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Will Strava become a one-stop-shop for athletes who do it all?

The company behind the semi-infamous Flipper Zero “hacking” multi-tool is developing a “truly open hardware platform.”

The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex, Anthropic staffers assured me.) “Who here has shipped a pull request in the last week that was completely written…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety For months, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech,…

The most expensive meeting in enterprise work is the one where everyone gathers to answer the same question: “Where does this stand?” When progress has to be narrated, your task management system design is doing extra work – and your team is paying for it in delivery speed. According to Asana’s Anatomy of Work Index, […]

Workday has announced Sana for IT Service Management (ITSM), a new agent that automates employee IT support workflows directly inside the Workday platform. The product launched today at the Sana AI Summit in New York. It arrives alongside a Travel Agent that merges trip planning and expense management into a single conversational experience. The announcements […]

A screenshot showed the cheeky tagline in a listing that was promoted to people specifically searching for the Meta-owned discussion platform.

TikTok Shop has become a powerful brand discovery platform for small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S.

FNaF: Secret of the Mimic is finally out on PC VR – with a list of known issues to be patched later.

As Horizon Worlds and Rec Room withdraw from VR, VRChat says it’s growing, regularly setting new usage records, and “not going anywhere”.

Last week, I told you about a potential substitute for Microsoft HoloLens developed by the Chinese company Shoujing. This device is very promising, but has not been released yet. So it was interesting to discover that another Chinese company, Xvisio Technology, is already offering an alternative to HoloLens. I’ve been able to try it, and […]

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Four Expedition 74 astronauts had a light duty day with an array of advanced research still scheduled for Thursday. The three cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station focused on ongoing spacewalk preparations and robotics training.

The Expedition 74 crew continued exploring ways to advance cancer treatments and prevent excessive bleeding aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. The orbital residents are also unpacking a U.S. cargo spacecraft while preparing spacesuits for an upcoming spacewalk.

Gemini 3.5 Flash is available to everyone right now for free.

The startup Boston Metal has raised a $75 million funding round to produce critical metals, MIT Technology Review can exclusively report.   The company has been known largely for its efforts to clean up steel production, an industry that’s responsible for about 8% of global greenhouse emissions today. With the additional money, the new focus could…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Colossal Biosciences is growing chickens in a 3D-printed artificial eggshell The baby chicks were shifting and starting to pip—or trying to hatch. But not from an egg. Instead, these chickens were…

Sugar Madness, a new fast-paced VR shooter coming to Quest in June, is a Disneyland dark ride for people who like House of the Dead.

By the time most people in the UK channel heard the name Gamma Communications, they were already depending on it. The Newbury-based company sits behind platforms used by O2 Daisy, powers the voice infrastructure of over 1,500 resellers and MSPs, and operates across four European markets. Now, three private equity parties want to own it. […]