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The new $99 Google Home Speaker, Google's first smart speaker in six years, built for the Gemini for Home assistant.

A young child with curly hair points at a black-and-white photo in an open hardcover book held by an older man in a green shirt, while a woman sits beside the child in a bright living room

When software starts shaping family memory

Will Jones
2d ago

A MacBook, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro on a black background. The MacBook shows Mail, the iPhone shows a Siri reply confirming a scheduled meeting, and the iPad shows the Siri app answering a question about Mexico City's largest park.

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Apple releases iOS 27 and Siri AI, but you’ll have to join a waitlist

Ana Maria Constantin
2d ago

Matt Mullenweg speaks into a handheld microphone on stage, wearing a black pleated jacket, against a wall of repeated TechCrunch Disrupt logos

Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again, three days after removing him

Cristian Dina
3d ago

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Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls

Ana Maria Constantin
Sep 10, 2026

Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses displayed in a shop

A Polish developer built an app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth

Ana Maria Constantin
Sep 10, 2026

Three Ask Shipt app screens showing prompts for a taco dinner, kids' snacks and a tailgate party, each building a cart

Instacart says AI-built carts beat its $115 average basket. Shipt shipped the same feature and called it relief from mental load.

Alina Maria Stan
Sep 9, 2026

Portrait of Elon Musk wearing a suit and white shirt at the VIVA Technology conference in Paris, France.

Nitter says it will continue despite X Corp’s cease-and-desist

Ana-Maria Stanciuc
Sep 8, 2026