SpaceX says Starship self-destructed after propellant leaks caused fires and comms blackout
SpaceX said Monday that last month’s Starship explosion was brought on by a cascading series of events caused by propellant leaks — a problem the company says has been addressed ahead of an eighth test flight that could happen as early as Friday.
The spaceflight company is still waiting fo
SoundCloud partners with Ticketmaster to let artists list events
Music streamer SoundCloud announced a partnership with Ticketmaster and Universe, owned by Live Nation Entertainment, to let artists list events on their profiles in a customized way.
The company said it would create more promotion opportunities for artists in the future in partnership with Ticket
Google Drive users can now access and search transcripts for videos
After launching automatically generated captions for videos last year, Google Drive is now launching searchable video transcripts. Google announced that starting Monday, Drive users can now view and search transcripts for their videos.
The new feature gets rid of the need to upload a video’s
Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want
Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to.
Anthropic calls Claude 3.7 Sonnet the industry’s first “hybrid AI reasoning model,” because it’s a sin
Grok 3 appears to be driving Grok usage to new heights
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, released Grok 3, its long-awaited flagship AI model, last week. Grok 3 powers the Grok chatbot apps for mobile and the web, as well as the Grok experience on the Musk-owned social network X.
Given that there’s so much competition in the AI chatbot space the
The SEC will not sue Robinhood over crypto
Robinhood on Monday said that the SEC has closed its investigation into Robinhood’s crypto unit and will not pursue action.
This follows Coinbase saying on Friday that the SEC has dropped its lawsuit against it.
The SEC, under former chair and crypto hawk Gary Gensler, was l
Perplexity teases a web browser called Comet
AI-powered search engine Perplexity says it’s building its own web browser.
In a post on X on Monday, the company launched a sign-up list for the browser, which isn’t yet available. It’s unclear when it might be — or what the browser will look like, even. But we do have a name:
Three years on, Europe looks to Ukraine for the future of defense tech
Today marks three years since Russia's illegal, unprovoked, and brutal invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have heroically fought the war with grit and determination, but they have also, against the odds, innovated on and off the battlefield.
In addition to establishing a defense t
TikTok (with Douyin) becomes first app to reach $6B in annual consumer spending
TikTok, including its Chinese counterpart Douyin, in 2024 became the first non-game app to reach $6 billion in in-app purchase revenue in a year. According to a new report from app intelligence provider Sensor Tower, TikTok also generated a record high of $1.9 billion in gross in-app purchase (IAP)
Australia bans government use of Kaspersky software due to 'unacceptable security risk'
Australia has become the latest country to ban government officials from using software made by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, arguing that the software poses an “unacceptable security risk.”
Australia's Department of Home Affairs last week issued a directive that prohibits go
Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
On Friday, hackers stole around $1.4 billion in Ethereum cryptocurrency from crypto exchange Bybit, in what is the largest crypto heist of all time.
After the hack, several blockchain monitoring firms, as well as the well-known crypto investigator ZachXBT, have all pointed to the North Korean gove
Flexport releases onslaught of AI tools in a move inspired by 'founder mode'
Freight forwarding and logistics company Flexport is rolling out a suite of new products and features, many of which use AI, in what the company says will be the first in a series of semi-annual announcements of this kind.
If that sounds similar to Airbnb's approach to seasonal product annou
A single default password exposes access to dozens of apartment buildings
A security researcher says the default password shipped in a widely used door access control system allows anyone to easily and remotely access door locks and elevator controls in dozens of buildings across the U.S. and Canada.
Eric Daigle said he found exposed residential and office buildings acr
Patlytics raises $14M for its patent analytics platform
For decades, patents have been a bone of contention in the technology world, seen by some as a way to protect intellectual property, but by critics as a blunt weapon against innovation. In the age of AI, they are once again getting revisited.
New York startup Patlytics has developed an AI-enabled