With my time with Google Pixel devices over the past couple of years, I have surely realised that there’s something undeniably polished about using a Google Pixel. The animations are smooth, the interface is clean, and there’s a sense of simplicity that’s hard to find on other Android devices. It feels like software that’s been carefully refined rather than overloaded with features. But it…
OPPO Find X9 Ultra has been announced globally along with the Find X9s, both of which will also be coming to India. The new Find X9 Ultra is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Processor while the Find X9s gets the MediaTek Dimensity 9500s processor. There’s also a…
AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This startup wants to figure out which ones matter.
April 23, 2026
AI’s biggest impact in science is Google DeepMind’s use of a deep learning model to predict the complex structures of proteins – the molecules that drive virtually every process in living cells.But as AI models continue to spit out more candidates for potential…
Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multibillion-dollar deal
April 23, 2026
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has signed a new multibillion-dollar agreement to expand its use of Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, including systems powered by Nvidia’s latest GPUs, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
The deal is valued in the single-digit billions, according to a source familiar with the matter, and includes access to Google’s…
Google Cloud Next is taking place this week in Las Vegas, and one clear message has emerged: Google wants AI startups on its cloud. To that end, it made several startup-related announcements.
The most significant is that the tech giant has earmarked a new $750 million budget…
Today is Earth Day, and the thing that’s on my mind is how much water the AI-powered features in my photo editing software use.
In fact, this has been on my mind for some time as, earlier in the year, the UN announced that we have entered an “era of water bankruptcy,”…
Shot with a phone camera, this striking "concrete vs. nature" image wins US$10,000 top prize in global photography competition
April 23, 2026
The winners of the photography competition ‘Concrete in Life’ 2025/26 have been announced, with Filipino photographer Celbert Palaganas taking the US$10,000 grand prize for his image Pillars Across the Sea.
Shot on a Google Pixel camera phone using its 48MP ultra-wide camera, the winning image captures the contrast between nature and engineering at the Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) in…
Google’s Earth Day doodle is made from photos of the World itself, and it's mind-blowing!
April 23, 2026
Google has marked Earth Day 2026 with a genuinely clever homepage Doodle, turning the Google logo into a celebration of the planet itself by filling each letter with Google Earth imagery drawn from different corners of the world.
Launched on April 22, the annual Earth Day…
Toyota’s Lexus brand was caught testing a three-row electric SUV for the first time, expected to arrive as a higher-end sibling to the Highlander EV.
Is Lexus launching a three-row electric SUV?
After revealing the long-awaited Highlander BEV in February, Lexus is now…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims the long-awaited next-generation Roadster will finally be unveiled by the end of the month, which is days away. If it actually happens, it would come nearly nine years after the original prototype was first shown in November 2017.
We’ve been down this road before — many, many times. Here’s the latest on where things stand and how we got here.
A history of broken…
