Emerging Technologies
As India bans real-money games, Dream Sports, MPL start pulling the plug | TechCrunch
Top Indian startups in the real-money gaming space have begun shutting down operations after New Delhi effectively banned the sector through new legislation that’s now on the verge of becoming law. On Thursday, the upper house of the Indian Parliament passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 — proposing to completely ban…
Inside Walmart’s AI security stack: How a startup mentality is hardening enterprise-scale defense
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Jerry R. Geisler III, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Walmart Inc., to gain insights into the cybersecurity challenges the…
Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold vs. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7: How the newest foldable phones stack up
Last month, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 was released and immediately became the de facto king of the foldable phone hill. But now a new challenger has arrived: The Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The full details are now available in the wake of Google’s splashy launch event, which debuted the Fold alongside the full…
Tour Championship 2025: TV Schedule, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere
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The Mill food recycling bin is the easiest indoor composter alternative, and my all-time favorite appliance
Finding out how to recycle any given item is a shifty inquiry that even Google’s AI Overview has trouble pinning down. And then, half the time, we’re questioning where the stuff we toss in the recycling bin actually goes. (To a legitimate recycling plant? To the ocean? Hell?) Food waste has a much clearer —…
Dominate the Competition With These Elite Gaming Mice
Other Good Mice to Consider NZXT Lift 2 Symm Photograph: Eric Ravenscraft NZXT Lift 2 Symm for $50: PC manufacturer NZXT has been venturing out into the peripherals market with impressive products for a company so relatively new to the game. The NZXT Lift 2 Symm is no exception. This mouse has a hollow interior…
Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims | TechCrunch
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools,” according to a press release issued Monday. “In today’s digital age, we must continue to fight to protect Texas kids from deceptive and exploitative…
This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI’s new, powerful open weights AI large language model (LLM) family gpt-oss was released less than two weeks ago under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — the company’s first…
How to watch Gamescom 2025 and what to expect
It feels like Summer Game Fest is only just in our rear view mirror and yet there’s another video game extravaganza on the horizon. Gamescom is the planet’s largest gaming event and we’re sure to find out about a bunch of interesting new games at the Opening Night Live showcase (and, fingers crossed, maybe get…
I Used an AI-Powered Glucose Monitor for 2 Weeks. Here's What Surprised Me
I’ve used my Oura Ring the past few years to track my sleep, recovery and stress. I’m constantly experimenting with the latest health tech, so I was naturally intrigued when Oura Ring recently partnered with Dexcom’s Stelo, a continuous glucose monitor designed for people without diabetes. The goal of this collaboration is to help everyday people like me…