Innovation

Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images | TechCrunch
Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to...
These Are The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones We’ve Tried
Honorable MentionsNow that the majority of new headphones and earbuds offer at least a modicum of noise canceling, it'd be impossible (and unproductive) to list everything we like above....
The ‘Alien: Earth’ Premiere Just Blew Away Hall H at Comic-Con
Anyone who has been to a movie recently knows that keeping people quiet to watch something together can be a struggle. Now make that number almost 7,000 people, and...
Tesla wants to bring robotaxis to San Francisco. Here’s what’s standing in the way. | TechCrunch
Tesla is launching an even-more-limited version of its early robotaxi service in San Francisco this weekend, according to Business Insider, after an initial rollout began last month in Austin,...
‘Invincible Vs.’ Will Occupy Its Own Unique Corner of the ‘Invincible’ Universe
After turning The Walking Dead into a multimedia empire, Robert Kirkman has been hard at work doing the same for Invincible. First there were, of course, the comics. Then...
Tesla Readies a Taxi Service in San Francisco—but Not With Robotaxis
Tesla has publicly staked its future on its robotaxis. Now the company is planning to launch a public car service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tesla is calling...
Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias
On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible AI. As I listened to executives talk about how...
Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal | TechCrunch
AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these...
This Ultra-Repairable Bluetooth Speaker Addresses the Ugliest Part of Consumer Tech
Right to repair is a big deal lately, and there are plenty of new products that prove it. One of the best examples in the tech world is Framework,...
Paramount Has a $1.5 Billion ‘South Park’ Problem
But making small-dick jokes isn’t woke—it’s exactly that type of humor, along with an affinity for saying the r-word and racial and homophobic slurs that helped cultivate South Park’s...
X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes | TechCrunch
Elon Musk’s X will begin experimenting with a new way to use Community Notes, its crowdsourcing fact-checking system, to highlight well-liked posts from users with different perspectives. On Thursday,...
Jeff Bezos Reportedly Eyes Purchase of CNBC as Tech Billionaires Gobble Up Media
Jeff Bezos is thinking about buying the financial news network CNBC, according to a new report from the New York Post, which cites anonymous sources. Given the damage Bezos...