Google Translate now lets you listen to real-time translations in your headphones
Google is rolling out a beta version that lets you listen to real-time translations on your headphones, the company announced Friday. The tech giant is also introducing advanced Gemini features to Google Translate, expanding the translation app’s language learning tools. Google says its new real-time headphone translation experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and rhythm […]
Retro, a photo sharing app for friends, lets you ‘time travel’ through your camera roll
Retro, the friend-centric photo-sharing app with nearly 1 million users, is adding a new feature that lets you time-travel through old photo memories from your phone’s camera roll. The app currently offers a way to share photos of what happened during your week with a private group of friends and create shared albums, but this […]
Photo booth maker’s website is flawed, exposing customers’ photos
A company that makes photo booths is putting customers’ photos and videos online because of a simple flaw in the website where the files are stored, according to a security researcher. The researcher, known as Zeacer, alerted TechCrunch about the security issue in late November after reporting the vulnerability to Hama Film, a photo booth […]
Zevo wants to add robotaxis to its car-sharing fleet, starting with newcomer Tensor
Self-driving cars are no longer confined to the realm of science fiction, thanks to companies like Waymo rolling out commercial robo-taxi services in multiple cities. And many automakers, large and small, are looking to bring the same level of self-driving capabilities to privately owned vehicles over the next few years. If this happens, what can […]
Reddit claims it’s different from other social platforms in response to Australia’s social media ban
In a move worthy of a post on its subreddit ‘Not Like The Other Girls’, Reddit, one of the world’s largest social platforms, claims it is different from other real social media sites as it seeks to overturn an Australian law that bans children under 16 from using social media. In a lawsuit filed in […]
World releases “super app” including crypto pay and encrypted chat features
World, the biometric identity verification project co-founded by Sam Altman, today released the latest version of its app, debuting several new features including encrypted chat integration and expanded Venmo-like functionality for sending and requesting cryptocurrencies. World was created by startup Tools for Humanity in 2019 and originally released the app in 2023. The company says […]
Stanford University’s star reporter takes on Silicon Valley’s ‘money-filled’ startup culture
Theo Baker is truly an anomaly. While journalism as a major has been in decline for years, with some schools even dropping it altogether, Baker, a senior at Stanford University, has focused on old-fashioned investigative reporting, and it’s paying off. Baker first gained attention as a freshman when his reporting in the Stanford Daily led […]
Google launches deepest AI research agent ever — same day OpenAI removes GPT-5.2
Google on Thursday released a “reimagined” version of its research agent Gemini Deep Research, which is based on its much-hyped cutting-edge platform model Gemini 3 Pro. This new agent wasn’t just designed to create investigative reports. However, it is possible. This allows developers to incorporate Google’s SATA model exploration capabilities into their own apps. This […]
1X has a contract to send humanoids from their “homeland” to factories and warehouses.
Robotics company 1X has identified several potential buyers for its humanoid robots designed for consumers. This is a portfolio company of one of our investors. The company announced Thursday a strategic partnership to make thousands of humanoid robots available to EQT portfolio companies. EQT is a leading Swedish multi-asset investor and its venture fund EQT […]
OpenAI hits back at Google with GPT-5.2 after ‘Code Red’ memo
OpenAI launched its latest Frontier model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday as competition from Google intensifies, touting it as its most advanced model yet and one designed for developers and everyday professionals. OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is available via API to ChatGPT paid users and developers in three flavors: Instant is a speed-optimized model for everyday queries such as […]