Daze, a creative, AI-powered messaging app for Gen Z, is blowing up prelaunch

Daze, a creative, AI-powered messaging app for Gen Z, is blowing up prelaunch

On TikTok, Daze’s most popular video has been viewed 8 million times. Across TikTok and Instagram, the startup behind a new messaging app aimed at Gen Z, has seen around 48 million combined views. Pre-launch, the app’s waitlist is already bursting with roughly 156,000 signups. Driving the demand for this next-generation alternative to iMessage and … Read more

Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Finally Published

Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Finally Published

An anonymous reader shares a report: Fans of literature most likely know Kurt Vonnegut for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The staunchly anti-war book first resonated with readers during the Vietnam War era, later becoming a staple in high school curricula the world over. When Vonnegut died in 2007 at the age of 84, he was widely … Read more

AMD is finally recognizing that Ryzen 9000 is too expensive

AMD is finally recognizing that Ryzen 9000 is too expensive

AMD is finally cutting prices on its Ryzen 9000 CPUs. After teasing that its long-awaited Ryzen 7 9800X3D will arrive in November, the company revealed that it’ll be slashing prices on its existing Ryzen 9000 range by anywhere from $30 to $50 each. Combined with some impressive performance updates, AMD’s latest chips have a better … Read more

DJI Tells US It’s Not a Military Company

DJI Tells US It’s Not a Military Company

Drone maker DJI is dragging the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to court because it feels the government has labeled it a Chinese military company without evidence. “DJI is the largest privately owned seller of consumer and commercial drones, which are used by police departments, fire departments, other first responders, large and small companies, and … Read more

CHIPS Act: This Startup Shows Why It’s Needed

CHIPS Act: This Startup Shows Why It’s Needed

There’s a certain sameness to spaces meant for tech startups: flexible cubicle arrangements, glass-encased executive offices, whiteboard walls awaiting equations and ideas, basement laboratories for the noisier and more dangerous parts of the process. In some ways the home of Ideal Semiconductor on the campus of Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, Penn., is just like that. … Read more