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Alongside its price-friendly iPhone 17e and M4 iPad Air yesterday, Apple just announced a few updates to the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and its rarely-refreshed desktop display line. Apple seems to be holding its rumored new entry-level MacBook for tomorrow’s in-person event in New York City, but today’s announcements should make potential upgraders happy.The MacBook Air has now been updated to the latest M5 chip. It’s a fairly modest upgrade, but it brings it up to speed with Apple’s latest processor that debuted in the MacBook Pro last fall. There are no other major hardware changes—it now comes with 512…
McDonald’s chief executive (CEO) Chris Kempczinski’s LinkedIn unveiling of the Big Arch Burger went viral last week, though not quite as intended. The spotlight wasn’t so much on the sandwich as the leader’s visible apprehension at taking a bite.There’s a potentially useful lesson here for brands: Don’t cast your chief executive in a role better played by someone else. It’s a lesson McDonald’s, not incidentally, has learned before.30 years ago, the fast-food chain launched the Arch Deluxe to correct widespread perceptions that its restaurants were mostly for kids. (A reasonable impression, given the McDonaldland characters and PlayPlace jungle gyms.) Enter…
There’s no carpet on my main floor, but I have some upstairs. To move the Shark upstairs, I had to move the base and vacuum and prompt the vacuum to delete its map and remap my home, since Shark’s vacuums can only store one map at a time. It would be one thing if I didn’t need to move the base, but having to move both makes it a pain; if you were hoping for a vacuum that can clean multiple floors of your home, this isn’t it.But if carpet is on the main floor of your home, the Shark…
Data collaboration platform LiveRamp is now enabling customers to integrate their AI agents of choice. LiveRamp customers—including major ad agencies, big brands like Uber and Coca-Cola, publishers like Paramount, Netflix, and Spotify, and tech partners like The Trade Desk and Index Exchange—will be able to plug in specialized agents to interact with any partner on the platform. This is a new capability; previously, agents would need to call the LiveRamp API to access their data on the platform. With the direct integration, agents can be used to automate audience planning and segmentation and help marketers measure and optimize their campaigns. They will…
For months, there has been talk that Silicon Valley’s billionaire class was recruiting a candidate to take on Representative Ro Khanna. Early Tuesday morning, that candidate made it official. Ethan Agarwal (pictured above), a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur with no political background, told TechCrunch on Monday evening that he is running for California’s 17th congressional district. That process is likely to set up what may become one of the most lavishly funded primary challenges of the 2026 cycle. The race puts a spotlight on Khanna, a 49-year-old Democrat widely seen as a possible 2028 presidential candidate, who has publicly backed a…
While there are countless types of ergonomic keyboards, the most common are typically going to be angled keyboards and split keyboards. Angled keyboards, often referred to as “Alice”-style keyboards in the mechanical keyboard world (named after the TGR Alice), split the alphanumeric keys along the middle, positioning the two halves at an angle from one another while keeping the modifier keys (backspace, enter, shift, and so on) in their standard positions. The angle will vary between keyboards, as will the number of keys, but the main constant in an Alice-style keyboard is that, despite the halves being separated from one…
There is more to pubs than beer on tap. Beyond the heavy, creaking door lies a sanctuary from the cold, a vital meeting place for old friends, and a support network for those in need. Just imagine the upset caused when one shuts for good—then times that by 2100, the number of pubs that disappeared in Ireland between 2005 and 2025.As a beer brewer, Heineken naturally wants to stop the closure of struggling pubs. Its latest platform, “For the Love of Pubs,” is created by LePub Worldwide and devised to safeguard pub culture and social connection. It kicks off with a…
Anthropic experienced widespread disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing Claude services. The outage seems to be affecting Claude.ai as well as Claude Code, though the company said the Claude API is working as intended. Most users experienced the error when attempting to log in, as in the screenshot below. Image Credits:TechCrunch “The issues we are seeing are related to Claude.ai and with the login/logout paths,” the company’s status page reads. Anthropic has not yet detailed what caused the outage, though the company said it has identified an issue and is implementing a fix. The disruption…
