Year: 2026
These Early Humans Prospered During What Should Have Been a Devastating Volcanic Winter
Around 74,000 years ago, a massive caldera erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering a prolonged and...
5,000-Year-Old Mummy Is Earliest Known Tattooed Woman
A new analysis of two ancient Egyptian mummies has uncovered the earliest known examples of “figural” tattoos on...
Scientists Who Doubt Neanderthal Art Must Reckon With New Evidence From These Sweet Cave Paintings
Cave paintings in Spain were produced at least 64,000 years ago, a full 20,000 years before modern humans...
Anduril’s Palmer Luckey thinks the future of tech is in the past | TechCrunch
You might think it’s pretty weird to hear the founders of a VR company and a social media...
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too | TechCrunch
When it comes to Chinese AI labs using distillation techniques to extract knowledge from frontier model makers, Y...
CFS’ Brandon Sorbom and Helion’s David Kirtley join Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
For decades, commercial fusion power has seemed perpetually out of reach. Now two companies are building toward something...
Amazing Life-Sized Sculptures of Camels and Horses Discovered in Saudi Arabia
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered a series of rock reliefs dating back some 2,000 years. The life-sized...
Human Skulls Mounted on Stakes Found at 8,000-Year-Old Burial Site in Sweden
Researchers in Sweden have uncovered evidence of a behavior never seen before in ancient hunter-gatherers: the mounting of...
The Sony Hacks Are Goddamn Terrifying
How the Sony hacks could have changed everything for us
Truecaller takes its scam intelligence to the open web as it looks beyond caller ID | TechCrunch
After more than a decade building a caller ID business serving over 500 million users, Truecaller is now...
