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The sharp fall in venture capital funding in the first week of July was on expected lines, as the previous week saw the CRED transaction, which was a one-off large deal.
Meta officials met with India's IT Ministry following a government notice regarding WhatsApp's proposed "usernames" feature. Concerns over impersonation and misuse have prompted the government to seek a detailed explanation and halt the rollout until consultations conclude. Meta will submit its resp
AI emerged as the defining theme of the Indian startup ecosystem in H1 2026. As conversations around the nascent technology…
Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has asked to summon Meta over child sexual abuse material on Instagram. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Internet domain name registrar GoDaddy, along with domain registrars Namecheap and Hosting Concepts, has reportedly challenged a Delhi High Court…
AI giant Anthropic is reportedly exploring the creation of its own custom AI chips, holding talks with Samsung for a potential partnership. This move aims to reduce reliance on external suppliers and address ongoing chip shortages, following similar moves by rivals like OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, an
IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has reportedly directed MeitY to summon Meta executives to clarify on Instagram ads that allegedly promoted…
From mosquitoes to bed bugs, parasites have always stuck close to humanity, and they continue to shape our lives to this day, entomologist Dino Martins writes in his new book.
Get ready to navigate a free-for-all of social media handles.
Shokz's OpenDots 2 manage to stand out in a crowded clip-style field.
This week on the Engadget Podcast, we've got our first impressions of Valve's pricey Steam Machine, and we chat about Sony dumping PlayStation discs in 2028.
C:\ArsGames takes a look at the time Chris Roberts more or less made a whole movie.
For months, the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon looked like a row over access to Claude. Court documents released this week suggest it was about something bigger: who decides how the US military uses frontier AI. The emails came out on Tuesday, in one of the lawsuits Anthropic has filed aga
Walkthrough experience includes visits to stars, exoplanets, and observatories.
The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain’s biggest consumer electricals retailer, has warned that phones, laptops and TVs will cost more later this year. Chief executive Alex Baldock delivered the warning to reporters after the comp
It's difficult to pinpoint the moment in my life where America started to lose the plot.
Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferris wheel. The wheels stand about 5.5 metres tall, and each one weighs close to half a tonne. They turn slowly, all day, carrying their rows of fruit through the light lik
New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline.
Decision theory is back in fashion (defining fashion as "one good post on a good EA blog"). Bentham's Bulldog (BB) has published a case against FDT (functional decision theory), contrasting rationalist enthusiasm with academic scepticism: "Academic decision theorists don't like the theory. The numbe
In the AI slop-loaded, algorithm-powered modern reality, trends come and go - and the tech industry is no different. For the last few years, The Verge staff has compiled a selection of things that are IN for summer and OUT for summer - and each time there are some strong feelings. (Here are the last
