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Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text • Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry • Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’ • The Taurid meteor shower isn't much to look at. That's why I love it • NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Captures Eerie Cat’s Head • I Spent 30 Minutes With Apple’s CEO. Now I Know Why John Ternus Got the Job • 'Star Trek's' William Shatner and George Takei honor the death of Walter Koenig • What happened this month at the European Space Agency? (October 2026) • Rusty crust made Mars warm and wet • NASA Explores Potential Commercial Servicing for Hubble Telescope • On this day in space! Oct. 30, 1964: NASA's weird Lunar Landing Research Vehicle takes 1st test flight to help Apollo astronauts land on the moon • Week in images: 26-30 October 2026 • North Korean hackers blamed for stealing record $6.3B in Binance breach • Skip the small talk: Make game-changing connections at TechCrunch Founder Summit with Braindate • Ghostly Cat's Head Nebula haunts the cosmos | Space photo of the day for Oct. 30, 2026 •
🤖 AI & Tech
TechCrunch

Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text

Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and ma

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TechCrunch

Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry

The first TPU in space is a running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.

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TechCrunch

Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’

The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit a

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Wired AI

I Spent 30 Minutes With Apple’s CEO. Now I Know Why John Ternus Got the Job

Apple doesn’t need fixing, and it doesn’t want drama. Its new leader is a “product guy” who bleeds six colors.

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TechCrunch

North Korean hackers blamed for stealing record $6.3B in Binance breach

Hackers working for North Korea are suspected of hacking a Binance employee's laptop, which allowed the theft of billion

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TechCrunch

Skip the small talk: Make game-changing connections at TechCrunch Founder Summit with Braindate

At TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026, happening November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, networking powered by Braindate

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TechCrunch

DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents

DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.

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Ars Technica

GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data

Owners of GM cars found their driving data had been sold to insurance companies.

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Ars Technica

Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist

Binance scrambles to freeze billions after record-breaking hack linked to North Korea.

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TechCrunch

Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out

Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be wheth

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TechCrunch

5 days left: Your last chance to connect, scale, and save at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

5 days to save up to $100, plus a second pass for free to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston on November 4. Regist

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Ars Technica

2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there's no plug involved

Nissan’s series hybrid e-Power system has been retuned for American roads.

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🚀 Space & Physics
Space.com

The Taurid meteor shower isn't much to look at. That's why I love it

The Taurids produce only a handful of meteors an hour. That sounds disappointing, but I've

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NASA News

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Captures Eerie Cat’s Head

Intricate structures within the Cat’s Head Nebula are illuminated in this mid-infrared view from NASA’s James Webb

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Space.com

'Star Trek's' William Shatner and George Takei honor the death of Walter Koenig

'Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course.'

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ESA News

What happened this month at the European Space Agency? (October 2026)

Video: 00:04:30 October was a month of discoveries and milestones. ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover team traine

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NASA News

NASA Explores Potential Commercial Servicing for Hubble Telescope

NASA issued a Request for Information Oct. 29 to learn more about industry capabilities for in-space servicing to suppor

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Space.com

On this day in space! Oct. 30, 1964: NASA's weird Lunar Landing Research Vehicle takes 1st test flight to help Apollo astronauts land on the moon

On October 30, 1964, NASA's Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, or LLRV, took to the skies for

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ESA News

Week in images: 26-30 October 2026

Week in images: 26-30 October 2026 Discover our week through the lens

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Space.com

Ghostly Cat's Head Nebula haunts the cosmos | Space photo of the day for Oct. 30, 2026

Just in time for Halloween, we have new, ghostly views of the Cat's Eye Nebula haunting th

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Space.com

Watch Virgin Galactic's new 'Delta-class' space plane take to the skies for the 1st time (video)

Virgin Galactic's first "Delta-class" space plane, the newly named Apeiron, lifted off for

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Space.com

Look up! China's mysterious space plane is visible over the US this week

Early risers across the U.S. could catch a glimpse of China's mysterious Shenlong spacecra

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NASA News

November’s Night Sky Notes: Light-Day Away

Twin Travelers In 1977, NASA launched twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2, taking advantage of a once-every-175-year planeta

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Space.com

Think Halloween is scary? This scorched alien world is a real-life cosmic horror story

Earth would be terrifying if we celebrated Halloween every 11 hours, a possibility on a su

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🧬 Science & Health
New Scientist

Rusty crust made Mars warm and wet

It's unclear how and why Mars once became warm enough to allow water to flow on its surface, but a new idea suggests it

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New Scientist

How did the biggest crypto heist in history just happen?

Billions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency have been stolen in just a matter of minutes. Researchers are already unpic

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New Scientist

Scientists confirm fruit and vegetable skin really is good for you

Parts of plants that are usually wasted, from kiwi skin to squash seeds, contain more fibre than the parts of the plant

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New Scientist

In Dark Eden, I imagined how life might exist on a sunless planet

Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, takes place on a rogue planet outside the Milky Way. Award

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New Scientist

Read an extract from Dark Eden by Chris Beckett

In this extract from Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet some of the i

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New Scientist

‘Reverse physics’ could help bridge the classical and quantum worlds

Physics is generally built on observations, then the maths that supports them comes later. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Cal

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New Scientist

The 12 strangest science stories we can’t stop thinking about

From subconscious finger sniffing to rats driving cars, New Scientist staff have reported on many weird, wild or utterly

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New Scientist

Plant biology provides inspiration for PFAS replacement

Forever chemicals are renowned for their durability and their non-stick properties, but they persist for years in the en

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New Scientist

Birds can get jet lag on long, fast flights and then fly off course

On fast flights across the Atlantic, the body clocks of Manx shearwaters get out of sync with local time, leading them t

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New Scientist

Inhaling CO2 may rescue nerves’ ability to regrow

Breathing out after birth switches off the ability of tissues to regenerate, a study in mice suggests. But the pathway s

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