Hundreds gather for drone light show in Apex
On Saturday night, Air Vision, a local company, flew 100 drones lighting up the sky.
Recommended Stories
TechCrunchAmazon ends California drone deliveries
Amazon confirmed it is ending Prime Air drone delivery operations in Lockeford, California. The Central California town of 3,500 was the company’s second U.S. drone delivery site, after College Station, Texas.
- Yahoo Life
You got an air quality alert. What now?
Experts explain what triggers an air quality alert and what you should do if you get one.
- Engadget
Disney is laying off around 175 Pixar workers as it pulls back on original streaming shows
Disney is laying off around 175 employees as it scales back on original shows and movies for Disney+.
- Yahoo Movies
Kevin Costner debuts 'Horizon' as 'Yellowstone' resumes filming: How the star is charting his comeback on the big screen
After his exit from hit series "Yellowstone," Kevin Costner is turning his attention to his four-part passion project "Horizon," which made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival.
- Engadget
Pre-order Samsung’s first Copilot+ laptop and get a free 50-inch 4K TV
If you pre-order Samsung’s new AI-powered Galaxy Book4 Edge, you can get a 50-inch Samsung Crystal UHD TV as a bonus.
- Yahoo Finance
What Nvidia says about AI chip demand could matter for more than just the tech trade
Other sectors have rallied on AI demand, raising the stakes for the chipmaker's latest quarterly update.
- Autoblog
NASA wants to build a floating railway on the moon
NASA wants to build a floating railway on the surface of the moon. Called FLOAT, the technology relies on autonomous robots to move equipment.
- Engadget
The 10th-gen iPad drops to its lowest price ever
The 10th-gen iPad has dropped to its lowest price ever at $329. It's our pick for the best budget iPad and it should handle basic tasks with ease.
- Engadget
The Sonos Roam 2 fixes the original speaker’s confusing button setup
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.
- TechCrunch
Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach
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.
- Engadget
Match Group, Meta, Coinbase and more form anti-scam coalition
A new coalition called Tech Against Scams is bringing companies together to fight online fraud.
- TechCrunch
Alchemist's latest batch puts AI to work as accelerator expands to Tokyo, Doha
Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the program itself is making some international moves into Tokyo and Doha. Chatting with Alchemist CEO and founder Ravi Belani ahead of demo day (today at 10:30 a.m. Pacific) about this cohort, it was clear that ambitions for AI startups have contracted, and that's not a bad thing. No early-stage startup today is at all likely to become the next OpenAI or Anthropic — their lead is too huge right now in the domain of foundational large language models.
- Yahoo Finance
Macy's beats lowly Q1 estimates as it weighs between a turnaround and a buyout
Macy’s recorded another quarter of sales declines, but not as much as Wall Street feared.
- Engadget
Sonos Ace headphones hands-on: Joining your home theater setup with the push of a button
Sonos' first headphones are finally here, offering premium design, solid features and home theater chops.
- TechCrunch
Meta, Match, Coinbase and others team up to fight online fraud and crypto scams
Hosting scams on your platform is bad for business, which is why on Tuesday, a group of major tech companies including Match Group, Meta, Coinbase and others are jointly launching a new coalition to take on online fraud across dating apps, social media and crypto. The new coalition, Tech Against Scams, will work to find ways to fight back against the tools used by scammers and to better educate the public against financial scams.
- TechCrunch
Vitesse, a payments and treasury management platform for insurers, raises $93M to fuel US expansion
U.K. fintech Vitesse has closed a $93 million Series C round of funding led by investment giant KKR. KKR said it's making the investment through its Next Generation Technology Growth Fund III, a $3 billion fund it closed last year. Founded out of London in 2013, Vitesse is the handiwork of Paul Townsend and Phil McGriskin, who had sold an e-commerce payments company called Envoy to WorldPay back in 2011.
- TechCrunch
NYC-Dublin real-time video portal reopens with some fixes to prevent inappropriate behavior
When putting a video portal in a public park in the middle of New York City, some inappropriate behavior will likely occur. The Portal, the vision of Lithuanian artist and entrepreneur Benediktas Gylys, was designed to bring people together and let them share common experiences. After it opened earlier this month, the vast majority of people who went to the portal on both sides of the Atlantic waved to each other, brought their kids and pets and did friendly human things.
- Engadget
Another patient will get Neuralink’s brain implant
Neuralink will be able to surgically implant its device into another patient’s brain.
- TechCrunch
Microsoft wants to make Windows an AI operating system, launches Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft wants to bring generative AI to the forefront of Windows — and the PCs running it. At a keynote ahead of its annual Build developer conference this week, the company unveiled a new lineup of Windows machines it's calling Copilot+ PCs, plus generative AI-powered features like Recall, which helps users find apps, files and other content they've viewed in the past. Copilot, Microsoft's brand of generative AI, will soon be far more deeply integrated into the Windows 11 experience.
- Engadget
Here are all of the just-announced Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X Chips
Microsoft has partnered with a bunch of PC manufacturers to unveil laptops with the company’s Copilot AI built into the system. Here are all of the major announcements and products.