Nintendo’s Talking Flower got a small price cut
If you’re the type of person who could always use a little extra positive affirmation, or you have a weakness for weird gadgets, t...
FL Studio head Constantin Koehncke turns to Reddit for ...
If you're a music maker of a certain age, then you probably once dabbled with a pirated copy of a little app called Fruity Loops. ...
Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confiden...
Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained duri...
Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘inter...
Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconvention...
Less is more with the Oura Ring 5
If you're reading an Oura Ring 5 review at The Verge, you likely fall into one of two camps: newcomers looking for a smartwatch al...
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.
Blue Prince became a bonding — and learning — experienc...
I've always been the gamer in the family. When my son was born nearly 11 years ago, gaming was one of the things I looked forward ...
Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than hi...
When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was stil...
Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate cre...
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice know...
One of SteelSeries’ best gaming headsets is over $100 o...
SteelSeries has the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless gaming headset on sale for $239.99 (currently between $300 and $350 at other retailer...
Smart glasses without a camera? Even Realities bets pro...
The glasses are targeted at people who might be constantly in meetings, giving presentations, and traveling to countries where dif...
Oregon’s Attorney General withdraws effort to delay Par...
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield had been seeking documents from Paramount related to its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. ...
White House taps the guy who keeps crying ‘aliens’ to r...
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will head the UAP Science Advisory Council established by the White House, the Pentagon, the Offic...
After years of teasing, the viral Nopia synth is ‘basic...
After setting the music gear corner of the internet on fire back in 2023 with the first glimpse at the Nopia, creators Martin Grie...
How Philips Hue got the smart home right
The state of the smart home can be frustrating, because it is just so obvious how things ought to work. You should be able to cont...
US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident ...
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted hi...
ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers
Donald Trump's Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federa...
OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into hou...
ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job ...
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram afte...
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced...
This slushie machine was a lifesaver during NYC’s heat ...
Last weekend’s brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating throu...
The fight against AI data centers is just beginning
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the data center build...