376 place 0
The leader of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robotics program, Milan Kovac, is leaving the company, a setback for what CEO Elon Musk has said will eventually become a core part of the business. Kovac, who first joined the company in 2016 and took over Optimus in 2022, confirmed his departure on X ...
A newsletter a day!
You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
The Information
A brand-new chipset, larger batteries, and a new telephoto camera. These are the key new additions to the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL. The pair is visually identical to their predecessors but now comes in Moonstone (blue-gray), Obsidian (black), Porcelain (white) and Jade (green) colors. Pixel 10 Pro (Jade) and Pixel 10 Pro XL (Moonstone) Pixel 10 Pro is equipped with a 6.3-inch LTPO OLED display, while... Read more ›
2,775 fresh
Kennedy accused the American Academy of Pediatrics of working for Big Pharma, even as he himself has profited from attacking vaccines. Read more ›
1,665 fresh
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. Read more ›
1,260 fresh
Last week, two young liberals asked for help finding a job in the ideas industry. And I didn’t have a great answer. It made sense that they were asking: We were at a conference for liberals, dedicated to building a version of the doctrine that works in the 21st century. They were interested in studying […] Read more ›
1,126 fresh
Apple today released new iOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 18.6.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 updates, and the software addresses a security vulnerability that is known to have been actively exploited. According to Apple's security support documents, memory corruption could result from devices that were sent a malicious image file. Apple says that it is aware of a report that the issue "may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific... Read more ›
1,088 fresh
Though we might have to wait until the iPhone 17 launch next month for a confirmation. Read more ›
1,011 fresh
As the U.S. confirms interest in an equity stake in Intel, could this move signal to other CHIPS Act beneficiaries that America wants a slice of their pie, in exchange for funds? Read more ›
931 fresh
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar outlined three key strategies companies should focus on to build a "competitive moat" in the AI era. Read more ›
923 fresh
Apple today released iOS 18.6.2 and iPadOS 18.6.2, more minor updates for the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 operating systems. iOS 18.6.2 comes less than a week after the launch of iOS 18.6.1, an update that re-added blood oxygen monitoring support to the latest Apple Watch models. iOS 18.6.2 and iPadOS 18.6.2 can be downloaded on eligible devices over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update. Apple has... Read more ›
918 fresh
Google just revealed a spate of new devices, including a line of Pixel 10 smartphones. Amazon has joined the hype train early, as it now offers gift cards when pre-ordering one of these handsets. The gift cards range in value from $100 to $300, depending on what device is purchased. Perhaps the most notable is a $200 gift card when pre-ordering the Pixel 10 Pro with 128GB of storage. This... Read more ›
911 fresh
Herbert West's delightfully sick experiments return to the big screen courtesy of Mutant and the American Genre Film Archive. Read more ›
810 fresh
Valve's Fremont device, featuring an AMD processor based on the Hawk Point 2 silicon, has appeared in the Geekbench database. Read more ›
744 fresh
The last time I wrote a full review of a Dawn of War game I started throwing around terms like "a prima facie truth". Admittedly I was trying to be ironic - it was about how fun it is to smash big mechs into each other! - but also admittedly, there is something about this series that just makes me get a bit over-excited. The original Dawn of War, which... Read more ›
735
The Pixel 10 Pro phones can take high-res portrait shots, but not via the tele camera. Read more ›
717 fresh
AMD is preparing another Ryzen 5 9000 CPU that could be the cheapest Zen 5 CPU when it debuts. The Ryzen 5 9500F was spotted in a Geekbench listing sporting benchmark scores just shy of the Ryzen 5 9600X. Read more ›
704 fresh
Google has officially announced the Pixel 10 lineup, and there’s a lot to dig into. Like last year, there are four devices — the Pixel 10, the Pixel 10 Pro, the Pixel 10 Pro XL, and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold — and the phones have some nice improvements and new features that might be […] Read more ›
671 fresh
Sony is raising the price of all PS5 models by $50 in the US due to a “challenging economic environment,” according to a blog post. The changes will go into effect on Thursday. The new prices are as follows: Developing… Read more ›
634 fresh
It’s finally happening: Google Assistant in the home is getting its Gemini glow-up. “Gemini for Home” is an all-new voice assistant for Google Home, set to arrive later this year, the company announced today. This new voice assistant, powered by Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence, will eventually replace Google Assistant on Google’s Nest smart speakers and […] Read more ›
