9 Best Password Managers (2023): Features, Pricing, and Tips

1Password does have a few extras that might make it better for some though. If you frequently travel across national borders, you’ll appreciate my favorite 1Password feature: Travel Mode. This mode lets you delete any sensitive data from your devices before you travel and then restore it with a click after you’ve crossed a border. … Read more

Bitcoin price at $100,000 in 2024? Crypto execs say bull run has begun

Yuichiro Chino | Moment | Getty Images Executives in the cryptocurrency industry called the start of a new bull run with a growing number of voices calling for fresh all-time highs for bitcoin in 2024 above $100,000. Bitcoin has rallied more than 120% this year, with many optimistic about the surge continuing into 2024. “It … Read more

UiPath stock spikes after earnings beat, generative AI integration

Co-founder and CEO of UiPath Daniel Dines speaks on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019 at Arena Berlin on December 12, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Noam Galai | Getty Images UiPath stock popped more than 20% on Friday, one day after the company released quarterly earnings that beat Wall Street’s top- and bottom-line expectations. The … Read more

Private and Secure Web Search Engines: DuckDuckGo, Brave, Kagi, Startpage

When it comes to looking something up on the web, most of us default to Googling it—the search engine has become so dominant that it’s now a verb, in the same way that Photoshop is. But using Google for your searches comes with a privacy trade-off. Google’s business is, of course, based on advertising, and … Read more

Mods Are Asleep. Quick, Everyone Release AI Products

The turmoil at OpenAI over the past five days has captivated the tech industry and kept entrepreneurs, journalists, and anyone who still has an X account glued to their timelines for the latest emoji updates and lower-case missives. In the meantime, some of the most prominent AI companies—including OpenAI—continued to do what Silicon Valley is … Read more

Tech experts react to a chaotic weekend for OpenAI and Microsoft

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman & and Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella. Hayden Field | CNBC The past few days have been chaotic for the AI industry, with technology experts weighing what this could mean for the nascent sector and some of its key players. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT which launched AI into the mainstream late … Read more

Nothing Chats First Look: iMessage on Android

Having predominantly used Android phones, I am far too familiar with the stigma of being a “green bubble.” Whenever I message someone with an iPhone, my texts show up in iMessage, the default messaging platform in iOS, but the app switches my messages from the secure but Apple-only iMessage protocol to the dated SMS/MMS protocol. … Read more

Amazon has begun replacing Android with its own software on some products

Last week, it was reported that Amazon is quietly developing its own operating system that will replace Android on its Fire TV devices before expanding to other products, including the company’s many smart displays. Janko Roettgers spilled the details in his Lowpass newsletter. The report predicted that Amazon’s software, codenamed Vega, could appear on Fire … Read more

GM’s Cruise Rethinks Its Robotaxi Strategy After Admitting a Software Fault in Gruesome Crash

In August 2016, WIRED visited the San Francisco offices of a young startup recently snapped up by a surprising buyer. General Motors acquired three-year-old Cruise for a reported $1 billion in hopes the straitlaced Detroit automaker could coopt the self-driving technology tipped to disrupt the auto industry. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt—a scrappy Twitch cofounder who … Read more

Aleph Alpha raises $500 million to build a European rival to OpenAI

GPT-4 sign on website displayed on a laptop screen and OpenAI logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on March 14, 2023. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Aleph Alpha, a German startup taking on Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, said Monday it had raised $500 … Read more