2026-05-01

Apollo Sports Capital is pouring $225 million into pickleball's parent company

The raise values Pickleball Inc. at $750 million and brings total investment in the company to $315 million [...]

2026-05-01

The Next Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Will Take More Than Just Science

At WIRED Health, pioneering Alzheimer's researcher John Hardy outlined the stakes—and next steps—of where treatment is headed next. [...]

2026-05-01

Meta missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids

Lerrel Pinto co-founded Fauna Robotics, a startup that built an approachable bipedal robot called Sprout. He left in 2025. Amazon acquired Fauna in March, along with its 50 employees and its $50,000, three-and-a-half-foot-tall dancing humanoid, to enter the consumer robotics market. Pinto then co-founded Assured Robot Intelligence with Xiaolong Wang, a former Nvidia researcher and associate […] [...]

2026-05-01

The 8 Best Apps for Renters

Keeping track of rent due dates, scheduling apartment maintenance, even figuring out how to split utilities with roommates – when it comes to renting, there are plenty of chores on your to-do list. Thankfully, these days, there’s an app for everything. I’ve rounded up a list of the top 8 apps to help busy renters […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-05-01

There's already a way to mount your smartphone to a Steam Controller

Just don't expect it to work with many iOS or Android apps yet. [...]

2026-05-01

Spirited away? Airline, internet react to airlines possible closure

A major airline is on the precipice as Spirit Airlines stares down bankruptcy. [...]

2026-05-01

Definitely not your usual EV: China begins sea trial for world's largest electric ship — Ning Yuan Dian Kun is longer than a football field, weighs 10,000 tons, and uses 10 container batteries with a total 19MWh capacity

A Chinese electric cargo ship with 19 megawatt hours of batteries is completing trials, combining large-scale energy storage and automation. [...]

2026-05-01

Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day

The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root. [...]

2026-05-01

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China. [...]