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After Minneapolis, tech CEOs are struggling to stay silent

After Minneapolis, tech CEOs are struggling to stay silent

🚀 Read this insightful post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Business,Business / Tech Culture,Backchannel âś… **What You’ll Learn**: It was November October 12, 2016, four days after Donald Trump won his first presidential election. With the exception of a few outliers (looking at you, Peter Thiel), almost everyone in the tech world was shocked and appalled. At a conference I attended on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was a “pretty crazy idea” to think his company had anything to do with the outcome. The following Saturday, I was leaving my favorite breakfast spot in downtown Palo Alto when…
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Last 24 hours to get +1 pass for 50% off Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

Last 24 hours to get +1 pass for 50% off Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

✨ Read this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: TC,Startups,Transportation,Privacy,Climate,Fintech,Biotech & Health,Venture,Media & Entertainment,AI,Apps,Robotics,Fundraising,TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: That's it. The clock is running out. With demand high and early stock almost gone, tonight is your last chance to score record low prices TechCrunch disabled 2026 And insurance A +1 pass at 50% discount While passes remain limited. If Disrupt is on your list of things to attend, now is the time to make your move. Save up to $680 on your card and get +1 for half price before this offer disappears. This pricing expires Tonight,…
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Samsung S90F QD-OLED TV review: Polished from any angle

Samsung S90F QD-OLED TV review: Polished from any angle

🔥 Read this insightful post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Televisions,Product Review đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: I still have a few complaints, starting with the TV's relentless pursuit of Samsung's ad-based TV service, Samsung TV Plus. The service runs by default during startup, forcing me to go through the advanced settings and turn it off under startup options. Until then, keep the T rollinghe Parents are somewhat curious When it starts up, it eventually seems to stop on its own.The Tizen also seems to auto-scan OTA antenna channels, leaving me confused as…
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NAD+ Supplement 101: Explanation of Benefits and Possible Precautions (2026)

NAD+ Supplement 101: Explanation of Benefits and Possible Precautions (2026)

🚀 Discover this must-read post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Gear / Products / Beauty,Recovery Mode 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: “Even patients in their 20s are experiencing symptoms of brain fog, fatigue, chronic inflammation, and chronic infection post-Covid,” Khan says. In its clinical experience, some have reported improvements in energy, mental clarity, migraines, and circadian disruption after using NAD-related treatments, especially during periods of high physical or cognitive stress.“I have a lot of fitness enthusiasts [as patients]“Who recover better after injury or intense exercise,” Khan adds. “They feel like they can get more reps, swim…
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Small doses for depression appear to be as effective as drinking coffee

Small doses for depression appear to be as effective as drinking coffee

✨ Discover this awesome post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Science,Imaginary Trips 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: About a decade ago In the past, several media outlets — including WIRED magazine — have focused on a strange trend at the intersection of mental health, drug science, and biohacking in Silicon Valley: microdosing, or the practice of taking a small amount of a psychedelic drug in search of gentler, more stable effects. Typically using psilocybin mushrooms or LSD, the typical microdoser sought wall-melting reductions and open-eye kaleidoscopic visuals rather than a mood and energy boost, like a gentle spring breeze blowing through…
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Google Maps now lets you access Gemini while walking and cycling

Google Maps now lets you access Gemini while walking and cycling

đź’Ą Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Apps,gemini,Google,Google Maps 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Google Maps users can now access the Gemini app hands-free while walking and cycling, Google announced on Thursday. The update comes a few months after Google Maps rolled out its Gemini-powered hands-free conversational driving experience. This announcement represents Google's ongoing efforts to connect Gemini to more parts of people's daily lives, while shifting Google Maps from static directions to real-time conversational navigation. While you're out and about using Maps, you can now ask Gemini questions like "Tell me more about the neighborhood I'm…
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A new security feature for Apple’s iPhone and iPad limits the ability of cellular networks to collect precise location data

A new security feature for Apple’s iPhone and iPad limits the ability of cellular networks to collect precise location data

🚀 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Government & Policy,Privacy,Security,iPad,iPhone,location data 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A new security feature rolling out to select models of the latest iPhone and iPad this week will make it more difficult for law enforcement, spies and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from their phone provider. According to Apple, the new feature, when enabled, limits the accuracy of location data that cellular-enabled iPhones and iPads share with a customer's cellular carrier. The company claims that sharing a less precise location, such as a general neighborhood rather than a…
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Flapping planes and the promise of research-based artificial intelligence

Flapping planes and the promise of research-based artificial intelligence

đź’Ą Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Flapping Airplanes,In Brief,research,scaling 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A new AI lab called Flapping Airplanes launched on Wednesday, with $180 million in seed funding from Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index. The founding team is impressive, and the goal – finding a less data-hungry way to train large models – is a particularly interesting one. Based on what I've seen so far, I would rate them as level two on the scale of trying to make money. But there's something even more exciting about the Flapping Airplanes project that I couldn't…
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Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3 billion over ‘blatant piracy’ of 20,000 works

Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3 billion over ‘blatant piracy’ of 20,000 works

✨ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,TC,Anthropic,copyright infringement,lawsuit,universal music group âś… **What You’ll Learn**: A group of music publishers led by Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group have sued Anthropic, saying the company illegally downloaded more than 20,000 copyrighted songs, including sheet music, lyrics and compositions. Damages could reach more than $3 billion, the publishers said in a statement on Wednesday, one of the largest non-class-action copyright lawsuits filed in U.S. history. This lawsuit was brought by the same legal team in Bartz v. Anthropic, where a group of fiction and non-fiction authors similarly…
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I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI world generator

I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI world generator

🔥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Google,Exclusive,gemini,google deepmind,world models,genie 3,nano banana pro,project genie 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Google DeepMind is opening up access to Project Genie, its AI tool for creating interactive game worlds from text prompts or images. Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US can try out the experimental search prototype, which is powered by a combination of Google's latest world-class Genie 3, Nano Banana Pro image generation model, and Gemini. The move comes five months after the Genie 3 research preview, and is part of a broader campaign to collect user…
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