GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Rocket Report: Two big Asian reuse milestones, Vandenberg becomes SpaceX west

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-08 11:02:28

Welcome to Edition 7.49 of the Rocket Report! You may have noticed we are a little late with the report this week, and that is due to the Juneteenth holiday celebrated in the United States on Thursday. But that hasn't stopped a torrent of big news this week, from exploding Starships to significant reuse milestones being reached in Asia. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled

Topics: company honda japan report rocket

Shop Amazon

Early Prime Day deals include the 8BitDo Micro gamepad for only $17

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-08 15:19:24

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Amazon Prime Days begins again on July 8, but early deals are already starting to trickle out. For instance, the 8BitDo Micro gamepad is on sale for just $17. This is a record-low price and represents a discount of 33 percent. However, the deal only applies to the green colorway. The

Topics: 8bitdo company gamepad like micro

Shop Amazon

SoftBank reportedly looking to launch a trillion-dollar AI and robotics industrial complex

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-08 15:22:06

In Brief SoftBank is going all in on AI. Just months after announcing its involvement in the $500 billion Stargate AI Infrastructure project, of which SoftBank is rumored to be fronting a cool $19 billion, the Japanese investing conglomerate is reportedly looking to launch its largest AI project yet. The company is looking to team up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to launch a trillion-dollar industrial complex in Arizona to build AI and robotics, according to reporting

Topics: ai company project softbank tsmc

Shop Amazon

YouTube creators unaware Google uses their videos to train AI

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-08 23:44:00

A hot potato: When it comes to tech companies training their AI models, it seems everything is fair game. Google, for example, uses some of the billions of videos on YouTube to train Gemini and Veo 3, and many creators are unaware that it's happening. With more than 20 billion videos on the platform, YouTube is a treasure trove of data for AI companies to exploit – and many already have. YouTube owner Google is also using the content to train its AI models, reports CNBC. The company later conf

Topics: ai companies creators google youtube

Shop Amazon

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-09 12:00:14

In recent years, numerous plaintiffs—including publishers of books, newspapers, computer code, and photographs—have sued AI companies for training models using copyrighted material. A key question in all of these lawsuits has been how easily AI models produce verbatim excerpts from the plaintiffs’ copyrighted content. For example, in its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times Company produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times sto

Topics: ai books companies models openai

Shop Amazon

MIT brain scans suggest that using GenAI tools reduces cognitive activity

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-09 11:20:00

Why it matters: As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common in education, law, politics, media, and other fields, many worry that reliance on the technology may reduce cognitive independence. A recent study from MIT strongly supports this concern, indicating that the use of digital tools significantly alters brain activity. The newly published paper explains that as participants in an experiment wrote a series of essays, electronic brain monitoring revealed substantially weaker conn

Topics: brain group llm participants use

Shop Amazon

Tesla's robotaxi debut will reportedly be limited to only 10 cars in very specific areas

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-10 03:58:02

The long-promised launch of Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin is scheduled for June 22, and it sounds like the company's initial offering will be modest at best. The Financial Times writes that Tesla will only have around 10 cars available for rides and that the company plans to make them "avoid the city’s most challenging intersections." If issues arise, remote operators will also reportedly be able to take control of the cars to make sure they reach their final destination. Tesla CEO Elon Mu

Topics: company driving robotaxi self tesla

Shop Amazon

Microsoft to lay off thousands in July, but don't worry, AI's getting $80 billion

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-09-10 07:16:00

In context: There's been plenty of talk about machines displacing human workers in the AI Age, mainly focusing on direct replacements – computers taking over tasks like design and programming. Meanwhile, spending on AI infrastructure soars as investment in human skills steadily declines. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is preparing to lay off thousands of workers next month, with most of the cuts expected to hit the company's sales and customer service divisions. It's a jarring move but not an

Topics: ai company employees human microsoft

Shop Amazon

David Zaslav Is Getting a Pay Cut

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-10 18:15:27

David Zaslav, the unfortunate CEO of the company formerly known as Warner Bros. Discovery (the company, which was once two separate companies but became one, is splitting up again), has often been accused of being bad at his job and, now, it would appear that the people who pay his salary may agree. A new report from Deadline finds that Zaslav is scheduled to receive a sizable pay cut this year. Citing a recent SEC filing, Deadline notes that a new business agreement will “significantly reduce

