23 of the Best Boring Movies

Social media movie discourse is at it again. This time around, I'm being horrified by posts from younger moviegoers who freely admit to fast-forwarding through movies to skip past "the boring parts" (...

After Netflix, Disney is cracking down on password sharing

Disney is preparing to crack down on password sharing on its streaming services, following similar move from Netflix that kicked off a few months ago.The company's CEO Bob Iger said that password shar...

How to Prep, Store, and Cook With Hatch Chile Peppers

Eating at a restaurant in New Mexico usually starts with the choice between red or green chiles, a question for which there is no wrong answer. Red chiles bring the heat, green chiles bring the flavor...

Lawyer Figures Out ChatGPT Made Up Fake Cases In His Brief On Day Of Hearing

[photo1]The highly publicized misfortune of Steven Schwartz and Peter LoDuca may have just saved another lawyer from the same fate. MAYBE. Schwartz infamously used ChatGPT to conduct legal research to...

Multitasking Is Making You Worse at Everything

On the surface, the concept of multitasking sounds dynamic and kind of cool--the word originated in the 1960s computer boom, after all, and retains its connotations of hyper-competency and over-achiev...

What to Do (and Not Do) When Your Sunburn Starts Peeling

A sunburn that's severe enough to peel is a sign that you fucked up--you should have worn sunscreen, or reapplied it after swimming, or made sure somebody helped you get it all over your back. But onc...

Drug-resistant ringworm reported in US for first time; community spread likely

A dermatologist in New York City has reported the country's first known cases of highly contagious ringworm infections that are resistant to common anti-fungal treatments--and caused by a newly emergi...

You Can Clean Sticker Residue With Something Already in Your Cabinet

Getting price tags off of thrift-store finds, or scraping industrial strength glue off of walls and siding from battery operated smart devices can be a challenge. What's worse is that most of the solv...

The Best Questions to Ask on Your First Day at a New Job

The first day at a new job can feel a whole lot like the interviews you went through to land that job. You're still nervous, excited, and desperate to make a strong first impression. Only now, you als...

Daily Crunch: App Store reviews and social media depict user backlash against Snapchat's new AI chatbot

To get a roundup of TechCrunch's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.As Twitter continues its absolutely farcical march toward its own de...

Winamp relaunches -- and breaks my nostalgic heart

Oh, to be an innocent young techie in the '90s again. Merrily downloading Metallica albums from Napster, joyriding from bird's eye views in GTA 1, and praying that 30-second porn clip would buffer bef...

What You Should Know About Strep Throat and the Amoxicillin Shortage

You or your kids may already been familiar with strep throat; I know I had to suffer through lots of throat swabs and pink liquid medicine as a kid. But the medication to treat it is in short supply r...

Always be prompting

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week's startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.Reporter's note: ...

Take These Steps to Heal Your Relationship With Money

Like with yo-yo dieting when you try to "eat healthier," it's easy to find yourself trapped in a cycle of unhealthy habits with money, too. And like your relationship with dieting, your relationship w...

Just Because You Don't Use a Bidet Doesn't Mean Your Butt Is Covered in Poop

Look, I'm not anti-bidet. I have one at home and I appreciate it. But there are some nonsensical bidet related myths going around that need to be flushed away. Chief among them: the idea that if you d...

The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem

[photo1]Dell CameronIn one sense, today's US congressional hearing on TikTok was a big success: It revealed, over five hours, how desperately the United States needs national data-privacy protections-...

The Easiest Way to Get Rid of a Wart on Your Own

The Easiest Way to Get Rid of a Wart on Your Own

The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is Competitive Hobbyhorsing?

[photo1]It's easy to point and laugh at the growing sport of competitive hobbyhorse, but maybe you should actually try it before you do. Maybe you should also try asking a Starbuck barista to surprise...

Implicit Bias: In-House Edition

[photo1]Over the years, there has been a plethora of content created about the importance of recognizing your own implicit biases and consciously "checking them" to make more equitable decisions. Alth...

Getty sues Stability AI for copying 12M photos and imitating famous watermark

Getty Images is well-known for its extensive collection of millions of images, including its exclusive archive of historical images and its wider selection of stock images hosted on iStock. On Friday,...