General Motors has laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a deliberate skills swap: clearing out workers whose expertise no longer fits and making room for some with AI-focused backgrounds. GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it had conducted layoffs; they wereContinue Reading
NASA Following the success of its Artemis II crewed mission, NASA is now turning its focus to the next milestones in its plan to put astronauts back on the moon. The space agency has been eyeing a moon landing in 2028, and it’s tapped Blue Origin and SpaceX to provideContinue Reading
The people have spoken, and their message is clear: Rotating a phone into landscape is just too dang hard. Amazon is the latest company to adopt a TikTok-like vertical short-form video, in the form of Prime Video’s new Clips feature. The short-form video feed is a new addition to PrimeContinue Reading
By Ronan Shields • May 7, 2026 • Ivy Liu The Trade Desk’s Q1 revenues of $689 million may suggest holding-company spats are a mere bump in the road, but confirming the exit of CSO Samantha Jacobson hours before its market disclosure shows complications can come from all directions. TheContinue Reading
Iryna Tolmachova/Shutterstock Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has found OpenAI was “not compliant with” Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws in the training of its AI models. Following an investigation, Dufresne and his counterparts in Alberta, Quebec and British Columbia say OpenAI’s approach to things like data collectionContinue Reading
Developer Cyan Worlds is releasing remakes of the classic adventure game Myst and its sequel Riven on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and the Microsoft Store. Myst was previously available on the Xbox, but both games have now been lovingly updated for modern hardware, including Sony’s PlayStation VR2 headset. OnContinue Reading
Matt Cardy/Getty Images Smartphone bans in the classroom might not be the panacea that governments and school administrations want them to be, according to a recently published study. As first reported by The New York Times, the National Bureau of Economic Research will publish a study called The Effects of School PhoneContinue Reading
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Topfeel intros new gaming mini PC with AMD AM5 socket, discrete GPU support, and a plethora of ports Topfeel may not be as well known as other major Chinese players in the mini PC arena, such as Geekom, GMKtech, and Minisforum. However, thanks to an oddly memorable name, the companyContinue Reading
By Krystal Scanlon and Seb Joseph • May 1, 2026 • Ivy Liu OpenAI appears to be getting ready to expand its ads business to Europe. A code update to its conversion tracking pixel, which Digiday reviewed, points to the company building the technical groundwork needed to run advertising inContinue Reading
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