Since launching as a direct-to-consumer furniture brand in 2013, Castlery has built a reputation for design-forward products that look good and perform even better. Castlery’s aesthetic leans mid-century modern, favoring earthy tones, rounded edges, and natural wood finishes that outlast fleeting trends. But it’s the functionality that won WIRED over. Think: Hidden storage compartments, modular layouts, multi-functional pieces, and performance fabrics that can withstand everyday use. We also care about sustainability, and Castlery’s furniture is made to last. Many products are responsibly sourced and safe from heavy metals, allergenic dyes, and other harmful chemicals. You can read more about the brand’s sustainability practices here.

I adore my Castlery Auburn Storage Bed; it gives my room a clean Scandinavian feel and hides my suitcases and whatever else I can fit underneath. I also have the Auburn Sectional, and I love it for similar reasons. It’s upholstered in the same PFAS-free polyester fabric as the bed frame. It does a brilliant job at camouflaging stains, makes cleaning spills easy, and it’s surprisingly resilient against my cats. It’s not completely claw-proof, but it outperforms every other couch I’ve had.

If you’re furnishing a room—perhaps you just moved or are due for a seasonal refresh—Castlery is a hard-to-beat recommendation. And with a bunch of Castlery discounts and Castlery promo codes available, it’s a little easier to justify the upgrade.

$500 Off Memorial Day Castlery Sale

One of the biggest ways to save if you’re looking to upgrade your home decor and furniture this season is to shop during the Memorial Day Castlery Sale, where you can get $120 off purchases of $1,500 or more; $230 off $2,500; and $500 off purchases of $4,500 or more. Plus, Castlery members get early access to the sale, 4500 off sitewide, and up to 40% off sale items. So whether you want to maximize space with a storage bed or want to upgrade your living room furniture, now’s the time to save big.

Unlock Your Castlery Promo Codes

This spring, Castlery is offering up to $450 off sitewide. New subscribers can also take an extra $80 off orders of $1,500 or more with code SPRING80. On the sale page, you’ll find bed frames, dining sets, and sectionals discounted by an additional 5% with Castlery promo code EXTRAOFF. It may not sound like much, but it’s enough to shave hundreds off big-ticket pieces.

Score up to 15% Off Furniture Sets Instantly

Castlery’s collections are stunning and, sometimes, surprisingly durable. Fortunately, the brand makes it easy to bundle pieces for a discount when you’re furnishing an entire room, right now with up to 15% off furniture sets. You can mix and match across living room setups, outdoor furniture, dining sets, and bedroom bundles that include matching nightstands. I’m especially partial to the Auburn line, which has held up impressively well against my cats. Castlery also offers white-glove delivery, so you don’t have to do any of the heavy lifting.

Refer a Friend at Castlery to Earn 100 Credits

If you shop at Castlery a lot, it’s time to get rewarded for the purchases you were already going to make. The Castlery Club is a rewards program that gives rewards points for purchases, giving credits for savings and discounts on future purchases. When you refer a friend and they sign up for The Castlery Club, they’ll get $100 off their first purchase, and you’ll get rewarded with 100 credits to your account. It’s a win-win.

Claim Free Shipping on all Orders $999+ Today

In select major cities, Castlery customers can qualify for free US shipping on orders of $999 or more—or $1,199, depending on your location. This offer applies automatically at checkout once the minimum spending amount is met. Keep in mind that shipping is charged per shipment, not per order. If your items ship separately, you may see multiple delivery fees tied to a single purchase. For full details, check Castlery’s delivery page.

Don’t Miss this Castlery Coupon for Your First Order

First-time shoppers can score a Castlery discount by signing up for Castlery’s newsletter, which sends a unique promo code for $50 or $80 off your first order (depending on the promotional period). It’s also the best way to stay in the loop on new product drops and early access to sales.

Maximize Your Savings With the Castlery Club Rewards

Join the Castlery Club, the company’s free loyalty program, and earn credits on every dollar you spend. Those credits can be redeemed for future discounts and member-only perks throughout the year. There are also a few low-effort ways to rack up credits without even buying anything. For example, you’ll get 10 credits for signing up for emails, 10 for following Castlery on Instagram, 20 for updating your profile, 75 for leaving a product review, and 100 for referring a friend, which amount to a Castlery discount down the line.

Unlock Special Financing Options to Upgrade Your Home

Castlery understands that furniture is a major investment, so it offers flexible financing options to ease the upfront cost. Through Affirm, you can split your purchase into manageable monthly payments, with low or even 0% APR available depending on your credit and any current Castlery promo codes. The application is straightforward and happens at checkout.

I recently gave my OpenClaw a real robot arm to play with. The results just about blew my own neural network.

The AI agent was able to configure the arm, use it to see and slowly grab things, and even train another AI model to pick up and place specific objects. And they say AGI is still a few years away! (I’m joking, it probably is).

The results have me convinced that we may be on the brink of a robotics breakthrough. Training and controlling robots used to require considerable skill. Today’s AI models can make it almost easy.

“AI-powered coding is super exciting because it has the potential to bridge the gap between conventional engineering methods, which are reliable but don’t generalize, and contemporary vision-language-action models, which generalize but are not yet reliable,” says Ken Goldberg, a roboticist at UC Berkeley who is exploring the approach.

I bought a prebuilt arm called a LeRobot 101. It’s part of an open-source project from HuggingFace that makes it relatively cheap to start building and experimenting with robotics.

The LeRobot comes with two arms: a controller arm that a person operates using a handle and a trigger, and a follower arm with a camera that replicates those movements. You can train an AI model by teleoperating the controller arm and having the model learn how to move the follower in response to what it sees on the camera.

Building With OpenClaw

Before using OpenClaw, I spent several hours trying to connect and calibrate the robot, at one point nearly breaking the motors by applying the wrong settings, which caused them to overheat.

Then, with help from OpenClaw and Codex, I was able to vibe code a simple program that closed the claw’s gripper when it spotted a red ball. In the terminal, Codex went through the tricky work of configuring the connections to the robot. Then, with my help, it calibrated the positions of its joints. It also wrote a Python script that used several libraries to identify and grip the ball in question. Vibe-coding isn’t perfect of course, and hallucinations can introduce bugs especially when working with different hardware, but the results were impressive.

Then, with my help, the robot-agent figured out how to identify and grip a red ball.

A former police chief, who faces drug trafficking charges has claimed that Spanish drug investigators fabricated fictitious intelligence reports to hide their use of intercepted phone messages from the courts.

Former chief inspector Óscar Sánchez Gil, who is accused of running a drug trafficking operation, told a court that it was a “common and systematic practice” for Spanish drug investigators to withhold intercepted messages from judges.

The disclosures, if proved true, are likely to raise to questions over the use of intercepted phone messages from encrypted phone network Sky ECC and the FBI run encrypted phone network, Anom, in criminal prosecutions.

Giving evidence by video link from prison on 19 May 2026, Sánchez Gil, former head of the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) claimed it was common practice to falsify the origin of information from intercepted messages by presenting them as tip-offs from overseas law enforcement agencies.

“Most of the information supposedly communicated by the [US Drugs Enforcement Agency] DEA, the [UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency]  SOCA and [the UK’s National Crime Agency] NCA..is false. If is fabricated to conceal illicit sources of information or to protect informants,” he told Spain’s National Court.

The former police chief’s claims, first reported by the news website elDario.es, and confirmed to Computer Weekly by people present at the hearing, follow a series of international police operations to infiltrate encrypted phone networks used by organised crime groups.