Accel closes $650 million for new India fund

Accel has raised $650 million for its eighth India fund as the U.S. venture firm expands its investment strategy in the South Asian market. The new fund follows the firm’s…

On my son’s behalf, I sought out the smart glasses that ‘give sight to the blind’

CES 2025 Read and watch our complete CES coverage here Updated less than 11 hours ago Table of Contents Table of Contents A hopeful prototype Early tests are promising A…

Mark Zuckerberg Goes Mask-Off and Ditches Diversity

Mark Zuckerberg is finally ready to be his true self. Surprise: he sucks. A new report from the New York Times details how Zuck tapped a small team of executives…

DOJ Adds 6 Major Landlords to Lawsuit Over Algorithmically Inflating Americans’ Rents

The Department of Justice has expanded its lawsuit against the real estate software company RealPage to include six of the nation’s largest landlords. The department sued RealPage in August, alleging…

This new DirectX feature could completely change how PC games work

Microsoft has announced that neural rendering capabilities are coming to DirectX soon. Cooperative vector support, as it’s called, will lead to “cross-platform enablement of neural rendering techniques,” according to Microsoft,…

Amazon Reportedly Pays $40 Million for Documentary on Melania Trump

In another conspicuously fortuitous development for the incoming president, Amazon has opted to develop a documentary on his wife, Melania Trump. The doc, which Puck has referred to as a…

RFK Jr. Made a Million Dollars From His Anti-Vax Work He Previously Claimed Was ‘Unpaid’

President-elect Donald Trump is currently trying to get his cabinet nominations approved and that includes one of his most controversial picks: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. RFK has been selected to…

OpenAI Shuts Down Developer Who Made AI-Powered Gun Turret

OpenAI has cut off a developer who built a device that could respond to ChatGPT queries to aim and fire an automated rifle. The device went viral after a video…

AMD has just quietly launched its cheapest CPU

Most of AMD’s new products get a whole launch event with a lot of fanfare, but some of them don’t get as much as a mention. The latter is true…

YC-backed Zimi raises $2M to help international merchants easily sell in the U.S.

Audrey Djiya and Peter Nsaka always wanted to be founders.  Djiya’s parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were all entrepreneurs, and even as she took a consulting job after college, she kept…