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Month: November 2026

Space & Spaceflight

An Amateur Radio Operator Told a Satellite to Play ‘Doom.’ And It Listened

The experiment marks the first known time a satellite has received and acted on a voice command from...

Box CEO Aaron Levie on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in 2019.
AI

Box taps Nvidia’s Nemotron for new agent-first content retrieval system | TechCrunch

At its developer conference on Thursday, Box showed off a new feature that will build Nvidia’s Nemotron embedding...

Discovered Materials founders Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas
AI

A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI | TechCrunch

Discovered Materials, a months-old, San Francisco startup using AI models to find new substances for building advanced chips,...

Agility's Digit 5 robot.
Robotics

Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying? | TechCrunch

Almost a year ago to the day, Figure AI CEO Colby Adcock responded to some gentle social media...

Human History

What Do We Assume About the Ancient World—Without Physical Evidence?

And is that even a problem?

Transportation

Amazon ditches GrubHub, taps Uber Eats for Prime | TechCrunch

Amazon has made Uber Eats as its official restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States,...

A night view of the U.S. Congress building in Washington, D.C.
Government & Policy

After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming | TechCrunch

The November 3 midterm results gave Democrats full control of Congress, setting the stage for what could be...

A Apple Lightning port charging cable is seen with with an iPhone.
In Brief

Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage | TechCrunch

Apple is cutting the daily amount its engineering teams can spend on AI, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. It’s a...

Human History

The Iron Age King Who Lured Rome Into Britain Was Actually a Woman, Archaeologists Say

Verica of the Atrebates persuaded Claudius to invade Britain, which remained under Roman control for hundreds of years.

Human History

Ice Age Artists Left 280 Engravings in This Spanish Cave. Visitors Walked Right Past Them

To be fair, the cave was really dark, and there was a good amount of tourist graffiti.