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The TechCrunch Disrupt Stage revealed: Behold the first look

The Disrupt Stage, only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is where tech’s biggest bets get made — live and unfiltered. It’s where startup dreams turn into $100,000 wins in Startup Battlefield, and where the industry’s power players reveal what’s next. This year, we’re bringing Alphabet’s moonshot chief Astro Teller, Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone, and Khosla Ventures’ Vinod Khosla (never one to mince words) to the stage. Sequoia’s Roelof Botha will dig into the future of venture, buzzy Slate Auto is drop

Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio

The social network Bluesky will begin verifying users’ ages in the state of Ohio to comply with new regulations, starting on Monday, September 29. The company — which offers an open and decentralized competitor to X and Threads — says it will enable the Kids Web Services’ (KWS) age verification solution in the state. This is the same solution that Bluesky is already using in South Dakota and Wyoming to comply with similar laws. Bluesky announced the move in Ohio on Sunday via its Bluesky Safety

You can now jump off the Android 16 QPR1 beta train — and take your data with you

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 QPR1 beta users were stuck on the beta branch, and they could not exit the beta program without wiping their data. Google is now rolling out a new update that lets users exit the beta program and switch to the stable branch without losing data. This update is available for users who have not yet installed the Android 16 QPR2 beta. If you have, a similar No-Data-Wipe OTA will be released once Android 16 QPR2 stable update is released in Decem

ZR1, GTD, and America’s new Nürburgring war

There's a racetrack with a funny name in Germany that, in the eyes of many international enthusiasts, is the de facto benchmark for automotive performance. But the Nürburgring, a 13-mile (20 km) track often called the Green Hell, rarely hits the radar of mainstream US performance aficionados. That's because American car companies rarely take the time to run cars there, and if they do, it's in secrecy, to test pre-production machines cloaked in camouflage without publishing official times. The t

ZR1, GTD, and America’s new Nurburgring war

There's a racetrack with a funny name in Germany that, in the eyes of many international enthusiasts, is the de facto benchmark for automotive performance. But the Nurburgring, a 13-mile (20 km) track often called the Green Hell, rarely hits the radar of mainstream US performance aficionados. That's because American car companies rarely take the time to run cars there, and if they do, it's in secrecy, to test pre-production machines cloaked in camouflage without publishing official times. The t

Instagram is testing a Reels-first UI in India and South Korea

In Brief Instagram has chosen India and South Korea to test a new interface that displays the app’s Reels page first. The company first showed off a similar design when it launched its first iPad app earlier this month. The new interface has Stories up top, like it did previously, but the DM button now lives on the navigation bar in the center, and the Reels tab will move to the second spot. You can swipe to navigate between these tabs. The Following tab is now placed next to Reels, and gives

I unlocked my iPhone 17 Pro Max camera's hidden potential with this handheld accessory

Insta360 Flow 2 Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The Insta360 Flow 2 Pro Creator bundle is priced at $189. It has a longer handle than the previous model, a more stable tripod, and a convenient magnetic clamp system. There is no cold shoe available for your mic, and Android support is a bit of an afterthought. $189.99 at Amazon $159.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Today's smartphone cameras are so good that you can be a content creator withou

Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed

Manny Medina, previously best-known as the founder of sales automation startup Outreach ($4.4 billion valuation), has wowed investors with his young startup, Paid. Paid just closed an oversubscribed $21.6 million seed round led by Lightspeed. With the €10 million pre-seed round it raised in March, London-based Paid has already raised $33.3 million and hasn’t even hit its Series A yet. A source familiar with the deal says the startup’s valuation is over $100 million. Paid came out of stealth in

The Death of Utilitarian Programming

Utilitarian coding is defined as follows:It might appear somewhat abstract or vague, so examples might help. For example, I don't consideras utilitarian code. What you create are like the "frames" of a picture box, someone else (the user) will take it and draw the actual picture. Though you did help with part of the process, it's indirect at best. You're part of the supply chain here, not part of the team. A clever and witty bash script running on a unix server somewhere is also not utilitarian

