Conservative skeptics of funding the war in Ukraine predict the bill signed into law this week will be the last major U.S. aid package for Kyiv that passes. The GOP critics of the package acknowledge that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) won this round of the debate by pushing $61 billion for Ukraine through Congress. But they argue that if President Biden comes back with another request, he’ll go away empty-handed.
Apple has reportedly filed a formal challenge against a €1.8 billion ($1.95 billion) that the European Union handed down earlier this year. The bloc had determined that Apple restricted rival music streaming apps on the App Store.
U.S. cell carrier Patriot Mobile experienced a data breach that included subscribers’ personal information, including full names, email addresses, home zip codes, and account PINs, TechCrunch has learned. Patriot Mobile, which reportedly has fewer than 100,000 subscribers, bills itself as “America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider and our mission is to passionately defend our God-given Constitutional rights and freedoms while glorifying God.” A hacker who claimed responsibility for the breach provided TechCrunch with a sample of data stolen from Patriot Mobile.
Macy’s recorded another quarter of sales declines, but not as much as Wall Street feared.
Interest payments on the national debt are set to eclipse defense spending this year for the first time ever.
When Hayes arrives this week, although she'll have plenty of familiarizing to do, her core — the players, the most important part of any national team — will largely already be in place.
An Apple iPad for $80 off is calling our name, as is a sleek stick vac marked down by over 50%. That's just for starters.
Sonos refreshed its cheapest portable speaker, the Roam. The Roam 2 has the same audio as its 2021 predecessor but adds more streamlined controls and a quicker setup.
General Motors patented a driver-monitoring system that detects your mental well-being and intervenes if it decides that there is a problem.
Microsoft has expanded Copilot's abilities beyond that of a personal assistant.
Microsoft wants to put its Copilot everywhere. It's only a matter of time before Microsoft renames its annual Build developer conference to Microsoft Copilot. Hopefully, some of those upcoming events will be a bit less lackluster than this year's edition, which lacks any real standout announcements after Microsoft already announced its new Arm-based laptops and AI features in Windows 11 at a separate event the day before Build.
Microsoft wants to make its brand of generative AI more useful for teams -- specifically teams across corporations and large enterprise organizations. This morning at its annual Build dev conference, Microsoft announced Team Copilot, the latest expansion of its Copilot family of generative AI tech. Unlike Microsoft's previous Copilot-branded products, Team Copilot isn't so much a point solution as a set of capabilities together aimed at "improving collaboration" and "streamlining project management."
Ooni has discounted its pizza ovens by up to 30 percent as part of a Memorial Day sale. The most notable item here is the Ooni Frya 12 wood pellet pizza oven, which is $245 as part of the sale.
Experts explain what triggers an air quality alert and what you should do if you get one.
McLaren is headed to Monaco with a radically new one-off race livery meant to celebrate the late Ayrton Senna.
Scale AI, which provides data-labeling services to companies that want to train machine learning models, has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors that include Amazon and Meta. The fundraise is a mix of primary and secondary funding, and is the latest in a slew of big venture capital investments in AI. Amazon recently closed a $4 billion investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic, and the likes of Mistral AI and Perplexity are also in the process of raising more billion-dollar rounds at lofty valuations.
Sonos' first headphones are finally here, offering premium design, solid features and home theater chops.
It’s criminal that there’s been no way to play Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for over a decade.
Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon's AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping businesses augment large language models (LLMs) with their own data. Most recently, though, the company completely rearchitected its product to launch Pinecone Serverless, which frees its customers from having to think about managing their deployments and scaling them. Today, Pinecone serverless comes out of beta and is now generally available.
Sonos is making its first foray into headphones with the new Sonos Ace, a $449 model.
So many movies, so little time? These summer flicks are worth the price of admission and a bucket of popcorn at the theater.