Timef 04/15/2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting everyone’s Facebook friends in an effort to boost the social network’s cultural relevance. This “potentially crazy idea,” as the exec called it at the time, was revealed on Monday as a part of the evidence introduced during the first day of the U.S. government’s antitrust trial against Meta. […]

Even if gadget prices surge, we have plenty of cheaper options, like buying last year’s phone model instead of the latest and greatest.

As of April 15, get the Ninja Slushi for $110 off at Woot

A Cinderella horror story you won't want to miss, "The Ugly Stepsister" is coming to theaters April 18.

The application to speak at TechCrunch All Stage closes this Friday, April 18 — don’t miss your chance to share hard-won insights with 1,200+ startup founders and VCs. If you’ve been in the trenches and cracked tough growth problems, now’s the time to step up and share your scaling strategies onstage at TC All Stage, […]

Notion released Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client for Gmail that integrates with the rest of Notion’s workflow management platform, on Tuesday. Notion Mail connects to Notion users’ Gmail accounts and uses AI to help users organize their emails, draft responses, schedule meetings, and search across messages. Any Notion user can sign up, and Notion […]

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The BoseQuietComfort headphones are down to $229 at Amazon, saving you $120. Shop them at Amazon for their lowest price of the year.

The highly-awaited LG C5 OLED TV came out on March 11, 2025 — and it's already on sale at Best Buy. Save $200 on the 55-, 65-, and 75-inch models.

As of April 15, get a pair of Sony XM5 earbuds for $179 at Target.

The 24-inch Apple iMac desktop (M3, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is on sale for $1,099.00 at Best Buy. That's $500 off.

'Fortnite' experienced a server outage on Tuesday, April 15, but there's nothing to worry about.

PowerA’s premium Xbox controller has excellent party tricks.

Microsoft patches 12 critical flaws, but six have already been exploited by criminals. Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says updating your system is only a short-term fix.

A $100 Instacart gift card is on sale at Amazon for just $85. That's a 15% discount.

Lucid has spent years working on its second EV — a plush van-like SUV designed to be the category killer that could take market share from the likes of other luxury EV and internal combustion people haulers like the Rivian R1S, Cadillac Escalade IQ, BMW X7, and Audi Q8. The Saudi-backed company’s aim was to […]

This adventurous vegan meal kit requires some elbow grease, but it’s (mostly) worth it.

Hexium has emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding.

The science fiction trope of humans superpowered by computer and bionic implants is fast becoming a reality, and today, a startup hoping for a role in how that plays out is announcing some funding.  Phantom Neuro, which is developing a wristband-like device that gets implanted under the skin to let a person control prosthetic limbs, […]

When it rains, it pours. Here are our picks for cold, wet days—plus expert tips on deciphering product specs.

Whether you’re doing ab crunches or pressing play on the next episode, these leggings are built for every kind of marathon.

As of April 15, the AirPods Max (USB-C) are on sale at Best Buy for $479.99. Normally they're listed for $549.99, so you're saving $70.

Up your home espresso-making game with these WIRED-tested foam makers.

The new Polaroid Flip comes loaded with features to help bring some much-needed reliability to instant photography—without making it sterile.

Jamison Wagner was also charged with an alleged arson attack on the New Mexico Republican Party’s office.

In the wake of criticism over the underwhelming performance of its AI products, especially in areas like notification summaries, Apple on Monday detailed how it is trying to improve its AI models by analyzing user data privately with the aid of synthetic data. Using an approach called “differential privacy,” the company said it would first […]

As of April 15, the JBL Xtreme 4 portable speaker is on sale at Best Buy for $299.99. Normally it's listed for $379.99, so you're saving $80.

AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities. Here’s what they do and how you can turn them off if you prefer.

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson discusses how robots can milk, feed and clean cows on dairy farms, boosting efficiency and comfort.

Uber is inviting customers in Atlanta to join a list if they’re interested in hailing a Waymo robotaxi as the companies prepare to launch a commercial service in the city. Uber and Waymo last September announced plans to offer a robotaxi service in Austin and Atlanta in early 2025 as part of an expanded partnership. […]

As of April 15, the 13-inch Apple iPad Air (M2, WiFi, 128GB) is on sale at Best Buy for $699. Normally it's listed for $799, so you're saving $100.

As of April 15, Lepro N1 AI Smart RGB Rope Lights (9.84ft) are on sale for $44.99 at Amazon, down from $59.99 — a 25% discount.