Run 14 vintage OSes (Windows 1.01→XP, ReactOS, Haiku) in the browser

Experience vintage operating systems directly in your browser. No downloads, no installation - just pure nostalgia powered by cutting-edge WebAssembly technology. 🖥️ 14+ Operating Systems Pre-configured collection from Windows 1.01 to modern alternatives like ReactOS and Haiku. Each system optimized for best performance. ⚡ WebAssembly Powered Near-native performance using WebAssembly technology. Full x86 processor emulation running entirely in your browser. 🎮 Full Interaction Complete mouse a

Plan 9 from User Space

This is a port of many Plan 9 libraries and programs to Unix. Installation To install, run ./INSTALL. It builds mk and then uses mk to run the rest of the installation. For more details, see install(1), at install.txt in this directory and at https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man1/install.html. Documentation See https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/ for more documentation. (Documentation is also in this tree, but you need to run a successful install first. After that, "9 man 1 intro".)

I need a life cool enough for the new GoPro

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 99, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy pumpkin spice season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I also have for you a

TechCrunch Mobility: Self-driving trucks startup Kodiak goes public and a shake-up at Hyundai’s Supernal

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! The autonomous vehicle industry is years — maybe decades — from maturing. And so there’s still a Wild West quality to the sector, in spite of the steady stream of announcements that do show marked progress. Two such news items from this week illustrate my point of progress, possibility, and even a bit of

The death of east London's most radical bookshop

This article was published by The Londoner: a new newsletter covering the capital. Join our free mailing list below to get great writing and big scoops in your inbox. Join The Londoner for free It was 4am on the 1st of July as Jack Parker bolted upright in the basement below the Scarlett Letters bookshop. From above, Parker could hear drilling. Then a “thunderstorm” of footsteps. Startled and bleary-eyed, they hurriedly dressed, then crept up the stairs into the main bookshop. What they saw “ho

Was This 18,000-Year-Old Siberian Puppy a Dog or a Wolf?

An 18,000-year-old puppy buried for centuries in a lump of frozen mud was unveiled on Monday by scientists who hope it can help bridge the connection between dogs and wolves. The puppy, which was male, was discovered 18 months ago, preserved in a layer of permafrost in Siberia’s Far Eastern reaches, according to Dave Stanton, a research fellow at the Center for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm and one of the scientists who examined its DNA. The fur, skeleton, teeth, head, lashes and whiskers of the

Fundamental of Virtual Memory

Fundamental of Virtual Memory Contents What and Why? Have you ever wondered why computers need main memory (RAM) when they already have disk storage? The answer lies in access speed. While disk storage is permanent, it is much slower than main memory. RAM sacrifices volatility for speed—data is lost when the power is off, but access times are much faster. As a result, the CPU can only access data from main memory, not disk storage. CPUs come with built-in registers, which are even faster tha

Premier League Soccer: Stream Crystal Palace vs. Liverpool Live From Anywhere

League leader Liverpool heads to the capital on Saturday looking for a win against an impressive Crystal Palace team that is now unbeaten in 17 competitive games. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching EPL games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. The Reds came through last weekend's Merseyside derby against Everton just about unscathed with a 2-1 win at Anfield and followed that with another wi

I Just Posted to Instagram Using Only an AI Agent. I'm Not Sure I Would Again

The big promise of AI agents is that they'll be able to handle tasks for you -- using their knowledge and understanding of you and what's stored in your phone to suggest, predict and automate what you need, to ease the burden on you. For the most part, the situations in which we'd use AI agents in our day-to-day lives have so far been largely hypothetical. But at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, I got a first-hand look at how we might use an agent to complete a routine task: uploading co

You should care more about the stabilizers in your mechanical keyboard—here’s why

While most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about the keys they tap all day, mechanical keyboard enthusiasts certainly do. As interest in DIY keyboards expands, there are plenty of things to obsess over, such as keycap sets, layout, knobs, and switches. But you have to get deep into the hobby before you realize there's something more important than all that: the stabilizers. Even if you have the fanciest switches and a monolithic aluminum case, bad stabilizers can make a keyboard feel

‘Magic: The Gathering’ Is Boldly Going to ‘Star Trek’ Next Year

At MagicCon Atlanta today, Wizards of the Coast lifted the lid on its plans for the next year of Magic: The Gathering, and after the whirlwind success of Final Fantasy earlier this year, the Universes Beyond sets are not going away any time soon: if anything, they’re going further and further beyond, where no one has gone before. Well, except Edge of Eternities, which definitely felt like Wizards of the Coast setting itself up for one sci-fi crossover in particular that is now officially confir