ICE has also purchased at least one “customized” training session for staff on using Microsoft Teams. Details on FPDS revealed that the training would be focused on developing “documents” for the management office of the 287(g) program, which deputizes enrolled state and local agencies to work with ICE. “Automated documents” are also mentioned, but nothing on FPDS reveals exactly what those may be, or what role they play in the 287(g) program.Christopher Muhawe, an assistant professor of law at the University of Illinois Chicago—who has studied the psychological effects the American immigration surveillance infrastructure—argues that people seeking asylum or refugee…
National Public Radio (NPR) is defending the public’s right to stay curious.After a tumultuous year in which the company found itself at the center of a political firestorm and saw Congress cut $1.1 billion in funding for public media, NPR has launched a national campaign that stands up for people’s right to ask tough questions.“For Your Right to be Curious,” created by Mischief @ No Fixed Address, replaces the letters of its name with the questions “how,” “who,” and “why.” As part of the initiative, NPR will swap out its logo at its Washington D.C. headquarters, billboards in New York…
After deal talks lasting almost a year, MyFitnessPal has successfully acquired its up-and-coming rival Cal AI. Cal AI is the AI calorie counting app startup built by two high school teenagers that soared to over 15 million downloads and over $30 million in annual revenue in under two years, MyFitnessPal tells TechCrunch. The Cal AI team of seven employees, including its co-founder CEO Zach Yadegari (pictured, above), plus a small team of contractors, have been retained by MyFitnessPal (MFP), according to MyFitnessPal CEO Mike Fisher. The Cal AI app will remain independent, with its same ease-of-use mission: estimating calories by…
The best pajamas for women are made with breathable fabrics and relaxed fits, with designs so gorgeous that you might wonder if you can get away with wearing them out. Too often, we settle for grubby T-shirts or soccer shorts, thinking it’s just for sleep, but that’s a mistake. After all, we spend a third of our lives in bed. We shouldn’t be uncomfortable.Technically, I’ve been testing women’s pajamas my entire life, but my official WIRED-style, meticulous testing began a year ago. I lounged in, slept in, and washed more than 100 matching sets from brands you can buy online…
Cami Tellez is back. Tellez is the founder of the viral undergarments brand Parade, which at one point was seen as the Gen Z rival to Victoria’s Secret. Launched in 2019, when Tellez was just 21, the company went on to raise millions in funding and attract thousands of customers, but was sold in 2023 to the lingerie manufacturer Ariela & Associates. Late last year, Parade announced it was officially closing its doors. But it turns out Parade was just the beginning of Tellez’s journey as a founder. On Monday, she and former TikTok executive Jon Kroopf announced the launch…
Coordinated Israeli and American strikes hit a military compound in Tehran on Saturday, killing dozens of senior regime figures including Iran’s supreme leader, Ali al-Khamenei.Within hours, the government imposed a near-total internet blackout, cutting the country off from the outside world. Mostafa Zadeh, a Tehran-based international journalist, tells WIRED Middle East that he was not surprised when “the United States struck, nor when his phone’s network died and fixed internet lines followed.”“It’s very similar to the state’s response to the January security crackdown, and even the bouts of unrest that came before,” Zadeh says. The government has routinely cut internet…
Apple on Monday unveiled the latest version of its budget-friendly iPhone line. The iPhone 17e retails for $599 and will be available on March 11. The smartphone comes with the A19 chip that’s found in the base iPhone 17, and will support Apple Intelligence. The base model comes with 256 GB of storage, which Apple says is twice the entry storage from the previous generation. One of the most notable changes from the previous budget iPhone is the addition of MagSafe and Qi2, which supports wireless charging up to 15W. The smartphone is available in black, white, and a new…
Apple on Monday unveiled a new iPad Air that’s powered by the M4 chip. The company says the device is designed to be faster, thanks to an updated neural engine and more memory, making it better for AI uses. This Air is said to be 30% faster than the M3 iPad Air and 2.3x faster than the M1 version. However, the new device still retails for the same price of $599 for the 11-inch model, and $799 for the 13-inch model. For educational customers, the discount brings the price down to $549 for the 11-inch iPad Air, while the 13-inch…