Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that
Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others.
Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others.
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President Trump plans to nominate a tech critic and telecommunications lawyer, Adam Candeub, to lead the division.

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.

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YouTube Shorts is getting a makeover.
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A vote to bar Larry Sanger indefinitely from the volunteer community of Wikipedia came days after he submitted a proposal on “intellectual diversity.”

About a quarter of PCs are still running Microsoft's previous operating system.

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.
Carr cites screen time concerns, is accused of trying to be "the nation’s parent."

The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.
Apple said it had "never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly".

The company says the increases are being driven by rising memory and console storage prices, with costs more than 2.5x higher than previous levels.
The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering as users are increasingly handing over the reins of their email to the agents.