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Some still believe that you can’t manage a car company unless you’re a fully paid-up “car guy.” Tell that to Benedetto Vigna, Ferrari’s CEO. He’s a physicist by education, hired to run the company in 2021 after a career in semiconductors, although he did significant business with automotive during that time.Vigna also helped develop a three-dimensional motion sensor first used in airbags, later adapted for the Nintendo Wii and the iPhone’s screen rotation function. An inventor, then. “I prefer innovator,” he once told me. “A lot of the time inventors are just thinking, but innovators conceive new things and make…
DoorDash is building a drone delivery business, including its own aircraft, as part of an effort developed by its robotics and autonomy team, which will eventually operate within the company’s delivery app. The company unveiled the new business, called DoorDash Air, after receiving a Part 135 air carrier certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. The certification allows the company to legally operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States. This does not mean DoorDash’s custom-built drones will be delivering burritos tomorrow, or even next month. The company didn’t provide a detailed timeline for when its aircraft would…
X has a new argument against sweeping underage social media bans which would limit usage of its platform: They interfere with international law.The social media platform, which sits within Elon Musk’s SpaceX, issued a submission to the Australian Parliament published Tuesday that called for the government to drop efforts to strengthen its underage social media ban. It complained that the proposals to increase pressure on sites to demonstrate efforts to crack down on underage access are unnecessary, ill-suited, unfair, and could violate privacy rights.X pushed back against the “highly invasive” information gathering powers the proposed amendment would allow, accusing the…
Spotify is adding a new mode to its phone app for people who like to listen to music on runs. The new running mode cues up songs based on different phases of runs, and selects tracks based on your preferences and tempo. Paying subscribers can find the running mode in Fitness Hub, and can select from one of the 25 presets. Users can choose their workout type from options like interval runs, steady runs or pyramid, and can customize the duration, beats per minute, and the kind of music they want to listen to. Image Credits: SpotifyImage Credits:Spotify As well…
The best festival gear, of course, depends on which festival you’re attending, the weather, your sleeping arrangements, and a ton of other factors. But as a longtime festival veteran, I’ve field-tested enough gear (and made enough mistakes) to have solid recommendations for preventing blisters, dehydration, a dead phone, and other common pitfalls in most situations. You’ll find my top picks below.Be sure to check out our other related buying guides, including the Best Tents, the Best Sleeping Bags, and the Best Bluetooth Speakers.Updated July 2026: I’ve reformatted this guide with refreshed picks and a new look. I’ve also checked prices…
Amazon and Walmart already dominate retail media spending, and both have gotten into streaming TV to grab ad budgets bigger than retail and shopper marketing spend.However, the two differ in what they offer advertisers.Amazon has spent years building premium content through Prime Video, and the company also has rights to major sporting events like the NFL’s Thursday Night Football. Walmart is earlier in this journey, using its late 2024 Vizio acquisition to leverage streaming TV infrastructure.Amazon’s $70 billion ad business is significantly bigger than Walmart’s $6.4 billion business. However, the two are the largest retail media sellers and will make…
Aluminum has left an indelible mark on the world — more than 3 billion tons of red mud, a waste product of the refining process, are currently stored in open-air ponds or mounds. But to Sumedh Gostu, co-founder and CEO of Fast Metals, there’s treasure in the caustic waste. “It is a very rich resource,” he told TechCrunch. “If you attack with the right chemistry, it can be very profitable.” Gostu thinks Fast Metals has found that chemistry, which just so happens to be partially comprised of another waste stream, also produced from alumina refineries. The startup recently raised a…
This floating gadget monitors temperature, pH, and ORP (a stand-in for free chlorine), together giving you a solid picture of your pool’s disinfection capabilities. It automatically updates every 15 minutes. While many chemistry monitors require replaceable supplies (which is a costly approach) and regular battery replacements to work, Iopool’s solution is solid-state, needing no maintenance at all except for storing it out of the pool in winter months. I used mine for two full swimming seasons until it died (at which point it must be replaced)—and I like it so much I just dropped its successor into the water for…