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

As of April 15, Lepro B2 AI Smart LED Bulbs (2-pack) are on sale for $15.99 at Amazon, down from $27.99 — a 43% discount.

Jon Stewart has broken down how authoritarian a leader Trump is during Monday's "The Daily Show".

As of April 15, Lepro O1 AI Smart LED Floor Lamp is on sale for $86.39 at Amazon, down from $159.99 with coupon and code.

Libertarians have long looked at ocean living as the next frontier. Some wealthy men are testing the waters.

There’s still a 145 percent tariff on China, and sex toys aren’t part of the electronics exemption.

The structural biologist, who has devoted his life to studying the processes behind aging, discusses the surprising things he has learned and the public misunderstandings about longevity.

TikTok creators are sharing their recession hacks as economic turmoil looms.

Launch an online business easily with the AI-powered platform Sellful, a white-label website builder and software, now $399 (reg. $1,497) for life.

If you still haven't filed your taxes, take advantage of this deal on H&R Block Tax Software and file your state and federal returns for $32.99 (reg. $59) with code FILEEASY through April 27.

Score a powerful 13.3-inch MacBook Air for a fraction of the usual cost at just $499.99 (reg. $1,499).

"Black Mirror"s Jimmi Simpson speaks to Mashable about playing a tech billionaire in "USS Callister" and "USS Callister: Into Infinity."

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture a detailed image of the planetary nebula NGC 1514, where a large star is growing old and shedding gas into the cosmos.

A recap of the stories and matches leading into WWE's WrestleMania 41 show in Las Vegas, Nevada

Save 28% on the Echo Show 5 at Amazon.

Save 25% on the Google Pixel 9 Pro at Amazon.

Save 19% on the Kindle Scribe at Amazon.

Answers to each clue for the April 15, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Reshma Saujani, founder of the non-profit Girls Who Code, got straight to the point.  “If I had applied to be the CEO of Girls Who Code, I wouldn’t have gotten the job,” she told Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on the latest episode of the duchess’ podcast, “Confessions of a Female Founder.” “I didn’t code,” Saujani […]

The second major meteor shower of the year starts today and peaks on the night of April 21–22. Here’s everything you need to know to watch it and the many other showers that will appear in 2025.

U.K. startup Marshmallow has blown up over the years by using innovations in data science to build car insurance policies for immigrants and other consumers who have been overlooked or priced out of traditional insurance. Now, with a million drivers insured and a profitable annual revenue run rate of $500 million, Marshmallow has raised a […]

China’s new restrictions on exports of the metals could have an impact on the production of everything from LED lights to fighter jets.

Get a lifetime subscription to Imagiyo AI image generator and create anything you want, even NSFW images

How to get free books on Stuff Your Kindle Day. Download free fantasy books on the latest Stuff Your Kindle Day.

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

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" #1396 on April 15 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of total industrial robots active to above 4 million, per IFR. Industrial robots typically excel at repetitive tasks, but they find it challenging […]

Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk believe that IP laws should be eliminated. Artists have something to say about that.

Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropic’s flagship Claude model in the original Pokémon video game trilogy. Reportedly, Gemini had reached Lavendar Town in a developer’s Twitch stream; Claude was stuck at Mount Moon as of late […]

On April 14, Chipolo launched the Pop tracker. This device finder is compatible with both the Apple Find My and Goole Find My Device networks.

The abrupt firing of Xiaofeng Wang and his wife from Indiana University last month has shocked the academic community, and is stoking fears that Chinese-born scholars are being intentionally targeted.

Shared micromobility company Lime has reached an agreement to send batteries used in its scooters and e-bikes to Redwood Materials, which will extract and recycle critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper. The agreement announced Monday makes Redwood Materials the exclusive battery recycling partner for Lime’s shared scooters and e-bikes located in cities […]

Microsoft held off on releasing the privacy-unfriendly feature after a swell of pushback last year. Now it’s trying again, with a few improvements that skeptics say still aren't enough.

HR tech startup Rippling is trying to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz with papers as part of a blockbuster lawsuit against its competitor. There’s just one problem: French bailiffs hired by Rippling can’t seem to find Bouaziz, Irish newspaper Business Post reports. Rippling sued Deel earlier this year in Ireland alleging the company paid one […]

The Trump trade war has gone viral on TikTok, pushing a Chinese e-commerce app, DHgate, to the top of the Apple App Store in the U.S. After Trump increased U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports by 145%, numerous Chinese suppliers and manufacturers began making TikTok videos explaining to consumers how the global luxury goods market actually […]

Neptune is one of the newest short-form video apps on the block seeking to compete with major players like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.  The app, currently in beta, has attracted attention from hundreds of thousands of users, with 970 testers participating and 400,000 people on the waitlist, per the company. Neptune announced Monday […]

A new report found easy ways of getting around ChatGPT's rules about generating images of public figures, raising the potential to disseminate political disinformation.

