Timef 04/29/2025

After integrating Meta AI into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, Meta is rolling out a standalone AI app. Unveiled at Meta’s LlamaCon event on Tuesday, this app allows users to access Meta AI in a standalone app, similar to the ChatGPT app and other AI assistant apps. To win over users, Meta is trying to […]

On Tuesday, Meta is hosting its first-ever LlamaCon AI developer conference at its Menlo Park headquarters, where the company will try to pitch developers on building applications with its open Llama AI models. Just a year ago, that wasn’t a hard sell. However, in recent months, Meta has struggled to keep up with both “open” […]

The ruling, which has yet to take effect, was ordered under India's online blocking laws.

Critics of the NRC say its red tape and lengthy authorization timelines stifle innovation, but handing some of its responsibilities to states could undermine public trust and the industry’s safety record.

Spotify reported on Tuesday that its premium subscriber base grew by 5 million in the first quarter, representing a 12% increase year-over-year. This brings the total to 268 million, marking the second-highest total ever and the highest net addition of paid subs for a first quarter since 2020.  Spotify also reported a record-high quarterly operating […]

The Apple MacBook Air M3 is down to just $799.99 at Best Buy and the MacBook Air M4 is down to just $849. That's a 15% discount on the M4 and a 38% discount on the M3.

The next Amazon Prime Day will take place sometime in July 2025, Amazon announced on April 29. The news comes during peak panic about tariffs and spiked prices.

We’re in the final stretch. TechCrunch Sessions: AI takes over Zellerbach Hall in almost a month, and the exhibit floor is almost completely booked. If you’ve been considering showing off your AI product or innovation, now’s the time to commit. Exhibit tables are in short supply, and the May 9 deadline is fast approaching. At […]

As of April 29, get the Jackery Explorer Portable Power Station for 44% off at Amazon.

Right now, get the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K on sale for $29.99 and save 40%. That's $20 off.

Hungry to learn more about Anthropic, directly from Anthropic? You aren’t alone if so, which is why we’re so delighted to announce that Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan is joining the main stage at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. Lean into this session exploring the frontier […]

Shark makes our favorite Dyson Airwrap dupe, and it's now on sale at Amazon. Shop the Shark FlexStyle for 20% off.

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says unsubscribing from spam might actually backfire. Learn when to avoid it and stop junk effectively.

The AI revolution isn’t coming — it’s already underway, and the time to grab your Early Bird ticket ends in just 6 days. Don’t miss your chance to dive into the AI ecosystem and lock in the lowest rates. On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI takes over UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall for a one-day gathering […]

One of the oldest and biggest meal kits often feels the brightest and most modern. Little missteps hold some recipes back.

Amazon is bringing back its annual sales event, Prime Day, in July, the e-commerce giant said on Tuesday. This year, consumer demand for the popular sale event could be dampened by the possibility of tariffs increasing the cost of goods. To highlight the impact of President Trump’s tariffs, Amazon will reportedly begin to display the […]

"Weapons", the new horror film from writer/director Zach Cregger, has a full trailer on YouTube.

The startup's enzymes modify a cow’s microbiome using enzymes, slashing methane while boosting the nutrients available to the cow. 

When it comes to creating images of the earth from above, satellites, drones and planes are the air and spacecraft that tend to come to mind. But a startup called Near Space Labs is taking a very different approach to high-resolution photos from up high. It’s building aircraft that are raised by helium balloons and […]

It's been 41 years since Rob Reiner's "This Is Spinal Tap" cranked things up to 11. Now it's being re-released in cinemas. Trailer.

Dwayne Johnson leads A24's "The Smashing Machine" as MMA icon and UFC champion Mark Kerr, with the first teaser trailer out now.

Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a third-party AirPlay-enabled device to surreptitiously run their own code on it.

Asus’ 15-inch laptop is an uninspiring machine built for creators.

These pajamas look and feel so good, you’ll wish you could you could wear them all the time.

Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 models will all come with 12GB of RAM to support Apple Intelligence.

Seth Meyers has reacted to the viral "Time" interview transcript with Trump.

These nontoxic beds and bedsheets are easier on the environment and your health—and they feel like a dream.

As of April 29, the Fitbit Charge 6 is on sale at Amazon for $119.95. It's usually listed for $159.95, so you're saving 25%.

