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The Tampa disappeared in 1918 with 131 British and American personnel and civilians aboard. It was the largest single American naval combat loss of life in World War I

Plus: Is it insane to refuse a raise?

Generation X-ers and others shared stories of family crises, and we asked experts how to think about living longer than you expect.

We rounded up the best new Lego sets available to purchase as of May 1, including a Lewis Hamilton helmet and Cristiano Ronaldo themed-set.

The Joel Schumacher cult classic gets a rock-and-roll revamp. (Get it? Vamp. Because they're vampires.)

The DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo is on sale for $1,099 at Amazon, saving you $500 on list price.

How to get free iPhone. Get the Apple iPhone 17 for free from T-Mobile when you switch and bring your number on an Experience Beyond or Better Value plan.

Upgrade your AI workflow with a lifetime subscription to 1min.AI's Advanced Business Plan.

Bring home this Apple MacBook Pro for only $429.97.

Save on Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business with this lifetime license deal, now $99.97 (reg. $249.99) for a limited time.

Here are the major differences in how AFF and FetLife cater for kinks. Comparison of sex-positive communities.

NASA's 2028 Dragonfly mission will explore Saturn moon Titan with an aircraft rather than a rover. Here's why flying beats driving.

From "House of the Dragon" and "Ted Lasso" to "Spider-Noir" and "Lanterns," here's what's coming to TV this summer.

The 152nd Kentucky Derby is Saturday, May 2, 2026. Here's how to watch it live (and maybe for free).

Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.

Spirit once upended the industry by offering very low fares but was in its second bankruptcy in two years after years of struggle.

High fuel costs are imperiling the Japanese sento, a long-declining industry that remains a vital social lifeline for the country’s isolated elderly.

Hints and answers to today's Hurdle all in one place.

See the Moon phase expected for May 2, 2026 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected.

Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle.

The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1778 on May 2 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

Stop using AI for $20 tasks — use it to make $500 decisions (not for content, for growth)

Talks with bondholders for a government bailout this week failed to yield a deal.

At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, is Replit also bound to sell?

The DTC skin, hair, and and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

The company is breaking from its longstanding policy of releasing movies exclusively on its streaming service.

The company received reports that the stoppers on some of its products had “forcefully ejected,” striking customers and causing permanent vision loss in a few cases, safety regulators said.

Samsung Galaxy Book 6 Ultra packs premium specs for creators. See if it can compete with the MacBook Pro.

Your product pages should be your strongest SEO asset, but for most e-commerce brands they’re the weakest — thanks to five overlooked mistakes.

A long-standing barrier to stock day trading is falling, potentially reshaping who can participate — and how markets behave.

A major airline is on the precipice as Spirit Airlines stares down bankruptcy.

Friendster has been relaunched roughly 24 years after it first debuted as one of the first social networking websites.

I ignored the warnings and bet big on Puerto Rico in 2014. Here's what it taught me about contrarian bets, real asset value and the power of showing up.

Oil prices have soared on the risk of escalation and then plunged on hopes for peace before repeating the cycle.

Julia Huang is the founder and CEO Intertrend Communications, which prides itself on being “the Most Award-Winning Result Driven Asian American Advertising Agency.” The company was launched in 1991, “before ‘multicultural marketing‘ was even considered a serious growth category,” Huang told Entrepreneur. Here she breaks down the launch and growth of her company, and how […]

Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.

The lawsuit focuses on remarks made by Ms. Owens, a right-wing podcaster, about Mr. Kirk’s killing, highlighting a growing tension among factions of the American right.

Investing in employee well-being is no longer optional — it's a competitive advantage in today's business landscape.

The JPMorgan Chase CEO says the solution to this problem is eliminating people who favor processes over results.

Learn about the importance of sharpening the human edge in the AI era.

During President Trump’s second term, the disaster declarations that unlock money are taking longer than in the past. Blue states wait the longest and they hear ‘no’ more often.

The Supreme Court struck down Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs earlier this year, and Europe warned that its trade deal with Washington could be in jeopardy.

On its quarterly earnings call, Apple said revenue growth in the current quarter would be between 14% and 17%, well above analysts' estimates.

The race to near-weightlessness has been a driving force of innovation in running sneakers and helped lead to records shattering at the London Marathon.

ADT confirms a new data breach exposing customer names, phone numbers and addresses. The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claims it stole millions of records.

Commodity tokenization is emerging as a practical bridge between capital and the physical constraints shaping the next generation of industries.

The deals come as the DoD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.

OpenAI published a blog post explaining why a recent ChatGPT model was so obsessed with working goblins into answers.

Bitcoin surged in April, but its run could be on shaky ground, according to CryptoQuant.

The low-fare airline, which has struggled for years, had been trying to secure a $500 million lifeline from the Trump administration.

Fidelity and Vanguard’s donor-advised fund entities have taken similar actions in the wake of a Justice Department indictment of the civil rights group.

