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April 2025 witnessed crypto markets rocked by more tariffs at the direction of US President Donald Trump — controversial policies that could have influenced the outcome of Canada’s elections on April 28. On April 2, Trump levied “discounted reciprocal tariffs” on 185 countries and territories. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,200 points on April 4, while the S&P 500 dropped nearly 6%, its largest decline...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The latest numbers are in, and Samsung’s lead in the global smartphone market keeps shrinking, with just a few million smartphones and 1% separating Apple from the top spot. more…
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:As of April 30, you can get the official Atari 7800+ Console for $64.99, down from $129.99, at Woot.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The son of U.S. President Donald Trump said the current financial system is broken and blockchain technology is the fix.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Did you miss your chance to apply for a Side Event at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Week? Don’t worry — we’ve extended the deadline by three more days! You now have until May 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to submit your proposal. This is your opportunity to connect with attendees of TC Sessions: AI and the […]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Volkswagen manufactures an expansive line of top tier vehicles, but did you know it also manages several other marquee brands? Here are some of the best known.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Bring It On said its Big Cash Bingo game is one of the fastest growing skill games on the market with more than $500,000 in monthly revenues.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Epic Games has slowly been creating a safe space for Android games that are free from the Google Play Store. The newest Epic Games addition is a title that hasn’t been around in some time — Flappy Bird. more…
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Raycast, a popular free productivity app for Mac, is making its way to the iPhone. However, due to Apple’s sandboxing restrictions, some of the tools it’s known for on desktop aren’t available on iOS, at least not yet. Claiming to be a tool for achieving “productivity on the go,” Raycast for iPhone includes several core […]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Uncertainty about the economy and looming tariffs may be spurring spending.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Men at Bluebonnet fear deportation to El Salvador under wartime law despite maintaining they do not have gang tiesDetainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: SOS.With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday. Continue reading...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Secretary Noem asks the cybersecurity community to get in touch with CISA to help reshape the agency to focus on finding efficiencies.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Those looking to upgrade from an aging tablet to a new iPad could do much worse than the new iPad A16. We already consider it the best budget iPad at its standard going rate, but currently it's on sale for $299 at Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy. That's the lowest price we've tracked and $50 off Apple's MSRP. Note that this deal applies to the entry-level configuration, which includes 128GB of storage and 6GB of RAM, and...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:FIFA, the international football governing body, is taking a significant step in its Web3 journey by announcing a new blockchain network compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The update, published on April 30 via the FIFA Collect FAQ, outlines plans to migrate the football body’s NFT collection platform, FIFA Collect, from the Algorand network […] The post FIFA moves towards its own blockchain, leaving...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The Star Wars Echo Dot bundle with limited edition Star Wars TIE Fighter Stand is on sale for $97.98, down from the normal price of $109.98. That's an 11% discount.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Apple TV+ is exactly one month away from debuting Bono: Stories of Surrender, a concert-style “documentary event.” This will also be the first ever feature-length film in Apple Immersive Video on the Vision Pro. And today, Apple debuted the first trailer to show us what to expect. more…
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:A crate engine is a fantastic way to squeeze even more power out of your muscle car build. How many of the ones on the market put out 500 hp?
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:In its latest quarterly revenue announcement, Samsung is teasing the upcoming Galaxy S25 Edge launch while touting “strong” sales of the Galaxy S25 series. more…
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:So for many years, so many B2B founders wanted to be “more PLG” or “add a PLG motion”. What they really wanted though was to add a better self-serve product with a more viral element. PLG was a great way to describe the next evolution of self-serve + viral: HubSpot added self-serve, it worked great... Continue Reading
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Spotify is getting into gameplay — kind of —through a partnership with EA Sports. The music streaming platform has teamed up with the sports video game maker to give users integrated streaming access while playing EA Sports FC 25. This partnership should allow players on the PS5 and Xbox Series X or S to access Spotify music, podcasts and audiobooks. The only catch? It's currently a pilot program and only available to...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The nonprofit behind Wikipedia on Wednesdayrevealedits new AI strategyfor the next three years — and it’s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial intelligence, thankfully. Instead, the Wikimedia Foundation says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers,” allowing editors, moderators, and patrollers tools that allow them […]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The freestanding charging and emptying station makes this cordless vacuum feel almost like a robot vacuum—except you still do the vacuuming.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Your recession action plan doesn’t have to be complicated.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:When Bethesda surprise-released a remake last week, I revisited its world with my son to see if the magic was still thereFor a 10-day period the summer of 2006, in between handing in my resignation at my first job on a games magazine and returning to Scotland to start university, I did almost nothing except eat, sleep and play The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on my Xbox 360. I hauled my TV from the living room of my...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:OpenAI has rolled back a recent update to GPT-4o, the default model that powers ChatGPT, following complaints from users that it made the chat bot act weird. "The last couple of GPT-4o updates have made the personality too sycophant-y and annoying (even though there are some very good parts of it), and we are working on fixes asap, some today and some this week," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a X post spotted by...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The free story DLC for Sea of Stars, the excellent Chrono Trigger-inspired indie RPG, will be available to download starting May 20. You might fear that a free expansion is going to be light on content, but the new Throes of the Watchmaker quest clocks in at eight hours. It’s a substantial add-on for those who have rolled credits on the main campaign, which you’ll need to do before the quest unlocks. The DLCreunites...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Once the unshakable king of enterprise development, Java is now facing its most important existential moment since its creation. It’s not that Java has failed; it’s that the world around it has changed. And Java, with its traditional runtime model and heavyweight architecture, hasn’t always kept up. In a cloud-native world where agility, speed, and efficiency matter more than ever, traditional Java stacks often...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Nuvo, a company that has built a social-like platform to facilitate easier purchasing of physical goods between businesses, has raised a $34 million Series A from Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. The San Francisco-based startup previously raised $11 million in an undisclosed seed round led by Founders Fund and Index Ventures […]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:You’ve got just 5 days to save up to $210 — plus 50% off your plus-one — and get inside the minds of AI’s biggest voices at TechCrunch Sessions: AI. Imagine hearing firsthand from Anthropic’s Jared Kaplan, OpenAI’s startup team, and top voices from firms like Khosla Ventures — all in one day. June 5 […]
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Industry entities led by the Crypto Council for Innovation argued in a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it shouldn't regulate staking.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Ubisoft has launched its decentralized verification network (DVN) to secure cross-chain asset transfers viaLayerZero’s interoperability protocol.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Using a VPN won't get your Spotify account banned, but you could face performance issues.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Intel experimenting with direct liquid cooling for up to 1000W CPUs
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Mohsen Langarneshin is accused of being ‘senior spy’ for Mossad, but human rights groups say he was innocentIran has executed a 36-year-old man it accused of helping the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, kill a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Tehran in 2022. Iranian state media said Mohsen Langarneshin was hanged, the usual method of execution in Iran, at Ghezel Hesar prison...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Leaders at federal research organizations DARPA, ARPA-I, and ARPA-H discussed the myriad obstacles in addressing critical infrastructure security at RSAC Conference 2025.
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