Topics: annual company million year zaslav

Shop Amazon

Anker issues recall for popular power bank due to fire risk - stop using this model now

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-10 15:30:18

Kerry Wan/ZDNET The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a new recall for the Anker PowerCore 10000 power bank, model number A1263. According to the report, the lithium-ion battery inside can overheat, causing the device to become a fire and burn hazard to consumers. "Anker has received 19 reports of fires and explosions" caused by its faulty power bank. Among those incidents, there have been "two reports of minor burn injuries" (thankfully not requiring medical a

Topics: anker bank company power recall

Shop Amazon

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-10 23:39:01

Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction that powers the sun to generate nearly limitless energy here on Earth. If startups are able to complete commercially viable fusion power plants, then they have the potential

Topics: company energy fusion million plasma

Shop Amazon

Amazon to invest $233M to enhance its India infrastructure

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-09-11 03:34:55

In Brief Amazon said on Thursday that it would invest about $233 million in its India business to further build out its operations infrastructure, develop new tools for its delivery network, and work on employee safety and well-being programs. The company said the investment helps it double down on its efforts to deliver to all pin-codes in the country. “This investment will enhance processing capacity, improve fulfilment speed, and increase efficiency across the company’s operations network,

Topics: amazon company delivery investment said

Shop Amazon

Nothing Phone 3 says goodbye to Glyph Interface, hello to Glyph Matrix

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-11 07:29:53

TL;DR Nothing teases its upcoming Phone 3 with a new design element called “Glyph Matrix.” The teaser suggests dot matrix-style lighting on the back of the device, potentially for more intricate light patterns. Previously leaked renders of the Phone 3 do not align with the newly teased Glyph Matrix design. In typical Carl Pei fashion, the Nothing Phone 3 hype train is at full speed. We’ve just about recovered from the heartbreak after learning about the Phone 3’s Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 processor

Topics: company design glyph matrix phone

Shop Amazon

DuckDuckGo Can Now Warn You About Fake Crypto Exchanges and Other Online Scams

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-11 11:00:10

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, announced Thursday that it updated its browser's Scam Blocker to guard you against more online threats. The company said online that its Scam Blocker can now warn you about fake crypto exchanges, scam e-commerce storefronts and fraudulent virus warnings. Scam Blocker could previously help protect you against phishing sites, malware and other common online scams. Read more: DuckDuckGo Offers a VPN and More in New Privacy Subscription Service Accord

Topics: blocker company duckduckgo online scam

Shop Amazon

SpaceX’s Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-11 20:35:52

One of SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicles exploded on a test stand in Texas late on Wednesday night, as the company prepared for the tenth test flight of the heavy-lift rocket system. SpaceX said “all personnel are safe and accounted for” in a post on X, and claimed there are “no hazards to residents in surrounding communities.” The company did not provide an explanation for the explosion. It’s not immediately clear what impact this will have on SpaceX’s development of the Starship rocket syste

Topics: company rocket spacex starship test

Shop Amazon

OpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, whose founder is joining Meta

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-12 14:02:14

OpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, the artificial intelligence startup that received a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta earlier this month and saw its founder join the social media company to lead an AI effort. Scale AI is best known for its work helping major tech companies, including OpenAI, prepare data they use to train cutting-edge AI models. But OpenAI has been pulling back from the startup over the last six to 12 months, according to an OpenAI spokesperson. OpenAI ha

Topics: ai company meta openai scale

Shop Amazon

Waymo will start testing its autonomous cars in New York again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-12 15:05:30

Waymo's autonomous cars are heading back to New York City in July, the company announced today. Cars will be manually driven for now, not unlike the mapping tests Waymo ran in 2021, but the company says it ultimately wants to bring the same autonomous ride-hailing service it offers in San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles to NYC. New York state law currently doesn't allow for the operation of a vehicle without a human driver, an obvious obstacle for a company like Waymo. As a bridge to offerin

