April 22, 2025

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu play Slash or Pass: Doctor Who Edition

Doctor Who stars Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu try to determine how their characters would tackle classic sci-fi villains (and some morally gray anti-heroes) in Mashable’s Slash or Pass. Doctor Who Season 2 premieres April 12 on Disney+ and BBC. Source link

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Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project

Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED. For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career

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The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next 

Google held its Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas this week, where it announced dozens of new features like its next generation AI processing chip, called Ironwood, and its latest AI model Gemini 2.5 Flash. It also announced a long list of AI startups that have signed to use its cloud. Among them are

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Ncuti Gatwa and Mandip Gill play Slash or Pass: Doctor Who Edition

Doctor Who stars Ncuti Gatwa and Mandip Gill play Mashable’s ‘Slash or Pass’ where they determine which iconic villains they feel like they could defeat. Doctor Who Season 2 premieres Apr. 12 on Disney+ and BBC. Source link

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The US Is Turning a Blind Eye to Crypto Crimes

Meanwhile, the Trump family’s crypto empire continues to expand. In late March, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s sons, announced a new bitcoin mining venture. Shortly before that, the parent company of Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform, entered an agreement to launch a series of crypto-exchange-traded funds. President Trump himself has previously

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Blue Water Autonomy comes out of stealth promising autonomous naval ships

A new ship-building startup called Blue Water Autonomy has emerged from stealth with the promise of developing captain-less naval ships. The Boston, Massachusetts-based company has raised a $14 million seed round from Eclipse VC, Riot, and Impatient Ventures. The startup was founded in 2024 by former members of the U.S. Navy, leaders of Amazon Robotics,

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Windows Recall ‘gradually’ rolling out in April 2025

After several cybersecurity-related delays, Microsoft is finally releasing its controversial Recall feature for Copilot Plus PCs. Starting Thursday, April 10, Microsoft began gradually rolling out a preview of Recall, which records a user’s activity by taking continuous screenshots of their computer screen (via The Verge). Those screenshots then become searchable, letting users recall past activity.

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US Tariffs Could Make Smartphones Dumber

Tariffs, another chaotic venture of the barely four-month-old Trump administration, are set to rollick every sector of the economy and nearly all the goods and services people use across the world. But tariffs could also cause the tech in your phone and other devices you use every day to stagnate as supply chains are hit

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Parallel Systems is building autonomous electric rail for short-distance freight

The business of moving goods in the United States is dominated by trucks, which handles about two-thirds of the 20.2 billion tons of freight that’s transported annually. Parallel Systems founder and CEO Matt Soule wants to change that by putting a modern autonomous and electric twist on the centuries-old railroad system.  The Los Angeles-based company

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Watch OK Go team with Universal Robots for ‘Love’ Music Video

OK Go is back with a new music video, and you know that means it’s going to be mind-blowing. Sixteen years ago, they went viral with treadmills in the inventive “Here It Goes Again.” In 2014, the quartet did quirky choreography while riding Honda UNI-CUBs for “I Won’t Let You Down,” then two years later,

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