Timef 06/06/2025

The relationship between Mr. Trump and tech industry power brokers was built on money and the promise of deregulation, with Mr. Musk in the middle of it all.

As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have surfaced, including a potential new name for the operating system, an entirely new design inspired by the Vision Pro, and more.   Here’s a roundup of the most notable features rumored to be coming to iOS 19.  New name Sources […]

WWDC 2025, Apple’s annual developers conference, starts at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET. Monday. Last year’s event was notable for its focus on AI, and this year, there is considerable pressure on the company to build on its promises. As in previous years, the company will focus on software updates and new technologies, […]

AMD has acqui-hired the employees behind Untether AI.

Dirty car? These petite vacuums will make your ride feel brand-new again, whether it’s covered in sand, toddler snacks, or pet hair.

The Congressional Creator Caucus will work to support the creator economy, which is estimated to be worth half-a-trillion dollars by 2027.

For all the insults that Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump traded on Thursday, don’t be surprised if they make up again days from now. In the meantime, they both benefit.

As Elon Musk and Donald Trump feuded, conspiracy theorists assured their followers it was all a show. "5D chess at its finest, baby—checkmate!” proclaimed one.

The Marshall Stanmore III speaker is down to $299.99 at Amazon, which is 21% off its usual cost and its best price on record.

As of June 6, get the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses for 20% off at Amazon.

The recently-pardoned founder of Nikola, Trevor Milton, has been fighting a subpoena from the creditors of his bankrupt electric trucking company.

Time is running out. The gates to Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 are about to close. In just 3 days, your window to enter the most iconic live startup competition will slam shut. Over 10,000 tech titans, top-tier VCs, and media powerhouses will be watching. This is your chance to rise, roar, and […]

Peloton is exploring ways to expand its customer base by making its products available in gyms, and launching a peer-to-peer marketplace for used equipment.

Five simple phone setting tweaks that make your device work harder for you, from automatic text message deletion to scheduled focus modes.

This is it. Only two tables remain to exhibit at TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston — and the booking window officially closes today at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you’ve been waiting to make your move, now’s the time to book your table. Why your startup should be in the room This founder-focused […]

The mogul behind Fox, Expedia, and Tinder opens up about Steve Jobs—and his close friend Sam Altman.

Years after its debut, the new Whoop band is still a uniquely designed tracker with distinctive health offerings.

Google's latest Gemini 2.5 Pro beats the competition in several key benchmarks, the company claims.

An online creator went from a “nobody” to a conspiratorial sensation on X. What he gets in return is less clear.

Operating like a Rubik's Cube, the robotic Opollo Farm supplies Phoenix’s Whole Foods stores with fresh greens.

As of June 6, Apple AirPods Pro 2 are on sale at Amazon for $169.99.

These edibles made from functional fungi are not your childhood Flintstone vitamins.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a new Oscar category for stunt performers earlier this year. But none of the performers in the latest John Wick movie will qualify.

As of June 6, the JBL Go 3 is on sale at Amazon for $29.95. That's 25% off its list price of $39.95.

Celebrate National Doughnut Day with free doughnuts at Krispy Kreme on June 6.

“We’re having a broligarchy blowup of the highest order.”

Apple will stream its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote live on Monday, June 9. You can expect to see redesigned software but likely not the new Siri.

If you’re on a budget, these are solid Android phones. But they’re comically dull next to options from Motorola and Nothing.

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

Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s social media feud saw Seth Meyers taking "A Closer Look" on "Late Night."

As of June 6, the PlayStation DualSense Edge controller is on sale at Amazon for $169. It's normally listed for $199.99, so you're saving 15%.

As of June 6, the Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones are on sale at Amazon for $228. They're usually listed for $348, so you're saving 34%.

Android users can save time with 10 simple automations, including automatic battery saver mode, location-based Wi-Fi settings and scheduled "Do Not Disturb" mode.

Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio, and Ben Wang face off in a Mashable game, while Bob the Drag Queen talks "Dimension 20," "Traitors," and his new novel, "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert."

Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s social media feud moved Stephen Colbert to deliver a spectacular monologue on 'The Late Show.'

Save 25% on the Fitbit Versa 4 at Amazon.

Save 17% on the Bose QuietComfort earbuds at Amazon.

Save 25% on the Amazon eero 6+ mesh WiFi router.

Save 17% on the Bose Ultra Open Earbuds at Amazon.

On May 28, Samsung launched the One UI 8 Beta Program, and I tried it out on my Galaxy phone. Here are all the new features to know.

"The Phoenician Scheme" writer/director Wes Anderson discusses his personal inspirations for the movie, as well as why Benicio del Toro was the only choice for Zsa-zsa Korda. Interview.

Here's everything you can expect to see at IGN Live 2025 on June 7 and 8. Find out how to attend in person and virtually.

Get one of Apple's most powerful laptops, the MacBook Pro, for just $479.99 (reg. $2,399), while supplies last.

Keep your own personal weatherman in your pocket with this lifetime subscription to Weather Hi-Def Radar Storm Watch Plus, now just $27.99 (reg. $199.99) with code TAKE30 through July 20.

Learn up to 56 languages with this lifetime subscription to Qlango Language Learning, now just $34.97 (reg. $119.99) through July 20.

Enjoy power and portability with this MacBook Air M1, now for just $579.99 (reg. $1,499), while limited supplies last.

From 100 men vs. a gorilla, to jokes about the new pope, and so much more — we've had some good memes in 2025.

Mike Flanagan and Stephen King team up for career-best cinema with "The Life of Chuck," starring Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Hamill, and more. Review.

Where can you buy the Switch 2 online? Stock is live at Target.

Answers to each clue for the June 6, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

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

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump's feud has exploded, SpaceX's government contracts in danger as they fling barbs on social media.

A U.S. court denied Apple a stay on a ruling that requires the company to stop charging developers for payments made outside the App Store through links in apps.

Learn how I started investing during a volatile market with help from Sterling Stock Picker’s AI tools — now £50.80 for a lifetime subscription (reg. £357.85).

How to unblock porn for free in France. Unblock and watch RedTube for free from anywhere in the world.

How to unblock porn for free in France. Unblock and watch YouPorn for free from anywhere in the world.

How to watch French Open for free. Live stream Sinner vs. Djokovic in the 2025 French Open online for free

How to watch French Open for free. Live stream Musetti vs. Alcaraz in the 2025 French Open online for free

How to watch World Cup qualifiers for free. Live stream Venezuela vs. Bolivia in World Cup qualifiers for free.

How to watch World Cup qualifiers for free. Live stream Colombia vs. Peru in World Cup qualifiers for free.

How to watch MotoGP for free. Live stream the 2025 Grand Prix of Aragon for free from anywhere in the world.

The third season of "And Just Like That..." sees characters struggling with the overlap between technology and dating.

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" #1448 on June 6 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.

As Elon Musk and US President Trump spar on social media, tech investors and executives are being forced to choose whether to support the most powerful man in business—or the White House.

If President Trump cancels the contracts for Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company, the federal government would struggle to achieve many goals in orbit and beyond.

As Elon Musk and Donald Trump take jabs at each other online, their respective businesses are plummeting in value.

Anysphere, the maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, has raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported. The round was led by a returning investor Thrive Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel and DST Global. The massive round is Anysphere’s third fundraise in less than a year. The three-year-old startup secured its […]

Circle, one of the world’s largest issuers of USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, ended its first trading day as a public company at $83.23 per share, 168% above its IPO price of $31 set the previous day. The IPO pop demonstrates public market investors’ interest in cryptocurrencies and stablecoins in particular amid […]

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going to war—and giving everyone a front-row seat.

