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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
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Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna
Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.
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OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
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No charger, no problem: The best ways to charge your phone away from an outlet
You don't need your phone charger to keep your device topped up, as long as you have a USB cable and something to plug it into.
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Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!
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Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.
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The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China's space program
One big question: Will China assert territorial rights where its rover explores?
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Fairphone's latest repairable phone is finally available in the US for $650
Fairphone sells components like the USB port and screen, all swappable with a single torx driver.
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Anthro Energy breaks ground on factory that could pave the road to solid-state batteries
Battery materials startup Anthro Energy has broken ground on a Louisville factory to make electrolytes, including those for solid-state batteries.
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Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.
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Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors
Comcast is bringing Wi-Fi motion sensing to millions of routers that are already in customers' homes, turning the devices into activity monitors. A new update to the Xfinity Internet app, arriving today, August 18th, enables the feature on compatible Xfinity routers at no extra cost. Announced as part of its new Xfinity Shield service, WiFi […]
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Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York
The scanning and bloodwork health startup founded by Spotify's founder will officially launch in New York in about a month.
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Flutter Streaming UI: How the Typewriter Experience of AI Replies Is Built
The typewriter effect looks simple: characters appear one by one. But behind "skip animation", "no truncation", and "no performance regression" lies a whole set of engineering decisions. The implementation in this article is Flutter/Dart based, but the core semantic decisions — "skip ≠ abort" and "buffer and batch" — are framework-agnostic : Web's EventSource, and native/RN SSE clients, face the same choices. Prologue: a "skip typewriter" button that kept breaking In an AI narrative app (where the user influences an AI-driven interactive story by entering fate instructions), I built a "⏩ skip typewriter" button — users click it to see the full AI reply immediately instead of waiting for the text to appear character by character. The button went through three stages in the dev log: V1 : clicking does nothing — the callback fires, but the user experiences no change V2 : clicking truncates the content — the animation is gone, but the reply is incomplete too Final : clicking reveals the partial text immediately, while the LLM keeps generating the full reply in the background, which appears all at once when done Behind these three versions lie the three most common pitfalls in "streaming UI". This article breaks them down. 1. From SSE to screen: the streaming rendering pipeline Why the LLM "pops" text out The LLM's reply comes back in chunks via HTTP SSE (Server-Sent Events). A typical chunk looks like this: data: { "choices" :[{ "delta" :{ "content" : "Mephistopheles appears" }}]} data: { "choices" :[{ "delta" :{ "content" : "at the study door." }}]} data: [ DONE ] The interval between chunks is determined by the model's generation speed — tens of milliseconds when fast, possibly a full second when slow. That "character-by-character appearance" is what the user perceives as the typewriter animation. Why you can't update the UI on every chunk If you trigger a state update on every chunk, a reply of a few hundred characters can cause dozens or hundreds of UI rebuilds, whi
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Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But the barrage of notifications they send often means I miss important ones. So, when Google announced its new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home, […]
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The Verge Guide to Pets
Ah, the relationship between animals and the technology they can’t quite understand. Today, it seems like there’s a high-tech solution to every element of pet ownership, with devices on the market designed to keep pets fed, cleaned, watched over, and entertained. And if you have a pet you know: nothing is too good — or […]
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Fairphone is finally releasing its first official handset in the US
You can now get Fairphone's reparable handset in the US without jumping through hoops.
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Fairphone is launching its latest repairable phone in the US too
The Fairphone 6+ is priced at $649 and will be available on Amazon.
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Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’
Reach Capital announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $265M Fund V.
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Exclusive: You Can Finally Buy a Fairphone—a Sustainable, Repairable Smartphone—in the US
More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
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We still don’t know how people are really using AI
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a Computer Science PhD candidate at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research…