This Startup Is Using AI to Fight Off a Future AI Pandemic
Red Queen Bio is using artificial intelligence to design antibody drugs for novel pathogens—before future AI systems create them.
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How NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Maximizes AI Factory Throughput and Efficiency
Every unused watt is capacity left on the table. AI factories are typically provisioned for the unlikely moment when every GPU reaches peak power, creating a…
TechCrunch Mobility: AV companies pick their lanes
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Sennheiser Momentum 5 review: Great sound, incredible battery life, and few compromises
I spent the last few weeks with the Sennheiser Momentum 5 to determine if this pair actually stands out, testing everything from sound quality and noise cancellation to comfort and battery life.
Out of the Park Baseball lets me enjoy baseball even when the Mets suck
If you were to ask me what game or game series I’ve sunk the most time into, the answer would be easy: Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP). I have spent roughly 2,300 hours, according to Steam, playing various editions of the game. OOTP isn’t like MLB The Show or Super Mega Baseball. It’s not…
Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It’s a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn’t Suno in a box, though. This isn’t a “push-button, get-song” device, aimed at creating something that sounds ready for top-40…
Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance
The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to be given away,…
Colorful AIR 14 Ultra: 960g OLED Laptop Debuts [2026]
A Chinese graphics card and motherboard maker best known for feeding gamers RTX cards just showed up at a laptop launch event with a machine that weighs less than a bag of sugar. Colorful, the company behind the iGame graphics card line, unveiled the “Source” AIR 14 Ultra at Intel Connection 2026 in Suzhou this…
Jury says Apple owes $5.7 billion after finding Taptic Engine infringed haptic technology patents in iPhones and Apple Watches
A U.S. jury has handed Apple a staggering $5.7 billion patent verdict after finding that the Taptic Engine inside iPhones and Apple Watches infringed haptic technology patents owned by San Diego-based Taction Technology. The verdict, delivered Friday in the U.S. […] The post Jury says Apple owes $5.7 billion after finding Taptic Engine infringed haptic…
How to Know When the AI Boom Is About to Go Bust
History shows that market manias end when the capital spigot turns off.