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These 31-Year-Old Best Friends Started a Side Hustle to Solve a Workout Struggle — And It’s On Track to Hit $10 Million Annual Revenue This Year

August 22, 2025

Millie Blumka and Taylor Borenstein encountered a frustrating fitness issue during the pandemic and wondered if other people felt the same.

X pulls the ability to like and follow from its developer API’s free tier

August 22, 2025

X is making it harder for spammers with these API changes.

Developer gets prison time for sabotaging former employer’s network with a ‘kill switch’

August 22, 2025

The ex-developer was convicted of planting malicious code designed to crash its servers in the event that he was fired.

Waymo approved to start autonomous vehicle testing in New York City

August 22, 2025

It’s the first permit of its kind, and a crucial step along the path toward launching a true robotaxi service in the Big Apple.

People Really Only Care About These 3 Things at Work — Do You Offer Them?

August 22, 2025

Perks and policies help, but they can’t replace the fundamentals. If you’re missing these core drivers, everything else is just noise.

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August 22, 2025

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The Download: Google’s AI energy expenditure, and handing over DNA data to the police

August 22, 2025

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. In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. In…

Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI

August 22, 2025

In October, a new academic conference will debut that’s unlike any other. Agents4Science is a one-day online event that will encompass all areas of science, from physics to medicine. All of the work shared will have been researched, written, and reviewed primarily by AI, and will be presented using text-to-speech technology. The conference is the…

The case against humans in space

August 22, 2025

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an existential imperative. Space is the place. The final frontier. It is our human destiny to transcend our home world and expand our civilization to extraterrestrial vistas. This belief has been mainstream for…

I gave the police access to my DNA—and maybe some of yours

August 22, 2025

Last year, I added my DNA profile to a private genealogical database, FamilyTreeDNA, and clicked “Yes” to allow the police to search my genes. In 2018, police in California announced they’d caught the Golden State Killer, a man who had eluded capture for decades. They did it by uploading crime-scene DNA to websites like the one…

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