When I was trying out a bunch of live TV streaming services, I eventually landed on an indoor antenna I picked up from Best Buy for cheap thanks to a bunch of gift certificates. I used it for a little while before realizing I had practically no use for it.…
Waymo’s latest expansion strategy: teenagers
Waymo will allow teenagers as young as 13 to use its robotaxi service in Nashville as the Alphabet-owned company looks to scale its business by reaching a new group of riders. Nashville is the second city to offer Waymo teen accounts; the company kicked off its teen account program in…
Crystal Lake is a good enough slasher series, as long as your hopes aren’t too high
In 1980, a 90-minute horror movie with a relatively small budget changed the genre forever. It’s been over 45 years since Friday the 13th debuted, and in that time there have been a dozen films, a TV series, as well as video games, merchandise, and parodies of the iconic slasher…
Stolen passwords are exposing America’s water providers to hackers
New security research has found that well over a thousand U.S. water and wastewater providers are exposed to hacks due to malware that’s capable of stealing their employees’ passwords and active logged-in sessions. The findings by cybersecurity defense firm SpyCloud underscore how water providers and other critical infrastructure can be…
Pluto TV must remain free for at least 5 years thanks to this settlement
The merger agreement between Paramount and Warner Bros. is one step closer to becoming a reality. This week, Paramount settled an antitrust lawsuit brought against it by a group of state attorneys general, clearing a major hurdle for the deal to proceed. The five-year settlement includes multiple safeguards to protect…
AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft
Fly to an asteroid, land on it, make no mistakes: If only it were that easy. When NASA sends spacecraft to explore the solar system, they build in redundancy and automation. But much of the work is done by teams of flight controllers communicating with the vehicle from Earth. The…
Typing mistakes are a thing of the past since I ditched Apple’s default keyboard for this one
iOS has supported third-party software keyboards for several generations at this point, but I’ve only begun experimenting with them as of recently. In the past, I always assumed that, unlike over on Android, iOS keyboards consisted of a locked-down and limiting experience — as it turns out, however, I was…
Singapore’s Nexstrom wants to bring 2D semiconductors to chip fabs
For decades, chipmakers have sought to make semiconductors faster by shrinking down silicon transistors and packing more of them on each chip. But shrinking transistors comes with its own problems: controlling electron flow becomes harder, which exacerbates problems such as leakage, power loss and heat. Nexstrom, a semiconductor startup incubated…
Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again
When British neocloud Nscale goes public, it will test public investors’ appetite for a stock whose revenue is tied primarily to two customers. Since it was spun out of Australian cryptocurrency mining company Arkon Energy two years ago, Nscale has amassed over $103 billion worth of contracts, according to its…
The Hulu app is about to shut down forever, and your watchlist is in danger
To those paying attention, Disney looks to have been dismantling Hulu and its status as a standalone app since around Spring 2024, and we may now be close to the endgame. A leaked internal document (as reported by Business Insider in May) described a phased migration dubbed ‘Project Gemini’, which…