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Today’s highlights
- Palmer Luckey’s retro gaming startup ModRetro reportedly seeks funding at $1B valuation — 2026-03-08
- The company launched its first product, a Game Boy-style handheld device called the Chromatic, in 2024.
- Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work? — 2026-03-08
- On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal government.
- Apple is going high-end with new ‘Ultra’ products next — 2026-03-08
- Fresh off launching the low-cost MacBook Neo, Apple is reportedly preparing at least three new products that will fit into its highest-end “ultra” lineup. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gruman, the next batch of releases
- What we’re listening to, watching, and reading right now. — 2026-03-08
- There is so much art out there that it’s absolutely impossible to keep up. Whether it’s a slept-on post-punk album from the ‘80s, a new sci-fi novel, or a cult classic horror movie, we’re always finding new obsessi
- Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps — 2026-03-08
- AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.
- Listen to this: Mabe Fratti’s experimental cello pop — 2026-03-08
- The opening notes of “Kravitz”, which kicks off Mabe Fratti’s 2024 record Sentir Que No Sabes, are lodged in my brain permanently. It’s not a showy album, by any means. But there’s something about the buzzing of her cell
- TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s R2 gambit — 2026-03-08
- Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.”
- The cute and cursed story of Furby — 2026-03-08
- The hottest toy of 1998 was sort of adorable, and sort of annoying. It couldn’t do much - couldn’t do anything, really - but it could look at you, it could say some nonsense phrases, and it seemed uncannily aware of the