Inside the mind of a viral indie hacker
When the 29-year-old Samuel Rizzon is asked what he does, he answers with a single word: “developer.” While accurate, it’s a modest label for someone
Category: Tech
Perk lands $300M credit facility to push its AI platform into the US
Perk, the corporate travel and spend management group that until last year traded as TravelPerk, has closed a $300 million private credit facility, money raised
Google brings local AI agents to laptops with Gemma 4 12B
Google has released new tools that allow developers to run agentic AI workflows locally using Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter model from Google DeepMind. In
Amazon’s new Proteus robot takes plain-language orders, headed to Europe in 2027
The pitch for Amazon’s new warehouse robot is that you talk to it. At its “Delivering the Future” event at the Dartford fulfilment centre east
Meta keeps delaying the Muse Spark API developers were promised
The model shipped in April. The interface developers need to build on it has slipped repeatedly, with no firm date until Meta said this week
The Do’s and Don’ts of Buying Used Tech Gadgets
With a shortage of some components driving up costs of consumer electronics, refurbished devices are an attractive alternative to buying new.
The Small-Business Owners Managing Whole Armies of A.I. Employees
When you turn A.I. agents loose on your finances, email and customers, what could possibly go wrong?
Netflix turns to generative AI to fix a problem it helped create
The streaming service that taught a generation to scroll endlessly now wants to sell them the cure. At the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco
One click on GitHub.dev is all it takes to hand over your private repositories
Every developer who has ever pressed the period key on a GitHub repository, launching the convenient browser-based VS Code editor known as GitHub.dev, has unknowingly accepted
Flesh-eating screwworm infection confirmed in South Texas, USDA says
A case of New World screwworm has been confirmed in South Texas, the US Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday night. It marks the first detected
Microsoft, Atom Computing, EeroQ update their quantum computing progress
With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a
Uber cuts nearly a quarter of its HR division as new president reshapes the company from the inside
Three weeks into her expanded role as president and chief corporate affairs officer, Jill Hazelbaker is already cutting. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is
Meta spent $400 million and fought the US government to buy a VR fitness app, then let its creators take it back
In 2023, Meta fought an eight-month antitrust battle with the Federal Trade Commission for the right to acquire Within, the studio behind the VR fitness app Supernatural.
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it
A report released Wednesday by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) indicates that many organizations are having difficulty converting efficiency gains that are AI-driven into any sort