Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...

Phoebe Gates is co-leading Phia, an AI shopping assistant pitched as a smarter way to browse and buy online, as the startup raises fresh funding.

Beast Industries acquired Step to expand into youth-focused financial services. Beast Industries did not disclose the amount it used to acquired Step, which counts major backers such as Stripe. The ...

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After rapidly hitting the top of the App Store in October, OpenAI’s video-generation app Sora is now struggling. New data suggests the app is seeing declines in both app downloads and consumer ...

Are You Dead Yet soared to the top of app-store charts and became a magnet for investors. In an exclusive interview with WIRED, one of its creators says they’re changing the name anyway. Guo, one of ...

After the 2022 removal and restoration for some users last year, Pixel Launcher search is once again letting you open apps using the keyboard. When you search for an app in the Pixel Launcher, Google ...

Google is pushing out a Pixel Launcher change that lets you open apps by pressing Enter after partially typing their name. The keyboard button switches from Google Search to an arrow/Enter shortcut ...

GitHub hosts powerful open source apps you can use daily, from Immich for photo backups and Upscayl for image upscaling to VERT for file conversion, BC Uninstaller for cleanup, Mole for Mac storage, ...

This is important because: Android’s in-call scam protection is designed to guard against fraud where criminals impersonate banks or financial services. Why should I care? Scammers often call ...

I move around my Windows desktop very quickly, opening apps and windows with rapid speed, and because of that, I find pointing and clicking with a mouse far too slow. No, for my power-user pace, I ...