How Better Data Helps AI Find Its Rhythm

As AI-generated music moves into advertising and branded content, richer metadata can help models interpret creative briefs and deliver more usable commercial outputs.

What 25 Years Of Platform Shifts Can Teach Leaders About Surviving AI

When companies struggle through a tech transition, the post-mortem usually focuses on the wrong things.

Sony’s new 400mm and 600mm super-telephoto primes make light work of a heavy hobby — here are my favorite wildlife photos I shot with the pair
Sony’s new 400mm and 600mm super-telephoto primes make light work of a heavy hobby — here are my favorite wildlife photos I shot with the pair

Sony has unveiled two super-telephoto E-mount prime lenses, the FE 400mm F4.5 GM OSS and FE 600mm F6.3 GM OSS, and they’re the lightest of their kind — I’ve tested them both.

4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Last day to exhibit at Disrupt is Sept 18. 4 days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators and tech leaders October 13–15.

NASA’s Webb Reveals Dynamic Panorama of Star Formation
NASA’s Webb Reveals Dynamic Panorama of Star Formation

This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images released to date from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb, astronomers searched IC 348 for brown dwarfs, which are less massive than the smallest stars. The researchers discovered brown dwarfs just twice the mass of Jupiter, bringing the […]

Curiosity rover spots odd ‘footprints’ on Mars | Space photo of the day for Sept. 15, 2026
Curiosity rover spots odd ‘footprints’ on Mars | Space photo of the day for Sept. 15, 2026

“Both of our workspaces this week contained features unlike quite anything we have seen in the past.”

On this day in space! Sept. 15, 1968: Russian tortoises (& other critters) launch around the moon on Zond 5 spacecraft in wild first circumlunar flight
On this day in space! Sept. 15, 1968: Russian tortoises (& other critters) launch around the moon on Zond 5 spacecraft in wild first circumlunar flight

On Sept. 15, 1968, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 5 spacecraft carrying tortoises and more on a mission to loop around the moon and return to Earth. Here’s why it mattered.

US AI data centers projected to become the fifth-largest natural gas consumer in the world by 2035 — consumption to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day as demand for compute increases
US AI data centers projected to become the fifth-largest natural gas consumer in the world by 2035 — consumption to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day as demand for compute increases

Data centers in the U.S. are projected to use up more natural gas than most of the rest of the world to generate the electricity they need. Estimates suggest that 15 billion cubic feet per day are needed to keep data centers running by 2035.

Save up to 50% on top-quality waterproofs from Patagonia, Arc’teryx, The North Face and more — here are my top picks
Save up to 50% on top-quality waterproofs from Patagonia, Arc’teryx, The North Face and more — here are my top picks

Don’t get caught out in the rain — there are huge discounts on waterproof jackets from some of my favorite outdoor brands right now.

Oracle lays off undisclosed number of employees in restructuring, but hiring continues for AI and data center roles
Oracle lays off undisclosed number of employees in restructuring, but hiring continues for AI and data center roles

Oracle could be preparing to lay off as many as 8,000 workers according to external data, but it’s hiring in other areas.