Airbnb is testing a new service with Instacart that will let guests order groceries directly through the Airbnb app before and during their stay. The company confirmed this pilot program on Wednesday. A spokesperson for Airbnb explained that the company…
Recent solar activity has been creating spectacular night sky displays across North America. This same activity is now causing a delay for Jeff Bezos’ space company. Blue Origin has postponed the second launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket from Cape…
Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it has signed an ambitious new data center partnership with the UK-based neocloud provider Fluidstack. The company is committing fifty billion dollars to build facilities across the United States to meet its growing computational needs.…
Sixteen years ago, engineers working on the Google self-driving project conducted their first autonomous vehicle tests on the freeway connecting Silicon Valley to San Francisco. That company would eventually become Waymo, and its autonomous vehicle testing expanded to other cities.…
WisdomAI, a new AI data analytics startup founded by Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar, has secured a new $50 million Series A funding round. The investment was led by Kleiner Perkins and included participation from new investor NVentures, which is Nvidia’s…
People in the United States with an iPhone or Apple Watch can now carry a digital copy of their U.S. passport on their device. This digital passport can be used at TSA checkpoints in over 250 airports for domestic travel.…
A group of Democratic lawmakers have sent letters to several state governors, including those in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Wisconsin. The letters warn that these states are inadvertently sharing drivers’ data with federal immigration authorities. The correspondence informed the governors…
A new report from the International Energy Agency confirms the central role of data centers in the global economy. This year, global spending on data centers will reach $580 billion, which is $40 billion more than the world will spend…
The internet radio service TuneIn has been sold for a total of one hundred seventy-five million dollars. The buyer is the music and technology company Stingray Group, which will pay one hundred fifty million dollars at closing and up to…
Crafting a perfect prompt for AI chatbots is often a challenge. This difficulty is so significant that startups are creating new roles for prompt engineers. To address this, consumer-facing AI apps are increasingly adding features like suggestion buttons and autogenerated…
