The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worseNo other gadget knows as much about your home as a robot vacuum. They map your space, learn your routines, and many now carry a camera and microphone into every room in your house. As AI gives them a better understanding of what they see, the privacy and security risks these autonomous robots pose are only growing.That’s why greater...

SpaceX, Explained: 8 Things That Matter the Most After the IPO SpaceX could end up in your retirement account next. Cheng Xin/Getty ImagesWhen SpaceX's initial public offering debuted on June 12, it broke a Wall Street record as the highest-valued IPO in financial history, raising over $75 billion in cold, hard cash. The Frankensteined amalgamation of Elon Musk's aerospace and AI ventures is...

Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise Benchmark Capital, the storied Silicon Valley VC firm known for early investments in eBay, Snap, Uber, and Twitter, is breaking with one of its signature traditions: keeping its funds to about $425 million and backing only young startups. After more than two decades of restricting its vehicles to that amount or lower, the...

Will Le Pen rise again? French nationalist leader defiant after court's rulingFrance is waking up bleary-eyed on Wednesday, with many still incredulous at the political uproar triggered by right-wing nationalist figurehead Marine Le Pen the night before.Within hours of a court of appeal in Paris confirming her guilty verdict for misuse of public funds, she not only defiantly announced she would...

In Lebanon, more than 50 medics have been killed by Israel. Some say they're targeted Mourners hold a portrait of Youssef Assaf, a Lebanese Red Cross volunteer paramedic who was killed during a rescue mission in southern Lebanon, at his funeral in Tyre on March 11....