Two individuals rented cars from Turo, a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform, and used them to perform acts of violence earlier this week. First, a military veteran driving a Ford F-150 Lightning drove into a crowd of people, killing at least 15. Then, an active-duty Green Beret rented a Tesla Cybertruck, parked it in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, and allegedly blew it up. The driver died by suicide. On Friday, Turo’s chief executive, Andre Haddad, said in a statement that he is “outraged” thinking about “how egregiously the two individuals who perpetrated these heinous crimes abused our…
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We’ve seen a handful of AirPod-charging iPhone battery cases come and go over the years. Artronic’s new earbuds take a different approach, with a slim charging case that snaps directly to the back of MagSafe-compatible phones. The Komutr buds were announced on Friday, a few days ahead of their CES 2025 debut. In a sea of fully wireless earbuds, the 0.47-inch charge case is the true standout feature. Unlike other takes on the category, these buds won’t actually charge the phone — it’s more about the convenience of having them with your phone at all times. The case sports a…
Apple is allowing anyone to access its Apple TV+ streaming service for free from Friday through Sunday. The company announced the weekend of free streaming earlier this week alongside a short video featuring its most popular TV shows, including “Severance,” “Slow Horses,” “Shrinking,” and more. It’s worth noting that this is the first time that Apple has offered something like this. The announcement came a few days after Apple TV+ began teasing that it was planning to open up its content to non-subscribers. A weekend is enough time to binge-watch some of Apple’s most popular shows, especially “Severance,” which is…
Getting out ahead of the madness of CES 2025, LG has hit the ground running today by announcing two new lifestyle projectors — the first an odd, but stylish-looking HD projector that’s also a standing lamp and a Bluetooth speaker in one, and the other a new 4K ultra short throw (UST) number that the company says is its smallest ever. LG is calling its 3-in-1 PF600U projector a “lifestyle companion for everyday spaces” that the company hopes will “transport living spaces with its multifunctionality,” an LG press release says. One of the biggest pain points that customers face with…
xAI’s next-gen AI model didn’t arrive on time, adding to a trend Last summer, billionaire Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of AI company xAI, said that Grok 3, xAI’s next major AI model, would arrive by “end of year” 2024. Grok, xAI’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini, can analyze images and respond to questions, and powers a number of features on X, Musk’s social network. “Grok 3 end of year after training on 100k H100s should be really something special,” Musk wrote in a July post on X, referring to xAI’s enormous Memphis-based cluster of…
KoBold Metals closed a $537 million Series C round on Wednesday to help build a multi-billion dollar mine to exploit a copper deposit it found using AI. The new funding round, which was led by Durable Capital Partners and T Rowe Price, will be used to expand the company’s exploration efforts on five continents and develop a massive copper deposit in Zambia. The funding round pushed KoBold’s valuation to $2.96 billion, according to the Financial Times. The final close of the round netted the company $10 million more than it initially expected to raise. The Tech Spot exclusively reported on…
If you just purchased a new gaming system from the PlayStation 5 deals, Xbox Series X and Series S deals, Nintendo Switch deals, gaming PC deals, or gaming laptop deals of the holiday season, we highly recommend investing in a gaming headset. Here’s an offer from Best Buy that you shouldn’t miss: the RIG 900 Max HX at half-price, so you’ll only have to pay $125 instead of $250. We’re not sure how much time is remaining before the $125 discount disappears, so if you’re interested, you should go ahead and buy it right now. The RIG 900 Max HX…
A lot can change in a few months. The climate tech world hasn’t exactly been turned upside down, but it’s definitely more askew than it was in the summer. The U.S. federal election results may have imperiled the startup-friendly Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), likely throwing a wrench into many companies’ business plans. Yet at the same time, AI’s skyrocketing computing needs have driven data center operators scouring the earth for sources of electricity, bringing a surge of interest in a range of power sources, including nuclear, renewables, batteries, and even fusion. As 2025 dawns, it’s a good time to look…
The president of Meta’s Global Affairs team, Nick Clegg, is stepping down from his position at the company, the executive announced in a tweet on Thursday. Clegg, Meta’s politically centrist policy chief since 2018, will be replaced by one of the company’s most prominent Republican executives, Joel Kaplan. Clegg noted on X that Kaplan is “clearly the right person for the right job at the right time.” This high-profile leadership change is happening just three weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The news was previously reported by Semafor. “As a new year begins, I have come to the view…
A Tesla Cybertruck that exploded and burst into flames Wednesday morning just outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas has left one person dead and seven people injured, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Matthew Alan Livelsberger, a 37-year-old man who was an active duty U.S. Army Green Beret from Colorado Springs, has been named as the primary suspect by investigators. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill, who provided new details during a Thursday media briefing, said Liveslberger’s military ID, credit cards, and passport were discovered in the Cybertruck. Livelsberger also has been identified as the…
