iOS 26 Beta 3 Dial Back Liquid Glass
The new Glassy Look for iPhone was toned down with Monday’s release of iOS 26’s third developer beta. This follows users’ complaints that some of the user interfaces have made them even more difficult to read. At WWDC 2025 in June, Tech Giant introduced a new design language known as Liquid Glass. This is inspired […]
Jack Dorsey is working on the Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat
Jack Dorsey, Block CEO and Twitter co-founder, wrote in a Sunday night X post that he created an app called Bitchat over the weekend (probably a combination of the words “bit” and “chat” rather than other words). Bitchat is a messaging app that operates over a Bluetooth mesh network, allowing users to send messages without […]
Waymo Robotaxis is heading to Philadelphia and New York
Waymo began two “road trips” to Philadelphia and New York City on Monday, expressing interest in the alphabet-owned company expanding to cities in the northeast. Waymo’s branded “road trips” do not necessarily represent a commercial launch anytime soon. Waymo has announced several other road trips this year, including Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Diego and […]
Threads are approaching X’s daily app users, new data shows
Market Intelligence Provider According to new data from SigraceWeb, Instagram threads are closer to top competitor X in terms of mobile app users. In June 2025, Threads mobile app for iOS and Android had 115.1 million active users, representing 127.8% growth from the previous year. X reached 132 million active as its growth fell 15.2% […]
AI forces integration into the data industry, but that’s not the whole story
The data industry is on the verge of dramatic transformation. The market is integrated. And if you’ve had transactions in the last two months, momentum is gaining if Databricks buys Neon for $1 billion and Salesforce snaps cloud management company Informatica for $8 billion. The acquired companies range in size, age and focus area within […]
Ingram Micro says the ongoing outage caused by ransomware attacks
Ingram Micro, a US technology that distributes giants and managed service providers, said on Monday that ransomware attacks are the cause of the ongoing outage. The hack began on Thursday, and many of the company’s website and its network have since gone down. Late Saturday, the company said in a simple statement that it could […]
“Improved” Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s “Jewish executives”
On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We’ve made a huge improvement on @grok. You’ll notice the difference when you ask Grok questions.” Musk didn’t say exactly what improvements he wanted, but he previously declared that “building Grok) would retrain the chatbot after being trained with “too much trash.” We called on users of X (if […]
So far, at least 36 new technology unicorns have been cast in 2025
As AI fires a monthly investor frenzy, more startups get unicorn status. Using data from CrunchBase and Pitchbook, TechCrunch has tracked VC-backed startups that have become unicorns so far this year. Most are AI-related, but an astonishing number focuses on other industries, such as loft orbital and satellite space companies such as blockchain-based trading site […]
So far, at least 36 new technology unicorns have been cast in 2025
As AI fires a monthly investor frenzy, more startups get unicorn status. Using data from CrunchBase and Pitchbook, TechCrunch has tracked VC-backed startups that have become unicorns so far this year. Most are AI-related, but the surprising number focuses on other industries, such as the satellite space company Loft Orbital and blockchain-based trading site Kalshi. […]
How Brex is catching up to AI by embracing “confusion”
Companies are struggling to adopt the right AI tools as technology evolves at a much faster pace than slower sales cycles. The same goes for Brex, a corporate credit card company. We found that startups face the same problems as their enterprise counterparts. Results: Brex has completely changed its approach to software procurement to ensure […]