Google Photos’ 2025 Recap turns to Gemini to find your highlights
The Google Photos Recap will use Gemini’s AI to find your memorable moments throughout the year, and adds new metrics, like a ‘selfie’ count.
AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025
If the past 12 months have taught us anything, it’s that the AI hype train is showing no signs of slowing. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the year, DeepSeek had yet to turn the entire industry on its head, Meta was better known for trying (and failing) to make the metaverse…
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Amazon Fire TV’s new AI feature lets you jump to scenes by describing them to Alexa+
Amazon says you can describe the scene to Alexa by mentioning details like the actor or character’s name, or a memorable quote.
This Couple’s Spicy Side Hustle Is About to Hit $15,000 a Month: ‘Small Things Feel Huge’
Mariana Carrizosa and Sebastian Jaramillo didn’t set out to start their business — “It just sort of happened.”
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Autolane is building ‘air traffic control’ for autonomous vehicles
And the Palo Alto-based startup has raised $7.4 million to do that.
Waymo starts autonomous testing in Philadelphia
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis join a long list of cities where the company is gearing up to offer robotaxi rides.
The Download: AI and coding, and Waymo’s aggressive driverless cars
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. Everything you need to know about AI and coding AI has already transformed how code is written, but a new wave of autonomous systems promise to make the process even smoother and less…
Accelerating VMware migrations with a factory model approach
In 1913, Henry Ford cut the time it took to build a Model T from 12 hours to just over 90 minutes. He accomplished this feat through a revolutionary breakthrough in process design: Instead of skilled craftsmen building a car from scratch by hand, Ford created an assembly line where standardized tasks happened in sequence,…
Spotify Wrapped 2025 adds its first multiplayer feature with ‘Wrapped Party’
Spotify Wrapped returns to its data-driven roots with new interactive features, deeper insights, and social experiences designed to revive its fan-favorite feel.
Nothing looks to its community to raise $5M, wants to be ‘IPO-ready’ in 3 years
The new round, which opens on December 10, will enable consumers to buy the company’s shares at its Series C valuation of $1.3 billion.