Elon Musk donated $288 million to Trump's 2024 election campaign, but now, the tech mogul is calling for Trump's impeachment.

Tenacious was set to become the first European-made rover to land on the Moon, but communications were lost with the lander that carried it.

Well, it finally happened. This town wasn’t big enough for the two towering egos of billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, and now they’re duking it out publicly, albeit from their own separate corners of the web. Musk is taking to his own social media platform, X, to take jabs at Trump, and Trump […]

Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it's working on.

The Japanese private space firm ispace likely failed its moon landing attempt on June 5 (June 6 for the local time of its mission control).

Walmart, with its partner Wing, plans to bring drone delivery to 100 new stores in five new US cities: Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.

Walmart and Wing are expanding their partnership and rolling out drone delivery to dozens of more stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa.

The new Nintendo Swich 2 console makes a very good first impression, though it's not without its quirks.

Amazon wants this group to develop an agentic AI framework to be used to give its warehouse robots more skills.

The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling. 

Anthropic Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said his company cut Windsurf’s direct access to Anthropic’s Claude AI models largely because of rumors and reports that OpenAI, its largest competitor, is acquiring the AI coding assistant. “We really are just trying to enable our customers who are going to sustainably be working with us […]

Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm's work with the Trump administration.

Crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis says the mysterious 300-bitcoin donation to the pardoned Silk Road creator appears to have come from someone associated with a different defunct black market: AlphaBay.

'M3GAN 2.0' is coming to theaters this month. Here's how to watch the original 'M3GAN' movie at home before the sequel, including the best streaming deals.

Bonfire's mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.

Trumpworld insiders fear that Elon Musk's attacks on Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" could kill it—and are already advising candidates to turn their backs on the world's richest man.

X says that this feedback will help develop an open source algorithm that can identify posts liked by people with different perspectives.

Proton VPN says it saw a 1,000% increase in signups right after Pornhub exited France this week due to a new age-verification law.

A startup faked AI-powered app building with 700 hidden engineers, an example of the tech industry's AI-washing crisis.

Google on Thursday announced an update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model that the company claims is better at certain programming tasks. The company’s calling it an “updated preview,” building on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro that Google announced around a month ago. Google says the model will roll out in general availability […]

X's API customers will soon pay Elon Musk a share of their revenue under the company's new API subscription plans.

Apple said on Thursday that more than 82% of compatible iPhones are running the latest version of its smartphone operating system, iOS 18.

The Hisense 75-inch U8 4K TV is on sale for $1,999.99 at Amazon, saving you $500. Plus, you'll get a free $200 Amazon credit.

A judge overseeing lawsuits brought by news organizations ordered OpenAI to "preserve and segregate all output log data" from ChatGPT

Founders Fund has led another, enormous round for defense tech startup Anduril with a $1 billion investment as part of a new $2.5 billion raise, the largest check the firm has ever written. Existing investors also piled in, an Anduril spokesperson tells TechCrunch. Anduril has now doubled its valuation to $30.5 billion with this Series […]

Scan documents from anywhere with this lifetime subscription to iScanner, now A$38 (reg. A$310).

"Stans" saw its global premiere at SXSW London, releasing on Paramount+ later this year. Review.

As of June 5, pre-order a OnePlus Pad 3 and get 2 free items worth $250 with purchase.

The Ninja Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven is on sale at Amazon for $229.99, down from the list price of $299.99. That's a 17% discount.

People are bidding millions to get their hands on 23andMe's cache of DNA data.

While you could already preview Snapchat messages on your Apple Watch by enabling them on your iPhone, there wasn't a way to respond to them until now.

A major development showcasing the potential for the open social web was unveiled Thursday at the online conference known as FediForum. The makers of Bridgy Fed, the tool that connects decentralized open social networks, like Mastodon and Bluesky, developed a new project called Bounce that will allow users to migrate their social network followers across networks powered by […]