Gradient’s heat pumps get new smarts to enable old building retrofits
Gradient’s heat pumps fit in windows, minimizing installation times. Now, it is introducing software to make those units more intelligent.
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Watch Club is producing short video dramas and building a social network around them
Watch Club will house microdramas and fan discussions in the same app, creating a fandom-focused social media experience.
Lotus Health nabs $35M for AI doctor that sees patients for free
This AI doctor is licensed in all 50 states, the startup says. The deal was led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins.
French police raid X’s Paris office as UK investigation continues
A raid on X’s Paris office was carried out by the Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit on Tuesday with Europol and French police as part of an ongoing investigation that expanded in July to include Grok. As previously reported by Reuters, Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino were also summoned for hearings in April. […]
The Switch is Nintendo’s best-selling console — and its most transformative
Nintendo has had plenty of highs over its few decades in the video game industry. Popularizing home consoles with the NES, introducing new audiences to games through the Wii’s motion controls, and the touchscreen Trojan horse that was the Nintendo DS, to name a few. But often these successes were followed by missteps; the Wii […]
French police search X office in Paris, summon Elon Musk for questioning
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced that it is expanding a criminal investigation into X for alleged crimes, including the possession and distribution of child sexual exploitation material.
What tech CEOs and executives have said about ICE’s actions in Minnesota
The Trump administration’s approach to immigration has reached a level of violence that the tech industry cannot ignore. Here’s how tech leaders are responding to the moment.
Claude Code was down, forcing developers to take a long coffee break
Anthropic’s Claude AI models experienced a major outage today, impacting products like Claude Code. Developers were seeing a 500 error when trying to use Claude Code, and Anthropic said that it was seeing elevated error rates on its APIs “across all Claude models.” Anthropic quickly identified the root cause and implemented a fix within around […]
I didn’t expect to love Dyson’s PencilVac Fluffycones – but I did
As The Verge’s resident robot vacuum reviewer, I don’t have a lot of time (or space) in my life for stick vacs, and frankly, the ones I have used have largely disappointed me. Top-heavy, bulky, always getting clogged or running out of battery – they’re so… manual. But then I met PencilVac Fluffycones, Dyson’s new […]
TikTok recovers from dip in usage that benefited rival apps following U.S. ownership change
TikTok usage dropped following ownership change, benefiting rival apps. But now, its numbers are climbing again.