Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows 'Tweet' for now |

A federal court in Delaware has ruled on a trademark fight between Elon Musk’s X and a startup trying to launch a rival social network.…

CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom |

Retro tech is making a comeback, and this week, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) put hard numbers to that trend in terms of…

Google's Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library |

7:47 AM PDT · September 4, 2026 Google is integrating more of its services with AI, as the company announced that its personal agent, Gemini…

Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race |

For an AI assistant to become truly useful, it first has to know a lot about you. Ollie, a personal assistant for everyday life, is…

Fambot introduces an ‘AI chief of staff’ for families |

AI agents that perform tasks on your behalf to help solve your daily problems are all the rage in Silicon Valley. But the startup Fambot…

Brave's browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases |

11:50 AM PDT · August 28, 2026 Chrome alternative Brave just added a good reason to make the switch to its browser: email aliases. The…

AI's memory crunch is coming for Android apps |

7:27 AM PDT · August 27, 2026 Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industrywide memory chip shortages driven…

Google's Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI |

Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says, “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task…

Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web |

Flipboard, the news magazine software company that has more recently invested in the open social web — the umbrella term for social platforms that let…

Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents |

Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more lucrative idea: indexing the spoken conversations buriedin…