Kerala’s new United Democratic Front (UDF) government has renamed the state’s Electronics and Information Technology department as the IT, Future Technologies and Start-ups department, marketed under a single consumer-style brand...
Author: Mason Miller
Magic Pointer Won’t Save Googlebook Because Apps Still Win
Google introduced its Chromebook successor on May 12 at The Android Show: I/O Edition, a line of Gemini-first laptops built on a new Android-based stack with Chrome bundled in and...
How Apple Is Dodging Big Tech’s 142,000-Job Layoff Wave
Big Tech has cut more than 142,000 jobs since January, and Apple’s share of that figure is a few dozen. While Meta, Amazon and Microsoft trim payrolls to help bankroll...
India Covers 99.92% of Villages With Banking, But Usage Lags
India has wired its villages into the formal banking system. The Finance Ministry told the Lok Sabha that 99.92% of villages now sit within five kilometres of a banking outlet,...
Lovable CEO Tells Laid-Off Big Tech Workers To Bet on a Startup
Anton Osika, cofounder and chief executive of Lovable, the Stockholm vibe-coding startup last valued at $6.6 billion, used a LinkedIn post this week to tell laid-off Big Tech workers that...
IOC President Kirsty Coventry Rejects Paying Olympic Athletes
Kirsty Coventry, the first woman and first African to lead the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has settled one of sport’s loudest arguments for now. Olympic athletes will not be paid...
Why the Week’s Rave Reviews All Point to Revival
The best new releases this week share an odd family resemblance. A 1930s private eye, a boy-band has-been, an 83-year-old Beatle and a punk band that went quiet 31 years...
Amazon Kills Its AI Leaderboard as Tokenmaxxing Backfires
Amazon has shut down Kirorank, an internal leaderboard that ranked employees by how many AI tokens they burned, after staff started gaming it on purpose. The practice has a name...
Spider-Noir Finale Copies a Classic Orson Welles Mirror Scene
Spider-Noir closes its first season inside a hall of mirrors. In the eighth and final episode, “The Man in the Mask,” lounge singer Felicia “Cat” Hardy guns down mob boss...
Perplexity Gifts Mac Minis as AI Agents Crown a New Status Box
Perplexity has started mailing Mac Minis to tech creators, and the unboxing posts arrived right on cue. The artificial intelligence (AI) search company confirmed it shipped a small number of...










