After a very profitable decade on Microsoft’s board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down, the company announced Thursday. Hoffman joined the board after Microsoft bought his company LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in 2016. Hoffman was on Microsoft’s board when it invested its first $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019. Hoffman was one of OpenAI’s original investors…
Amazon’s warehouse robots are starting to sound less like machines waiting for commands and more like coworkers taking direction. At its Delivering the Future event in London, Amazon unveiled an upgraded version of Proteus that can interpret natural-language instructions and turn them into coordinated material-movement tasks. The update is part of a broader European robotics…
While everyone else was getting ready for the weekend, Bitcoin took a plunge. The popular cryptocurrency was trading below $60,000 for at least part of Friday. This marked the first time since Donald Trump’s reelection in late 2024 that Bitcoin had dropped below that line, per Bloomberg. It’s also more than half the value of…
There are dozens of LED hair-growth gadgets on the market, ranging from a $50 product on AliExpress that’s been shopped onto a model to comically bad effect to the $2,500 Capillus Spectrum, which boasts an aggressive array of laser diodes. Contrary to what I would have suspected, women are actually the current dominant consumer group…
Founders, your window to enter Startup Battlefield 200 closes in just three short days. Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Now’s not the time to wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Thousands of startups have already stepped forward. If you’re building…
Cybercriminals are probing a quiet layer of fuel infrastructure: the systems that monitor what is inside storage tanks. According to a new government advisory, reports have emerged of threat actors targeting Automatic Tank Gauge (ATG) systems used to monitor fuel and liquid storage tanks across the US. Officials say these actors have already compromised internet-facing…
Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of ContentsBest early Prime Day Apple dealBest early Prime Day headphone dealBest early Prime Day speaker dealBest early Prime Day portable power station dealBest early Prime Day TV dealBest early Prime Day vacuum dealBest early Prime Day home and kitchen dealBest early Prime Day Lego dealFrequently Asked Questions…
The transition from analog switches back to mechanical isn’t perfect, either. When you plug in a normal switch and press the “scan” button to reset the board, the multi-input functionality still stays semi-functional. In my testing, where I set a WASD half-press to be the normal letter, and a full press to be [Shift +…
Across the industry, companies are starting to balk at the price of AI. Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licenses months after enabling them. A Priceline employee told TechCrunch that a routine Cursor contract renewal came back 4-5x more expensive. Even though per-token prices…
Scam compounds across Southeast Asia are no longer just running mass-message fraud. They are using artificial intelligence and automation to make cybercrime faster, more convincing, and harder for APAC security teams to contain. For organizations operating in the region, the risk now extends beyond fake messages and obvious phishing attempts. AI-assisted scams can be localized,…
