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The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.

At IFA 2026, Nvidia and its partners showed off the first RTX Spark-powered laptops and mini PCs, designed to run AI models right on your computer.

When the beta arrives next year—15 years after its predecessor—Guild Wars 3 will have a new momentum engine that makes combat in the game feel closer to an action RPG.

With the P80 Ultra, TCL's E Ink-esque Nxtpaper phones are finally going OLED. Just like previous LCD models, the phone can switch to a low power, monochromatic display mode that replicates the look of paper when you want to read or minimize distractions. Only now you can switch back to what the company calls a […]

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools under the ownership of the world's biggest AI chipmaker. Hugging Face is an online platform founded in 2016 that gives AI developers a space to share their projects and data […]

DJI has announced a second generation of its Romo robovac. The Romo 2 series is quieter, more powerful, and better at climbing over small steps and other obstacles. But more importantly for DJI, a new local-only data mode should go some way to reassuring anyone concerned by the first Romo's serious security flaws. There are […]

SwitchBot has launched a new retrofit smart lock that gives owners multiple ways to enter European homes without a traditional key. Announced at IFA today, the SwitchBot Lock Ultra Max Vision Pro Combo provides multi-user entry and up to 19 ways to unlock doors, including fingerprint scans, passcodes, NFC card access, contactless authentication via facial […]

Today, I’m talking with Tom Conrad, the CEO of Sonos. Tom and I have known each other for a long time — he was the chief technology officer of Pandora, VP of product at Snap, and the chief product officer of Quibi. He was also on the board at Sonos during its disastrous 2024 app […]

Hohem is trying something new with its Eyepic handheld stabilized camera to differentiate it from existing offerings from companies like DJI and Insta360. At its core, the camera is functionally similar to devices like the Osmo Pocket 4 and Insta360 Luna Ultra with a rotating preview screen and a small camera module stabilized by a […]

After expanding its health and beauty lineup earlier this week with a camera-equipped electric toothbrush, Dyson is also introducing two new hair care products this month. The $329 Corrale CoolShine straightener upgrades the original Corrale that launched in 2020 with active cooling technology designed to "reduce residual heatexposure" so hair feels smoother, softer, and cooler […]

Google is rolling out an updated AI weather model that's supposed to be more accurate, especially when it comes to predicting rain and snowfall. In the announcement today, the company says it's now able to make forecasts with "unprecedented resolution" using its new WeatherNext 3 AI model. It can produce a global picture that's five […]

OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude are all experiencing issues. At around 11AM ET, ChatGPT started returning error messages for users trying to use the chatbot, with its status page saying there are currently "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex." In addition to preventing users from having conversations with ChatGPT, the outage is also […]

Zoox is expanding to this critical ride-hailing destination a few weeks after it started charging for robotaxi rides.

Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.

With the additions, the app is borrowing features from messaging apps as it looks to deepen engagement on its platform.

Our rebranded Boston event, TechCrunch Founder Summit (formerly All Stage), is back on November 4th! And we are looking for some incredible volunteers to help us make this event happen. If you are interested in finding out what goes into building tech events, apply to volunteer. If you are selected, not only will you get […]

WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, and Gemini.

Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature

The Scrum Master job market hasn't collapsed because companies outgrew agility. It's collapsed because too many Scrum Masters never actually practiced it. Somewhere in a UK bank's open-plan office in late 2023, a thousand people discovered their job title no longer existed. The bank — one of Britain's largest, unnamed publicly but confirmed in practitioner forums — eliminated its entire Scrum Master and Agile Coach function in a single restructuring sweep. Around 1,000 positions, gone. T...

TL;DR I recently finished a project from Udacity's Future AWS Agent Engineer Nanodegree Program, which I was able to take through the AWS AI & ML Scholarship. I built a customer support agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AgentCore Gateway, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and an FAQ. The agent had to understand whether a customer was reporting a bug, asking a question that could be answered from the FAQ, or asking for something that needed human support. I finished it in about two days and...

