Wind Chime Memorial Tree in Spring Hill — A live oak beside a Florida bike trail has become a shimmering, musical memorial.
Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn't steal an open source product | TechCrunch — Corgi became embroiled in controversy when Papermark accused it of stealing its software. Corgi says it did not, raising new questions about vibe coding.
Tripadvisor Promo Codes for July 2026 — From hotel discounts to credits for tours and experiences, use a verified Tripadvisor coupon code to save on your next getaway this summer.
Hate Running? Nordic Walking Is the Low-Impact Workout That Challenges Your Whole Body. — Doctors and sports physiologists say that this European walking style can relieve chronic pain, improve balance and heart health—all while keeping stress off the joints.
Musk’s xAI is being sued over its data center generators. Now, it’s buying $2.8B more. | TechCrunch — Elon Muks's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.
Homework Help & Study Guides For Students | Shmoop — The cozy home of your favorite free study guides and the most helpful study tools around! Check out our new digs and get the help you need!
I Swapped Hiking Boots for Trail Running Shoes Mid-Hike: Here's What I Liked Better. — I pitted boots and shoes from the same brand against each other on the trail, head-to-head. This is what I discovered.
Up Close With Walruses in One of the Arctic’s Wildest Destinations — The can't-miss highlights of a 10-night Quark Expeditions sailing in Svalbard.
Apple announces Apple Intelligence powered accessibility feature updates | TechCrunch — Apple is introducing a feature to let Vision Pro control a compatible wheelchair with their eyes
Meditation apps tell you to focus on your breath. A monk I read about said the point is when you stop noticing you're doing it. That's the opposite advice and now I can't unsee it.
How Tyler Andrews Shattered the 23-Year-Old Everest Ascent Speed Record — After years of chasing a purist, no-oxygen record, the American ultrarunner pivoted to supplemental gas—and shattered a 23-year-old speed record by over an hour.
How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what every company gets regardless | TechCrunch — Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Here’s how to get there and why the opportunity starts well before the main stage.
Fine-tuning forgets. RAG leaks context. Hypernetworks build the model your agent needs on demand. — <p>Enterprise teams keep watching the same thing happen. An AI agent demos beautifully, goes to production, and stalls: it runs for a short stretch, then needs a human to top up…
Former Site of the Chapel of Glacis in Luxemburg, Luxembourg — <p><img alt="" data-width="2560" data-height="1920" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/kjuIW8X8ZE0h-NMiTeQsq90LbtHIO0Qn_5k4I76zPN0/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/…
LISTEN: The Diver Who Held His Breath for 24 Minutes — The latest Long Read on the Outside Podcast takes listeners inside the obsessive world of Budimir Šobat, the Serbian diver who held his breath longer than anyone in history.
Been meditating for months waiting for the quiet mind thing. Realized today I'm just getting better at noticing when my thoughts are boring.
Airline Reviews and Rating | SKYTRAX — Read the Verified traveller reviews and ratings for Airlines, Airports, Airline Seats and Lounges in the SKYTRAX global Air Travel guide. Add your review and photos.
Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data | TechCrunch — The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint | TechCrunch — After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest fund which will see it expanding its presence in the United States.
DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85% — <p>Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the<a…
The Fix: Hanoi with Daniel Nguyen — Is this the real city that never sleeps? This week on The Fix: vibrant, indomitable Hanoi, according to the pioneering distiller, researcher, and activist.
Talking Watches: With Yoni Ben-Yehuda, Head Of Watches At Material Good — The best curators are almost always obsessives first. For Yoni Ben-Yehuda, the passion for watches came decades before the profession.
Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called 'Ask Pinterest' | TechCrunch — Pinterest has launched 'Ask Pinterest,' an experimental AI-powered shopping app that lets users seek recommendations and inspiration through a conversational interface.
‘Furious’ Review: Elizabeth Meriwether Delivers Top-Tier Genre Fare in Hulu’s Riveting Cat-and-Mouse Thriller — 'Furious,' a new Hulu series from Elizabeth Meriwether, follows a rookie FBI agent (Emmy Rossum) hunting a serial killer who keeps offing bad men.
Africa Is a Country — Culture and politics, reframed.
unpopular opinion but most meditation apps are just expensive anxiety placebos... this guy spent 10 years mapping what actually works neurologically
watched someone meditate for 20 minutes and realized they weren't trying to clear their mind — they were just letting it get boring enough to stop fighting back 🧠
GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid | TechCrunch — GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.
