Sunshine yellow, hot and buttery. We are talking about the Sweet Corn Fiesta happening Sunday at the South Florida Fair. Palm Beach County grows more sweet corn than any other county in the United States; that’s 27-thousand acres annually. This morning, T.A. Walker is in Yester Year Village and is shining a light as we celebrate this season’s harvest.
Also on our cheat sheet: Spring savings from Ninja, Coach, Lego and more.
The Chiefs have some good home opponents this season.
The biggest news stories this morning: Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8,000 takedown requests, Parrots love video-chat, X is using Grok to publish AI-generated news summaries.
Last November, Adam D'Angelo found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest controversies in the tech industry. The board of OpenAI — the $80 billion startup leading the AI bandwagon — had abruptly booted its CEO, Sam Altman, only to reinstate him just days later. D'Angelo was on the board that dismissed Altman... and he was (and remains) on the board that brought him back in.
These are today's mortgage rates. Although rates seem high, they are over 50 basis points lower than they were six months ago. Lock in your rate today.
Founders at the early stages of building their startups may have already created a strong solution, identified a gap in the market, or may simply have an inescapable and driving motivation to build their own business. The investors at Sequoia, one of the world's biggest venture capital firms, have come up with a very handy framework to answer those two questions. "Hair on Fire" roughly means that your startup addresses an urgent problem.
Here's what you might've missed from this weekend's action across the league.
Larson won by 0.001 seconds.
Ohtani tagged Braves ace Max Fried for a two-run shot in the first inning, then hit a solo shot in the eighth as the Dodgers prevailed in a battle of NL favorites.
Basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what the teams and stars who were booted from the NBA Playoffs must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season.
Norris hadn't pitted and was leading the Grand Prix when a safety car was deployed for Logan Sargeant and Kevin Magnussen's crash.
Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the Bluesky board, and he responded with a terse “no.” Dorsey did not answer any of the follow-up posts asking him to explain his departure.
TechCrunch Mobility is moving to Thursdays! Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! EV startup Fisker laid off more employees to "preserve cash" as bankruptcy inches ever closer; ride-hailing company Ola cut about 180 jobs and ousted its chief executive, Hemant Bakshi, merely four months after appointing him to the post; and lidar company Luminar slashed its 700-person workforce by 20% as part of a restructuring to adopt an "asset light" business model.
A 1982 Volkswagen Vanagon, known as the T3 Transporter elsewhere in the world, found in a South Carolina junkyard.
Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota and potential 2024 running mate for Donald Trump, was pressed in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" on claims made in her forthcoming memoir.
Russell Westbrook is trying to clear up reports about him wanting to leave the Clippers.
Treat your living space to a makeover with fabulous finds from the pop icon's curated furniture and decor collection.
With the peak of first quarter earnings season in the rearview, stocks got back to their winning ways last week ahead of a slower calendar for corporate and economic news.
Get eight of these flickering-flame beauties for $30 and 'make spring/summer a little more fun.'
Some major deals on board: A super-handy collapsible garden cart for over $200 off, a cordless Shark pro stick vacuum for over 50% off, and a 65-inch Philips 4K smart TV for under $400.