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In Dove’s Super Bowl 60 ad, girls march to their own beat. Literally. The beauty brand is returning to the Big Game with a 30-second ad encouraging joy and confidence at a time when half of girls quit sports by age 14 due to low body confidence.For the third consecutive year, Dove will use its spot to show what happens when we support girls to focus on what their bodies can do, not how they look. Its 2026 commercial, “The Game is Ours,” which was created by Ogilvy, opens with a young athlete looking in the mirror as text reads:…
A confidential informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker,” according to a document released by the Department of Justice on Friday. The document, which was released as part of the Justice Department’s legally required effort to publish documents related to its investigation into the late sex offender, does not identify who the alleged hacker was, but does include several details about them. According to the informant, the hacker was an Italian born in the southern region of Calabria and specialized in finding vulnerabilities in iOS, BlackBerry devices, and the Firefox browser. The hacker allegedly…
It is freakin’ cold out there. (Source: I am in Illinois, where the high temperature today was 12 degrees Fahrenheit and it felt like 6.) Sometimes it feels like my furnace can’t keep up, but luckily, I have several heated blankets around. I’ve tested them for our best heated blankets buying guide, and a few of my favorite picks are on sale right now. They’re easy to use, safe, machine-washable, and most important, they can keep you toasty warm even if winter is still keeping your locale in its icy and terrible clutches.Check out our related buying guides, like the…
NBCUniversal’s Super Bowl 60 winning streak continues.After mentioning it on a Puck podcast earlier this month, Mark Marshall, chairman, global advertising and partnerships, NBCUniversal, confirmed to ADWEEK that his team has sold a “handful” of 30-second Super Bowl units for $10 million or more. This marks the first time broadcasters have hit that number in the Big Game.“While I would love to say it’s brilliant strategy and execution, part of it is just the marketplace demand,” Marshall told ADWEEK. “We did start earlier this year than in years past. There was so much interest in the Super Bowl and the…
SpaceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a potential 2026 IPO — a move that could signal the long-awaited reopening of the public markets after a years-long IPO drought. In the meantime, late-stage private companies like SpaceX are finding other ways to create liquidity for employees and early shareholders, largely through a fast-growing secondary market. To unpack what SpaceX’s IPO chatter means, how private liquidity works before a debut, and what investors are looking for in today’s pre-IPO giants, we spoke with Greg Martin, managing director at Rainmaker Securities, a broker-dealer specializing in secondary share transactions…
When I was finally able to experiment with Auto Browse (for real this time) I took Google’s suggestions of digital chores as my starting point and picked online tasks that could be helpful in my own life.Whenever interacting with generative AI tools, a healthy sense of skepticism—and caution—is critical. Google even includes a disclaimer baked into its Gemini chatbot reminding users that it makes mistakes. The Auto Browse tool goes a step further. “Use Gemini carefully and take control if needed,” reads persistent text that shows in the chatbot sidebar every time Auto Browse is running. “You are responsible for…
It’s not a wedding without Bud Light in the Anheuser-Busch brand’s Super Bowl 60 commercial.The full 60-second ad, titled “Keg” and created by Anomaly, reunites three longtime brand spokesmen—rapper Post Malone, comedian Shane Gillis, and NFL icon Peyton Manning—to save a runaway Bud Light keg.Set during a post-wedding reception on a scenic cliff, the keg tumbles off a dolly and down the hillside, followed by the entire wedding party. As Whitney Houston’s classic “I Will Always Love You” plays, the bouquet flies apart, a guest’s hair gets some airtime, and many tuxedos are ruined in service of saving the keg—which…
Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code and transform it into a more general-use tool that non-coders could benefit from. Now Anthropic has launched a new feature within Cowork to make it even more powerful for enterprise users. Behold, the plugin. The idea behind plugins is simple: They are designed to automate “specialized” tasks within a company’s various departments. Whether that function is drafting content for the marketing department, reviewing risks in documents for a firm’s legal team, or drafting responses for customer support, the plugin…
