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Revel shutters rideshare business, pivots to EV charging

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Revel is shutting down its ridehail business, citing heightened competition from rideshare leaders like Uber and Lyft. The company, which began as an electric moped business before shifting to rideshare, plans to pivot to electric vehic

Poshmark CEO and founder to step down

Fashion resale marketplace Poshmark announced on Monday that its founder, Manish Chandra, is stepping down as CEO. Namsun Kim, who has served as executive chairman since April, has been appointed as his successor. Chandra founded Poshmark in 2011 alongside his three co-founders in a garage in Silicon Valley. Under his leadership, the company went public, was acquired by Naver in 2022, and has grown to 150 million users to date. After nearly 15 years, he’ll transition to being a member of the b

Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

President Donald Trump on Monday placed the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deployed 800 National Guard troops in the capital city to address what he claimed was out-of-control crime there. It is the first time that a president has federalized the Metropolitan Police Department. Trump's move drew fierce condemnation from local officials, who noted that official statistics show crime in D.C. is on the decline. "I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation'

Trump says he asked for 20% cut from Nvidia, calls H20 an 'obsolete' chip

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) listens as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House during an event on "Investing in America" on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump on Monday said that he initially asked Nvidia for a 20% cut of the chipmaker's sales to China, but the number came down to 15% after CEO Jensen Huang negotiated with him. The comments came after news broke over the weekend that Nvidia agreed to pay the federal government a 15% cut in

Reddit is restricting its availability to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the latest victim of Reddit's crackdown on data access. The company has begun to place new restrictions on what the archive site will be able to access in a move that will significantly limit the Wayback Machine's ability to preserve information from Reddit. With the change, the Wayback Machine, a project run by the nonprofit Internet Archive, will only be able to crawl Reddit's homepage. It will no longer be able to access comments, subreddit pages, po

AI Is Creating Billionaires at Record Speed

While the world debates whether AI will take our jobs or save humanity, a small class of insiders already has the answer: for them, it’s a gold rush. The AI boom is creating a new caste of “nouveaux riches” at a speed the tech world has never seen before, turning top engineers into figures chased with the same fervor as star athletes. While the public grapples with the future, these are the people getting extraordinarily rich right now. The New Kings of AI At the top of the list is Jensen Hua

Paramount buys UFC rights for $7.7 billion, ending PPV events

Paramount just acquired the US rights to UFC for seven years in a deal worth $7.7 billion dollars, according to reporting by NBC News . This contract begins in 2026 and covers the organization's full slate of 13 marquee bouts and 30 Fight Night events per year. All matches and events will stream in the US on Paramount+ and select fights will simulcast on CBS. This ends the pay-per-view (PPV) model that ESPN+ has favored for premium UFC events. "What’s on pay-per-view anymore? Boxing? Movies on

Trump strikes “wild” deal making US firms pay 15% tax on China chip sales

Ahead of an August 12 deadline for a US-China trade deal, Donald Trump's tactics continue to confuse those trying to assess the country's national security priorities regarding its biggest geopolitical rival. For months, Trump has kicked the can down the road regarding a TikTok ban, allowing the app to continue operating despite supposedly urgent national security concerns that China may be using the app to spy on Americans. And now, in the latest baffling move, a US official announced Monday t

TechCrunch Mobility: The triple punch headed for automakers

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! I took a tour through a few 10Q reports this week to get a sense of how EV makers like Rivian and Lucid (or even legacy automakers that also sell EVs) feel about the one-two punch of tariffs and the end of the federal tax credit. Although these documents are loaded with legalese, it’s clear that both econ

GitHub CEO to step down

In Brief GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced on Monday that he’s stepping down from his role. Dohmke will remain at the Microsoft-owned company until the end of the year, after which he will depart to become “a founder again,” he wrote in a blog post. Axios reports that Microsoft will not directly replace the position, and that GitHub leadership will now report to several Microsoft executives. “With more than 1B repos and forks, and over 150 million developers, GitHub has never been stronger t

Optimizing My Disk Usage Program

In my previous post, Maybe the Fastest Disk Usage Program on macOS, I wrote about dumac. A very fast alternative to du -sh that uses a macOS-specific syscall getattrlistbulk to be much faster than the next leading disk usage program. I received some great technical feedback in the Lobsters thread. After implementing some of the suggestions, I was able to increase performance by ~28% on my large benchmark. hyperfine --warmup 3 --min-runs 5 './before temp/deep' './after temp/deep' Benchmark 1: .

