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Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals

JACEK KRYWKO

Birds' compact nervous system seems to help them handle tasks very quickly.

Everybody panic: A Valve developer said "HLX" in public

KYLE ORLAND

Sound designer lets Half Life-related codename slip at a conference.

Revival Rugs Birthday Sale: 20 Percent Off Sitewide Through Sunday

BOUTAYNA CHOKRANE

The brand’s lovely selection of hand-knotted and handwoven wool rugs at reasonable prices make it a WIRED-staff favorite.

From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

TECHCRUNCH EVENTS

Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.

Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early

MARINA TEMKIN

A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the challenges founders are solving right now

TECHCRUNCH EVENTS

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables built for deeper discussion.

VCs, Superhuman Mail founder share red flags about product market fit

DOMINIC-MADORI DAVIS

Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.

Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops

JON BRODKIN

Pentagon memo: Insider trading gives US enemies key intel on military operations.

Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport

STEPHEN CLARK

Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land.

Spotify ramps up policy enforcement on family plans

NICK INDGE

If you share Spotify sub with family, you may need to scan QR code to prove it.

Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising

RYAN WHITWAM

Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.

Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell

JULIE BORT

The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.

NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue

ERIC BERGER

"We have the mandate, we have the resources, and the support from our stakeholders."

OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

TIM FERNHOLZ

OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.

Startups don’t need to go viral to win customers

LUCAS ROPEK

At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one.