Innovation
Fossilized Bee Nests Inside Skeletons Are Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before
Scientists studying a Caribbean island cave have unearthed something unexpected: ancient bees very much unlike the hive-dwelling insects we’re most familiar with. For the first time ever, paleontologists have...
The Best Streaming Deals Right Now Are Ad-Free
The Black Friday streaming deals bonanza is over. But holiday streaming deals continue in December, and some of the December deals them better than the one I signed up...
India’s Digantara raises $50M for space-based missile defence tech | TechCrunch
Digantara, an Indian space surveillance startup, has raised $50 million in a new funding round as it moves beyond space situational awareness into missile tracking, citing growing demand from...
CEOs Want to Keep Pouring Money Into AI, Despite Weak Returns: Survey
CEOs at the world’s biggest companies are preparing to dump even more money into AI next year, despite mounting evidence that their existing investments aren’t actually paying off. The...
VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power | TechCrunch
Even three years after the generative AI boom started, most AI startups are still making money by selling to businesses, not individual consumers. Although consumers quickly adopted general-purpose LLMs...
OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
OpenAI’s chief communications officer, Hannah Wong, announced internally on Monday that she is leaving the company in January, WIRED has learned. In a statement to WIRED, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla...
The 12 Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror TV Shows of 2025
io9 watched a lot of TV this year. And while we enjoyed a great deal of what we saw, these 12 shows—listed in alphabetical order below—impressed us the most....
Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3
Nvidia has made a fortune supplying chips to companies working on artificial intelligence, but today the chipmaker took a step toward becoming a more serious model maker itself by...
Rob Reiner, Director of ‘Misery,’ ‘Princess Bride,’ Dead at 78
One of the great directors of a generation, Rob Reiner, is dead at the age of 78. He was found in his Los Angeles, CA, home on Sunday along...
How iRobot lost its way home | TechCrunch
There’s something painfully American about the arc of iRobot, the company that taught your vacuum to navigate around the furniture. Founded in 1990 in Bedford, Massachusetts by MIT roboticist...