Topics: 128 deep inode ms temp

FDA Rehires Controversial Biologics Chief Just Days After Trump Fired Him

The circus was performing at the Food and Drug Administration this weekend, apparently. The FDA has hired Vinay Prasad to oversee the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research—less than two weeks after he left that same role. Endpoints News was the first to report on Prasad’s rehiring on Saturday. He was initially reportedly fired by President Donald Trump himself, following growing pressure from Laura Loomer and other conservative voices who criticized him over the agency’s regulation of a

Revel shuts down its ride-hail business to focus on EV charging

Revel has shut down its ride-hailing service in New York City, in yet another pivot for the company that started out by renting electric scooters in 2019. Moving forward, Revel will instead focus on its nascent EV charging business, which includes operating five stations in New York and one in San Francisco. A visit to Revel’s app on Monday showed a message thanking users for “riding with us the last 4 years!” and announcing it has “permanently closed our rideshare service.” Revel’s website ech

C3 AI stock falls 20% as CEO Siebel calls preliminary sales numbers 'completely unacceptable'

The C3.ai logo is seen near a computer motherboard in this illustration taken on Jan. 8, 2024. Shares of the enterprise artificial intelligence company C3 AI tumbled more than 20% Monday after it announced preliminary financial results and a restructuring of its global sales and services organization. C3 AI said Friday that it expects to report revenue between $70.2 million and $70.4 million for its fiscal first quarter 2026, though those figures are unaudited, preliminary estimates. The compa

Ford is developing a $30,000 midsized EV pickup

Despite the impending loss of federal rebates, Ford plans to give US EV production a huge boost. After hyping it last week as a "breakthrough" and "Model T moment," the company has announced a new Universal EV Platform to be shared by a new family of products. The first of those will be a midsized pickup with a starting price of around $30,000, likely similar in configuration to the popular Maverick. It will use the company's new prismatic LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries. Ford will inves

Designing Software in the Large

Designing Software in the Large Software75 Jul 22, 2025 – Filed as: A Philosophy of Software Design is my favorite book I’ve read to date about designing large long-lived maintainable software programs. Here’s what I learned: Complexity Complexity is anything related to the structure of a software system that makes it hard to understand & modify the system. Symptoms of complexity: Change Amplification - A seemingly simple change requires code modifications in many different places. High Cog

Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ford says its finally cracked the code on cheap EVs. The automaker announced plans to build “a family” of low-cost electric vehicles at its Kentucky assembly planrt, starting with a four-door, midsized $30,000 pickup truck in 2027. For

US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Trump administration has ordered Nvidia and AMD to pay the federal government a 15 percent cut of their AI chip sales revenue to China, according to reports from The New York Times and The Financial Times. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly reached an agreem

C3 AI stock falls 30% as CEO Siebel calls preliminary sales numbers 'completely unacceptable'

The C3.ai logo is seen near a computer motherboard in this illustration taken on Jan. 8, 2024. Shares of the enterprise artificial intelligence company C3 AI tumbled 30% Monday after it announced preliminary financial results and a restructuring of its global sales and services organization. C3 AI said Friday that it expects to report revenue between $70.2 million and $70.4 million for its fiscal first quarter 2026, though those figures are unaudited, preliminary estimates. The company reporte

A simple pixel physics simulator in Rust using Macroquad

Sbixel Sbixel is a very simple pixel physics simulator I made to learn Rust. It uses macroquad for drawing — and I was pleasantly surprised by how simple and awesome it is! Quick demo (click for youtube link): ⚠️ This project is very basilar and doesn't have much ambition to go anywhere — it's mainly a learning sandbox. How It Works The simulation uses a "sector" system to reduce unnecessary processing by only simulating active areas of pixels. All settings related to simulation and perfo

