The new Resident Evil movie captures the survival horror magic of the games
The six Resident Evil movies starring Milla Jovovich were more interested in bombastic action. So leave it up to Zach Cregger, the director of Barbarian and Weapons , to crack the code of making a genuinely great…
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12 clever home office upgrades you didn't know you needed in Amazon's early Prime Day sale
And with Amazon launching its Early Prime Deals ahead of Prime Day on October 6-7, I've been digging through the sale to find the more interesting upgrades for home and office workspaces. Sure, we all want a nice…
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A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
But despite its capabilities, he was disappointed. “We have lightning in a bottle, and yet it is not useful,” Almeida told TechCrunch. “I’ve been battling that problem since then. It took me a while to come to the…
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Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars
ProLogium, which is building Europe’s solid-state gigafactory at Dunkirk, is already mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan. Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku…
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Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate
The head of the continent's central bank, Christine Lagarde , said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent on tools developed by the US and China. The…
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Disney hires ex-CEO of AI company it accused of copyright infringement
Disney hasn't been a big fan of the apparent copyright infringement that makes the AI industry possible, going as far as to threaten companies like Midjourney and Character.AI for using its intellectual property. The…
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FCC allows Gulf state wealth funds to own nearly half of Paramount-Warner Bros.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just announced that it's waiving its own rules regarding foreign equity ownership, according to a report by The Verge . The rule states that foreign entities can only own up to…
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The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is possibly the thinnest laptop we've ever tested — and this deal drops the price by $550
Why we recommend it This might just be the thinnest laptop we've ever tested - and the build quality is, and I quote, "exquisite." We awarded the Yoga Slim 7x 4 stars in our review , and found Lenovo's ultra-portable…
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Pixel 10 owners might be about to get one of the Pixel 11’s best features
But it seems like there’s one less thing, according to something spotted in the Android 17 QPR2 Beta 5. YouTube channel In Depth Tech Reviews published a video yesterday that showed an option for the Pixel 11 feature…
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Seagate finds 'AI is increasing the value of data' but warns that 43% of businesses lack proper data storage infrastructure — 99% expect AI storage (and storage costs) to explode
The company's research found 99% of respondents expect AI workloads to increase their storage requirements in the next three years. Yet only 38% describe their organizations as completely prepared, while 43% identify…
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