You’ll want to read our extensive guide on How to Choose the Right Laptop, but for the basics, you’ll want to decide what category of laptop you need. Most people should buy a 13-inch or 14-inch laptop, and spending around $750-$1,000 is a good place to start. You should expect a laptop around this price to get good battery life, …
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Salesforce announces Agentforce 360 as enterprise AI competition heats up | TechCrunch
Salesforce announced Monday the latest version of its AI agent platform as the company looks to lure enterprises to its AI software in an increasingly crowded market. The customer relations manager giant unveiled the new platform, branded Agentforce 360, ahead of its annual Dreamforce customer conference that kicks off October 14. This newer version of Agentforce includes new ways to …
Read More »Anduril’s new EagleEye MR helmet sees Palmer Luckey return to his VR roots | TechCrunch
In the latest bid by a Silicon Valley defense firm to assert its own solution for the Army’s mixed-reality ambitions, Anduril Industries on Monday unveiled “EagleEye,” a helmeted computing system that seeks to turn soldiers into AI-augmented warfighters. The launch is notable given that the initiative is led by Anduri’s co-founder Palmer Luckey, who previously started the pioneering VR company, …
Read More »Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI
Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the janitors mopping in their wake)—deep down at the level of the code, you saw craftsmanship so obsessive that it bordered on insane. Chris Sawyer, the game’s sole developer, …
Read More »How to Make STEM Funny—and Go Viral Doing It
Wait, I saw this. You posted a video of someone in the crowd telling you they were a veterinarian and then you said “OK, some of this might not be right …” and then that got a laugh. Yeah, definitely. I normally start shows by saying I have a degree in chemistry, and then asking who else does. If there’s …
Read More »New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds
The issues could cascade beyond the design. The auto manufacturing industry operates on strict production schedules. Though it builds in time to validate and test whatever new features come in each new model, the sudden intro of a design change late in the process could throw off the delicate timetable. In this decade, China’s auto industry has shocked the world …
Read More »The ‘Womanosphere’ Is Reshaping the Conservative Dating Landscape
But even as conservatives are reclaiming the debate around modern dating, coasting on the momentum of Trump 2.0, there are noticeable fractures and hypocrisies in their approaches. On the podcast Culture Apothecary, Turning Point USA’s Alex Clark educates women about optimal fertility health and well-being. In an episode of Relatable titled “Be a Godly Woman, Not Just a Trad Wife,” …
Read More »Strava eyes IPO as Gen Z trades dating apps for running clubs | TechCrunch
Strava, the 16-year-old fitness tracking app, is gearing up to go public, the Financial Times reports. CEO Michael Martin told the FT that the San Francisco company plans to list “at some point,” eyeing capital for more acquisitions. The company, backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, and Jackson Square Ventures, was last valued at $2.2 billion in May. Strava has the …
Read More »More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life
A recent study of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has detected several organic compounds that had never been recorded there before. The findings, published this month in Nature Astronomy, provide new clues about the interior chemical composition of this icy world, as well as new hope that it could harbor life. The researchers analyzed data from the Cassini probe, which …
Read More »The ZoraSafe app wants to protect older people online and will present at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch
Apart from antivirus apps, the cybersecurity industry has traditionally been business to business, with regular internet users left on their own to protect themselves. And older people, who did not grow up with the internet and smartphones, are perhaps the most vulnerable. ZoraSafe, a startup founded by sisters Catherine Karow and Ellie King Karow wants to step in and help …
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