Apple is bringing polls to Messages in iOS 26
Apple announced at WWDC 2025 on Monday that it’s bringing polls to Messages in its upcoming iOS 26 update. The feature has been highly requested by users, and is one that has been long adopted by services like WhatsApp and Telegram.
The feature will allow users to vote on different things di
At WWDC, Apple introduces iOS 26 and macOS 26 in major operating system rebrand
Apple announced a big change to how it names its operating systems at WWDC 2025 on Monday.
Instead of using system names like iOS 19 and macOS 19, the company will now use the year as part of the name. This means all its operating systems will be called iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, tvOS 26,
Apple redesigns its operating systems with ‘Liquid Glass’ at WWDC 25
Apple’s iPhone may not be getting a significant AI upgrade, but it is getting a fresh coat of paint. As are Apple’s other operating systems.
At WWDC 2025, the company announced a refreshed user interface called Liquid Glass, which features shiny, reflective, and transparent visual int
Blue Origin pushes second flight of New Glenn mega-rocket to August
The second flight of Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket won’t happen until at least mid-August, CEO Dave Limp announced Monday in a post on X. That represents a slight delay — Jeff Bezos’ space company had said in March it was targeting “late spring” for the
Apple lets developers tap into its offline AI models
Apple is launching what it calls the Foundation Models framework, which the company says will let developers tap into its AI models in an offline, on-device fashion.
Onstage at WWDC 2025 on Monday, Apple VP of software engineering Craig Federighi said that the Foundation Models framework will let
Corporate AI adoption may be leveling off, according to Ramp data
A healthy chunk of corporate America has eagerly embraced AI, betting the tech will bring unrealizable productivity gains. But adoption may be leveling off, according to transaction data from fintech company Ramp.
Ramp’s AI Index, which estimates the U.S. business adoption rate of AI product
XRobotics’ countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month
XRobotics thinks it has cracked the code on getting pizza restaurants to adopt robotics.
The San Francisco-based robotics company built a countertop robot called xPizza Cube, which is roughly the size of a stackable washing machine and uses machine learning to apply sauce, cheese, and pepperoni to
How to watch Apple’s WWDC 2025 keynote
Apple is hosting its 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference starting Monday, with the keynote scheduled for Monday at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET.
The company is expected to unveil changes to its operating systems, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. We’re also expecting a dedicated ga
Major US grocery distributor warns of disruption after cyberattack
United Natural Foods (UNFI), a major distributor of groceries to Whole Foods and other retailers, said on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack, warning of disruptions to its ability to fulfill and distribute customer orders.
UNFI said in a Monday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchan
Anthropic’s AI-generated blog dies an early death
Claude’s blog is no more.
A week after TechCrunch profiled Anthropic’s experiment to task the company’s Claude AI models with writing blog posts, Anthropic wound down the blog and redirected the address to its homepage. Sometime over the weekend, the Claude Explains blog disappe
Warner Bros. to split cable and streaming businesses in major restructuring
As cable television continues to experience stagnation, with the trend of cord-cutting growing stronger each year, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is adapting to the evolving media landscape by separating its streaming and cable operations. This landmark decision aims to maximize the potential of both
Google fixes bug that could reveal users’ private phone numbers
A security researcher has discovered a bug that could be exploited to reveal the private recovery phone number of almost any Google account without alerting its owner, potentially exposing users to privacy and security risks.
Google confirmed to TechCrunch that it fixed the bug after the res
PayPal is adding hotel booking within its app, powered by Selfbook
PayPal is partnering with hotel payment provider Selfbook to let users search for and book hotels within the PayPal app.
The company said that it will let users pay through PayPal at checkout and offer exclusive discounts to users within the app. Users can also use PayPal Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)
An investor makes a case for funding sex, drugs, and other socially taboo products
Impact investor and advisor Christian Tooley posed a simple question to the audience at SXSW London last week: What if investors found a way to embrace human contradiction to contribute to change that goes beyond the returns so keenly sought for in venture capital?
Tooley was mainly referring to v