Author: Kavish
On Tuesday morning at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, our senior producer Maggie Nye rolled up her jacket sleeve to show me her new tattoo: a classic, pixelated cursor arrow. TechCrunch’s Becca Szkutak got a matching cursor, while Theresa Loconsolo got a smiling moon. I guessed that at some point during all the Disrupt hoopla, Maggie and Becca wandered off to some trendy San Francisco tattoo shop to cement their friendship with appropriately tech-themed ink (and maybe Theresa was there too?). That seemed like a more logical explanation than the reality, which is that they got these tattoos at Disrupt — yes,…
| Published: Thursday, September 4, 2025, 10:00 [IST] Acer has unveiled a range of new laptops at the next@acer 2025 IFA Global event. The lineup includes the Chromebook Plus Spin 514, Swift Air 16 Copilot+ PC, TravelMate X4 14 AI, Nitro V 16/V 16S, and Predator Helios 18P AI. These devices are equipped with AI-enabled processing capabilities, high-performance components, advanced displays, and extensive connectivity options.The Chromebook Plus Spin 514 is a convertible laptop powered by the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra processor. It features a 50 TOPS AI engine for offline tasks and an Arm Immortalis-G925 GPU. Users…
The age of multiple video game clients continues to persist. From Steam to Epic to the EA App, it doesn’t take long for a gamer’s PC to become absolutely bloated with different game clients. These are essentially apps that let players browse, shop, buy, and launch video games comfortably from one place, where they can build their very own digital video game library. That said, not all PC game clients are created equally. There are a few clients out there that mostly feature games of a specific studio, while others carry a wide variety of titles. Considering that less is…
One slice of today’s out-of-nowhere AI boom has actually been a long time coming: the rise of the self-driving car. After a period of wild hype in the 2010s, followed by disillusionment and a shakeout in the early 2020s, the race to make your car autonomous is fully back on, baby. For those that stuck it out, like Tesla and Waymo, the mission never really ended. Across the board, though, the shift is undeniable. After selling its self-driving unit years ago, Uber is back in the game and striking deals with, well, basically everyone. Waymo’s driverless Jaguars have become a…
Core Scientific shareholders on Thursday voted down an all-stock acquisition offer from partner and competitor CoreWeave that was valued at the time at $9 billion. They did so following a vote-no recommendation from their largest shareholder, Sina Toussi of Two Seas Capital, a firm that focuses on post-bankruptcy companies. Core Scientific emerged from its bankruptcy in January 2024. Core Scientific, which began as a crypto miner and still is one, shares that early history with AI data center provider CoreWeave, which also started as a miner. But CoreWeave, with investor and partner Nvidia, has now transitioned to serving…
| Published: Saturday, November 1, 2025, 9:15 [IST] MediaTek seems ready to step up its game again. A new leak from tipster Digital Chat Station has revealed early details about the upcoming Dimensity 8500, the next mid-to-premium tier chipset that could power several Android phones in 2026.Built on TSMC’s 4nm ProcessAccording to the leak, the Dimensity 8500 will be manufactured using TSMC’s 4nm process and feature an 8-core setup based on ARM’s A725 architecture. In simpler terms, this means all eight cores are “big cores,” similar to what we saw on the Dimensity 8400.The prime core…
| Published: Monday, September 8, 2025, 9:35 [IST] MSI has expanded its ‘Make in India’ initiative by starting local production of the Katana and Crosshair laptops, featuring NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics. This manufacturing is conducted at MSI’s Chennai facility in collaboration with Syrma SGS Technology Limited. This move underscores MSI’s commitment to India’s growing technology sector and aims to make advanced laptops more accessible to Indian consumers.India has emerged as one of MSI’s rapidly expanding markets, driven by increasing demand from gamers, creators, and professionals. Following the successful domestic production of the Modern and…
Magic is a standard system in RPGs to go along with melee-based combat. For example, most Final Fantasy games have some sort of mage or magic user on hand to slay monsters and enemies with fire, wind, or ice spells. There aren’t many games that are just about magic, except for maybe Hogwarts Legacy, which is one of the more recent examples that Harry Potter fans are still excited about. Wizard of Legend and its sequel are two smaller examples, but they’re still fun roguelikes regardless. For any games who like using magic, and only magic, in their games, these…
Edmunds is midway through a one-year review of owning a Dodge Charger Daytona EV. Software gremlins have led to a lot of problems that ruin the experience. The reviewers say that they’re sick of Dodge’s electric muscle car. The Dodge Charger Daytona EV has had a rough launch. Not in the cool kind of way that ends up in a burnout (it can’t do one of those yet), but in the nobody wants to buy one and the ones who did are having problems way. Edmunds recently published an update on its ownership experience with a few of its long-term road…
Bending Spoons’ four cofounders this week joined the billionaire ranks. CEO Luca Ferrari’s stake in the Milan-based tech conglomerate is now reportedly worth $1.4 billion, while cofounders Matteo Danieli, Luca Querella, and Francesco Patarnello each hold stakes worth $1.3 billion, according to Forbes estimates based on shareholder data published by the Italian Business Register. The valuations come on the heels of Bending Spoons’ latest funding round: $270 million from investors including T. Rowe Price and earlier backers Baillie Gifford, Cox Enterprises, Durable Capital Partners, and Fidelity, plus a $440 million secondary share sale by existing shareholders. It’s unclear whether any…