How to switch off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Apple released new software updates on Monday, including iOS 18.3, which automatically opts users into Apple Intelligence, at least for newer devices.
Unlike what the tech industry seems to think, or wants to believe, not everyone wants generative AI features enabled by default on their devi
Nvidia drops $600B off its market cap amid the rise of DeepSeek
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, became the talk of the proverbial AI town when it released its R1 model on Friday. R1’s functionality and accuracy compared to its U.S. counterparts, despite using fewer resources and less compute power, seems like a win for the overall AI industry. But it isn&
Cornell's robot jellyfish and worm are powered by a hydraulic fluid battery
Researchers at Cornell University on Monday showcased a pair of bio-inspired robotics running on a hydraulic fluid-powered battery. The redox flow battery (RFB) also mimics biological functions, as it releases electrolytic fluids, which dissolve to create energy through chemical reaction.
The firs
Hackers are targeting machine identities. Token Security just raised $20M to stop them.
The number of machine identities is booming thanks to the growth of cloud and AI — and it's posing real security problems by giving hackers way more entry points than ever before. For example, a 2023 hack of authentication app Okta was caused by exploiting a service account while in 2024,
Smartwatch pioneer and Kickstarter darling Pebble is returning in a new form
Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter's history, smartwatch maker Pebble abruptly closed in 2016, filing for insolvency before being sold off to rival Fitbit. The fitness-tracking giant went on to build much of its Ionic smartwatch with help f
DeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store’s top app
The mobile app for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot in app stores around the globe this weekend, topping the U.S.-based AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On iOS, DeepSeek is currently the No. 1 free app in the U.S. App Store and 51 other countries, according to mobile app analytics firm
How DeepSeek's efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissance
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek stunned the world with the release of its R1 model, which appears to perform nearly as well as leading models from Google and OpenAI, despite the company's claim that it used a relatively modest number of GPUs to train it.
DeepSeek's relative efficiency has expe
OpenAI-backed 1X acquires Kind Humanoid
1X has acquired Kind Humanoid, the Norwegian robotics startup told technewss on Monday. The deal marks a small but key consolidation for a humanoid robotics industry on the brink of a major moment in 2025.
technewss spoke with Kind Humanoid in October, when the then-three-person startup announce
Bluesky adds video to user profiles
Social network Bluesky is doubling down on video. After it added a new TikTok-like custom video feed last week in the wake of the U.S. ban on the popular video app (now on pause), the company on Monday announced it’s adding a new video tab to Bluesky user profiles.
The tab will allow people
Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family
DeepSeek, the viral AI company, has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3.
The models, which are available for download from the AI dev platform Hugging Face, are part of a new model family that DeepSeek is calling Janus-Pro. They range i
Meta AI can now use your Facebook and Instagram data to personalize its responses
Meta says that it is rolling out improvements to Meta AI, its cross-platform chatbot, including the ability to have the bot “remember” details from conversations.
In a post on Meta’s official blog, the company said that, in chats with Meta AI on Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp
How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline
A February 2024 ransomware attack on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare stands as the largest data breach of health and medical data in U.S. history.
Change Healthcare confirmed in January 2025 that its data breach affects approximately 190 million people in America, almost d
Lydian can make aviation fuel wherever there's CO2 and electricity
Jet fuel is a modern wonder, allowing commercial airplanes to carry hundreds of passengers halfway around the world and military aircraft to regularly break the speed of sound.
Yet jet fuel as we know it might be on the chopping block as the world strives to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Com
DeepSeek ‘punctures’ AI leaders’ spending plans, and what analysts are saying
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has emerged as a potential challenger to U.S. AI companies, demonstrating breakthrough models that claim to offer performance comparable to leading offerings at a fraction of the cost. The company’s mobile app, released in early January, has lately topped the App Stor