Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah, it was a surprise,” he told TechCrunch.
Back in 2009, the tech Zaharia developed for his PhD at UC Berkeley, under the tutelage of famed professor Ion Stoica, was launched into Databricks.
Zaharia had created a way to dramatically speed…
Software giant Atlassian announced new AI tools and agents on Wednesday, with a focus on turning data into visual assets and applications.
This includes the rollout of the visual tool Remix in open beta. Remix allows enterprises to turn the data and information stored in…
Update (April 7, 10:30 p.m. PT): The company has updated the app store listing and removed references to the Android app. But it also added that the iOS keyboard is coming soon.
Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge…
A Tesla driver was found passed out behind the wheel of his car as it drove itself through busy streets in Vacaville, California. Police caught up with the vehicle and arrested the driver on suspicion of driving under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana.
It is the latest in a long string of incidents where Tesla owners have treated the automaker’s driver-assist systems as if they were a…
Royal Enfield has officially pulled the wraps off the full specifications of its first electric motorcycle, the beautifully designed Flying Flea C6, ahead of its April 10 launch in India. And while there’s a lot to like about the bike on paper, one particular number stands…
Radio Flyer is back with another electric bike, and this time the iconic American brand is taking aim at one of the biggest barriers in the cargo e-bike space: intimidation.
Launching today, the new Flyer Loop is a compact cargo e-bike designed to make family hauling more…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday emphasized that American forces would be “hanging around” in the Middle East for the duration of the armistice between the United States, Israel and Iran — even as Washington edges toward an offramp from its 38-day campaign.
The remarks came one day after President Donald Trump declared a two-week ceasefire with Iran, stepping back from earlier…
WARSAW, Poland — Privately-owned Niewiadów Polish Military Group has teamed up with Northrop Grumman and Singapore’s ST Engineering to launch 155-millimeter and 40-millimeter ammunition production in Poland, catering to the country’s plans to spend PLN 23.8 billion…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Chris Penk this week became New Zealand’s 44th minister of defense, replacing Judith Collins who is retiring from politics.
Penk will also take over Collins’ Space, Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and New Zealand Security…
There’s nary a media type that some edition of Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery won’t handle: hard drives, memory cards, optical discs… You name it. However, in my last look over a decade ago, Stellar Phoenix was playing second fiddle to the other data recovery program I’d tested in terms of what it would recover.
Well, times change and the latest version seems to be on top of its game with…
