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Read MoreHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You
Read MorePhoto: Netflix Throughout the Haunting anthology, creator Mike Flanagan has carved out a very particular brand of horror. Both Hill House and Bly Manor are slow and methodical, with intricate stories that carefully weave together ghostly scares with family drama. Their small scope keeps them focused. Flanagan’s latest, Midnight Mass, isn’t part of that anthology,
Read MoreRicky Ben-David / The Times of Israel: Jerusalem-based Lightricks, which makes 11 subscription photo and editing apps, including Facetune, raises $130M Series D at a $1.8B valuation — Lightricks’ tools are used by millions of content creators across social media platforms worldwide — Lightricks, a Jerusalem-based software startup …
Read MoreBless the astronomers who have been watching the night skies and documenting what they saw since time immemorial. Twelfth-century Chinese and Japanese astronomers described a “guest star” as bright as Saturn, which appeared suddenly and lingered for six months. Their careful reports placed the heavenly visitor between two Chinese constellations, Chuanshe and Huagai. But then
Read MorePhoto by Sean Gallup/Getty Images With the iOS 15 launch today, some iPhone users will have the option to share data from their Health app directly with their doctors through their electronic medical records. Six health record companies are participating in the initial launch, and some of those companies say that doctors and medical practices
Read MoreJust like that, they came back. The Inspiration4 crew made a triumphant splashdown on Saturday evening off the east coast of Florida, marking the close of the first completely private, all-civilian space mission. SpaceX’s Go Searcher recovery ship hauled the Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, a little less than an hour after splashdown. The crew
Read MoreApple’s Woven Nylon band for Apple Watch is definitely a thing of beauty and minimalism, but Apple no longer sells this particular band. It’s been replaced by the Apple Watch Sport Loop Band. But if you actually prefer the original style, we’ve rounded up some bands for you to consider, which costs even less than
Read MoreLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: Europol, alongside Italian and Spanish police, arrest 106 people accused of working for the Italian Mafia and laundering over €10M made through cybercrimes — European police accused several people of SIM swapping, phishing, and hacking in support of Italian organized crime.
Read MoreToday, TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups pitching on stage in this year’s Startup Battlefield. Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Startups will be competing for $100,000 in equity-free prize money and the attention
Read MoreNest’s Learning Thermostat is the go-to solution for many folks looking to add smarts to their heating and cooling systems. That said, it’s not for everyone — particularly for those who’ve gone all-in on HomeKit. That’s where the best smart thermostats like the excellent ecobee SmartThermostat come into play. This thermostat may not be as
Read MoreMore information to come in the future. What you need to know The Pokémon Company has announced a free-to-play app, Pokémon TCG Live. Players can add cards to their collection and battle trainers around the world. The application is coming to Mac, iOS, Windows and Android in the near future. Pokémon is not only known
Read More2021’s OnePlus 9. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has confirmed that the company doesn’t plan to release its traditional T-series device in the second half of this year. He also announced that next year’s OnePlus flagship phone would run on a newly unified operating system, following the company’s
Read MoreFlippa, an online marketplace to buy and sell online businesses and digital assets, announced its first venture-backed round, an $11 million Series A, as it sees over 600,000 monthly searches from investors looking to connect with business owners. OneVentures led the round and was joined by existing investors Andrew Walsh (former Hitwise CEO), Flippa co-founders
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Next OnePlus flagship will be the first to come with a new unified OS that merges Color OS and Oxygen OS. OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 8 series will also get the integrated operating system. Older OnePlus phones will continue getting their promised Oxygen OS updates. The inevitable is finally
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Over the past two years, there have been a lot of changes for OnePlus. Co-founder Carl Pei left to start his own company called Nothing. The Nord line expanded to include several super-budget OnePlus phones for the US that were essentially re-branded Oppo phones. And, earlier this year, OnePlus
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority During an interview, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau confirmed there will not be a OnePlus 9T this year. This comes months after a rumor suggested there wouldn’t be a Pro model, either. Granted, OnePlus could still launch more phones in 2021, but a T-series model won’t be one of them.
Read MoreKim Lyons / The Verge: ByteDance says Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, will limit users who are under 14-years-old to 40 minutes per day, between 6am and 10pm, in China — Douyin’s youth mode will limit kids under 14 to 40 minutes a day — The Chinese version of the popular short video app
Read MoreOn Friday, the computer industry passed a quiet milestone. Ampere — launched on September 17, 2020 — has never been widely available in-market at its official MSRP. This, of course, has not stopped Nvidia from making an absolute killing on GPU hardware over the past 12 months, but it has starved the retail channel of
Read MoreImage: Apple “You get free iPhone upgrades for life!” “You get a $500 gift card for switching carriers!” I can almost hear Oprah shouting the many competing offers from all the carriers — AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon — as soon as the Apple “California Streaming” event was over. They’re all offering huge incentives to entice
Read MoreOpinion post by C. Scott Brown Towards the end of last year, we published an opinion article titled “The Oppo-ification of OnePlus is getting worse.” The piece essentially argued that OnePlus is slowly morphing into Oppo. We pointed out the exit of co-founder Carl Pei and the release of blatant Oppo rebrands as major touchstones.
Read MoreWhat you need to know The feature is coming “later this fall.” Was announced in June SharePlay is also delayed in iOS 15 When iOS 15 launches later today, September 20, don’t expect to see the new Find My AirPods Pro/Max feature launched. Announced with the rest of iOS 15 in June, the feature is
Read MoreSoumyarendra Barik / Entrackr: Indian startup FloBiz, a mobile billing app for small and medium businesses, raises $31M Series B led by Sequoia Capital India — FloBiz, a mobile billing app for businessmen like distributors, wholesalers, traders and retailers, has scooped up $31 million in its Series B round led by Sequoia Capital India …
Read MoreMichael Kozlowski / Good e-Reader: Amazon leaks updated Kindle Paperwhite devices with larger 6.8-inch displays in two variants: 8GB for $149 CAD and 32GB for $209.99 CAD, both with 17 LEDs — Amazon is going to be releasing a new Kindle Paperwhite in the next few days. The E-Reader will have a 6.8 inch screen
Read MorePhoto by Sam Byford / The Verge Nvidia is releasing a new display driver today that adds DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) support to 28 games, and is now certified for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The 28 additional DLSS games brings the total of games to more than 100, an important milestone for
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