Topics: city company new waymo york

Shop Amazon

Scale AI not 'winding down' following Meta deal, interim CEO tells employees and customers

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-12 19:03:50

Scale AI's Interim CEO Jason Droege said in a memo on Wednesday that the artificial intelligence startup is not changing course following Meta's multibillion-dollar investment in the company last week. "Unlike some other recent tech deals you might have heard about in the AI space, this is not a pivot or a winding down," Droege wrote in a post directed at customers, employees and investors. Meta has a 49% stake in Scale after its $14.3 billion investment, though the social media company will n

Topics: ai company droege meta scale

Shop Amazon

Wyze adds major security update to its security cameras after numerous security lapses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-12 19:17:35

Wyze, the Seattle-based tech company that specializes in smart home products and wireless cameras, has released a major security update that it hopes will rebuild some lost trust. The company has been plagued by numerous security failures over the past few years, most notably when an AWS outage led to thousands of users gaining access to recorded videos from other people’s homes. That incident, paired with the company’s history of lackluster responses to security flaws, even led The New York Tim

Topics: company models security update wyze

Shop Amazon

Elon Musk’s xAI Is Reportedly Burning Through $1 Billion a Month

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-12 19:10:36

Elon Musk has promised that his AI business, xAI, will help to revolutionize society. Before it can do that, however, the company is going to need to become fiscally viable—a goal it hasn’t quite met yet. Indeed, at the current moment, the company seems to be burning through cash at a rate that, in any other industry, would be entirely unsustainable. A new report from Bloomberg claims that the AI company expects to spend at least $13 billion this year, which amounts to a little over a billion d

Topics: ai billion company musk xai

Shop Amazon

Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-13 03:25:09

Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company Zoox has opened its first full-fledged production facility, where it expects to be able to one day build 10,000 robotaxis per year. The facility marks the latest step in Zoox’s evolution out of the development phase. The company is currently testing vehicles in multiple U.S. cities, and offering rides to employees in Las Vegas and San Francisco. Public access is expected to begin with an early-rider program in 2026. The 220,000-square-foot factory is loc

Topics: assembly company facility robotaxi zoox

Shop Amazon

Klarna Enters the Suddenly Bustling MVNO Space With Mobile Phone Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 07:02:00

Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later financial services company, is introducing a mobile phone plan the company says it will promote to its 25 million US customers. Klarna is partnering with Gigs, a San Francisco company that provides MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) services, allowing companies to create their own wireless brands. MVNOs seem suddenly popular: in the last week, the Trump Organization launched Trump Mobile with its own gold phone on the way and the popular SmartLess podca

Topics: company klarna mobile says service

Shop Amazon

Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-13 11:48:26

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Honda successfully conducted a “launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket” developed by its research and development subsidiary, the company announced this week. It was the first time Honda landed a rocket after it reached an altitude of 890 feet, according to a press release. The launch took place at a Honda test facility in Ta

Topics: company honda launch research rocket

Shop Amazon

I set up portable solar panels in my backyard for a month - and the results impressed me

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-13 15:39:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The EcoFlow 125W bifacial solar panels cost $899 for a four-pack. They're portable panels that you can take with you or set up temporarily without construction, with easy setup, and lightweight construction Though portable, these bifacial solar panels feel very fragile, so they must be weighed down if conditions are windy; their low 125W input also limits their capacity. $899 at Amazon I see more hurricanes in a year than I'd like, so I ensure my house is prepared to wea

Topics: ecoflow panels portable power solar

Shop Amazon

Leica is launching its own 35mm film

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-09-13 15:43:20

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Leica has announced the first 35mm film produced under its own name, Monopan 50. It’s an ultra-fine grain black-and-white film, and will cost $10 per 36-exposure roll when it goes on sale on August 21st. Leica says that the new film is produced in Germany, though wouldn’t name a manufacturer when asked. The specs, right down to every curve of the spectral sensitivity chart,

