The Byte Surge

Live News

8.1°C
  • London
October 17, 2026
Follow Us:

Blog

Health

VitaCig, The Cigarette With Vitamin C

Our first contender for Stupid Invention of the Week:A Quebec company is producing a cigarette it claims does...

Health

Scientists Uncover Surprising Link Between Cannabis and Violence

A large review ties cannabis use to an increased risk of committing violent acts.

Space & Spaceflight

This May Be the Strangest Explanation Yet for the Mysterious Particle That Slammed Into Earth in 2023

Making it work would require pulling a lot of (cosmic) strings—but perhaps we need wild explanations to explain...

Space & Spaceflight

Google and NASA Join Forces; Nerds Everywhere Flip Out

Google and NASA, sitting in a tree, p-u-t-t-i-n-g… space related data on the internet. Yes, two of the...

Health

The Death of a Russian Plague Lab Worker Sounds Terrifying. How Worried Should You Be?

The death of a 28-year-old lab worker at a plague research institute in Siberia has reawakened pandemic fears.

Health

Crane Adorable Humidifiers

Usually we resent product names that tell us how we should feel about them, but the fact that...

Startups

Lola Vision Systems is trying to make it easier to run AI models on chips | TechCrunch

The story begins almost 12 years ago, when Tayo Adesanya started a career working with microchips and AI...

In Brief

Hackers steal 8 million citizens’ records from Danish government database | TechCrunch

The Danish government has confirmed that its central database of citizens’ data was breached and most of its...

AI

OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results | TechCrunch

ChatGPT is getting more ads. Specifically, OpenAI is adding visual display ads to its ad product line-up so...

TechCrunch Disrupt AI Stage
AI

Open or closed AI? Learn what to build on at Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

For AI startups, choosing a model isn’t necessarily a one-time architecture decision anymore.Open models are improving. Frontier APIs...