Kate Briggs Isn’t Trying to Be Original
About a year ago, I spent a lot of time with a 14-month-old who was learning how to speak. She could repeat certain sounds and occasionally...
Autistic Literature Will Flourish When We Stop Insisting That Writers Qualify Their Autism
Three weeks after my third book came out, I experienced the first unmasked autistic shutdown of my life. What happened was this: driven into the ground...
Making Memory Under Capitalism
A performance artist, a coder, and community activist walk into one another’s lives. Rather, they meet as children at a Fourth of July barbecue for Chinese...
7 Novels About Smart Immigrant Women Adrift
I first heard the term “smart women adrift” from my graduate school professor, Sigrid Nunez—herself a master of writing incisive female characters. At the time, the...
Stephen Colbert mocks Fox News’ solar eclipse coverage
Monday’s solar eclipse brought with it plenty of media buzz, but during his Late Show monologue Stephen Colbert drew particular attention to Fox News’ over-the-top coverage...
Narwal Freo X Ultra Review: A Cleaning Robot That’s Both Great and Average
While robot vacuums advance in unique ways, the Narwal Freo X Ultra’s approach this year is to do everything it’s been doing, but better and more...
NYT’s The Mini crossword answers for April 9
The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times‘ revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and...
Jon Stewart uses the solar eclipse to talk about the war in Gaza on ‘The Daily Show’
The solar eclipse was the big event on Monday, but Jon Stewart had other things on his mind. After joking about it at the start of...
Sprinto raises $20M to bring automation to security compliance management
Sprinto, a startup offering a security compliance and risk platform, has raised $20 million in new investment led by Accel. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
TransferGo raises $10M to expand its remittance business in Asia, doubling valuation
TransferGo, the UK-based fintech best known as a consumer platform for global remittances, has raised a $10 million growth funding round from Taiwan-based investor Taiwania Capital,...
