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Space & Spaceflight

Intergalactic Couture Rocks Planet Earth

In an effort to help you prep for that all important trip to outer space, Rocketplane Kistler (which...

Space & Spaceflight

Scientists Thought Mars’s North Polar Ice Was 25% Dust. They Were Way Off

Previous research pointed to copious amounts of dust atop the arctic Martian wasteland, but a clearer picture is...

Health

Print New Organs With Bioink

Our donut and fizzy sugar water consumption aside, we’re working hard on keeping our arteries from clogging these...

Health

Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble

A pair of studies have found evidence that GLP-1 users are more likely to lose their hair and...

M2 Apple Macbook Air, open on desk
Apps

Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents | TechCrunch

Days after a journalist claimed that Meta’s Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim...

Circuit Breaker Labs founders Arul Nigam (left) and Shirali Nigam (right).
Startups

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you) | TechCrunch

With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it’s easy to forget that...

Pope Leo XIV
In Brief

Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art | TechCrunch

Critics of AI-generated art have a powerful new ally: His Holiness the Bishop of Rome (Episcopus Romanus), Primate...

Apps

Laytr’s new app lets you save anything you find online, not just articles to read | TechCrunch

After Mozilla’s read-it-later app Pocket shut down in August, a number of alternatives popped up to take its...

Human History

This 2,100-Year-Old Shipwreck Carried 6,511 Luxury Dishes—and They’re Somehow Still Intact

Thanks to careful packing, the precious cargo remained miraculously intact for thousands of years.

TechCrunch Disrupt Builders Stage
AI

Blackstone’s Jas Khaira joins Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

AI startups can grow at a speed that would have been difficult to imagine a generation ago. But...