Zoox has grounded its autonomous vehicle test fleet in Atlanta after safety drivers were potentially exposed to carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, or hydrogen sulfide gas inside its vehicles last month, TechCrunch has learned. The repeated incidents led one worker to file a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration,…
Disney+ and Hulu add to the growing trend of streaming inflation
Streaming is getting more expensive again. Disney is the latest media giant to raise prices for its streaming services, adding to a growing pattern across the industry. The increases come roughly a year after Disney’s last major streaming price hike. Disney is raising the price of its ad-free Disney+ and…
VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AI
Bessemer Venture Partners announced on Wednesday that it has raised $5.75 billion across two new funds to accelerate its investment across all parts of the AI stack. The firm, which has backed companies such as Anthropic, Cognition, Legora, Perplexity, Ramp, Shopify, and Waymo, dedicated $1.75 billion for seed and early-stage…
Vogue sent robots down the runway at Vogue World, and people were not impressed
Vogue World closed its Milan edition this week with a troupe of robots — perhaps a preview of what’s coming when the event descends on San Francisco next year. Vogue World is the magazine’s annual traveling spectacle, now in its fifth year: part runway show, part celebrity showcase, part variety…
Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses
Confirming earlier reports, Meta announced its first pair of camera-free AI glasses, the clunkily named Ray-Ban Meta Audio, at its Connect 2026 conference on Wednesday. Designed to combat criticism around the more malicious use cases for AI glasses, which saw them nicknamed “pervert glasses” by some, the new devices will…
Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
Meta’s personal AI agent Muse is only a few weeks old, and the social networking giant isn’t wasting any time building out what may be its biggest bet on consumer AI to date. CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a…
Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
The AI amulet has become a bit of a cliché in the tech industry — devices like Friend have turned the idea of physical AI into little more than an exercise in eye-rolling for many consumers. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from jumping into the arena with its own AI…
I wish everyone knew these 5 things before buying a Fire Stick
Streaming sticks are small but highly capable devices, and Amazon’s lineup of Fire TV Sticks is no exception. Whether you’re aiming to breathe new life into an older TV or enhance the streaming experience on your current one, a Fire TV Stick might be just what you need. Fire TV…
Meta is trying VR glasses (again), this time with more IMAX
Meta is renewing its quest to make virtual reality a thing. At Connect on Wednesday, the company announced Meta VR Glasses, its newest entry into the VR market. These glasses actually seem quite promising given their substantially lighter form factor and a host of new entertainment integrations — including (allegedly)…
This one Windows setting might be ruining your laptop’s Ethernet speeds
I’ve been extolling the value of Ethernet for a while here at Pocket-lint, whether it’s on a laptop, a game console, or in a home theater context. And I stand by that — you might be surprised at how much things can improve over Wi-Fi. It’s mostly about stability, but…