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We're in the transition period -- all of us.

Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.

From a robot stirring your soup to a bread machine that kneads your dough, here are 6 gadgets that may make you feel like you’ve won adulthood.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.

What sets Dreamie apart from all of the other fancy alarm clocks is laughably simple: It can play podcasts.

SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month.

Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on.

IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.

Deep Fission is seeking an IPO that could raise $157 million, though investors may have trouble buying the nuclear startup's story.

Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the "solar-electric economy" he promised?

Peec, which helps brands track their presence in AI searches, offers proof of a key trend among European startups.

People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.

The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitious goals in the years to come.

Blue Origin can now prepare for New Glenn's fourth flight after the FAA cleared it for launch.

Google I/O 2026 kicked off this week and to no one's surprise, it was almost completely about AI.

The company is making it easier for manufacturers to make more Gemini-powered smart devices.

Google's new AI features capitalize on the popularity of voice dictation, and a desire to leave the thinking to AI.

Airbnb is adding thousands of boutique hotels, new services and experiences to its app.

Sennheiser's latest Momentum headphones offer key audio and ANC improvements, including Dolby Atmos with head tracking.

The e-paper slate has a built-in voice recorder to save you having to take meeting minutes.

State Of Play will feature a fresh peek at Marvel's Wolverine.

It offers bright and incredibly accurate video in an elegant body, but has no smart TV features.

Google I/O was AI all the way down, but it's not clear how much will be useful.

We still don't have a release date for the new game engine.

A corporate climate watchdog has dropped a rule proposal around clean energy certificates.

But Reuters says NVIDIA has yet to make any deliveries.

The company agrees with Google that it would put European users' privacy and safety at risk.

Copilot features are now available on Edge for mobile.

The Ferrari Luce will start at €550,000 in Italy, but US pricing hasn’t been announced. | Image: Ferrari After months of teasers , Ferrari is offering the first full view of its Luce electric vehicle . The Luce is notable not just for being Ferrari's first EV, but for being designed in collaboration with Jony Ive and Mark Newson at their collective LoveFrom. It's also going to be Ferrari's second four-door car and its first five-seat one. We already knew Ive and Newson were working on the Luce's interiors, which were shown off earlier this year. Now Ferrari says LoveFrom

An exceptionally weird controversy has come back to haunt Cox Media and a pair of marketing firms, which claimed they were secretly listening to users via phones and smart devices - despite little evidence they actually could. On Thursday the Federal Trade Commission announced that Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works would pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations that they were in fact lying about spying on people to target ads. As chronicled by Techdirt a couple of years ago, Cox publicly boasted about a system called Voice Data back in 2023, telling potential digital marketing clients they

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Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical Letter "Magnifica humanitas" on May 25, 2026 in Vatican City, Vatican. | Getty Images Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas is the pope's manifesto on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence," in which he discusses the dangers of AI-powered warfare, the effects of AI on labor, and the need for new legal and ethical frameworks to govern technology. In his papal encyclical - a kind of open letter

REI’s annual Anniversary Sale — the retailer’s biggest of the year — is still going strong , letting you save on all kinds of outdoor essentials. If you’ve got a camping trip coming up, now is a good time to stock up on the basics, whether it be a tent , sleeping pad , or stove . If your summer plans involve hiking or heading into the backcountry, there are also savings to be had on everything from Garmin watches to water filters , some of which are also discounted at retailers like Amazon. The sale runs through the end

The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?

AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.

Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.

From killing your chatbots to optimizing your prompts, here are the best ways to go full AI native and conquer the new world.

This sleeve works overtime to carry so much more than a spare laptop. With all the extra space and pockets, it's the best laptop companion I've ever used.

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

Cearvol’s Wave Lite hearing aids take on the stigma of aging with tech-inspired design, but they lack the nuance to be truly useful.

The covers have come off the Ferrari Luce, the most anticipated EV ever. It completely breaks the Italian car maker's aesthetic archetype.

Dozens of juiced athletes competed at the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas. Most won’t admit what drugs they used.

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If you can’t—or don’t want to—upgrade to full Windows 11, consider this lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system that works on a wide range of computers.

As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.

NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.

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You can significantly improve the YouTube experience with these browser add-ons.

A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.

It’s time to prep your kit ahead of the summer season. These tools will do the job.

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.

It’s long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.

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Its do-it-all thermoplastic lining can both carry gear through wet muck and transport wet, mucky groceries home from the store.

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

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Plus: Google publishes a live exploit for an unpatched flaw, the feds arrest two men accused of creating thousands of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, and more.

Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries.

A fascinating, unclassifiable orb found in the Gulf of Alaska is not an alien object, as some speculated, but the remains of a poorly documented animal.

The measure is part of a European Union–led strategy to eliminate all drunk-driving-related deaths and injuries by 2050.

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