It’s time to pull the plug on plug-in hybrids
Plug-in hybrid vehicles are rarely charged, according to a new study. Why are automakers still producing them?
The Low-Stress Business Model That Scales Quickly and Doesn’t Require You to Create Anything New
Here are five practical ways entrepreneurs earn income by curating existing content rather than creating it.
New Relic launches new AI agent platform and OpenTelemetry tools
New Relic is giving enterprises more observability tools, letting them create and manage AI agents, and better integrate OTel data streams.
Waymo robotaxis are now operating in 10 US cities
Waymo launched services today in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando.
Nimble raises $47M to give AI agents access to real-time web data
Nimble uses AI agents to search the web, verify and validate the results, and then clean and structure the information into neat tables that can then be queried like a database.
The Download: radioactive rhinos, and the rise and rise of peptides
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. Why conservationists are making rhinos radioactive Every year, poachers shoot hundreds of rhinos, fishing crews haul millions of sharks out of protected seas, and smugglers carry countless animals and plants across borders. This…
Burnout Isn’t the End — It’s Your Turning Point, If You’re Brave Enough to Use It
Why hitting a wall might just give you the answers you need.
We’re putting more stuff into space than ever. Here’s what’s up there.
Earth’s a medium-size rock with some water on top, enveloped by gases that keep everything that lives here alive. Just at the edge of that envelope begins a thin but dense layer of human-built, high-tech stuff. People started putting gear up there in 1957, and now it’s a real habit. Telescopes look up and out…
Why conservationists are making rhinos radioactive
Every year, poachers shoot hundreds of rhinos, fishing crews haul millions of sharks out of protected seas, and smugglers carry countless animals and plants across borders. This illegal activity is incredibly hard to disrupt, since it’s backed by sophisticated criminal networks and the perpetrators know that their chances of being caught are slim. With an…
Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing
With the new acquisitions, the company wants to bolster its position as a marketing solution by potentially adding video creation and more granular measurement.
Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India’s Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments
Stripe and PayPal Ventures have participated in Xflow’s $16.6 million round that gives it a post-money valuation of $85 million.