Justice Dept. Settles with Greystar to End Participation in Algorithmic Pricing

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement today to resolve the United States’ claims against Greystar Management Services LLC as part of its ongoing enforcement against algorithmic coordination and other anticompetitive practices in rental markets across the country. Greystar, the largest landlord in the United States, manages almost 950,000 rental units across the country. As alleged in Plaintiffs’ complaint, Greystar and other landlords, including five co-defenda

Musk Moves to Bring Tesla Power to U.K. As Car Sales Stumble

Controversial lightning rod Elon Musk is making major moves in the United Kingdom, as his electric car company Tesla looks to find new ways to diversify its income streams. According to OFGEM, the U.K. energy regulator, Tesla has formally applied for a license to sell electricity to households and businesses across Britain. Approval of that application could be a major boost for both Musk and Tesla, which has seen sales skid as Musk has become an increasingly polarizing figure in American poli

7 Best Tents (2025), Tested: Camping, Family, and Outdoor Palaces

REI’s Base Camp tent is the best-designed, best-built six-person tent I've ever used. It also proved itself one of the most waterproof large tents in our testing. It's a traditional dome tent design, with two crossed poles and two side poles. The tent floor is high-quality 150-denier (150D) polyester, while the sides are a combination of mesh and 40D nylon. There's loads of storage pockets, double doors, great vents, and huge windows, making it comfortable even in summer heat. It's also one of t

Apple applies for patent on that ‘single slab of glass’ iPhone

iOS 26 is giving us a glass-like UI, but Apple’s long-term vision for the iPhone hardware is what former design chief Jony Ive referred to as a “single slab of glass.” A new Apple patent application appears to refer to work on this, describing a “six-sided glass enclosure” … An all-glass iPhone Ive may be long gone from his role at Apple, but the company is believed to be still working toward his vision of a device which would look like a single slab of glass. The company’s first major step

OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography

OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography OpenSSH supports a number of cryptographic key agreement algorithms considered to be safe against attacks from quantum computers. We recommend that all SSH connections use these algorithms. OpenSSH has offered post-quantum key agreement (KexAlgorithms) by default since release 9.0 (2022), initially via the sntrup761x25519-sha512 algorithm. More recently, in OpenSSH 9.9, we have added a second post-quantum key agreement mlkem768x25519-sha256 and it was made the

Google Calendar invites let researchers hijack Gemini to leak user data

Google fixed a bug that allowed maliciously crafted Google Calendar invites to remotely take over Gemini agents running on the target's device and leak sensitive user data. The attack unfolded without requiring any user involvement beyond typical interactions with the assistant, which occur daily for users of Gemini. Gemini is Google's large language model (LLM) assistant integrated into Android, Google web services, and Google's Workspace apps, having access to Gmail, Calendar, and Google Hom

What Does Palantir Actually Do?

Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software firm's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Department of Defense, and the Israeli military has sparked numerous protests in multiple countries. Palantir has been so infamous for so long that, for some people, its name has become a cultural shorthand for dystopian surveillance. But a number of former Palantir employees tell WIR

7 Best Tents (2025), Tested: Backpacking, Family, and Ultralight

REI’s Base Camp tent is the best-designed, best-built six-person tent I've ever used. It also proved itself one of the most waterproof large tents in our testing. It's a traditional dome tent design, with two crossed poles and two side poles. The tent floor is high-quality 150-denier (150D) polyester, while the sides are a combination of mesh and 40D nylon. There's loads of storage pockets, double doors, great vents, and huge windows, making it comfortable even in summer heat. It's also one of t

Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice

In Brief Apple in 2024 showed a swanky demo of what it said would be a new, intelligent Siri that would connect with different apps to fetch all kinds of information. But this new Siri has yet to see the light of day, as the company seemingly hasn’t been able to get it ready. However, Bloomberg now reports that Apple is testing a version of Siri that will be able to take actions on your behalf across various apps by following voice commands. The company plans to release a new version of App In

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US Nvidia told the BBC: "We follow rules the US government sets for our participation in worldwide markets." Security experts, including some who served during President Donald Trump's first term, recently wrote to the administration expressing "deep concern" that Nvidia's H20 chip was "a potent accelerator" of China's AI capabilities. The US had previously banned the sale of powerful chips used in areas like artificial intelligence (AI) to Chi