TikTok’s Clock Keeps Running: Trump Extends Sale Deadline Again

TikTok’s Clock Keeps Running: Trump Extends Sale Deadline Again

The clock just never seems to run out for TikTok. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order granting the wildly popular social media app another 90 days to strike a deal to sell itself to a buyer deemed fit by US officials or face a federal ban. The newest extension pushes the deadline to … Read more

Brad Pitt’s Sci-Fi Film Roles, Ranked

Brad Pitt’s Sci-Fi Film Roles, Ranked

Next week, one of our biggest movie stars hits theaters in one of the summer’s biggest movies. F1: The Movie, starring Brad Pitt, is out June 27 and it’s the kind of role only someone as huge as Pitt could play. Pitt has been one of the top movie stars in the world for decades. … Read more

I Tried Hear.com’s At-Home Prescription Hearing Aids Test

I Tried Hear.com’s At-Home Prescription Hearing Aids Test

Putting aside their exorbitant cost, the trouble with prescription hearing aids is the prescription. Find a doctor. Get an appointment. Sit in a waiting room. Suffer through an hour of testing before getting the hard sell on a pair of hearing aids. Why, the indignity of it all is even worse than going deaf. Telehealth … Read more

Midjourney V1 AI video model: Price and how to try it

Midjourney V1 AI video model: Price and how to try it

Generative image AI platform Midjourney has introduced its V1 Video Model: This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. “It’s fun, easy, and beautiful,” the company posted on X on Wednesday. “Available at 10$/month, it’s the first video model for everyone and it’s available now.” This appears to be a … Read more

Cathy Gao’s bringing the real playbook to TC All Stage

Cathy Gao’s bringing the real playbook to TC All Stage

Growth-stage fundraising is picking up speed again, but it’s not the same game it used to be. At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, we’re bringing in someone who knows how the rules have changed and how to win in today’s market: Cathy Gao, partner at Sapphire Ventures. Gao has backed breakout … Read more

Xreal One Pro and Xreal Eye deliver a new vision for smart glasses

Xreal One Pro and Xreal Eye deliver a new vision for smart glasses

Xreal One Pro and the Xreal Eye camera add-on are now officially available, and I’ve been using them for the past few weeks. Both products help complete the Xreal One product line and deliver a fuller vision of what we can expect from the company in the future. Earlier this year, Xreal debuted its next-generation … Read more

Google Messages update brings long-awaited RCS chat improvements

Google Messages update brings long-awaited RCS chat improvements

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has started rolling out the new Google Messages features announced last week. The messaging app now lets users customize RCS group chat icons and snooze notifications. It has also received new RCS tags for the New chat page and a “Delete for everyone” option for RCS chats. Google … Read more

Steam Beta Enables Proton On Linux For All Titles

Steam Beta Enables Proton On Linux For All Titles

Valve has quietly updated the Steam Beta Client to enable Proton by default for all Windows games on Linux, eliminating the need for users to toggle compatibility settings manually. GamingOnLinux reports: For some context here: originally, Proton had an option to enable / disable it globally. That was removed with the Game Recording update last … Read more

John Gruber Reacts to Apple Declining His Interview After His Criticism

John Gruber Reacts to Apple Declining His Interview After His Criticism

Every year between 2015 and 2024, at least one Apple executive agreed to be interviewed by Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber for a special WWDC episode of his podcast, The Talk Show. Last year, for example, Apple’s software engineering chief Craig Federighi, marketing chief Greg Joswiak, and top AI researcher John Giannandrea joined Gruber on stage … Read more