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Apple just updated its two high-end tablets: the iPad Air and the iPad Pro. While the entry-level iPad didn’t receive an update, the company lowered its price, too. And of…

Here’s Apple’s new iPad lineup

Google, it seems, couldn’t wait until I/O next week to show off the latest addition to the Pixel line. For the past several years, the company has used its annual…

Google’s budget Pixel 8a delivers updated silicon, Gemini access for $499

AI is coming for audiobooks, and that is not an entirely bad thing. But it is a cause of concern in the realm of audio titles and the folks who…

TechCrunch Minute: Audible deploys AI-narrated audiobooks. Can it replace the human touch?

GitHub on Tuesday announced that Copilot Chat, its AI chat interface for asking coding-related questions and code generation, is now generally available in its mobile app. The Microsoft-owned developer platform…

Copilot Chat in GitHub’s mobile app is now generally available

When we reviewed the Pixel Tablet roughly this time last year, we noted in no uncertain terms, “It’s all about the dock.” It was, after all, the one thing that…

Google’s Pixel Tablet is now available without the thing that makes it interesting

The tool, called Media Manager, will allow creators and content owners to identify their works to OpenAI and specify how they want those works to be included or excluded from…

OpenAI says it’s building a tool to let content creators ‘opt out’ of AI training

Interest in male birth control has increased in the past few years, especially since the U.S. overturned Roe vs. Wade, which protected a woman’s right to have an abortion. Since…

Kevin Eisenfrats is developing the ‘male IUD’

Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale alphabet with the aid of machine learning technologies. Results from the study, which…

Machine learning aids in discovery of sperm whale ‘alphabet’

Working with brands is one of the primary ways artists and content creators can earn substantial income today. However, it’s not easy for creators to connect with brands, and companies…

Photo editing app VSCO launches marketplace to connect photographers with brands

U.K.-based autonomous vehicle startup Wayve started life as a software platform loaded into a tiny electric “car” called Renault Twizy. Festooned with cameras, the company’s co-founders and PhD graduates, Alex…

Exclusive: Wayve co-founder Alex Kendall on the autonomous future for cars and robots

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The identity of the leader of one of the most infamous ransomware groups in history has finally been revealed. On Tuesday, a coalition of law enforcement led by the U.K.’s…

US, UK police identify and charge Russian leader of LockBit ransomware gang

The latest version of Final Cut Pro introduces a new feature to speed up your shoot: Live Multicam. It’s a bold move from Apple, transforming your iPad into a multicam…

Apple’s Final Cut Camera lets filmmakers connect four cameras at once

At its iPad event today, Apple announced its new iPad Pro tablets, powered by its new M4 chips, the fourth generation of its custom SoCs. The new chips feature a…

The new iPad Pros are Apple’s first devices powered by its M4 chip

Shocking as it may seem, it’s been nearly a decade since the first Apple Pencil was announced, way back in 2015. The stylus hasn’t seen much in the way of…

Apple’s $129 Pencil Pro arrives with a squeeze sensor and Find My functionality

Yeah, you can put an OLED screen in an iPad, but then you lose the brightness that iPad Pro users are used to. What is a poor computer maker to…

Apple stacks two OLED screens — ‘Tandem OLED’ — in its new iPad Pro

Apple announced new iPads — two iPad Air models and the iPad Pro with M4 processor — at its “Let Loose” event on Tuesday. However, one of the important updates…

Apple finally places front camera on iPad on the landscape edge — like it should be

As anticipated, Apple’s iPad Pro was the star of Tuesday’s “Let Loose” event. The arrival of the seventh-generation device marks the first major upgrade to the premium tablet since 2022.…

Apple iPad Pro gets an M4 chip and OLED display

Apple is refreshing its iPad lineup on Tuesday, which is a bit overdue, as the previous iPad Air was announced more than two years ago. The most important addition to…

Apple unveils new 11- and 13-inch iPad Air with M2 chip

Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup borne out of a $4 billion joint venture between Hyundai and automotive supplier Aptiv, will pause its commercial operations and delay plans to launch a…

Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring

Starfish Space’s ambitious first mission to demonstrate on-orbit rendezvous and docking tech has officially come to a close, with the startup managing to complete some of the objectives thanks to…

Starfish Space and D-Orbit complete orbital rendezvous, bringing Otter Pup mission to a close