The social-first agency Saylor, launched in 2021 by a former Netflix and Disney executive, is launching Fleet, a creator studio meant to bring creator casting, content development, production, and partnership execution under one roof, according to the agency. The launch, shared officially on Wednesday, is less a new offering than a formalization of a service that Saylor has offered since its founding, according to founder and CEO Will Trowbridge.The agency built its organic social practice with creators embedded in the writing room from the start, rather than treating creator work and social strategy as separate disciplines, according to Trowbridge. Now, there…
New York-based AI detection startup Pangram is on a mission to combat the AI slop infestation spreading across the internet, and it just raised $9 million on a bet that demand for tools that distinguish human-generated content from AI-generated text will only grow. Pangram’s fundraise — led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital, and Cadenza — comes as the startup also launches its next-generation AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model, Pangram Image. Pangram says the new text detection model is over 99% accurate at finding AI-assisted writing and mixed human-AI…
Three months ago, outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted that the company had been caught off guard by the sharp increase in demand for the Mac Mini. Cook said it may take “several months” to catch up with demand, fueled by a boom in people using the compact computer for local AI workloads.Now, while the situation has improved slightly, things are far from normal. At its worst, the base configuration of the Mac Mini was completely sold out on Apple’s storefront. This is true at third-party retailers like Amazon or Best Buy. Apple has them back in stock for a…
Higgsfield, the San Francisco-based startup that makes tools to create AI videos, named Mariam Asmar as its first head of B2B marketing on Wednesday, the company shared with ADWEEK exclusively. Asmar, who started the role on July 13th, will oversee enterprise marketing, including demand generation, account-based marketing, sales enablement, and brand building. She will report to Higgsfield CEO Alex Mashrabov. The hire comes as Higgsfield, which has raised a $130 million Series A, reported an annualized revenue run rate of $500 million and said it is on pace to reach $1 billion by the end of 2026, according to Business Insider.
a new visualization of Earth looks nothing like the Blue Marble seen from space.NASA has released a new geoid model showing the shape of Earth’s gravitational field. The slight, irregular bulges and depressions are caused by variations in the distribution of mass within the planet. It can also be imagined as the surface a global ocean would take if it were determined solely by Earth’s own gravity and rotation.Science advisor: Scott Luthcke (NASA/GSFC) Visualizer: Mark SubbaRao (NASA/GSFC)The visualization is an exaggerated geoid, with heights multiplied by a factor of 10,000 in order to show the variations in the gravitational field.…
AI note-taking app Granola is launching an app for the Apple Watch in hopes that its users will want to record meetings and take notes without using their smartphones. Users can set the Granola app as one of the watch faces to start transcribing at any time. The app can also surface reminders about upcoming meetings, and works with the iOS app, which launched last year. The company’s co-founder, Chris Pedregal, told TechCrunch that the Apple Watch app is meant to be a way to capture in-person meetings without having to take your phone out of your pocket — for…
Apple is introducing a new leasing program in partnership with the “buy now, pay later” service Klarna, giving eligible customers the option to pay for Apple devices through monthly installments, the tech giant announced on Tuesday. The program is available for the iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad on the Apple Store online, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations in the United States. Leasing prices start at $17.99 per month for iPhone, $11.99 per month for Apple Watch, $24.99 per month for Mac, and $11.99 per month for iPad. Apple Upgrade offers one- and two-year leasing…
For years, WhatsApp calls have been supported only on the smartphone app or its native desktop app. Now Meta is finally letting users make and receive audio and video calls using WhatsApp for Web. Similar to the smartphone and desktop apps, the Calls tab on the web interface will house your call history and favorites. The web app will also support calling features you get in the desktop app, such as screen-sharing and reactions. WhatsApp is rolling out a few more updates for calls as well. Users can now transfer calls from one device to another without hanging up, so…