The […]

Tesla sold fewer vehicles in the third quarter than it did a year ago, when consumers rushed to cash in on expiring federal tax credits for electric vehicle purchases. But the company still beat estimates from Wall Street, suggesting that it's recovery was still on track. Tesla said that it produced a total of 464,391 […]

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has announced that the company will just be called Skydance when it completes its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery next week. In a post on X, Ellison writes that "we wanted a name that would give the combined company an identity of its own while allowing Paramount and […]

Keurig's new single-serve coffee machine delivers the same convenience that helped popularize its appliances but without the use of recyclable pods made from plastic and aluminum. The company first showed off its Keurig Alta machine two years ago while introducing the puck-shaped pod replacements called AltaRounds that wrap pressed coffee grounds in a plant-based coating […]

Tesla introduced a new feature to enable drivers to escape quickly while charging their vehicles in response to a mass shooting at a Supercharger location in Idaho in August that left seven people wounded and four dead. When a Tesla vehicle is charging, the plug is locked to the charging port and driving is disabled. […]

OpenAI's answer to Muse arrived this week, and it looks a whole lot like Muse dressed up in a suit and tie. Dots is a business-first product - for now, at least - costing a minimum of $100 per month. And sure, you can make a cute little Dot character, just like you can make […]

The company says around 14 vehicles may be affected, and that it has resolved the issue on the assembly line.

Deliveries jumped roughly 45% compared to the same quarter last year, with Rivian delivering more than 19,000 EVs.

The health tech software giant, which makes the widely used MyChart system for accessing medical data, will focus on fixing security bugs for the next few weeks.

The company delivered more than 486,000 EVs in the third quarter, down from last year's record but moving in a positive direction.

The clock is almost out. You have less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Applications close tonight at midnight PT. Connect with the Boston startup ecosystem through November 1–7 by hosting your own Side Event. Bring your community, start an impactful conversation that’ll push the […]

Today is the very last day to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. On October 13–15, 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will arrive at San Francisco’s Moscone West looking for companies, products, ideas, and people worth knowing. The question is: will they find your startup?

Clay Co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin joins the AI Stage to discuss the rise of GTM engineer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register for your ticket and get a second pass at 50% off.

The .si domain name is seeing unprecedented demand after President Trump's super intelligence executive order.

Blackstone's Jas Khaira will take the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on building next-gen AI. Register for your pass and get 50% off a second.

Laytr lets you save articles, recipes, screenshots, videos, PDFs and more for later, while keeping your archive private and synced across your Apple devices.

"There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others," the pope wrote. "Algorithms lack the spark of humanity."

The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6.

Mastering Loops in JavaScript: For Loops Explained Simply! ​Understanding how loops work is a fundamental skill for every web developer. Today, I broke down the for loop flow logic into two simple scenarios: ​1. Incrementing Loop (Counting Up): ​Initial Value: Starts at i = 0 ​Condition: Runs as long as i <= 5 ​Step: Increases by 1 (i++) ​Output: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Example: for (let i = 0; i <= 5; i++) { console.log(i); } 2.Decrementing Loop (Counting Down): ​Initial V...

Built for a friend who loves travelling but hates planning. ✈️🌍 TripBuddy is a personalized AI travel planning agent that turns a simple natural-language travel request into a complete, preference-aware travel plan. This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend . 🧳 What I Built I built TripBuddy , a personalized AI travel planning agent for a friend who loves travelling but absolutely hates planning. Instead of searching thro...

Someone on your team just spent Friday afternoon copying form leads into the CRM. Again. Half your feed says "replace your team with AI agents"; the other half says "just use Zapier". Both camps are selling something. Here's the honest answer to the AI agent vs Zapier small business question: most of your automations don't need an agent, a few genuinely do, and some shouldn't be automated at all. The task decides, not the tool. Below is a task-by-task table across Zapier or Make, n8n, custom ...

Pope Leo XIV’s recent statement on AI-generated art draws a clear line that every ML practitioner should internalize: "There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others." This isn't just a philosophical argument—it's a constraint that should shape how you evaluate and deploy generative models. The Ontological Gap in Practice The Pope’s core cla...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built I built StudyCraft , a clean, distraction-free study companion designed for my friend Maya, a biology student who was struggling with study burnout, endless exam anxiety, and the bloat of modern study tools. Maya was tired of existing flashcard and quiz apps that hit her with paywalls after 20 cards, bombard her with unsolicited ads in the middle of review sessions, and require me...

How Email Delivery Works: From DNS and MX Records to the Inbox When you send an email, it looks simple: you write a message, click Send, and it appears in the recipient's inbox. But behind that simple action, several systems work together. If you're building a web application that sends or receives email, understanding this flow is extremely useful. While building InboxOro, I spent a lot of time working with email infrastructure, DNS, SMTP, and message processing. In this post, I'll...

I've been building Invosmith , an invoicing tool for freelancers and small service businesses, on Next.js + Cloudflare Workers + D1. It's my first real product, and most of the interesting problems weren't the ones I expected. Here are six of them. 1. "Was my invoice opened?" — tracking without lying to the user The most-requested thing from freelancers is simple: did the client even look at it? The obvious answer is an email tracking pixel. I didn't rely on it. Apple Mail ...

Simple Implementation of a Basic String in C++ 20 (with SSO) In this basic tutorial, we will explore one of the simpler ways to implement a kind of functional Basic String class in C++ 20 which makes use of Small String Optimisation (SSO). I'll try to explain everything from scratch, so it will take both time and length. If you already know something, feel free to just skip it. Assumptions and Constraints Before delving into anything, I must make it VERY CLEAR as to what y...