It was November 12, 2016, four days after Donald Trump won his first presidential election. Aside from a few outliers (looking at you, Peter Thiel), almost everyone in the tech world was shocked and appalled. At a conference I attended that Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was “a pretty crazy idea” to think that his company had anything to do with the outcome. The following Saturday, I was leaving my favorite breakfast place in downtown Palo Alto when I ran into Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple. We knew each other, but at that point, I had never…
In Raisin Bran’s Super Bowl 60 ad, Will Shat happens.More specifically, the cereal brand, which revealed its Big Game ad today, confirmed that William Shatner’s recent paparazzi sightings were not a coincidence, but in fact the opening act of a carefully staged Big Game rollout.In the spot, the 94-year-old actor stars in a role he was born to play: Will Shat, a Star Trek knockoff with a penchant for the scatological, whose shortened surname is an unsubtle reference to the effects of fiber.Lest the connection go unnoticed, Raisin Bran peppers the spot with digestive double entendres, including the prominent placement…
This is it. The clock is running out. With demand surging and early inventory nearly gone, tonight is your last chance to lock in record-low pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and secure a +1 pass at 50% off while limited passes remain. If Disrupt has been on your must-attend list, now is the moment to act. Save up to $680 on your pass and bring a +1 for half the price before this offer disappears. This pricing ends tonight, January 30, at 11:59 p.m. PT, or the moment the last +1 pass sell out. No extensions. No exception. Register now to secure yours with the lowest-priced offer. What Disrupt delivers year after year…
Honorable MentionsPhotograph: Ryan WaniataThere are a lot of great soundbars, and we don’t have room to feature them all. Here are some others you might want to consider.Sony Bravia Theater Quad for $2,398: Sony’s Bravia Theater Quad isn’t a soundbar so much as an incognito audio system for those who hate the fuss and form of traditional setups. The four wireless speakers (just add power outlets) blend in with your living room decor and include stand mounts for setup on consoles, tables, or walls. Sony’s advanced processing lets you futz with placement options, combining digital virtualization with 16 individual drivers…
Apple, Meta, and Google are locked in a fierce battle to lead the next wave of AI, and they’ve recently increased their focus on hardware. With its latest acquisition of the AI startup Q.ai, Apple aims to gain an edge, particularly in the audio sector. As first reported by Reuters, Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech and enhance audio in noisy environments. Apple has been adding new AI features to its AirPods, including the live translation capability introduced last year. The company has also…
The internals of this keyboard are unique. Instead of standard Hall effect equipment, the Q16 is one of Keychron’s first keyboards to utilize TMR sensors. These are very similar to standard Hall effect switches, but they have a few key differences. The largest benefits are their improved accuracy and reduced power draw compared to Hall effect sensors, while the downsides are primarily their increased price and a lack of development.For gaming, these switches are great. They’re fast and responsive, returning quickly after being pressed and having quite a few ways to adjust their performance. The Rapid Triggers setting allows for…
Microsoft delivered a solid earnings report on Wednesday with $81.3 billion in revenue for the quarter (up 17%), net income profits of $38.3 billion (up 21%), and a record-breaking Microsoft cloud revenue of over $50 billion. But the stock was getting pounded on Thursday as investors worried about how much the tech giant was spending to build out its cloud and questioned whether that investment would pay off. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the answer to that question is yes — and spent considerable time on the earnings call trying to make that point. Microsoft has spent almost as much…
It’s similar to how red-light face masks work. These masks are usually worn for about 10 minutes and always have a light wavelength level in the 600-nm range (usually 630 to 660), like the HigherDose hat does, but you’ll also see masks with higher infrared-light levels that promise healing and reduced inflammation. The hat delivers only the main red-light therapy level and features 120 medical-grade LED bulbs arranged in a half circle for easy wear around your head.The technology is FDA-cleared, meaning the FDA has determined that this device is substantially equivalent to an existing legally marketed device. HigherDose specifically…