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Everyone’s exhausted after the loss of an hour of sleep. But you don’t have to grin and bear it. Hatch’s sale includes several of its popular sunrise alarm clocks that can help both adults and kids alike to adjust to the new time of day.Sunrise alarm clocks simulate the sunrise right on your bedside table, slowly brightening over the course of anywhere between 10 minutes and an hour, helping activate your circadian rhythm and naturally waking you up. If you’re interested in one after the rough loss of an hour, you’re in luck. The best way to save yourself from…
Five Minutes With.. is a monthly quick sit-down with leading marketers on their brand, the trends they’re tracking, and a peek at the personality behind the title. In 2024, Adidas Sambas appeared on everyone from Bella Hadid to Dakota Johnson, sparking a revival of the slim silhouettes. And 2025 saw a Britpop renaissance, driven by tracksuit tops and soccer jerseys.Both trends were ignited by Adidas Originals, the German sportswear giant’s lifestyle label, which just unveiled a major new chapter with its “Superstar” ad campaign, featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Missy Elliott, NBA superstar James Harden, and more.“In the past, Originals has been just fashion,…
If you were looking for the spaceship of smart beds, Tempur-Pedic’s Tempur-ActiveBreeze comes pretty dang close. This is a true luxury smart bed, with a unique build centered on temperature control and intense programming. It’s also got some of the most extensive sleep tracking and temperature control features I’ve ever seen, which factors heavily into its cost.The main appeal of this bed is that it caters to hot sleepers in more extreme night-sweat situations, whether that’s due to chronic conditions, body composition, or medical treatments. There are fans built into the base, and you have three airflow speeds to work…
When Ring founder and CEO Jamie Siminoff decided to use the company’s first-ever Super Bowl commercial to introduce Search Party — an AI-powered feature that uses Ring camera footage to help find lost dogs — he expected Americans to love it. Instead, the TV spot set off a firestorm. In fact, practically since the moment it aired in February, Siminoff has been making the rounds on CNN, NBC, and in the pages of the New York Times, explaining that his critics fundamentally misunderstand what Ring is building. He sat down with TechCrunch a few days ago to make his case…
ModRetro, the vintage gaming startup by Palmer Luckey, is in talks to raise funding at a $1 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The company launched its first product, a Game Boy-style handheld device called the Chromatic, in 2024. The Verge’s Sean Hollister said it “might be the best version of the Game Boy ever made,” but found it hard to separate from Luckey’s reputation as founder of defense tech startup Anduril Industries. “If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?” Hollister asked. Luckey said last year that he’d been trying to build a Game Boy-inspired…
In just over a week, negotiations over the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s Claude technology fell through, the Trump administration designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and the AI company said it would fight that designation in court. OpenAI, meanwhile, quickly announced a deal of its own, prompting backlash that saw users uninstalling ChatGPT and pushing Anthropic’s Claude to the top of the App Store charts. And at least one OpenAI executive has quit over concerns that the announcement was rushed without appropriate guardrails in place. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed what…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.” To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! I was out for a few days last week and we have a bit of catching up to do! I won’t rehash too much, but expect a few of the bigger news items — ahem, Wayve’s $1.2 billion raise — to make it in here. One more housekeeping note: I will be in Austin next week for SXSW, the annual tech, music, film, and culture event that always attracts an interesting collection…
To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as man camps. This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields. For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, Bloomberg reports its workers are living in gray housing units with access to a gym, a laundromat, game rooms, and a cafeteria that grills steaks on-demand. A company called Target Hospitality has signed multiple contracts worth a total…
Ultimately, these lights can do a lot. They can double as a sound machine, help you wake up and fall asleep, and even act as a regular bedside lamp if they’re bright enough. Not all sunrise alarms have all of these features, though, so you have to choose how much you want to spend and what features are most important to you.What Features Should You Look for in a Sunrise Alarm Clock?You might see a range of features listed for a sunrise alarm, and more expensive ones will include more of these than cheaper models. If you’re not sure what…
Coffee is the original office biohack and the nation’s most popular productivity tool. As we lose sleep to the changeover to daylight saving time, the caffeine-addicted WIRED Reviews team is writing about our favorite coffee brewing routines and devices that’ll keep us alert and maybe even happy in the morning. Today, operations manager Scott Gilbertson expounds on the perfect simplicity of the moka pot. In the days after, we’ll add other Java.Base stories about other WIRED writers’ favorite brewing methods.Years of travel and a love of repair has given me a special appreciation for simple devices. A pen and paper…
Bryte Balance Pro Photograph: Julia ForbesThe Bear Elite Hybrid comes in three firmness levels, but the firmest option has provided the support our spines have needed without feeling like we’re lying on a brick, thanks to optimal pressure relief. Special for Sleep Week, use code WIRED40 for 40 percent off.I’m very nitpicky when it comes to mattresses (I guess I’m in the right job), but when I find a mattress I love, I become insufferable about it. Nolah Evolution is a longtime favorite (it’s what I sleep on myself) with its balanced approach to pressure relief, lumbar support, and temperature…
Batteries aren’t magic. They’re chemical. And, like most things built by humans, they wear down over time. I don’t need to tell you this—anyone who has owned a MacBook knows that battery life gets worse and worse as it ages. But what if I told you it’s possible to slow that process down?One common bit of advice is to only charge your devices up to 80 percent most of the time. Battery University, funded by a consultancy that helps large companies get more out of batteries, suggests this based on its research. So does the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.But how…
Cable ties are ideal for keeping multiple cables bound together and making them easier to manage. You probably have a bunch already, but you can buy a pack of 60 ($7) reusable ones cheaply.Alex Tech10-Foot Cable SleeveCable sleeves are even better, since they provide a mesh cover for bundles of cables, making it easy to remove or add cables.Label Your CablesIf you have more than one cable, make sure that you label them. This can save you a lot of trouble later. Picking a different color for your Ethernet cables (or at least not black, white, or gray) can help…
Unlike the Fairbuds XL, which can be almost completely disassembled in nine parts, the Mix are composed of four main ingredients: the headband, the ear cups, the ear cushions, and the battery. While repairability is clearly a benefit, Fender’s main focus is on the ability to mix and match the parts—hence the name. Eventually, each part will be available in five different colors, and some parts, like the ear cushions, will come in different materials for warmer or cooler climates.My 10-day stint with the Mix wasn’t nearly enough time to evaluate whether the USB-C-based connections between the ear cups and…
The very existence of left-handedness seems to defy Darwin. According to the theory of evolution by natural selection (in very simplified terms), a species should retain the characteristics necessary for survival and reproduction and discard those that are not very useful. And yet around 10 percent of people continue to develop greater dexterity in their left hand, a rate that has remained stable throughout history. Why do humans continue to retain this peculiar ability?A study conducted by researchers at the University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy set out to confirm a hypothesis indicating that, while right-handed people have advantages in cooperative…
While Washington’s breakup with Anthropic exposed the complete lack of any coherent rules governing artificial intelligence, a bipartisan coalition of thinkers has assembled something the government has so far declined to produce: a framework for what responsible AI development should actually look like. The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week’s Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone involved. “There’s something quite remarkable that has happened in America just in the last four months,” said Max Tegmark, the MIT physicist and AI researcher who helped organize the effort, in conversation with this editor. “Polling…