Hasbro’s Next Star Wars Crowdfund Campaign Will Serve Your Kind, for the Right Price
The last time Hasbro asked you to throw down a lot of money to get a Star Wars toy made, it was to bring the crew...
Stressed-Out Tiger Shark Spits Up Fully Intact Echidna
Researchers tagging marine animals off Australia’s Orpheus Island were shocked when a tiger shark they caught spat up an echidna, a grub-eating monotreme recognizable for its...
How ‘The Dirt Man’ Went Viral on TikTok and Inspired Some Wild Lore
If your TikTok feed has been flooded lately with hilarious references to a mysterious figure known as “The Dirt Man,” you’re not alone. Carter Vail’s song...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 7, 2024
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Witch King by Martha Wells Get This Deal $1.99 Atlas Six by Olivie Blake Get This Deal $1.99 The Bullet That...
Novel battery manufacturer EnerVenue is raising $515M, per filing
The company is in the process of building a gigawatt-scale factory in Kentucky to produce its nickel-hydrogen batteries. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
Windows Is Getting Its Own AI Upscaler That Promises Better Frames in Any Game on Copilot+
Microsoft is getting its own AI upscaling technology baked straight into Windows 11 that will appear on the latest Copilot+ PCs. It’s called Automatic Super Resolution,...
Meta quietly rolls out Communities on Messenger
Meta is quietly rolling out a new “Communities” feature on Messenger, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The feature is designed to help organizations, schools and other...
Siri and Google Assistant look to generative AI for a new lease on life
Voice assistants in general are having an existential moment, and generative AI is poised to be the logical successor. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...
Bain to take K-12 education software provider PowerSchool private in $5.6B deal
Education software provider PowerSchool is being taken private by investment firm Bain Capital in a $5.6 billion deal. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
A Love Letter to Libraries and the Freedom They Represent
Welcome to Read this Book, a newsletter where I recommend one book that needs to jump onto your TBR pile! Sometimes these books are brand new...
