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AI can help your team move faster — but only if your team knows how to move together. Join Jeff Chow, chief product and technology officer at Miro, for a roundtable sessions at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station, where he’ll break down how product-led innovation can supercharge collaborative problem-solving. This session is titled “Building Team Intelligence: How Product-Led Innovation Transforms Collaborative Problem-Solving” and is built for founders, product leaders, and startup teams looking to work smarter in the age of AI. From startups to scale-ups, how your team thinks together may be more important…

The chairman of U.K. retail giant Marks & Spencer declined to tell a panel of lawmakers whether the company paid a hacking group following a ransomware attack earlier this year.   “We’ve said that we are not discussing any of the details of our interaction with the threat actor,” said chairman Archie Norman, referring to the ransom payment. “We don’t think it’s in the public interest to go into that subject partly because it is a matter of law enforcement.” Norman said that “nobody” at Marks & Spencer interacted directly with the cybercriminals, which he attributed to the ransomware gang DragonForce.…

CNN  —  (CNN) – The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most remarkable stories in the service’s history. More than 80 years ago, the crew of the USS New Orleans, having been hit by a Japanese torpedo and losing scores of sailors, performed hasty repairs with coconut logs, before an 1,800-mile voyage across the Pacific in reverse. The front of the ship, or the bow, had sunk to the sea floor. But over the weekend, the Nautilus Live expedition from the Ocean…

The team at Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based AI video-generation startup, doesn’t think you can prompt your way to making a movie. That’s why the company on Tuesday opened up its “3D-aware” model to the public, promising a “hybrid” approach that gives filmmakers more control than other standard text-to-video models.  Moonvalley first launched its model, named Marey, in beta in March and has now released it as a monthly credits-based subscription. Users can pay $14.99 for 100 credits, $34.99 for 250 credits, and $149.99 for 1,000 credits. Users can generate clips up to five seconds long, which is in line with…

With the Belly Laughs Festival, an ambitious Asian American and Pacific Islander-centered comedy festival, the food is as important as the talent line-up. Every detail is intended to send a message of unabashed cultural pride.“It’s like we grew up kind of shying away and hiding our Asian-ness,” said Viv Wang, a volunteer festival producer with Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, or CAPE, who helped conceive the idea for the event. “It just made a lot of sense to have comedy and food — these two ways that people can connect and just celebrate being Asian and having a place…

We’re excited to welcome Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, to the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 in San Francisco. In a featured fireside chat, Staniszewski will dive into how AI-powered voice technology is transforming digital communication and interaction. Takeaways that blend technical depth with business impact ElevenLabs is leading innovation in audio AI, building tools that make synthetic voices more natural, expressive, and accessible. As generative AI becomes central to product development, Staniszewski’s insights will offer a valuable look into the future of voice, personalization, and human-AI interaction. Before founding ElevenLabs, Staniszewski served…

Geneva, Switzerland AP  —  Rescuers are hailing as a “four-legged hero” a furry Chihuahua whose pacing atop an Alpine rock helped a helicopter crew find its owner, who had fallen into a crevasse on a Swiss glacier nearby. The man, who was not identified, was exploring the Fee Glacier in southern Switzerland on Friday when he broke through a snow bridge and fell nearly 8 meters (about 26 feet), according to Air Zermatt, a rescue, training and transport company. Equipped with a walkie-talkie, the man connected with a person nearby who relayed the accident to emergency services. But the exact…

TOKYO (AP) — Their morning starts at 5 a.m.The father and son don’t speak to each other. They don’t need to. They barely look at each other as they go briskly, almost mechanically, from task to task. Beads of sweat glisten on their foreheads.It’s the same work they’ve been doing at their shop for years: Cooking in big metal pots the ancient Japanese food tsukudani.It’s preserved food invented long before the advent of modern refrigeration, dating back to the samurai Edo Era more than 200 years ago.Pieces of tuna, tiny shrimp, seaweed and other ingredients get simmered in a sweet…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Results from a union member vote on a tentative contract between video game performers and their employers are expected Wednesday evening.If ratified, the contract would formally end a nearly three-year-long effort from Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists negotiators to obtain a new contract for video game performers. The process, which included an 11-month strike against several major game makers, hinged on how artificial intelligence would affect performers in the industry.If approved, the agreement will deliver pay raises, control over performers’ likenesses and artificial intelligence protections. The contract was first reached in early…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 11:20 AM ET, Tue July 8, 2025 The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s newest ship, Luminara, has set sail on its maiden voyage.On July 3, the vessel departed from Monte Carlo on a 7-night voyage to Rome, with stops in Cannes, Livorno and Portofino. Luminara joins Evrima and Ilma in The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s fleet. “Welcoming Luminara to our fleet reflects our continued focus on thoughtful expansion and innovation,” says Ernesto Fara, president of The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection. “This launch brings together years of collaboration and intentional design to deliver a yacht that sets a new benchmark…