Topics: 50 film leica monopan sensitivity

Shop Amazon

Intel to cut as many as 10,000 factory jobs, one of its largest-ever layoffs

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-13 19:02:00

What just happened? Intel is preparing to lay off as much as one-fifth of its factory workforce in a move that will reshape one of the company's core business units. The layoffs, set to begin in July, are expected to affect more than 10,000 employees worldwide, marking one of the largest workforce reductions in Intel's history. In a memo to employees, Intel Manufacturing Vice President Naga Chandrasekaran acknowledged the gravity of the decision. "These are difficult actions but essential to me

Topics: 000 company factory intel memo

Shop Amazon

TikTok gets third extension from Trump as US sale deadline looms

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-13 19:44:00

What just happened? TikTok is receiving yet another reprieve from Donald Trump. For the third time since taking office, the president is extending the sales deadline this week, giving the company another 90 days to divest its US business from Chinese parent ByteDance. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Trump will sign an executive order this week that will "keep TikTok up and running" for another 90 days. Leavitt added that the administration will spend the extra time

Topics: app company operations tiktok trump

Shop Amazon

The quest to defend against tech in intimate partner violence

technologyreview.com Jessica Klein 2025-09-13 17:00:00

As technology evolved, the ways abusers took advantage evolved too. Realizing that the advocacy community “was not up on tech,” Southworth founded the National Network to End Domestic Violence’s Safety Net Project in 2000 to provide a comprehensive training curriculum on how to “harness [technology] to help victims” and hold abusers accountable when they misuse it. Today, the project offers resources on its website, like tool kits that include guidance on strategies such as creating strong passw

Topics: companies meta safety says tech

Shop Amazon

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won’t Have to Attend Boot Camp)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-13 19:30:38

The U.S. military recently announced that four executives from some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley have joined the Army Reserve as direct-commissioned officers. The move is part of a push to speed up the adoption of technology in the military, but as the news outlet Task & Purpose points out, it’s pretty unusual. The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and

Topics: army companies military tech work

Shop Amazon

Honda’s hopper suddenly makes the Japanese carmaker a serious player in rocketry

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-13 19:42:49

An experimental reusable rocket developed by the research and development arm of Honda Motor Company flew to an altitude of nearly 900 feet Tuesday, then landed with pinpoint precision at the carmaker's test facility in northern Japan. The accomplishment may not sound like much, but it's important to put it into perspective. Honda's hopper is the first prototype rocket outside of the United States and China to complete a flight of this kind, demonstrating vertical takeoff and vertical landing t

Topics: company honda landing rocket vehicle

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Rocket Report: Two big Asian reuse milestones, Vandenberg becomes SpaceX west

Early Prime Day deals include the 8BitDo Micro gamepad for only $17

SoftBank reportedly looking to launch a trillion-dollar AI and robotics industrial complex

YouTube creators unaware Google uses their videos to train AI

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book

MIT brain scans suggest that using GenAI tools reduces cognitive activity

Tesla's robotaxi debut will reportedly be limited to only 10 cars in very specific areas

Microsoft to lay off thousands in July, but don't worry, AI's getting $80 billion

David Zaslav Is Getting a Pay Cut

Anker issues recall for popular power bank due to fire risk - stop using this model now

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Amazon to invest $233M to enhance its India infrastructure

Nothing Phone 3 says goodbye to Glyph Interface, hello to Glyph Matrix

DuckDuckGo Can Now Warn You About Fake Crypto Exchanges and Other Online Scams

SpaceX’s Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight

OpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, whose founder is joining Meta

Waymo will start testing its autonomous cars in New York again

Scale AI not 'winding down' following Meta deal, interim CEO tells employees and customers

Wyze adds major security update to its security cameras after numerous security lapses

Elon Musk’s xAI Is Reportedly Burning Through $1 Billion a Month

Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility

Klarna Enters the Suddenly Bustling MVNO Space With Mobile Phone Service

Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

I set up portable solar panels in my backyard for a month - and the results impressed me

Leica is launching its own 35mm film

Intel to cut as many as 10,000 factory jobs, one of its largest-ever layoffs

TikTok gets third extension from Trump as US sale deadline looms

The quest to defend against tech in intimate partner violence

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won’t Have to Attend Boot Camp)

Honda’s hopper suddenly makes the Japanese carmaker a serious player in rocketry

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising