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SpaceX’s Inspiration4 crew returns to Earth, capping first fully private mission in orbit

Inspiration4 SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule carrying four private citizens plunged through Earth’s atmosphere Saturday night and splashed down off the east coast of Florida, closing out the company’s first all-civilian mission in space. The Inspiration4 crew — the mission’s billionaire funder Jared Isaacman, geoscientist Sian Proctor, physician assistant Haley Arceneaux, and data engineer Chris Sembroski

SpaceX’s Inspiration4 Returns After 3 Days in Orbit

The first all-civilian, all-private spaceflight splashed down off the coast of Florida.

Samsung Galaxy S21 vs iPhone 13 series comparison: Which should you buy?

Credit: Apple Apple just took the wraps off its 2021 flagships, comprising of four smartphones once again. Ranging from the Mini to the Pro Max, the iPhone 13 series appears to be an iterative update. But how does it stack up against Samsung’s Galaxy S21 lineup? Let’s find out in this Samsung Galaxy S21 vs

Cast-in-Concrete Clock Upgraded After Thirteen Years

Proving that an old design cast in concrete can indeed be changed, [Hans Jørgen Grimstad] has revisited his Nixie clock from 2008, cleaned up the electronics and packaging, and turned it into a kit. Not that he has plans to enter the kit-making business, but he just thought it would be fun to learn how to

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starlink internet service leaving beta in October

Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s Starlink satellite internet network would come out of its open beta phase next month. That’s two months later than the August date Musk gave at Mobile World Congress, when he also said he expected the service to have “possibly

Pokémon Unite: The right Held Items make your Pokémon much stronger

Give yourself an edge with stat-boosting Held Items. Whether you’re playing on the phone or Switch, there are a few ways to make yourself more powerful in Pokémon Unite. But the most basic way is to give your Pokémon helpful Held Items. These can boost stats, protect allies, or increase the number of Experience Points

Profile of Chris Gilliard, aka @hypervisible, who has helped coin concepts like “digital redlining” to highlight the impact of tech on marginalized groups (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Will Oremus / Washington Post: Profile of Chris Gilliard, aka @hypervisible, who has helped coin concepts like “digital redlining” to highlight the impact of tech on marginalized groups — Chris Gilliard grew up with racist policing in Detroit. He sees a new form of oppression in the tech we use every day.

User’s Guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 approaches in just three days. Here’s your how-to guide for everything you can expect at Disrupt. Although the main show kicks off on Tuesday the 21st, there’ll be some sneak peeks and extras going down on Monday. Make sure to log in to Hopin by noon on Monday to catch it all,

Is Pokémon Unite actually free to play?

Best answer: Yes, Pokémon Unite is free-to-play on iPhone, Android devices, and Nintendo Switch. While there are in-app purchases for skins and characters, you don’t have to pay anything to enjoy the game. Additionally, Nintendo Switch players do not need a Nintendo Switch Online membership to play. League of Pokémon Initially, Pokémon Unite released on

Harley-Davidson’s stunning vintage-inspired electric bikes are going on sale later this year

Nearly a year after announcing plans to spin out its own electric bike company called Serial 1, Harley-Davidson said it will sell a “limited” number of the gorgeous, vintage-inspired models that it originally said was just a “styling exercise.” The S1 Mosh/Tribute is an homage to “Serial Number One,” the nickname for Harley-Davidson’s oldest known

How to best use each Pokémon Unite role on the battle arena

Each Pokémon Unite role has strengths and weaknesses. You’ll need to play it correctly to do well against your opponents. There are five different roles to play Pokémon Unite: Attacker, All-Rounder, Defender, Speedster, and Supporter. They each have a different balance of stats and are better at doing specific things in the battle arena. For

Everything we’ve learned about the new I Know What You Did Last Summer show

Credit: Amazon Fans of 90s slasher films are about to get an exciting new series based on a classic. An I Know What You Did Last Summer show is headed to Amazon Prime Video just in time for Halloween. The new series will take a new approach to the story first filmed in 1997, which

Executive coaching for employees is complicated and emotional

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. BetterUp, a reskilling and coaching platform for employees before and beyond the C-suite, is getting in touch with its emotions. This week, the richly funded unicorn startup announced a pair of acquisitions

Facebook VP says WSJ’s series contained deliberate mischaracterizations, and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook’s leadership and employees (Nick Clegg/About Facebook)

Nick Clegg / About Facebook: Facebook VP says WSJ’s series contained deliberate mischaracterizations, and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook’s leadership and employees — A lot has been said about Facebook this week. A series of articles published by the Wall Street Journal has focused …

Facebook VP disputes report claiming the platform knows about multiple flaws it doesn’t fix

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s vice president of global affairs criticized a series of stories by the Wall Street Journal that reported the social network is aware of numerous problems across its platforms that cause harm to users, but does little to fix them. In a post on Facebook’s blog, Nick Clegg

1 change that can fix the VC funding crisis for women founders

Claire Diaz-Ortiz Contributor Share on Twitter Claire Diaz-Ortiz is a venture capitalist and author of nine books that have been translated into 11 languages. Her next book is on women founders and funders. An early employee at Twitter, Wired once called her “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter.” More posts by this contributor

China Roundup: Beijing is tearing down the digital ‘walled gardens’

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, China gets serious about breaking down the walled gardens that its internet giants have formed for decades. Two major funding rounds were announced,

SoftBank’s Marcelo Claure is coming to Disrupt next week

SoftBank has been on a tear in Latin America. The Japanese investment conglomerate just announced it has launched its second Latin America-focused fund with a $3 billion capital commitment from the company that may grow as the fund explores “options to raise additional capital,” according to SoftBank. The vehicle follows hot on the heels of

Solar Powered Autonomous Tugboat For Rescuing Autonomous Vessels

[rctestflight] has built several autonomous boats, and with missions becoming longer and more challenging, he bought an inflatable kayak to serve as a dedicated rescue vessel. Instead of relying on outdated manual paddling, he built an autonomous solar-powered tugboat. ♪ “Rum, treasure, ArduRover, Pixhawk 4 and so much solar, break of dawn till the day

Switch finally got Bluetooth headset connectivity and N64 games are coming

Which N64 games do you really want to play on Switch? Well another week has come and gone meaning that it’s time for the Nintendo recap. Welcome, everyone. There’s been a few exciting developments this week, including insiders claiming that an N64 emulator on Switch is coming and an update released that finally lets us

Clive Sinclair, inventor of the ZX Spectrum personal computer, has died

Inventor and entrepreneur Sir Clive Sinclair has died at age 81. | Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Clive Sinclair, who invented the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an early personal computer, died of cancer Thursday at age 81, his family confirmed. Sinclair was an inventor with an impressive list of electronic products to his name, some,

Telegram blocks Navalny’s Smart Voting chatbot on the second day of voting in Russia’s parliamentary election (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Telegram blocks Navalny’s Smart Voting chatbot on the second day of voting in Russia’s parliamentary election — Popular messaging app Telegram has suspended all chat bots used in the Russian elections campaign, in another blow to jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s Smart Voting initiative …

Divining the real value of my favorite fintech sub-niche

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Thank you for clicking on this email. With a subject line like that you are legend for

SEC Regional Director Erin Schneider is joining us at Disrupt

If ever there was a time when working at the Securities and Exchange Commission was a dull affair, that’s no longer true. The federal agency that’s responsible for protecting investors and maintaining fair and orderly functioning of our securities markets is busier than ever, thanks to the rise of SPACs, cryptocurrencies and new rules around

This Week in Apps: Apple’s iPhone event, App Annie hit with securities fraud, OpenSea goes mobile

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices

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