Lifestyle

The hidden cost of living amid Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years gobbling up his leafy Palo Alto neighborhood, according to a New York Times report detailing how the Meta CEO has purchased 11 properties for over $110 million to create his own personal fiefdom in Crescent Park. The piecemeal compound features a main residence, guest homes, manicured gardens, and a pickleball court — even a...

Mobile

Realme Buds T200 review – GSMArena.com news

The Realme Buds T200 are the latest in the company’s range of entry-level true wireless earbuds. Priced at just INR 1,999 (~$23), the Buds T200 are aimed at those with a tight budget but still want to experience more premium features such as active noise cancellation, dual-device connectivity, and LDAC. Design The Realme Buds T200 have a fairly simple design...

Movie

The queer optimism of My Beautiful Laundrette

My partner and I headed from the suburbs into the city to attend a 40th anniversary screening of My Beautiful Laundrette, a film neither of us had seen despite always intending to. Directed by Stephen Frears and written by Hanif Kureishi, this TV-movie-turned-sleeper-success is considered by many to be a cult classic and an early paragon of queer representation, meaning it necessarily carries the burden...

Music

Weapons review – fun but familiar horror hijinks

If you’ve been to the cinema in the past few months, specifically to watch a horror film, you might have seen an intriguing teaser for Zach Cregger’s sophomore film, Weapons, in which a child’s voice recalls the night that 17 children – all from the same third grade class – disappeared in the small town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania. At 2.17am, they silently...

TECH

Impersonators are targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach

Hi, thanks as always for reading TechCrunch. We want to talk with you quickly about something important. We’ve discovered that scammers are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads and reaching out to companies, pretending to be our staff when they absolutely are not. These bad actors are using our name and reputation to try to dupe unsuspecting businesses. It drives...

TECH

Tesla shuts down Dojo, the AI training supercomputer that Musk said would be key to full self-driving

Tesla is breaking up the team behind its Dojo supercomputer, ending the automaker’s play at developing in-house chips for driverless technology, according to Bloomberg. Dojo’s lead, Peter Bannon, is leaving the company, and the remaining team members will be reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla, per Bloomberg’s reporting, which cited anonymous sources.  The disbanding of Tesla’s...

Nature

Alien planet glimpsed in star’s ‘habitable zone’

A glimpse of a planet in its star’s habitable zone — the ‘just right’ region where life could flourish — has astronomers reeling. The smudgy-looking gas planet is circling Alpha Centauri A, the brightest member of a triplet of stars strewn just 4 light years, or 1.4 parsecs, from Earth. And it could be orbiting at a record-breaking proximity to...

News

Ex-Superman actor Dean Cain says he’s becoming ICE agent

Timothy White/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty ImagesDean Cain starred in Superman TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman between 1993 and 1997Ex-Superman actor Dean Cain has announced he is planning to join the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE.In an interview on Wednesday, Cain, who is already a sworn law enforcement officer, said,...

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