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The bodies of UK Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and four of his guests on the superyacht Bayesian have been recovered, three days after it sank off of the coast of Sicily, according to Italian officials, Financial Times reported. The officials said the bodies of Christopher Morvillo of the law firm Clifford Chance and Johnathan Bloomer, chair of insurance group Hiscox
One of the new AI-powered launch features on the Pixel 9 series is Pixel Studio, an app that takes text prompts and turns them into images. It might end up being a fun little tool, but it can also go off the rails pretty easily in our experience, 9to5Google reported.
Waymo disclosed Tuesday that it’s now giving more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across its three main commercial markets in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix, TechCrunch reported. Those figures were shared by Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana in a social media post on X. The new 100,000 figure is double what the company has previously disclosed. Alphabet and
Advanced Micro Devices agreed to pay nearly $5 billion to ZT Systems, a designer of data-center equipment for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, bolstering the chip maker’s attack on Nvidia’s dominance in AI computation, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The search landscape is changing at an unprecedented pace, driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Major players like Google Anthrophic and Bing by Microsoft are integrating AI-powered summaries at the top of search results, fundamentally transforming how users interact with information online. But while this innovation promises enhanced user experiences, it also presents imminent challenges for businesses and creators struggling to maintain visibility in an increasingly crowded digital space. As AI-powered answers dominate search results, companies face an existential crisis between the need for visibility and the risk of becoming obsolete.
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it’s ending operations in Brazil, although the service will remain available to users in the country, TechCrunch reported. The announcement comes amidst a legal battle with Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who sought to block certain accounts on X as part of an investigation into election
Epic Games today officially launched a rival app for iOS in the European Union, marking the first time Apple’s own App Store has had to face a serious rival. The Epic Games Store will initially offer Epic’s games, including Fortnite, for users to download onto their iPhones, with plans to start onboarding third-party developers’ games beginning December, Wired reported. The