A Russian soldier demonstrates a simple drone shotgun firing tube Russian MoD via Twitter Drone technology has advanced rapidly during the conflict in Ukraine. Just a couple of months ago we reported on a Ukrainian project mounting a shotgun on a drone with an ingenious method to cancel recoil. Now the Russians are fielding an…
On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The startup says it trained its new family of AI models — SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini — to be optimized for the “entire software engineering process,”…
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Apple CEO, Tim Cook, unveils the latest generation of iPhones. Getty Images Apple is boldly embracing brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to enable users to control its devices using only their thoughts—a novel frontier for the company. Earlier this week, it was announced that the tech giant is working with Synchron, a company that has been…
Hankook Tire & Technology Co. tires for electric vehicles displayed at the EV Trend Korea exhibition in Seoul, South Korea. SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg South Korean automobile parts giant Hankook & Company Group, one of Asia’s largest tiremakers by sales, is launching its own corporate venture capital arm with a capital commitment of 15 billion won ($10.7…
Image Credits:Julius 2:35 PM PDT · May 15, 2025 The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma.” His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar but the prank went viral. While he never worked…
Savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired EarlyBird, an investment gifting platform for families, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, EarlyBird will shut down, and all customer accounts will officially close on June 23. Customers’ funds will be returned to the bank…
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Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion. Databricks said acquiring Neon’s tech would let it combine the startup’s serverless relational database management system with its own data intelligence services to let its customers…