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This Eye-Catching Indoor Garden Is 20 Percent Off Right Now
Many indoor hydroponic garden systems are striking showpieces for the home, but none perhaps more so than Lettuce Grow’s Farmstand. Founded by Zooey Deschanel and her ex-husband, film producer Jacob Pechenik, Lettuce Grow makes a variety of gardens, including the new no-pump-required Counterstand Set ($149), which I’m currently testing. Nothing…
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
In an Instagram video posted on April 1, lifestyle influencer Melissa Strahle poses outdoors before an American flag as soft instrumental music plays. “AI lets me focus on what matters most,” she tells her 1.4 million followers. “We need to invest in American-made AI to ensure America leads the way…
Waymo Is Trying to Crack Down on Solo Kids in Driverless Cars
By law, autonomous vehicles aren’t allowed to carry unaccompanied minors in California. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving-car company, doesn’t allow kids under 18 to ride alone anywhere outside of metro Phoenix, Arizona. But that hasn’t stopped some time-strapped parents from using their own accounts to transport their kids to school, extracurricular activities,…
Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said. “We acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of robotic intelligence designed to enable robots to understand, predict, and adapt to human behaviors in complex and dynamic environments,” a…
This one trick can massively speed up your TV’s Ethernet
As I’ve complained many times, TV makers can be stingy with specs. Despite HDMI 2.1 being available since 2017, many TVs are still stuck with HDMI 2.0 ports. There’s also no guarantee that you’ll get a TV with the fastest possible refresh rates, or USB-C, which is widespread on most…
Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell
Amjad Masad has been building Replit for a decade, but the last 18 months have been something else entirely. The AI coding assistant company went from $2.8 million in revenue in all of 2024 to tracking toward what Masad describes as a billion-dollar annual run rate. At TechCrunch’s sold-out StrictlyVC…
Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity
Musely, a direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform, has secured over $360 million in non-dilutive capital from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). The company specializes in compounded treatments for skin, hair, and menopause care. Musely co-founder and CEO, Jack Jia, told TechCrunch that when CVF investors reached out to him last year,…
Hokum is getting insane reviews and is already available on these streaming platforms
When it comes to buzzy horror films, I have to admit I was blindsided by Hokum, the new film from director Damien McCarthy (Oddity, Caveat) starring Adam Scott, which is out in theaters this weekend. The film follows a novelist named Ohm who takes a somber journey to a remote…
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
OpenAI is ready to target free users of its services with advertisements around the web, based on what it knows about them. On Thursday, OpenAI sent an email to users laying out major changes to the AI company’s privacy policy in the US. “We’ll now use cookies to promote OpenAI…