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ABC affiliates end their boycott, putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air nationwide

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Sinclair Broadcasting and Nexstar Media Group, whose stations account for about 25 percent of ABCs national audience, will air Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show on their ABC affiliate stations once again. Sinclair and Nexstar had suspended airing Kimmel’s show under pressure from FCC

Get a Fascinating Look at Some of Nacelle’s New ‘Star Trek’ Figures

Even without a single one of them actually released and in our grubby little hands yet, the thing we love most about Nacelle’s line of Star Trek action figures is the company’s willingness to get as weird and dorky about its lineup as any Trekkie would. Picard and Kirk before calling it a day? Not here: how about Tuvix and Weyoun? How about Captain Janeway, but a version of her very specific to one episode? What about Jellico? What about Bem? Nacelle’s desire to cover the whole breadth of Star

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Disney Plus: The 27 Best TV Shows to Stream Right Now

It goes without saying that Disney Plus is one of the best streaming platforms around today. While that's a bold statement, the streamer's content backs it up. Where else can you click a button and instantly watch a bunch of Star Wars shows, Marvel originals and the ever-popular Bluey? Nowhere; that's your answer. But there's more there than that. You want classic programs from the Disney library? You'll find them on Disney Plus. You want educational documentaries, family-friendly shows or ent

TV giant Sinclair is putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Sinclair Broadcasting will air Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show on its 38 ABC affiliate stations once again, the company announced, after Disney reinstated Kimmel from a suspension earlier this week. Along with fellow broadcast company Nexstar, Sinclair had suspended airing Kimmel’s show under pressure from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, but Sinclair initially chose to repl

More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal

A wider leadership shakeup at Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal is underway just a few weeks after it paused work on its vehicle program and its CEO and CTO left, TechCrunch has learned. Supernal’s chief strategy officer Jaeyong Song and chief safety officer Tracy Lamb are no longer with the company, the startup confirmed Friday. Lina Yang, the chief of staff to Suprernal’s recently-departed CEO Jaiwon Shin is also out. (Yang had previously served as Supernal’s “Head of Intelligent S

Ex-Meta global affairs chief says tech should stay out of politics

Former Meta global affairs chief Nick Clegg said Friday that tech companies should keep a distance from politics and people should feel "uneasy" about those firms intervening in the public space. "I generally don't think that politics and tech innovation mixes very well," Clegg told CNBC's "Squawk Box." "I think it's quite good when they kind of keep each other at a certain, respectful distance." President Donald Trump's deal with China this week to keep TikTok alive in the U.S. includes heavy

Poll: Would you pay for ad-free Instagram and Facebook?

Taylor Kerns / Android Authority Meta announced today that users in the UK will soon have the option to pay a small monthly fee to access its popular social media platforms without seeing ads. Though Facebook and Instagram will still collect the kinds of personal user data they use to target ads, no ads will be displayed to users enrolled in the new payment program. New paid options are meant to address the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office consent or pay guidance that says online service

Battery startup Moxion went bankrupt. Now its founder is back to ‘finish what we started.’

Just over a year ago, Moxion Power closed its doors, adding its name to a list of high-profile bankruptcies that roiled the climate tech world in 2024. The portable battery startup had raised more than $110 million in a bid to replace diesel generators at festivals and construction sites, but even that wasn’t enough to get it through the valley of death. Moxion laid off more than 400 employees and its assets were liquidated. Now, the startup’s co-founder, Paul Huelskamp, and several former Moxi

JWST peers deep into the heart of star formation in our Milky Way galaxy

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its beautiful images highlighting the intensity of star-birth in the region and deepening the mystery of why star formation at the very heart of our galaxy is so sluggish. Sagittarius B2 is a dense cloud of molecular gas located about 390 light-years from the black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy . At about 150 light-y

Broadcast TV Is a 'Melting Ice Cube.’ Kimmel Just Turned Up the Heat

Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC this week. Sort of. About a quarter of ABC’s usual audience couldn’t see the talk show host this week after two major owners of ABC affiliates, Sinclair and Nexstar, refused to carry the show. Those right-leaning companies apparently felt that Kimmel’s joke—which included some disputed facts—was so unpardonable that they couldn’t expose their viewers to the comedian. They were also the first organizations to pull the plug on Kimmel, after Federal Communications Commi