Author Archives: Techme101

How to Keep Subways and Trains Cool in an Ever Hotter World

As temperatures increase, trains and subways are becoming unendurable. Potential solutions include everything from cooling tunnels with water to painting rolling stock—but there’s no magic fix.

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Extropic Aims to Disrupt the Data Center Bonanza

A startup hopes to challenge Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with a chip that wrangles probabilities rather than ones and zeros.

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Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft sites down amid global Microsoft outage

Microsoft 365 and its Azure cloud computing platform are hit with DNS issues, similar to Amazon’s recent outage.

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Google to bring shuttered nuclear power plant back from the dead

Google is working with NextEra to reopen the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa to power the tech companies data centers.

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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker

Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of involvement.

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Microsoft hit with Azure, 365 outage ahead of quarterly earnings report

Microsoft users reported outages for Azure and 365 services a week after many customers of Amazon Web Services suffered hours of downtime.

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Nvidia hits $5T market cap without big China sales. Jim Cramer says that could change

The Investing Club holds its “Morning Meeting” every weekday at 10:20 a.m. ET.

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ElevenLabs CEO says AI audio models will be ‘commoditized’ over time

ElevenLabs’ founder Mati Staniszewski said that, in the short term, AI audio models were still the “biggest advantage and the biggest step change you can have today.”

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: How to watch the Startup Battlefield finale, Cluely, Solana, SF’s Mayor

If you’re not able to attend in person, the next best thing is to check out our livestream of the Disrupt Stage. Tune in right here starting now!

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Snowflake says exec shared unauthorized guidance in Instagram street interview

The video was posted by Instagram account “theschoolofhardknockz” and features Snowflake Chief Revenue Officer Mike Gannon.

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