Second and last chance for innovators to win scaling perks: Belden extends nomination window
Last day to nominate for the 2026 Joseph C. Belden Innovation Award has been extended through February 27. Don’t miss your chance to win scaling perks.
Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025
Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that’s down from previous years.
An AI data center boom is fueling Redwood’s energy storage business
Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company.
YouTube’s latest experiment brings its conversational AI tool to TVs
YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they’re watching on the big screen.
Toyota hires seven Agility humanoid robots for Canadian factory
The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger.
Why these startup CEOs don’t think AI will replace human roles
The CEOs of Read AI and Lucidya told TechCrunch at Web Summit Qatar that they see AI tools replacing tasks, rather than workers.
The boys’ club no one was supposed to write about
Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that’s been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay men, at the upper echelons of tech, quietly
SpaceX’s Starbase city is getting its own court
Elon Musk’s company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too.
As browser wars heat up, Chrome adds new productivity features
Split View, PDF annotations and ‘Save to Chrome’ features come to the Chrome browser.
Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links.