Tech News
Headlines from Hacker News, TechCrunch, and BBC Tech
Showing 25 of 50 articles
Nicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring parts of AI
The portfolio he has assembled since 2019 is dotted with technologies that have become more widely interesting to VCs over the last year:
Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions
Score: 34 points
Humanoid Robot Actuators
Score: 115 points
We’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse
Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 "founding patrons" had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.
Let's Buy Spirit Air
Score: 319 points
The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
Score: 157 points
DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
Score: 419 points
Introduction to Atom
Score: 89 points
‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art
The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."
New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
Score: 377 points
BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
Score: 355 points
In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.
Southwest Headquarters Tour
Score: 244 points
Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors
Score: 143 points
TechCrunch Mobility: How do you issue a ticket to a robotaxi?
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
A desktop made for one
Score: 332 points
This tiny, magnetic e-reader could stop you from doomscrolling
The Xteink X3 is a delightfully tiny, MagSafe-compatible e-ink reader that attaches to the back of your phone like a Pop Socket.
OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
Score: 385 points
AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars
Bad news for Tilly Norwood.
Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down
Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.
Netflix delays Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ movie for big theatrical push in 2027
"The Magician's Nephew" looks like a big next step in Netflix's thawing relationship with movie theaters.
The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked
AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice
Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch
It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.
Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a
Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer
Score: 15 points