The same mildly flat indent on the stem of each bud indicates the location of the touch/squeeze controls, and there are black spots where heart rate sensors, wear detection sensors, and microphone ports hide. As with previous models, silvery tips bless the end of each elephant trunk, where a beamforming mic aims at your lips… Continue reading Apple AirPods Pro 3 Review: Still The Best for iOS
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Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, the Republican policy apparatus went immediately to work. The Heritage Foundation, which published Project 2025, and its spinoff, the Oversight Project, issued a call for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to designate “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism,” or TIVE, as a domestic terrorism threat category. The push comes as… Continue reading Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification
Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital?
Lauren Goode: Another fun little anecdote, I recently did a story about vibe coding for WIRED and I embedded with an engineering team at Notion, and two of the leaders of the engineering team were both women, of the AI engineering team specifically. And I ended up pair programming with women throughout the day as… Continue reading Is Silicon Valley Still the Tech Capital?
More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal
A wider leadership shake-up 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… Continue reading More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal
Two Tesla Megapacks caught fire at giant battery project in Nevada
Two Tesla Megapacks caught fire this week at a massive 360 MW battery project in Boulder City, near Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2021, Tesla and Arevon signed a deal for the former to supply a record amount of 2 GW/6 GWh of Megapack batteries to the latter for several new energy storage projects. One of those projects… Continue reading Two Tesla Megapacks caught fire at giant battery project in Nevada
Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’
During a recent trip to Meta HQ, I took the opportunity to ask CTO Andrew Bosworth about its new robotics effort. During a recent trip to Meta HQ, I took the opportunity to ask CTO Andrew Bosworth about its new robotics effort. by Alex Heath Sep 26, 2025, 7:45 PM UTC Alex Heath is a… Continue reading Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’
Longtime Investor Warns the AI Industry Is Set to Collapse for a Basic Financial Reason
Image via Getty / Futurism While much of the wealth-owning world is positively smitten by the financial promise of large language models (LLMs) and the data centers necessary to power them, one major tech investor is sounding the alarm. Roger McNamee, a career tech financier who made successful bets on companies including Google, Facebook, and… Continue reading Longtime Investor Warns the AI Industry Is Set to Collapse for a Basic Financial Reason
Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face
The Velvet Sundown It’s been clear for a while that a deluge of AI slop is drowning out real music and human artists on Spotify. The platform has become overrun by bots and AI-spun trickery, which have actively been scamming revenue from real bands. Earlier this year, a self-proclaimed “indie rock band” called The Velvet… Continue reading Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face
Chinese Release of “Together” Edited Woman’s Face Onto Gay Man to Censor Same-Sex Couple
Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic via Getty / Getty Images Something weird is happening with the release of the Australian horror movie “Together,” starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, and it’s not the plot in which — spoilers! — their bodies start fusing together after a night in the woods.… Continue reading Chinese Release of “Together” Edited Woman’s Face Onto Gay Man to Censor Same-Sex Couple
Bon Iver Side Project’s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song
Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images/Futurism Longtime fans of Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon will recall Volcano Choir, an acclaimed side project he spearheaded in the 2000s and early 2010s that hasn’t released an album since 2013’s “Repave.” Suddenly interrupting that long dormancy is a new single titled “Silkymoon Light,” which appeared on Volcano Choir’s Spotify page this… Continue reading Bon Iver Side Project’s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song