Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist
Google teamed up with the Pokemon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.
The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace —Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democracy, who previously served in the…
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Fashion startup Atoire raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup
Fashion startup Atoire announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round.
Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick
Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs’ feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.
Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it’s moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself.
He Was a Jail Deputy. She Was an Elementary School Teacher. Here’s How They Became Millionaires.
They were earning steady paychecks but were missing control over their time.
This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’
The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck
Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in the town
You read that right. There is a new social network called “Twitter.now” on the block, and it’s being operated by a startup called Operation Bluebird, whose founding team includes former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates. As ArsTechnica reported, X sued the company last year and asked a Delaware judge to issue an injunction to stop […]
Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale
Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of data submitted to OSHA.
Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others
The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.