573 fresh
These are both great foldables, but here are just a few reasons I'd consider Google's latest over Samsung. Read more ›
502 fresh
For nearly 30 years, developer Capcom has been redefining its particular brand of survival horror for the Resident Evil series. Despite its tone shifting between action-horror games and more pure horror entries, where players face down grotesque moments with scant resources, the series still manages to place players in tense encounters that define the series' against-all-odds approach to horror. And with the upcoming Resident Evil Requiem — or RE9 —... Read more ›
497 fresh
The Information
Venture investors are discussing ploughing as much as $1 billion into Texas-based energy startup Base Power at a $4 billion valuation, or about four times its valuation in April, according to a person with knowledge of the investment talks. The startup, co-founded in 2023 by Zach Dell, a former Thrive Capital investor and son of PC mogul Michael Dell, generates revenue by managing a fleet of home backup batteries and... Read more ›
55
We’re in a new era of government intervention in corporate America. The latest example is Bloomberg’s report on Thursday that the Trump administration was in talks to “take a stake” in Intel. Just on Monday, President Donald Trump said he and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had agreed that Nvidia would pay the government 15% of whatever revenues it generates from the sale of AI chips to China, in exchange for... Read more ›
37
Vercel, a nine-year-old cloud startup that companies use to host and develop websites and artificial intelligence apps, has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation between $8 billion to $9 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge of the discussions. The new funding could nearly triple Vercel’s private valuation from a financing in May last year and follows a recent growth... Read more ›
35
Automating customer service has been among the most popular applications of artificial intelligence models, and investors have pumped about $1 billion into six key startups developing them. Now, a seventh is throwing its hat into the ring.San Francisco-based startup Pylon has raised $31 million in a fundraise co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Ventures at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a person with... Read more ›
23
The Trump family has partnered with a father-son duo with a history of run-ins with financial regulators for a deal to sell $1.5 billion of its crypto tokens. A biotech turned crypto company called Alt5 Sigma will sell $1.5 billion of stock and use the money to buy the crypto token created by World Liberty Financial, founded by Donald Trump Jr. and his brother, Eric. Read more ›
21
For all the talk about the rise of low-cost or open-source AI models, enterprises are still gravitating to brand-name models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. That’s prompting database providers like Snowflake, Databricks and Oracle to strike deals allowing database customers to use the brand-name AI to build chatbots and search tools that can analyze each customers’ proprietary data. In the latest example, Oracle and Google announced an agreement this morning... Read more ›
21
In the fast-paced AI wars, time is precious. So when Google last month said it would pay Windsurf $2.4 billion to license the prominent AI startup’s technology and hire some of its employees, the search giant hurried to add Windsurf’s researchers and engineers to its ranks. Within a day, Google had onboarded most of the Windsurf staff it had hired—but not all of them. Some of them were left in... Read more ›
17
A group of more than 80 chief executive officers at crypto and fintech firms signed a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to block U.S. banks, such as JPMorgan Chase, from charging fees for access to customer data, which could threaten the business model of fintech firms. The CEOs at ... Read more ›
16
Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google’s Chrome, the world’s largest internet browser, for a price amounting to nearly double its valuation. While that acquisition seems unlikely to transpire, the company has been on the prowl for smaller browsers it could more easily bite off. Since the end of last year, executives at the three-year-old startup have communicated with leaders... Read more ›
15
The Federal Reserve said Friday it will end its program that scrutinized fintech and crypto activities by banks, months after it stopped requiring banks to obtain advanced permission before engaging in crypto businesses. The Fed said it has strengthened its understanding of these activities and ... Read more ›
12
Most popular sources
Business Insider
|
13% 24 |
Eurogamer.net
|
13% 11 |
Wired
|
8% 3 |
Gizmodo
|
7% 1 |
Android Authority
|
7% 2 |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
20.08.2025 15:14
Last update: 15:05 EDT.
News rating updated: 22:02.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.
popular