On Tuesday, Meta is hosting LlamaCon, its first-ever AI developer event. It’ll center around the company’s Llama family of open AI models, and we’re expecting some big updates for developers. Also on the agenda: keynotes from Meta executives and fireside chats with Big Tech CEOs and Meta’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg. Meta is hosting a small […]

Yelp said on Tuesday that it’s working on deploying AI-powered “voice agents” to help service providers and restaurants handle calls, answer basic questions, and accomplish tasks like adding a customer to a restaurant waitlist. Yelp says its agents don’t require a complicated setup or API integrations, and can draw from existing metadata along with data […]

Liking features on social media can provide troves of data about human behavior to AI models. But as AI gets smarter, will it be able to know users’ preferences before they do?

As of April 29, Apple AirPods 4 are on sale for $99.99 at Amazon. This is 22% off their list price of $129.

As of April 29, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 is on sale for $729.99 at Amazon. This deal saves you $69.01 on list price.

As of April 29, the Apple Watch Series 10 is on sale for $299 at Amazon. This deal saves you $100 on list price.

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson talks about how the first nonstop beating heart transplant, called zero ischemic time, at Taiwan hospital changes surgery.

Governments like China and North Korea, along with spyware makers, used the most recorded zero-days in 2024.

Tariffs will raise prices on essential tech and lead to inflation. Experts say that people who depend on cheap stuff to survive are going to suffer the most.

The best 55-inch and under TVs include models from Hisense, LG, and Amazon Fire. We have expert picks ranging from budget-friendly to high-end.

Jon Stewart has shared his thoughts on Donald Trump's firsts 100 days in office on "The Daily Show."

Storied Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is backing a fledgling U.K. startup that’s setting out to “redefine” how AI is used to match companies with talent. Dex, as the startup is called, targets candidates and companies with various AI-powered recruitment smarts, including matchmaking and coaching, with a view toward improving retention in the long […]

As of April 29, the 11-inch Apple iPad (A16 chip, 128GB, WiFi) is on sale at Amazon for $299. Normally it's listed for $349, so you're getting 14% off.

Answers to each clue for the April 29, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

As of April 29, Lexar storage is up to 54 percent off at Amazon, including SSDs, RAM, and microSD cards.

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

You could learn how to strum the guitar like Paul McCartney and even train your ear with this beginner-friendly guitar lessons bundle, now only $29.97 (reg. $2,800).

FolderFort is a 2TB Dropbox alternative with a lifetime subscription on sale for $230

These Double Barrel Night Vision Binoculars can see in pitch black, snap photos, or record video, and they're only $105.

The border state of Chihuahua has recorded 713 confirmed cases, with its outbreak linked to the ongoing cluster of cases north of the border in Texas.

Save 30% on the Dreame Gleam Hair Dryer.

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Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On the face of it, Grouphug will simply generate memes from the archive of a group WhatsApp chat. However, that masks a wider play.  Grouphug is led by Felix Petersen, […]

Blink and you’ll miss it: a startup out of Finland is taking a new look at the market for prescription eyewear. Tapping into innovations in eye-tracking and liquid crystal lens technology, IXI is building low-power glasses that will invisibly, automatically adjust to account for Presbyopia (far-sightedness), for the wearer. Four years into its life, Hensinki-based […]

In a bid to broaden its user base in India, Reddit has updated its machine translation feature to support the automatic translation of posts and comments into Hindi. “With this expansion, authentic, more people-powered content is now accessible in one of India’s most spoken languages,” the company wrote in an update to a blog post. […]

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

Supporting super-early stage entrepreneurs in Europe seems to be suddenly in vogue. Back in March, “Project Europe” was launched to great fanfare by podcaster and VC Harry Stebbings with a small $10 million fund to back founders aged only 25 and under, riffing on the ‘Peter Thiel Fellowship’ model of old. Now a new fund […]

Learn to play piano with Skoove Premium Piano Lessons, an AI-powered app, now offering lifetime subscriptions for just $149.99 (reg. $299).

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

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

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" #1409 on April 29 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

A massive blackout hit Spain, Portugal, and southern France on Monday, causing disruptions to transportation, communications, and essential services.

A bug in OpenAI’s ChatGPT allowed the chatbot to generate graphic erotica for accounts where a user registered as a minor, under the age of 18, TechCrunch’s testing revealed, and OpenAI confirmed.  In some cases, the chatbot even encouraged these users to ask for raunchier, more explicit content. OpenAI told TechCrunch its policies don’t allow […]

As of April 28, preorders are open for Nothing's latest budget-friendly smartphone, the CMF Phone 2 Pro. It's an ultra-thin, ultra-affordable Android phone.

ChatGPT's new update makes it easier to get product recommendations, with big implications for Google and the e-commerce industry as a whole.