The car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.

People are making themselves into AI action figures. It's not difficult to do.

As the deadline to file approaches, tax payers still have time to file for an extension.

GPT 4.1, GPT 4.1 Mini, and GPT 4.1 Nano are all available now—and will help OpenAI compete with Google and Anthropic.

As of April 14, Best Buy has discounts on $50, $100, and $200 Instacart gift cards.

As of April 14, you can get the Nespresso Inissia Espresso Bundle for $189.99, down from $299.95, at Woot.

The Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0 bundle with stand and shelter is on sale for $269.99 at Best Buy, down from the normal price of $329.99. That's an 18% discount.

OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1 . Yes, “4.1” — as if the company’s nomenclature wasn’t confusing enough already. There’s GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, all of which OpenAI says “excel” at coding and instruction following. Available through OpenAI’s API but not ChatGPT, the multimodal models have a 1-million-token […]

OpenAI said on Monday that it would soon wind down the availability of GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, via its API. GPT-4.5 was released only in late February. Developers will have access to GPT-4.5 via OpenAI’s API until July 14, after which they’ll have to transition to another model in OpenAI’s catalog, the company says. […]

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So many online jokes these days employ The Office's Kevin Malone's theory: "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?"

Currently, the Alienware M16 Gaming Laptop 240Hz AMD Ryzen 9 7000 16GB RAM RTX 4080 1TB SSD is on sale for $2,239.99 saving $560.

President Donald Trump says there will be no tariff exemptions and that a new semiconductor tariff is in the works.

Buy the Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones for $100 off at Amazon. Get exceptional noise cancellation and sound for $248, giving you 29% off.

Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, says that it has created an AI model that can help decipher dolphin vocalizations, supporting research efforts to better understand how dolphins communicate. The model, called DolphinGemma, was trained using data from the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP), a nonprofit that studies Atlantic spotted dolphins and their behaviors. Built on […]

The best Amazon deals on April 14 include the Garmin vívoactive 5, Sony WF-1000XM5 earbuds, Solo Stove Bonfire, Echo Hub, and Fire HD 10 tablet.

Google Classroom introduced a new AI-powered feature designed to help teachers generate questions. Launched on Monday, this tool lets educators create a list of questions based on specific text input. Using this text-dependent question generation tool, which utilizes Gemini, teachers can either upload files from Google Drive or manually enter text for the AI to […]

Three Animal Crossing Lego sets on sale at Amazon for up to 45% off, while sets from the Creator and Botanicals lines are on sale for up to 37% off.

The Soundcore Sleep A20 earbuds are on sale at Amazon for $119.99, down from the normal price of $149.99. That's a 20% discount.

As season 2 of 'The Last of Us' approaches we needed to know what to expect. We had the opportunity to sit down with Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann, Halley Wegryn Gross, Young Mazino, Isabela Merced and Rutina Wesley.

Apple is developing a cheaper, lighter Vision Pro, but Trump's China tariffs may drive up production costs and impact pricing

As of April 14, the Happrun Native Bluetooth projector is $49.99 at Woot, down from $109.99.

Get the Amazon Echo for $35 off — its first discount of the year. Shop the device for just $64.99 at Amazon.

The Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 Chromebook MediaTek Kompanio 520 4GB RAM 64GB Storage Touchscreen Laptop is $210 off. Get it for $189.00.

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The Amazon Spring Grocery Sale has groceries at 20% off including coffee, sauces, snacks, and beverages.

As of April 14, you can score a Blink Mini 2 home security cam for just $19.99, down from $39.99, at Amazon. That's a 50% discount and $20.99 in savings.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is down to its lowest price ever of $1,099.99. Shop it for $320 off at Amazon.

"Another Simple Favor," starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, premieres May 1 on Prime Video.

The Razer Basilisk V3 Optical Gaming Mouse is currently on sale for $39.99 at Best Buy, saving you $30.

Blue Origin's latest liftoff features an all-female crew, including Gayle King and Katy Perry, and you can watch it live.