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Whether you saved some cash with the Pixel 9a or went big with the Pixel 9 Pro XL, we’ve got a selection of cases—MagSafe included—to kit out your new Android phone.

If not properly managed, Windows Defender Application Control, a security feature with Windows, could be a potential security vulnerability.

When Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had acquired his social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), in an all-stock deal, it raised some eyebrows. But in many ways, the deal made sense. xAI’s chatbot, Grok, was already deeply integrated with X, X was floundering financially, and Musk needed a way to […]

Terrible color accuracy ruins what is an otherwise great budget Windows laptop.

The Smart Oven Air Fryer Compact has truly intelligent presets, and a lot of functionality in a wee device. But I wonder about the airflow.

Answers to each clue for the April 12, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Stay up to date on the latest AI technology advancements and learn about the challenges and opportunities AI presents now and for the future.

If you don’t, your flight won’t crash, but ignoring airplane mode uses up your battery and annoys the pilot.

Plus: The Department of Homeland Security begins surveilling immigrants' social media, President Donald Trump targets former CISA director who refuted his claims of 2020 election fraud, and more.

These sweats strike the perfect balance between comfort and looks.

FlashBot Arm, a semi-humanoid robot, acts more like a human than traditional robots, and you may see it working at a restaurant, healthcare center or hotel.

Plus: Nothing teases a new CMF smartphone, Specialized’s new mountain ebike starts at $8,000, and Teenage Engineering's big software update for its sampler.

Selling clothes online can be profitable, even if it's only a few items. Here's how to use Depop, Poshmark, and Mercari, plus tips on photos and selling fees.

Our Sony WF-C710N review found that much of what’s available on the flagship WF-1000XM5 is here, and for a third of the cost.

Find out how to watch "The Monkey" at home, including the Hulu streaming date and the best streaming deals.

A lifetime subscription to PDF Expert is now $139.99. Unlock powerful PDF creation and editing tools.

Through April 27, grab lifetime access to Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows — you'll get Word, Excel, and more for only $29.97 (reg. $229).

Never lose your wallet again when you get KeySmart SmartCard trackers. They're slim and work with Find My, and a three-pack is now $89.99.

The Deeper Connect Air Decentralized VPN protects your privacy on 5 devices for life.

With BitMar's powerful search engine, you can get connected to free movies, TV shows, and music from the web — get this content aggregator for only $14.99 (reg. $150) with code BITMAR5.

Mashable ranks every "Black Mirror" episode ever based on how cynical it is. "Black Mirror" Seasons 1–6 are now streaming on Netflix. New episodes arrive in April 2025.

The approximate 20 percent budget cut could force the closure of the Goddard Space Flight Center and would see projects such as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope scrapped.

"Doctor Who" Season 2 opener, "The Robot Revolution," is filled with references to classic science fiction and the show's history.

The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.

The people have spoken and this VPN works.

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

Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the puzzle.

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

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1393 on April 12 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

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

Michael Shannon is joined by Judy Greer and writer, Brett, Neveu, to discuss the making of Shannon's directorial debut, 'Eric LaRue'.

Thirteen years ago, Forerunner Ventures began helping to usher in a new era of consumer startups, including Warby Parker, Bonobos, and Glossier. None has gone through a traditional IPO process. Warby Parker was taken public through a special purpose acquisition vehicle. Bonobos was acquired by Walmart. Glossier is still privately held, along with many other […]

"Doctor Who" stars Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu try to determine whether or not their characters can defeat these iconic film/tv villains.

Earlier this week, Meta landed in hot water for using an experimental, unreleased version of its Llama 4 Maverick model to achieve a high score on a crowdsourced benchmark, LM Arena. The incident prompted the maintainers of LM Arena to apologize, change their policies, and score the unmodified, vanilla Maverick. Turns out, it’s not very […]

The Nate app promised to automate payments with AI; instead, it had human workers pulling the levers behind the scenes.

Tesla owners are looking to sell their cars in record numbers amid protests against Elon Musk and his EV car company.

On Friday, April 11, laptop makers like Dell, HP, and Lenovo reportedly halted new shipments into the United States.

Google Cloud announced a long list of impressive AI startups as customers during its Cloud Next conference this week

Banking executive and former presidential advisor Dina Powell McCormick and Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison are joining the board of Meta, according to a report from Axios. Powell McCormick spent 16 years in several leadership roles at Goldman Sachs. She also served as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald J. Trump during his […]

For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.

A group of professors specializing in copyright law has filed an amicus brief in support of authors suing Meta for allegedly training its Llama AI models on ebooks without permission. The brief, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, calls Meta’s fair use defense “a […]

Consumer tech is one of the sectors hit the hardest by Donald Trump's tariff policies. Here are the tech price hikes we've confirmed to date.

Small businesses could be crushed under President Trump’s increased tariffs, according to an open letter by 38 female consumer product founders. While Trump paused his tariff increases for 90 days for various countries – setting the rate at 10% for now  –  China’s was raised to 145%, which includes the previous 20% levy. In the […]

OpenAI is officially retiring GPT-4 and making GPT-4o the default ChatGPT model.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. If there is one certainty in this uncertain moment, it’s this: U.S. tariff policy is likely to change again. As of Friday morning, there […]

'Sacramento' stars Michael Angarano and Michael Angarano dissect their throwback wrestling scene from the film.

