Innovation
Meet Your New Favorite ‘Game of Thrones’ Character in This ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Featurette
He’s Ser Duncan the Tall—but if, like Dexter Sol Ansell’s pint-sized Egg in this new featurette for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, you’ve never heard of him, you...
New Records Reveal the Mess RFK Jr. Left When He Dumped a Dead Bear in Central Park
At this point, it’s useful to examine what precisely Kennedy said about the incident in his August 2024 video, in which he is speaking with, for some reason, Roseanne...
Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation | TechCrunch
Articul8, an enterprise AI company spun out of Intel in early 2024, has secured more than half of a planned $70 million funding round at a $500 million pre-money...
Ikea Will Soon Sell an Adorable, Tiny, Surprisingly Nice-Sounding Bluetooth Speaker for $10
At CES 2026, Ikea spent its first-ever time at the tech event showing off a number of new products, including a new Bluetooth speaker it calls the Kallsup. It’s...
Oh No! A Free Scale That Tells Me My Stress Levels and Body Fat
I will admit to being afraid of scales—the kind that weigh you, not the ones on a snake. And so my first reaction to the idea I'd be getting...
Almost 80 European deep tech university spinouts reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025 | TechCrunch
Universities and research labs have long been Europe’s deep tech treasure trove. Now, academic spinouts have consolidated into a solid startup funnel worth $398 billion — and VC money...
‘Predator: Badlands’ Is Coming Home Next Week
It’s been a great year for Predator, between the animated epic Killer of Killers and Badlands‘s team-up action making it one of our favorite films of the year. But if you were...
Tips for Keeping a Digital Diary and Why You Should
Keeping a daily diary doesn't come easily to most people, but it takes less effort than you might imagine. It could also become a meaningful way to reflect and...
Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about | TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg has struck again. Meta Platforms is acquiring Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup that’s become the talk of Silicon Valley since it materialized this spring with a demo...
Samsung’s New Wi-Fi Speaker Has Big Monolith Energy
It’s not every day that a common Wi-Fi speaker manages to pique your interest, but Samsung is at least trying to spice things up with its new Music Studio...
