Google has abused the dominant position of Android in India to illegally hurt competitors in the world’s second largest internet market, a two-year antitrust probe by the nation’s watchdog has found. The Android-maker reduced device manufacturing firms’ ability and incentive to develop — and sell — devices running alternative versions of Android (more popularly known
Read MoreIt means customers with expiring AppleCare can continue their coverage at a monthly basis. What you need to know Renewable AppleCare+ is now available in three new countries. It has come to France, Italy, and Spain. Customers can now extend their AppleCare+ on a monthly basis when their initial plan runs out. Apple has this
Read MoreMost clocks these days have ditched the round face and instead prefer to tell time through the medium of 7-segment displays. [mihai.cuciuc] is bringing the round face to digital clocks with his time-keeping piece, MakeTime. MakeTime serves two purposes, the first and most obvious one is as a clock. Rather than displaying the time with
Read More“I think the ruling will be very good to try to put some of the discussions to rest on the App Store. In terms of the one we lost, there were one or two sentences scratched out of an agreement, that was the extent of it. I’m sort of looking forward to moving forward now”
Read MoreHe also tackled the company’s controversial remote working policy. What you need to know Tim Cook has addressed Apple employees at a company-wide meeting. He spoke about diversity, privacy, pay equity, and more. Apple CEO Tim Cook has spoken to employees about pay, diversity, equity, privacy, and more at a company-wide meeting Friday. As noted
Read MoreHello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, September 17th! What a week, ya’ll. It is now just days before Disrupt, which means the TechCrunch hive is buzzing. I’ll leave it by noting that Reid Hoffman is coming, which is going to be a treat. See you next week! — Alex The TechCrunch Top 3
Read MoreImage: Niantic Pokémon Go developer Niantic is shutting down its augmented reality game Catan: World Explorers, the company announced on Friday (via Protocol). An AR adaptation of the popular board game Catan announced in 2019, World Explorers was the company’s latest attempt to recreate the magic of Pokémon Go, but soon it’s all coming to
Read MoreIt was a brief orbital talent show. “Hayley is a champ at spinning,” Sian Proctor, one of the four private citizens currently orbiting Earth inside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, said of her crew mate Hayley Arceneaux, who was somersaulting in the weightlessness of space on camera. “She’s been spinning ever since we got on orbit.”
Read MoreDavid Shepardson / Reuters: General Motors says it is building direct relationships with chip manufacturers to address shortages, following production halts at six assembly plants — General Motors Co (GM.N) Chief Executive Mary Barra said Friday the largest U.S. automaker plans to make changes in its supply chain …
Read More[Applied Procrastination] aka [Simen E. Sørensen] has a simple project to help those of us that struggle with early-morning zombification. By leveraging the backlight optics from a broken LCD monitor, it is possible to create an excellent diffused light source to simulate daylight, before your chosen waking time. The theory is that it is less
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Remember when gadget vendors Aukey, Mpow, RavPower, Vava, TaoTronics and Choetech started mysteriously disappearing from Amazon’s online storefront, and it turned out Amazon had intentionally yanked them while vaguely gesturing to the sanctity of its user reviews? Turns out they were just the tip of the iceberg. Amazon
Read MoreIt’s still pricey even with this deal, but this Samsung has almost everything you could want in an Android phone right now.
Read MoreNew York Times: Recording from a global Apple all-hands meeting reveals Tim Cook answered only two questions from staff about workplace and social issues — Hundreds of current and former Apple workers are complaining about their work environment, a rarity for the once tight-lipped company.
Read MorePhoto by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Enough for workers to secretly save them Continue reading…
Read MoreLast season, one of the more curious additions to Fortnite was Guggimon, a terrifying-looking rabbit creature that also happened to be a virtual influencer with millions of followers on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Guggimon was created by a company called Superplastic — which has previously worked with the likes of the Gorillaz — and
Read MoreTracy Qu / South China Morning Post: Amazon says it has closed 3,000 seller accounts backed by about 600 Chinese brands for review fraud — The closures did not negatively impact the overall growth of Chinese online merchants on Amazon, according to a senior company executive Amazon kicked off an extensive clean-up campaign in May
Read MoreThe tech giants have set a troubling new precedent.
Read MoreImage: Nextorage Sony subsidiary Nextorage has released an SSD that’s perfect for the PS5 (via Tom’s Hardware): it has a heatsink (which Sony says is a requirement), is fast enough to well surpass Sony’s recommendations, and comes in 1TB and 2TB varieties, which gives you plenty of storage for your games. The catch? It’s kinda
Read MoreIf you’ve got a mechatronic project in mind, a 3D printer can be a big help. Gears, levers, adapters, enclosures — if you can dream it up, a 3D printer can probably churn out a useful part for you. But what about more complicated parts, like sensors and user-input devices? Surely you’ll always be stuck
Read MoreThe Echo Show 5 (left), Echo Show 8 (middle), and the Echo Show (right). | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge When it comes to smart speakers, Amazon has a slew of voice-enabled Echo devices to choose from, one for practically every occasion. Maybe you want to add Alexa to a room, for example,
Read MoreJD Alois / Crowdfund Insider: South Korea-based Upstage, which builds tech to help other companies adopt AI, raises $27M Series A led by SoftBank Ventures Asia and Company K Partners — AI startup Upstage has raised $27 million in a Series A funding round led by SoftBank Ventures Asia and Company K Partners.
Read MoreSindhu Kashyaap / YourStory: AI-enabled personal finance app Bright Money emerges from stealth with $31M Series A from Sequoia Capital India, Falcon Edge Capital, and Hummingbird Ventures — Fintech startup Bright Money helps people take better financial decisions, reduce debt, and build wealth.
Read MoreCK Tan / Nikkei Asia: Shanghai-based XTransfer, which provides currency and payment management services to 150K+ import/export SMBs, mostly in China, raises $138M at a $1B+ valuation — Company founded by Ant Group veterans raises $138m to expand reach — HAIKOU, China — XTransfer, a trade services startup founded …
Read MoreMichelle F Davis / Bloomberg: Caresyntax, an AI-powered platform that aims to reduce deaths from surgery-related complications, adds $30M to its Series C, bringing the round total to $130M — – Digital platform for surgery adds to $100 million round — ProAssurance, Harmonix, Relyens Group also join fundraising
Read MoreWhile the concept might seem quaint to us today, microfiche was once a very compelling way to store and distribute documents. By optically shrinking them down to just a few percent of their original size, hundreds of pages could be stored on a piece of high-resolution film. A box of said films could store the
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