Nonprofit groups have applauded an investigation on trade in goods made with forced labor but say that the Trump administration should go further to enforce its own laws

The price of Brent crude, the international benchmark, dipped more than 2 percent a day after it rose above $120 a barrel in volatile trading.

Patients with one of the deadliest cancers have been pleading for an unapproved treatment that may prolong their lives.

The fast-food chain Taco Bell beat Wall Street expectations while its parent company, Yum! Brands, explores selling Pizza Hut.

Spotify announces new verification tools to help listeners determine whether or not a profile or song is AI-generated, including badges and expanded artist information.

The U.K. is now running a trade deficit with its largest trading partner.

How Doug Evans went from a Silicon Valley failure to Shark Tank rockstar with his new startup The Sprouting Company.

The best gaming monitor deals to shop this weekend, including Alienware, ASUS, and LG models. Save up to $400 on our top picks.

In a study, Australian cockatoos figured out that a new food was OK to consume by observing one another, a vivid example of “social learning” in animals.

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system.

A state law that goes into effect in October prohibits grocery stores and third-party delivery services from using consumer data to boost prices.

Save on Samsung, Hisense, and Toshiba 4K TVs this weekend at Amazon. Get a 65-inch Samsung for $730 off.

Using AI as a way to avoid doing work could cause your career to stall, Cuban said.

Anthropic built an AI model called Mythos so effective at finding software vulnerabilities that the company decided it is too dangerous for public release.

Sam "Señor Tilt" Kiki, CEO of MonkeyTilt, shares his strategies for winning millions at the table and building venture-backed companies.

Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the […]

The next era of business will not reward the loudest founders, but the ones who treat capital, credibility and governance like long-term strategy.

Energy markets remained disrupted by turmoil in the Middle East, while the S&P 500 posted its best month since November 2020.

As of May 1, the Lego Botanicals Pretty Pink Flower Bouquet is on sale for $47.99 at Amazon. This is 20% off its list price of $59.99.

Amazon has the ASUS TUF Gaming 27-inch 1440p monitor on sale for $199, saving you $100 on a 300Hz QHD display.

The nation is escaping production quotas that capped output at 3.2 million barrels a day.

The agreements with six technology companies come amid the Defense Department’s dispute with Anthropic.

A 10 percent tax on American imports was hurting British sales, even though exporters had increased sales in India, China and other countries.

The app now lets you practice speaking words and phrases in Spanish, English, and Hindi — and scores your pronunciation.

The average bill is forecast to rise 8.5 percent. There are simple ways to make sure you’re not overpaying, like getting your air-conditioning checked.

"Animal Farm" director Andy Serkis breaks down his George Orwell adaptation, including why he added a new character: piglet Lucky.

The DOD announced it has entered into agreements with seven other AI companies.

Quietly, shares of Google-parent Alphabet are on the verge of topping $5 trillion, and overtaking AI-leader Nvidia as the world's most valuable company.

Sam Altman suggested it would be released more widely than a rival offering from Anthropic. Some are suggesting it’s because OpenAI has more computing power.

The Federal Reserve’s meeting this week was the most divisive in decades, a sign that President Trump’s pick to lead the central bank will face opposition if he pursues substantially lower interest rates.

The company saw a 30% year-on-year jump in the number of people using search every week, CEO Steve Huffman said on Thursday.

Watch Unitree's G1 humanoid robot glide on rollerblades and ice skates, pulling off spins and flips while staying perfectly balanced in real time.

“FX intervention will only get them so far,” one strategist said after the yen surged.

March saw many chip stocks drop amid concerns over the AI buildout, but their fortunes have reversed in April.

Save $24.71 on the MTG Secrets of Strixhaven Play Booster Box at Amazon, now $139.99 for 30 packs.

Will the rising tide of A.I. adoption lift all boats?

As of May 1, the ASUS V16 Gaming Laptop is on sale for $1,099.99 at Amazon, 15% off its list price of $1,299.99.

Oil prices were depressed during the first two months of the year, but suddenly spiked after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.

American producers are under pressure from investors to keep spending in check, and they are wary of drilling more wells because they are not sure oil prices will stay high.

"The Daily Show" host Josh Johnson responded to the Supreme Court's latest ruling to gut the Voting Rights Act.

Preorder the Pokémon TCG Chaos Rising Build & Battle Box for $59.99 at Amazon, $4.39 under TCGplayer market price.

The advisory panel wasn't convinced that a clinical trial proved that early switching to camizestrant improved long-term survival rates.

Find the best Garmin deal. Save 20% on the Garmin Forerunner 165 at Amazon.

Get the best Dyson deal on Amazon. Save 22% on the Dyson Supersonic Nural at Amazon.

Get the best deal on earbuds for running. Save 31% on the SHOKZ OpenRun Pro at Amazon.

As of May 1, Bose QuietComfort headphones have dropped to $199 at Amazon. This is 45% off their list price of $359.