Ahead of testing, Blue Origin raises New Glenn on the launch pad for first time
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin raised a test version of its massive orbital rocket on its launch pad for the first time Wednesday, inaugurating the start of...
NVIDIA Is Simplifying Its Mess of PC Apps
NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience and Control Panel are merging into a single, unified app. Available today in beta, the new NVIDIA app provides driver updates, per-game settings,...
Gboard on Android Can Now Type from Scanned Text
Optical character recognition, or OCR for short, is nothing new. We’ve had it for years, and aside from the occasional accuracy improvement, how we use it...
Why Nimona Got Saved From Disney to Become an Oscar Contender
Nimona went from being a movie that was almost certainly lost to the ether to an Oscar nominee—a story as miraculous as the sumptuous, wildly inventive,...
FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users’ browsing data to advertisers
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday said it will ban the antivirus giant Avast from selling consumers’ web browsing data to advertisers after Avast claimed...
Sony’s PS VR2 is getting compatibility, possibly by end of year
PlayStation VR often gets overlooked in conversations about mixed reality. These days, it seems all anyone wants to talk about is Apple Vision Pro versus Meta...
Recommended Nonfiction Books for 6th Graders, 11 Year Olds
In school, 11-year-old readers (in 6th grade) are reading more nonfiction books than ever. Which means they need practice in excellent books. Books like these nonfiction...
Google is killing Gmail’s basic HTML view (but not Gmail) in 2024
Google is sunsetting Gmail’s basic HMTL view, which allows users to look at their emails in a bare-bones state, starting January 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
Google Pay App Is Finally Shutting Down in the U.S.
Between the confusing name changes and having two apps with a similar function, Google Pay will finally shut down in the United States later this summer....
Stable Diffusion 3 arrives to solidify early lead in AI imagery against Sora and Gemini
Stability AI has announced Stable Diffusion 3, the latest and most powerful version of the company’s image-generating AI model. While details are scant, it’s clearly an...