I run an x402 store where the customers are AI agents. In August I pointed a free checker at every host on the public x402 discovery list. One of them tried to sign its offers. Its signatures did not parse. x402 is the HTTP 402 payment flow Coinbase and Cloudflare revived for agents: request a resource, get a 402 with the price and the address, pay, retry. It works. Thousands of settlements a day go through it. What it does not do, by default, is commit the seller to anything bef...

Danny Thompson just delivered the Commit your Code Keynote. His biggest AI advice was to make the AI read and reread your files before you prompt it. Tell it to ingest the files by reading them. Then say if when change X how will it affect the files. So it has to read the file again to think. Then you tell it to make any changes. S0 it better understands what you want. Commit Your Code is taking place in Dallas Sep 3&4. You can attend virtually for free or you can donate to them...

We build a catalogue of Windows and Android software, and part of the pipeline checks the Authenticode signature on every binary we ingest. It works by shelling out to Get-AuthenticodeSignature and mapping the result onto our own verdict enum. On windows-latest, every single binary came back INVALID. Signed ones, deliberately tampered ones, and files that were not executables at all. The whole job finished in 4.3 seconds. Four of the five self-test cases failed loudly. The fifth passed. Th...

A five-second model timeout does not give you a five-second AI feature. Retrieval may take one second. The first model call takes four. A tool takes another two, and the next model call gets its own five-second timeout. Every dependency stayed within its local limit, yet the request took 12 seconds and paid for two model calls. The complete use case needs one runtime budget. Its remaining allowance follows every model call, tool invocation, and retry. Timeouts still matter. They are jus...

The last post covered how the loop runs on its own. The faster it runs, the sharper an old question gets: who vouches for the quality of what the AI produces? It doesn't get tired. In one afternoon it can write more code than a person can review in days. This post is about how I handle that in pdlc: not with one gate, but with a chain of seven links. Why quality matters more when AI writes the code Code quality used to rest on two things: the person writing it had a feel for ...

Avatars are one of those small UI details that can become surprisingly time-consuming. You need different sizes, shapes, styles, fallbacks, and sometimes avatar groups, and finding everything in one place isn't always easy. So we put together 200+ open-source UI avatars that anyone can use in their projects, whether you're working in Figma, React, or just need avatars for a mockup or prototype. We also made a UI Avatar Guide to share some of the things we've learned along the way, includin...

Where I actually started, and it isn't the thermostat Before telling the story, I need to say who did it, or none of it will make sense. I'm a senior software engineer. I can design systems, read a spec, debug ugly problems. About hardware I knew close to nothing . The only program I had ever written for an ESP32 was a loop that blinked some LEDs to a beat: a digitalWrite() inside a delay() , and the satisfaction of someone who has just invented fire. I had never soldered anything ...

A photo is more than the pixels you can see. JPEG files often contain EXIF and related metadata: the camera model, capture time, editing software, orientation, author fields, and sometimes precise GPS coordinates. That information can be useful while organizing a private library. It can also reveal more than intended when the file is shared publicly. Disclosure: I used an AI assistant to help draft and edit this article, then reviewed and verified the technical claims and links before publ...

Code: Megapixel99/kestrel Kestrel is a macOS browser I have been building on WKWebView to test whether a browser can hold a memory budget the way a game engine holds a frame budget. It used to ship six built-in imitations of common extensions, including an ad blocker. When macOS 15.4 shipped WKWebExtension I replaced all six with the real thing: Kestrel unpacks an .xpi and hands it to WebKit, and all 25 add-ons from my Firefox profiles load. Then I measured whether the real ad bl...

Introduction The first line of code I wrote in python was print("Hello world") This would lead me to discovering that python is used to do numerus tasks that aid people in the data field to do the following: create data pipelines design machine learning models create dashboard Why do people in the data space choose python Python has simple syntax which reads like plain English. Python has powerful libraries like pandas, numpy, matplotlib and py t...