A court hearing on the sale of bankrupt electric truck startup Nikola’s assets to Lucid Motors was going smoothly on Friday. No objections had been filed to the transaction, and Delaware bankruptcy Judge Thomas Horan verbally approved it without hesitation. Until, that is, a lawyer piped up on the Zoom call towards the end of […]

A new ship-building startup called Blue Water Autonomy has emerged from stealth with the promise of developing captain-less naval ships. The Boston, Massachusetts-based company has raised a $14 million seed round from Eclipse VC, Riot, and Impatient Ventures. The startup was founded in 2024 by former members of the U.S. Navy, leaders of Amazon Robotics, […]

A group of ex-OpenAI employees on Friday filed a proposed amicus brief in support of Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, opposing OpenAI’s planned conversion from a non-profit to a for-profit corporation. The brief names twelve former OpenAI employees: Steven Adler, Rosemary Campbell, Neil Chowdhury, Jacob Hilton, Daniel Kokotajlo, Gretchen Krueger, Todor Markov, Richard […]

Under the Trump administration, federal authorities are declining to charge crypto firms with a range of offenses, raising questions about which rules apply—and who will enforce them.

General Motors is laying off 500 workers at a factory in Canada because of weak demand for its all-electric BrightDrop vans, according to CNBC. GM told CNBC that the cuts were not related to the ongoing trade war being waged by President Donald Trump. The company is cutting one of the two shifts at the […]

Autonomous vehicles could provide independence for the autism community. Waymo teamed up with Netflix's 'Love on the Spectrum' star to explain how.

If world events aren’t satisfying your dystopia itch, here’s WIRED’s guide to the new season of ‘Black Mirror.’

This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts look at the impacts this trade war will have on the products we all use and how you can best navigate this new normal.

ChatGPT became the world’s most downloaded app in March, excluding games, topping the usual contenders for the No. 1 spot, Instagram and TikTok. This is the first time the app has topped the monthly download charts and ChatGPT’s biggest month ever. According to new data, ChatGPT’s installs jumped 28% from February to March to reach […]

Amid Trump's trade war, Tesla stops selling two of its U.S.-made models in China.

The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

The co-op heist game 'Monaco' is back with a new sequel on PC and consoles. Read the latest on the April 2025 launch of 'Monaco 2.'

YouTube is looking into potentially offering a feature that would allow users to set a daily timer to limit how long they spend on Shorts. Recent findings from the beta version of the YouTube app, first reported by Android Authority, suggest that the platform is developing a feature to help users stop the endless scrolling […]

Microsoft's Recall feature, which takes screenshots of users' computer activity, is finally rolling out in preview to Copilot Plus PCs.

Digital payments platform Stripe invites customers to join its management team meetings on a bi-weekly basis so it can get “candid feedback,” according to co-founder Patrick Collison. In an April 8 post on X, the fintech giant’s CEO said the company has a customer join for the first 30 minutes of the meeting, which is […]

Ireland’s data regulator, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), said Friday that it has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the social media platform’s use of personal data collected from European users to train Grok. The DPC will investigate how X processes personal data “comprised” in publicly accessible posts by European users for the […]

As of April 11, the Shark FlexStyle styling and drying system is available at Amazon for just $239, down from $299.99.

As of April 11, get a like-new Amazon Fire TV Stick for 49% off at Amazon.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are likely to make tech manufacturers more risk averse—which could stymie innovation in favor of keeping costs down.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are likely to make tech manufacturers more risk averse—which could stymie innovation in favor of keeping costs down.

The business of moving goods in the United States is dominated by trucks, which handles about two-thirds of the 20.2 billion tons of freight that’s transported annually. Parallel Systems founder and CEO Matt Soule wants to change that by putting a modern autonomous and electric twist on the centuries-old railroad system.  The Los Angeles-based company […]

A recent breach of Berkshire Hathaway-owned private jet company NetJets has revealed a guide for flight attendants serving Elon Musk, per a Bloomberg report. The memo offers an interesting glimpse into the personal preferences of the world’s richest man. Some of the preferences are surprising for the CEO of Tesla, a company dedicated to sustainability. […]

Matt Rogers says Quilt is picking up where his old startup, Nest, left off.

Spotify announced on Friday that it plans to invest €1 million–or approximately $1.1 million — to boost audiobook production in languages other than English, beginning with French and Dutch. The investment indicates that Spotify is eager for more non-English titles in its limited library as it tries to compete with major players like Audible in […]

Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Jared Hess, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Hansen, Emma Myers and Torfi Frans Ólafsson sat down with Mashable to talk 'A Minecraft Movie' and how to "win at life."

As of April 11, spend $80 on P&G essentials and get $20. back at Amazon.

Today, April 11, is National Pet Day 2025. Spoil your fur baby with today's top deals from Chewy, Amazon, and more.

As of April 11, Samsung is offering a $200 credit and a free headset to those who preorder their latest 3D gaming monitor.

The best Amazon deals on April 11 include the Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+, Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus, Echo Spot, and Bose QuietComfort earbuds.

The Google Pixel 9a is available now for under $500.

As of April 11, China-based electronics company Anker has begun raising prices on their products on Amazon amid new US tariffs.

Our UK team has its own guide to the best British mattresses in a box and picks the Nectar Premier Hybrid Mattress as the best bed you can buy online.