Google acquired the site through a subsidiary in 2023. In May last year, it applied for permission to build a data center campus there. When locals caught wind, they coordinated with national wildlife and environmental groups and began to kick up a fuss. Of the 1,000 responses submitted by members…
Welcome to Weed Island | WIRED
Currently, 90 percent of Jersey’s cannabis production comes from Northern Leaf. In 2025, the company exported £8.4 million ($11.3 million) worth of medical marijuana to markets including the UK and Germany (regulations mean it is only permitted to grow for export and cannot sell to customers in Jersey). Tan has…
Is Jensen Huang’s job on the line? Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld estimates it’s “about a 50-50”
Nvidia’s board announced Sunday that it’s launching an independent investigation after CEO Jensen Huang told staff he was unfaithful to his wife. But this isn’t a case of just another CEO having an extramarital affair. The romantic interest is Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whom U.S. officials believe is a Chinese…
TechCrunch Mobility: The Cybertruck experiment is over
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Almost seven years ago, while clutching a laptop, my phone,…
Sequoia partners reportedly blindsided when Roelof Botha joined SpaceX board
Sequoia Capital announced some major changes this week, including the closure of its London office, the merger of its early-stage and growth teams, and the end of its Scouts program. Now, the Financial Times has published a report painting all of this as an attempt to undo the legacy of…
Coordinated disturbances haunt grids worldwide. Here’s how researchers solved the mystery.
For years, mysterious electrical anomalies have been flummoxing grid managers around the world. Every 60 seconds, the frequency on the grid would drop a tiny bit. Even weirder: The sags happened at the exact same time on power grids across countries and continents. It was a mystery that Dirk Witthaut,…
A touchscreen MacBook Air would be the worst thing Apple could make right now
After years of waiting, Apple has finally released its first touchscreen laptop on November 6, 2026, with its latest MacBook Pro model. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was notoriously opposed to touchscreen laptops, but the company hasn’t been afraid in recent years to step outside its typical ecosystem with various…
If Snap’s Specs are still ridiculously expensive, they’re also a lot more comfortable than they used to be
When I tried a prototype of Snap’s Specs at CES in Las Vegas earlier this year, the experience left something to be desired. The company’s AR glasses — which the company calls a “new kind of computer” — were heavy (they weighed around 8 ounces) and fit rather uncomfortably on…
What do physical media fans mean when they talk about the ‘ritual’?
Being a physical media nerd isn’t without its challenges. On the one hand, science is on our side. There are genuine, research-backed reasons to believe that physical media promotes greater engagement with a piece of content than streaming and digital downloads allow for. On the other hand, if you try…
Apps to distract you from the endless cycle of doomscrolling
You open your phone to check the time or a quick message. The next thing you know, an hour has passed and you’ve scrolled through endless celebrity drama, cat videos, awful news stories, influencer rants, and whatever else the algorithm decided to throw at you. Even though you probably don’t…