CES 2025: Self-driving cars are everywhere, as are other transportation technology trends
Even before CES 2025 starts some trends are starting to emerge – or rather, some gaps are emerging. All the US and some European automakers that helped turn CES into an auto show were absent. Several Chinese automakers are filling the void, notably Zeekr, an EV brand owned by China's Geely Holdings. Wey, the premium brand of Great Wall...
Is Mark Zuckerberg changing Meta for the Trump era
At this point, it's pretty clear what Donald Trump wants from Mark Zuckerberg. But what does Zuckerberg, who has now moved to Mar-a-Lago twice since the November election, want from the President-elect? They all described Meta's relationship with the outgoing Biden administration as incredibly hostile. It's safe to assume that Zuckerberg wants to reset the MAGA regime, especially since...
What’s next for our privacy?
Data brokers and their clients defend these transactions by saying that most of this data is anonymized—though it's doubtful that can be done in the case of geolocation data. Additionally, anonymized data can easily be re-identified, especially when combined with other personal information. Digital rights advocates have for years raised the alarm about this clandestine industry, particularly the...
Apple may add iPhone Air to its lineup
Apple's next major iPhone upgrade will include a new model called the iPhone 17 Air, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. This seems like an obvious way to expand the lineup, given Apple's success with the Air moniker for thinner MacBooks and iPads (I'm typing those words on a MacBook Air), and it might even be better than the iPhone...
Here are five of the best founder tips I’ve learned as a Found host
After more than two years — and nearly 100 episodes — as the host of TechCrunch's recently ended podcast Found , I've learned a lot about how founders approach building startups. I've heard stories about how founders know when the time is right to expand their core product, about how startups approach hiring, what makes entrepreneurs take the leap...
How to turn off notification summaries powered by Apple Intelligence
With iOS 18, Apple launched Apple Intelligence, which includes an AI-powered feature to summarize notifications. If you get a lot of notifications from one app, the feature summarizes the contents of all notifications in one card that appears on the lock screen. You can remove the stack after reading the summary, or tap to check individual notifications. However, these...
Open source licensing: Everything you need to know
Open source drives the tech world forward, shaping 90% of the modern software stack through frameworks; library; database; operating system; and countless standalone applications. The benefits of open source software are well understood, promising greater control and transparency. However, there is a constant struggle between open nature and ownership, which has led many companies to withdraw from open source...
Download: How AI is changing internet search, and the future of privacy in the US
Every day, we are tracked by hundreds or even thousands in the digital world. All of this is collected, packaged together with other details, and used to create highly personal profiles that are then shared or sold, often without our explicit knowledge or consent. to send them would require Congress to pass a comprehensive federal privacy law. So...
Panasonic Z95A OLED TV Review: Searing Brightness and Color
Photo: Ryan Waniata Thanks to the excellent image processing, details pop, from 4K Blu-ray crystal to 1080p and even upscaling 720p. Only the fuzziest SD image fails to impress, sometimes it comes across a little blocky, but that's true of pretty much all 4K TVs. The only minor chinks in the armor I noticed over the course of a...
What’s next for AI in 2025
How do we calculate the end time? The four hot trends to watch out for in 2024 include so-called special chatbots - interactive assistant applications powered by multimodal big language models (check: we don't know yet, but we're talking about what are now called agents, the hottest thing in AI now); generative video (check: some technology has improved...
