Xprize founder Peter Diamandis launches new contest to manifest a new Star Trek   As any “Star Trek” fan will tell you, the reason why this sci fi world has endured for so long is because it illustrates an optimistic future, with tech starring as a power for good.  In fact, famed XPrize founder, author, tech investor, motivational speaker and longevity guru Peter Diamandis has just...

Apple Price Increase: How Much Every iPad, Mac and Home Device Costs NowIt's a bad day for folks looking to upgrade their Apple devices anytime soon. The $4 trillion tech company announced on Thursday that it is raising prices on a wide range of products, from iPads to Macs and home devices.One of the bigger sticker shocks is with the MacBook Neo. Released earlier this year, Apple touted...

Samsung Health App Gets AI Upgrade Before Rumored Galaxy Watch 9 LaunchAhead of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 release rumored to be happening this summer, Samsung announced new feature updates to its Samsung Health App, which will start rolling out on June 8. The Samsung Health App will have new biometric capabilities that use AI to make it easier to understand complex biometric data and...

In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips Cloud data storage giant Snowflake has signed a new $6 billion five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services, the companies announced on Wednesday. Snowflake has always run on AWS, though obviously, these days, it is also available on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. For comparison on just how big this deal is for...

Anthropic's New Claude Tag Acts as a Virtual Coworker in SlackYour average Slack bot -- an automated assistant you can tag in a Slack conversation -- works like this: You tag the bot. It responds. That's it. Artificial intelligence company Anthropic, which owns the AI chatbot and assistant Claude, wants to deepen that Slack conversation with a new feature called Claude Tag. The idea is that...