Innovation

Which Instax Camera Should You Buy?
Other Instax Cameras and PrintersFujifilm is constantly refreshing its Instax lineup, adding new features like parallax correction and faster USB-C charging, which almost all Instax cameras now offer. In...
Lightrun grabs $70M using AI to debug code in production | TechCrunch
AI-based coding has exploded in popularity on the promise that it will make developers’ jobs faster and easier. But it’s also resulted in something else: a vast increase in...
The Download: China’s manufacturers’ viral moment, and how AI is changing creativity
Since the video was posted earlier this month, millions of TikTok users have watched as a young Chinese man in a blue T-shirt sits beside a traditional tea set...
Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show
What is also clear from the documents is that US police are aware of the control corporations have over their ability to acquire vehicle location data, expressing fears that...
Donald Trump Is Already Ruining Christmas
While children are told stories about elves and reindeer, the truth is that hundreds of thousands of people work year-round to make sure Christmas feels magical. From factory employees...
ARX Robotics rides defence tech wave with €31M for battlefield robots
German defence tech startup ARX Robotics has secured €31mn to ramp up production of its autonomous battlefield robots, which look like mini tanks — minus the guns.  ARX —...
‘It wouldn’t let us out of the car’: Waymo’s self-driving vehicles keep getting roasted online
Social media users have been having a field day with Waymo’s autonomous vehicles, sharing videos that poke fun at the driverless cars getting stuck, acting unpredictably, or simply navigating...
Why Chinese manufacturers are going viral on TikTok
DHGate told MIT Technology Review that the social media attention has resulted in a surge in transactions on the platform, with categories like home goods, electronics, outdoor gear, and...
Bulgaria’s bold leap: From outsourcing hub to emerging deeptech contender
In the global race to become the next big tech hotspot, many countries pour billions into nurturing homegrown talent, courting VCs, and crafting startup-friendly policies. While some struggle to...
5 hottest scaleups in Southern Europe enter TECH5’s ‘Champions League of Tech’
Five standout scaleups from Southern Europe have reached the finals of TECH5 — the “Champions League of Technology.” They’ll now face off with rivals from across Europe to be...
From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off | TechCrunch
In Silicon Valley, where the same high-wattage names tend to dominate the headlines, Ali Partovi has long wielded outsized influence despite limited name recognition. The Iranian-born Harvard graduate built...
4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’ | TechCrunch
4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the person...