On the surface, Ethernet cables are a rather unassuming part of any tech ecosystem. They facilitate a physical, wired local area network (LAN) connection between connected devices and routers, modems, and network switches. Ethernet network cables tend to offer faster and more reliable internet access when compared to Wi-Fi networks,…

While the Friday after Thanksgiving has traditionally been the busiest shopping day of the year, Black Friday deals have gradually spread well beyond the day. First came Cyber Monday, then Cyber Week. Now, early Black Friday deals kick off before November has even started. The tricky part for early birds…

Tesla will end production of the Cybertruck at its Texas Gigafactory next year. It’s a uniquely toxic electric vehicle, between its divisive design and Elon Musk’s embrace of you name it. That toxicity certainly contributed to subpar sales, along with a number of recalls. But the end of the Cybertruck…

Alex de Vigan’s last business got swamped by the rise of generative AI, but now he’s betting the tech that team had built, a platform for creating tempting product renderings for e-commerce, can be re-purposed to make robots more useful. His new venture, Physicl, has raised $10 million in seed…

Sequoia this week announced a broad overhaul in a memo posted to X, a move that includes closing its London office and shutting down its scout program. Observers warn that it would be a mistake to read too much into the London closure, since the British capital has a thriving…

Right before the midterm elections, OpenAI hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. The company also said it would start calling its data centers “compute campuses.” For the past two years, many of Silicon Valley’s biggest names have built closer ties with President Donald Trump and his administration.…

I believe in physical media. I apologize for starting this article like Bonasera from The Godfather, but I want to establish that right off the bat. Although I’m not enough of a DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K disc fanatic to justify ditching streaming services completely, I still believe discs generally offer…

Companies are using more AI than ever, but they’re not spending more on it. A new report from Ramp shows AI spending flatlined over late summer even as token volumes rose, a sign that price competition and savvier customers may be capping revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. According to Ramp’s…

It may not seem like it, but Apple TV’s streaming service has been around for over 7 years, having first launched as Apple TV + on November 1, 2019. The platform has come a long way in that relatively short time frame, especially considering it didn’t really seem like Apple…

Crusoe, an eight-year-old, Denver-based data center developer recently valued at $30.9 billion, confirmed Friday it has sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google. Google, which Crusoe had tried and failed to land as a customer for the project, is taking over the development after reportedly raising…