{ "entity": "NewsChannels", "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture", "domain": "newschannels.net", "vertical": "Technology", "count": 18, "generated_at": "2026-10-17T05:08:49.189Z", "articles": [ { "title": "Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/mark-wahlberg-wants-to-take-on-the-longevity-startup-crowd-with-an-affordable-gym-concept/", "summary": "Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises you’ll get a cold plunge, a blood panel and a protein muffin without needing a trust fund.", "source": "techcrunch.com", "published": "Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:36:18 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "The Leap Second Is No More", "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/leap-second-is-abolished-bipm-says/", "summary": "The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. 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Both the company and she say she never worked there.", "source": "wired.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:05:08 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Porsche’s electric Macan Turbo is an automotive existential crisis", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/porsches-electric-macan-turbo-is-an-automotive-existential-crisis/", "summary": "The 2026 Porsche Macan Turbo EV is a two-row crossover with 630 horsepower and a 100-kilowatt-hour battery.", "source": "techcrunch.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:40:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists", "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/chicago-area-cops-helped-hsi-spy-on-minnesota-anti-ice-activists/", "summary": "Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.", "source": "wired.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:21:54 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/india-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity/", "summary": "The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.", "source": "techcrunch.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:52:24 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Here’s Exactly How Tesla Made Its New 230-Mph Car ‘Fly’", "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/how-tesla-made-its-new-230-mph-car-fly/", "summary": "It turns out the Roadster 2 both sucks and blows.", "source": "wired.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:30:12 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/video/a-nvidia-insider-turned-vc-on-why-robotics-hasnt-hit-its-chatgpt-moment-yet/", "summary": "Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt.  This view runs coun", "source": "techcrunch.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Razer Barracuda V2 Pro Review: A Gaming Headset for the Office", "url": "https://www.wired.com/review/razer-barracuda-v2-pro/", "summary": "The Razer Barracuda V2 Pro headset has a place in the office as well as at your gaming battle station.", "source": "wired.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Thank Gen Z for the ‘Girls’ Revival", "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/thank-gen-z-for-the-girls-revival/", "summary": "The HBO series served as a stand-in for everything wrong with white millennial women during its original run. Then Gen Z started watching.", "source": "wired.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:21:38 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Waymo’s robotaxis are headed to Canada", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/waymos-robotaxis-are-headed-to-canada/", "summary": "The company will start off by testing its self-driving vehicles on Toronto's streets.", "source": "techcrunch.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:06:38 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/elorians-first-ai-model-wants-to-reason-with-images-not-just-about-them/", "summary": "According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.", "source": "techcrunch.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:01:37 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Tressfecta wants to make hair braiding a less arduous task for hairstylists", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/tressfecta-wants-to-make-hair-braiding-a-less-arduous-task-for-hairstylists/", "summary": "Tressfecta builds products for textured hair. Its first project is a tool called Plait Pilot that helps braiders with the initial process of separating hair from packs before braiding begins.", "source": "techcrunch.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes meets her equal in comedian Nathan Fielder", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/in-you-can-see-everything-elizabeth-holmes-meets-her-equal-in-comedian-nathan-fielder/", "summary": "Nathan Fielder's documentary about disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has created a constellation of colliding personas that interrogate the very nature of authenticity.", "source": "techcrunch.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/jev-is-vercels-fastest-adopted-ai-model-ever/", "summary": "The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.", "source": "techcrunch.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:33:49 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push", "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-is-almost-single-handedly-funding-the-republicans-midterms-push/", "summary": "Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.", "source": "wired.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:25:18 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’", "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/maybe-chatbots-shouldnt-get-to-say-i-or-me/", "summary": "MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.", "source": "wired.com", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000", "image": null } ] }