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It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.

The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck.

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

A proposed class action lawsuit claims JetBlue used tracking tools to monitor browsing activity and adjust flight prices without customer consent.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 […]