Fire Department Desperately Tags Elon Musk as Another Tesla Spontaneously Bursts Into Flames
Video shows the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District having to forklift the car battery to extinguish the flames.
The Download: a blockchain enigma, and the algorithms governing our lives
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. Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen, an Australian man in his mid-30s, with a rural Catholic upbringing, is a founder of THORChain, a blockchain through which users can…
See Inside Elon Musk’s $50,000 House, Thanks to This Rare Photo Posted By His Biographer
Walter Isaacson shadowed Musk for three years for his upcoming biography, “Elon Musk,” set to be published on Sept. 12.
YouTube Star MrBeast Faces $100 Million Lawsuit from Virtual Dining Concepts Over Burger Ghost Kitchen
The lawsuit claims that Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast, harmed VDC’s reputation, broke agreements, and negatively impacted suppliers, vendors, and customers, leading to “enormous financial harm.”
Nvidia teams up with Hugging Face to offer cloud-based AI training
Nvidia is partnering with Hugging Face, the AI startup, to expand access to AI compute. Timed to coincide with the annual SIGGRAPH conference this week, Nvidia announced that it’ll support a new Hugging Face service, called Training Cluster as a Service, to simplify the creation of new and custom generative AI models for the enterprise. […]
Nvidia’s AI Workbench brings model fine-tuning to workstations
Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create, test and customize generative AI models on a PC or workstation before scaling them to a data center and public cloud. Dubbed AI Workbench, the service can be accessed through a basic interface […]
The Volvo EX30’s interior is the IKEA take on Tesla’s playbook
Comparisons will inevitably be drawn between the Tesla Model 3’s sparse interior and that of the new Volvo EX30. But Volvo’s electric crossover goes big on the minimalist, space-maximizing Scandinavian charm you’d find in an IKEA store, not just ruthless cost-cutting for its own sake. Make no mistake, however: there’s plenty of that too. The […]
No, it’s never too early to make sure a founder is telling the truth
This year has seen numerous founders get caught lying about their users, VCs should start asking the right questions early.
Bringing VR to IRL classrooms with Anurupa Ganguly of Prisms
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. On this week’s episode of Found, Becca and Dom are joined by Anurupa Ganguly, the founder at CEO at Prisms, a startup designing VR math curricula for middle and high school students. Ganguly talked about how her time as a teacher in the […]
Snapchat’s dark mode for Android no longer locked behind subscription
Snapchat has quietly dropped the paywall for dark mode on Android after previously requiring users to have a Snapchat+ subscription to access the feature. The company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday that dark mode is now available to all users. The change was first spotted by Android Police. Dark mode has been available to iOS […]
Netflix launches a game controller app for playing games on your TV
After last fall signaling its intentions to expand into cloud gaming, Netflix today launched a new app that will soon allow subscribers to play games on their TV. The app, dubbed “Netflix Game Controller,” lets you use your phone as a controller after pairing it with your TV in order to play the games available […]