HR tech giant Deel says it has formally accepted to be served legal documents in its ongoing court battle with rival Rippling in Ireland. This ends weeks of suspense after Rippling’s bailiffs couldn’t find Deel’s execs to serve them – only for Deel’s CEO and top lawyer to turn up in Dubai. Deel CEO Alex […]

HR tech giant Deel says its executives have formally accepted service of legal documents in its ongoing court battle with rival Rippling in Ireland. This ends weeks of suspense after Rippling’s bailiffs couldn’t find Deel’s executives to serve them – only for Deel’s CEO and top lawyer to turn up in Dubai. Deel CEO Alex […]

Researchers claiming to be with the University of Zurich used AI bots to generate thousands of comments in r/changemyview.

Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen 3, a family of AI models the company claims matches and in some cases outperforms the best models available from Google and OpenAI. Most of the models are — or soon will be — available for download under an “open” license from AI dev platform Hugging Face […]

A mysterious investor out of London has asked a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to stop the sale of EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO, calling it a “flawed” process. Charles Garson, a UK-based investor with no obvious ties to the EV startup, offered $20 million for Canoo’s assets, according to a filing. A lawyer […]

Get access to 1TB of secure and private data storage with this lifetime subscription to Koofr Cloud Storage, now A$187 with code KOOFR through June 1.

Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of the same name, is selling a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects and perform a few other basic chores. Called the SO-101, the arm is the follow-up to Hugging Face’s previous robotic arm, the SO-100, released last year. […]

Chinese tech conglomerate Huawei is looking to take on semiconductor behemoth Nvidia with a new advanced AI chip. Huawei is making progress developing its latest Ascend AI GPU, the Ascend 910D, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar. The company has been reaching out to other Chinese firms to find test partners, the […]

YouTube’s support team is experiencing an outage, too. The company says the widespread power outages in Spain and Portugal have knocked some of YouTube’s customer support team offline, including those who offer support in related European languages. The company did not share how many employees are unable to work because of the outages, or how […]

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday. When ChatGPT users search for products, the chatbot will now offer a few recommendations, present images and reviews for those items, and include direct links to webpages where users can buy the […]

OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons. WIRED spoke with Adam Fry, the company's search product lead, to ask how it all works.

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Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exist.

Temu is adding “import charges” of around 145% in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods shipped from China, CNBC reports. The fees cost more than the products that U.S. consumers are buying, and in some cases are more than doubling the price of a standard order. For example, CNBC found that a summer […]

IBM is pledging $150 billion towards US-based quantum infrastructure

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge may be Samsung's thinnest smartphone ever, according to new leaks about the device.

Spotify paid creators $100 million in the first quarter of 2025, part of a push to compete with YouTube in the video podcast space.

A massive blackout affecting Spain, Portugal and parts of France has been blamed on atmospheric conditions. Now engineers face the arduous task of getting the power back on.

As of April 28, the Apple AirPods Pro are on sale at Amazon for just $169.

There have been numerous reports and rumors about iOS 19. Here's what to expect.

Get up to 35% off a wide range of skincare, makeup, hair care, and other beauty essentials during Amazon's Summer Beauty Event.

The futuristic Hypershell X is the closest thing yet to being bionic.

Amazon's Gaming Week sale runs from April 28 to May 4. We've gathered the best deals on monitors, CPUs, gaming laptops, and more.

The Google Pixel Watch 2 is on sale at Amazon for $149.99, down from $249.99. That's a 40% discount.

The Asus TUF A16 Gaming Laptop (AMD Ryzen 9 7940H, GeForce RTX 4070, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) is on sale for $1,274.99, saving 29%.

The best Amazon deals this week include the M4 MacBook Air, Sonos Ace headphones, Theragun Mini, M3 iPad Air, and Fitbit Sense 2.

The researchers said the attackers behind the campaign had "deep understanding of the target community."

The researchers said the attackers behind the campaign had "deep understanding of the target community."

News about Android is being relegated to a side show at Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, next month. On Monday, the company announced it would share information about the latest updates coming to the Android ecosystem at an upcoming virtual event called “The Android Show: I/O Edition,” airing on May 13. The decision to […]

The TheraGun Mini (black, 3rd gen) is on sale at Amazon for $179, down from the normal price of $209.99. That's a 15% discount.

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT 8-Core 16-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor is on sale for $129.00 saving you 48%, or $120.

As of April 28, you can purchase the eufy Omni S1 Pro robot vacuum for $999.99, down from $ 1,499.99, at Amazon.

Google to end updates and control for 1st and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats

DragonForce's new "cartel" model will allow other ransomware groups to white label their hacking tools. You've heard of SaaS, but what about RaaS?