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Amazon is bringing Leo, its satellite internet service, to Uzbekistan . The company is teaming up with a regional ISP called Uztelecom to "power satellite connectivity in remote and hard-to-reach" parts of the country.…
At best, they feel like talking to a phone representative or someone from tech support. We turn to them when we have a problem, and they help us through it. The tech that's supposed to fix all of this No more…
The member is TikTok USDS Joint Venture, a majority-American-owned company formed in January to operate TikTok in the US. ByteDance retained a 19.9% stake, and Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX each hold 15%. Lantern…
EvilTokens is a notorious Microsoft device-code phishing kit that emerged in February, and, within months of launching, had been used by criminals to compromise 12,000 email inboxes across more than 10,000 organizations…
Nolan’s sophomore feature Memento (2000) is being restored in 4K by independent Australian distributor and restoration specialist Umbrella, and will be available in Dolby Vision HDR in Collector and Standard editions. A…
In July, news emerged that an autonomous swarm of OpenAI agents running in a sandbox broke out of it , of their own accord. Tasked with solving some challenges on an internal security benchmark, they worked out how to…
The worry is reasonable. One study found that upgrading things like electrical panels (that box in the garage or basement that delivers power throughout a home) can more than double charger installation costs. Rather…
As AI moves out of demos and into businesses, vehicles, robots, and autonomous agents, safety and security become part of the product. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 , five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI…
But much of the work is done by teams of flight controllers communicating with the vehicle from Earth. The OSIRIS-REx mission, which rendezvoused with an asteroid in 2018, had 100 operators on each eight-hour shift. But…
September means new iPhones are out in the wild, and while all eyes are on the fancy iPhone Duo , we shouldn't forget about the iPhone 18 Pro . This generation isn't radically different from the iPhone 17 Pro , but some…