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Thomas Lee Young doesn’t sound like your typical Silicon Valley founder. The 24-year-old CEO of Interface, a San Francisco startup using AI to prevent industrial accidents, is a white guy with a Caribbean accent and a Chinese last name, a combination he finds amusing enough to mention when he’s first introduced to business contacts. Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, the site of substantial oil and gas exploration activity, Young grew up around oil rigs and energy infrastructure because his entire family worked as engineers, stretching back generations to his great-grandfather, who immigrated to the island nation from China.…
| Published: Thursday, November 20, 2025, 11:45 [IST] If you’ve been eyeing the next iQOO flagship, the iQOO 15 is about to move from teaser to transaction. Pre-bookings in India start today at 6 PM IST, giving buyers an early shot at the phone ahead of its official launch on November 26.How the iQOO 15 Priority Pass WorksPre-bookings for the iQOO 15 begin today at 6 PM IST. As part of this, iQOO is selling a Priority Pass that comes with a ₹1,000 coupon.Here are the terms:The coupon is only usable on the official sale day…
Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has confirmed firing a “suspicious insider” last month who allegedly fed information about the company to a notorious hacking group. A hacking collective known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters published screenshots late Thursday and Friday morning in a public Telegram channel that allegedly showed insider access to CrowdStrike systems. The screenshots, which TechCrunch has seen, show dashboards containing links to company resources, including a user’s Okta dashboard used by employees for accessing internal apps. The hackers claimed in the Telegram channel to have compromised CrowdStrike through a recent breach at Gainsight, a customer relationship management company that helps…
Players continue to find unique ways to introduce their favorite pop culture and gaming franchises into Minecraft, with one small team of Dark Souls fans combining creative forces to develop a massive in-game recreation of the Undead Asylum. Minecraft players have been known to spend days, weeks, months, and even years bringing impressive builds to life in the iconic sandbox game, and this talented team has managed to take one of the most familiar locations of the Dark Souls franchise and recreate it within the blocky world of Minecraft. Both the original Dark Souls and Minecraft were among a slate…
Sierra, a 21-month-old, San Francisco-based startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises, announced on Friday that it reached $100 million in annual revenue run rate (ARR). The company’s rapid growth suggests that businesses across industries are embracing AI agents. The startup’s growth rate surprised even its seasoned co-founders, former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime Google alum Clay Bavor, who wrote on their blog: “That’s a heck of a lot quicker than we expected.” Sierra’s customers include tech companies like Deliveroo, Discord, Ramp, Rivian, SoFi, and Tubi, as well as well-established businesses outside of the tech sector, such…
James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a third-generation Texan who has written professionally for over a decade, addressing various topics for his readers. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond will have slightly different file sizes on the Switch and Switch 2, according to updated listings from Nintendo. While the digital download version of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond will require approximately 29 GB on the original Switch, the Switch 2 Edition will…
| Updated: Friday, November 21, 2025, 13:41 [IST] Nothing looks to be lining up its next mid-range phone for India. A new listing on the Bureau of Indian Standards website has revealed an unannounced Nothing device, and early signs point toward it being the Nothing Phone 4a.While the filing doesn’t spell out any specs or visuals, its appearance alone hints that the company is moving closer to an official launch.For now, this feels less like a full reveal and more like a quiet signal that the Phone 4a is entering the final stages of regulatory clearance.BIS…
A new wave of AI-powered gadgets on the market aims to integrate artificial intelligence into our daily lives like never before. Some of these AI wearables — including necklaces, rings, and wristbands, as well as portable devices — serve as productivity tools, while others claim to act as friendly companions listening to your everyday thoughts. Even OpenAI is working on a compact AI companion device. Below, we’ve rounded up some of the most notable devices currently available. Bee Image Credits:Bee AI Bee is an affordable pendant priced at $49.99 that can either be clipped to your clothing or worn like a…
Hey, listen, I really like Dispatch. I’ve always been a fan of TellTale-style games and have played most of them, I’d think. If I had a second daughter, I would have named her Clementine after The Walking Dead. And Dispatch not only brings back that formula with aplomb, but it delivers on a genuinely unique, wonderful-to-play concept: a superhero workplace comedy game with dispatch simulation gameplay. Everything about it works for me, making it one of my favorite games of the year, but I’d argue its greatest strength is Dispatch’s characters and performances. Aaron Paul as Mecha Man shows us…
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