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Truecaller's ad revenue declined by 44%, leading to the layoffs.

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Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50 this September, but you can still snag it for $449.99 at retailers like Amazon, Target, and Best Buy if you move fast.

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SpaceXAI's smart assistant Grok is now available in CarPlay.

After years of hints and preparation, Lime plans to enter the public markets.

PJM Interconnection — which oversees the grid for some of the densest data center developments on Earth — wants to overhaul itself. Not everyone thinks it's up to the task.

Airbnb also said its customer support AI bot now handles 40% of issues without escalating to a human agent.

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New Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro outlined a new growth strategy, which includes a focus on investing in content as well as artificial intelligence technology.

Writer Violet Matter talks slow-burn romance, fan fiction, and why season 3 of "The Mafia Nanny" is about much more than Davina and Gabriel's romance.

“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”

A sweeping DOJ and FBI operation led to 276 arrests and dismantled nine scam centers tied to cryptocurrency fraud targeting Americans across the globe.

Preorder the Magic: The Gathering The Hobbit Play Booster Box for $209.70 at Amazon, over $15 below TCGplayer's market price.

Celebrate Mother's Day with the best free food deals from a number of popular restaurants, including Denny’s, Pizza Hut, Dunkin', and more.

"Daily Show" host Desi Lydic has mocked the speech Donald Trump made during his recent Mother's Day event paying tribute to military mothers.

Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle.

John Krasinski joined Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show" on Thursday, and the interview ricocheted through some wild pivots.

The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck.

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Answers to each clue for the May 8, 2026 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Get the best deal on headphones. Save 45% on the Beats Solo 4 at Amazon.

In AMC’s merciless satire, the tech lords are extracting all they can from the business (and us) before everything goes to hell.

I tried Dyson's new robot vacuum at home. The Spot+Scrub Ai beats the 360 Vis Nav, but gets torched by Roborock and Dreame.

NASA's Juno spacecraft caught sight of Thebe, one of Jupiter's 115 moons, and snapped a new portrait during its mission last week.

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Stuff Your Earbuds Day is live on May 8-9. Stuff Your Eardbuds Day, hosted by Romance Audio Bookworms, is offering free audiobooks from a variety of genres.

Sir David Attenborough turned 100 years old on Friday, and has thanked people for their well-wishes. A wasp was named after him too.

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The MTG Edge of Eternities Play Booster Box is down to $129 at Amazon, beating Walmart’s list price and near TCGplayer.

Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Chaos Rising Sleeved Booster Pack for $12.99, just $2.08 over TCGplayer's market price.

Gmail's 'Help me write' AI tool is getting more personalized and smarter.

Jimmy Kimmel has reacted to footage of Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting the Pope.

Like many AI companies automating work that humans currently do, Basata will eventually face a harder question about where the line is between augmenting workers and displacing them. For now, the founders say the administrative staff they work with aren't worried about that; they're more worried about drowning.

Hints and answers to today's Hurdle all in one place.

See the Moon phase expected for May 8, 2026 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected.

Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle.

The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1784 on May 8 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

A humanoid robot named Gabi was officially ordained as a Buddhist monk at Seoul's Jogyesa Temple, pledging digital-age vows before cheering crowds.

The company is reportedly in talks to raise another $750 million at a pre-money valuation of more than $40 billion. It last raised in November at $32 billion.

Travel blogger Jake Rosmarin brings a human face to the outbreak aboard the m/v Hondius.

The new features could be handy for customer service systems, but OpenAI says they have applications that work across a variety of other fields, including education and creator platforms.

The 2026 Apple MacBook Air with the M5 chip is back down to its lowest price ever of $949. That's 13% or $150 off its list price.

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The company made a series of other announcements during earnings, including a new commercial contract, a pilot program in Canada, and a collaboratio

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, who took over for Bob Iger earlier this year, has emphasized his intent to streamline the Disney experience.

Bumble's founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said that Bumble is saying goodbye to the swipe.

Apple is apparently in the final stages of vetting a new AirPods model with cameras that would interface with AI.

AI startup Pit is led by the cofounders of European scooter giant Voi and backed by a16z, which is leading the startup’s $16 million seed round.

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Instructure again, defacing the login pages of several Instructure customer schools with an extortion message.

Gusto has shared an impressive milestone on its actual revenue, not an ARR number that estimates future income.

GLAAD's Social Media Safety Index fails all major platforms on LGBTQ safety, X gets lowest scores while TikTok ranks at the top.

The company is expanding its efforts to protect ChatGPT users in cases where conversations may turn to self-harm.

The new benchmark rating applies to 2026 Tesla Model Y vehicles assembled on or after November 12, 2025.

Perplexity's Personal Computer brings AI agents to your Mac, and is now open to everyone.

Can Sam Altman—or any CEO—be trusted with super intelligence?

"We are going to be saying goodbye to the swipe," CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said.

The app was one of several catering to the BookTok crowd.

Stockholm-based vibe coding platform Lovable it is offering employees an automatic 10% raise as a way to sidestep classic corporate politics.

An unknown group of hackers is breaking into systems previously breached by the cybercrime group TeamPCP. Once inside, the hackers immediately kick out TeamPCP and remove its hacking tools from the victims’ systems.

Prediction market startup Kalshi has raised a $1 billion Series F round led by Coatue.

OpenAI to notify user's trusted contact in the event of a possible serious safety concern.

The head of Bezos' family office appears to have stepped down at some point in the last few months, around the time Bezos became increasingly in his robotics firm Project Prometheus.

In his quest to takeover eBay, GameStop's CEO Ryan Cohen has made some perplexing choices. Now, he's leaning into the spin.

Google has a few new updates for AI Overviews, including a feature that sources perspectives from social media and online communities.

Preorder the Google Fitbit Air for $99.99 and get a free $35 Google Store credit.

Disney's facial recognition system captures your face at the gate and converts it to numerical values. Here's what guests should know about opting out.

Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic's Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox.

Crunchyroll is offering anime fans three months of streaming for either $1.99 or $2.99 per month. Sign up on Crunchyroll or Prime Video.

The new Google Fitbit Air starts at $99.99 and uses Gemini AI to track fitness and health data.

How to watch Europa League for free. Live stream Aston Villa vs. Nottingham Forest in the Europa League for free.

TikTok rolled out AI text summaries for videos, but the feature has been rolled back after making some big errors.

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