In the Age of AI, the Analog Restaurant Feels Radical - Longreads — "Some restaurants are leaning into handmade touches, as AI-generated food photos and flyers become commonplace."
Applications close in 48 hours — here's everything Australian founders need to know about Stripe x Startup Battlefield | TechCrunch — The window is almost shut. On August 19, eight startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney in front of investors, global press, and the…
33 Luxury Hotels Were Just Awarded ‘Palace’ Status by the French Government—See the Full List — The French Ministry of Tourism just updated the exclusive list for the first time since 2022, including six new entrants in Paris, the French Alps, the South of France, and Champagne.
Discover a Different Planet in Northwest Nebraska — In a state full of surprising natural wonders, Toadstool Geologic Park is one of the coolest
Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search — <p>Over the weekend, Reddit user <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1v6fiyj/you_can_view_a_lot_of_shared_conversations_via/">-void1 posted an…
One in five enterprises can't stop a runaway AI agent's spending in real time — <p>Enterprise AI teams have stopped betting on a single orchestration platform. The median enterprise now runs three at once — not by accident, but because none of them fully trusts a single vendor…
37°C : ce que le corps humain apprend aux organisations | Jean-Michel Adélaïde | TEDxUTTroyes — Le corps humain est le plus performant à 40°C. Pourtant, il choisit de fonctionner à 37°C. Pourquoi ? Pour durer. Dans ce talk, Jean Michel Adelaide transpose cette logique aux…
Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach | TechCrunch — The incident comes as Tata Electronics expands its role in global technology supply chains.
Airslyng Review: This Travel Accessory Is My Secret for Sleeping on the Plane—And It's Only $40 — I tried this three-in-one accessory on a recent six-hour flight—here are my honest thoughts.
This slushie machine was a lifesaver during NYC's heat wave | TechCrunch — Last weekend's brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven
The New Words Without Borders — The Whiting Award-winning digital literary magazine Words Without Borders is the premier publication for international literature in English. Featuring Olga Tokarczuk, Fernanda Melchor, Jokha Alharthi, Jhumpa Lahiri, Elena Ferrante, W. G. Sebald, L
The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush | TechCrunch — The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.
How do I apply for an apprenticeship and what will I get paid? — Apprentices split their time between training and working - and are paid by their employer.
The Trump administration might take an equity stake in OpenAI | TechCrunch — President Donald Trump said he's discussing deals "where the American people can benefit from the success of AI."
The Locals Don't Know — My best piece of travel advice: don't do what the locals do.
Aysgarth Falls in Centre — The most impressive falls in Wensleydale once produced power to weave the uniform of an Italian revolution.
Meditation teachers never mention that the hardest part is sitting still for three minutes before your leg falls asleep. Everything after that is actually easier 🧘
The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs | TechCrunch — "The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and 'go fast' to 'we need guardrails, how do we control this?'"
Jon Erwin Isn’t Hiding from AI: The ‘Young Washington’ Director on How AI Can Save Jobs and Bolster Collaboration — 'Young Washington' director Jon Erwin talks AI and his company Innovative Dreams and why he believes the tech can bring jobs back to Los Angeles.
Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO | TechCrunch — Strava will charge a flat monthly fee from developers to access its API
Educators & Teens Get Hands-On With TEMPO Data to Help Investigate Local Air Quality - NASA Science — On Day 1 of the Institute, the CosmicDS Science Principal Investigator Pat Udomprasert led a hands-on immersion session introducing educators to TEMPO-Lab, a
Google's Gemini Omni can generate 'anything from any input,' starting with video - Engadget — Google didn't forget AI creators in its latest round of Gemini announcements.
Google unveils Nano Banana 2 Lite aka Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for low cost, 4-second fast enterprise image generations — <p>Google is upgrading its AI image generation capabilities today with the <a…
Google's Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library | TechCrunch — Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose last startup, Bench, imploded | TechCrunch — Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.
Hot Pools, Waterslides, and Cocktails: Inside Therme’s Plan to Bring Supersized Health Spas to the USA — Therme Group, Europe’s wellness behemoth, is planning to open stadium-sized health spas across the USA. Are Americans ready for Roman baths? We traveled to Bucharest to find…
Dimension Capital's $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming | TechCrunch — The four-year-old firm's latest fund is 60% larger than its second vehicle announced 18 months ago.
The Path, founded by Tony Robbins and Calm alums, hopes to offer safer AI therapy | TechCrunch — The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots.
spent three weeks meditating in silence and the worst part wasn't the quiet — it was realizing how much i talk just to avoid listening to myself think 🤔