OLED lives on this ProArt Studiobook 16. | Image: Asus Samsung Display is following through on its promise to ramp up OLED production. The company has begun mass-producing laptop-sized 90Hz OLED panels, which will appear in multiple upcoming 14-inch laptops from Asus. “The demand for laptops is increasing steadily as working from home and remote
Read MorePictured: Tim Cook, knowing he’s not about to announce the thing I want. | Image: Apple For many who follow tech news closely, Apple’s event on Tuesday had a few big surprises — not because there were completely unexpected announcements, but because we didn’t see things we really thought we’d be getting. Rumors that had
Read MorePatrick Howell O’Neill / MIT Technology Review: Sources: US firm Accuvant, now part of Optiv, sold iPhone hacking tool Karma to the UAE for $1.3M in 2016; the tool has been used against hundreds of targets — An American cybersecurity company was behind a 2016 iPhone hack sold to a group of mercenaries and used
Read MoreTo get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for September 15, 2021. Today we have everything in the newsletter. Bad behavior in the crypto world? Yep. Why the Mailchimp deal might make good sense?
Read MoreThe 55-inch Samsung Crystal TU-7000 is on sale at Best Buy for $450. | Image: Samsung There are a lot of 4K TVs available to choose from, complete with a wide variety of prices and performance. And, with many fall sales approaching, now might be the best time of the year to get an amazing
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Quibi’s zombie may finally be able to rest its weary head. The company’s successor has settled an ongoing feud with eternal thorn-in-its-side Eko. Eko, an interactive video company, and Quibi’s successor QBI Holdings announced today that they’d reached a settlement in the legal battle over Quibi’s perspective-shifting Turnstyle
Read MoreThis morning, Goldman Sachs announced plans to acquire B2B2C lender GreenSky in a deal worth $2.24 billion. The acquisition, which is still subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2020 or the first quarter of 2021, is positioned to bolster the firm’s consumer business and offer new products
Read MoreKatie Roof / Bloomberg: Discord says it has raised $500M led by Dragoneer, Fidelity, and others, source says at a ~$15B post-money valuation — – Discord raised $500 million, led by Dragoneer Investment Group — Startup turned down $12 billion offer from Microsoft — Discord Inc. raised $500 million …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Yesterday, Apple announced the iPhone 13 lineup. Today, a ton of YouTubers posted their reaction videos to the new iPhone. We’ve gathered a ton of those videos here for your viewing pleasure. What does your favorite tech YouTuber think of the iPhone 13? Yesterday, Apple hosted its “California Streaming” event
Read MoreFor the past ten years, Tim Cook’s greatest accomplishment as Apple CEO has been vastly more of the same. More iPhones, more iPhone accessories, more apps, and so much more money. While the Mac and iPad have occasionally fallen into disrepair, the company keeps coming back with new reasons to buy its greatest hits every
Read MoreDataStax is making its serverless, NoSQL database-as-a-service (DaaS) Astra DB, built on open-source Apache Cassandra, available in multiple regions across major cloud services providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). To read this article in full, please click here
Read More(Photo: Alvaro Reyes/Unsplash) (Photo: Alvaro Reyes/Unsplash)Nintendo has updated the Switch many times since its launch, usually adding a minor feature here and there. The latest update, though, adds a big one. The Switch now has native support for Bluetooth audio, allowing you to pair your favorite headphones with the hybrid game console. There are a
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Read MoreThese titles shine, despite their obscurity. When people think of the Nintendo Switch, they often think about the most popular titles to grace the company’s consoles, like Zelda games or Pokémon games. As is the case with all forms of media, sometimes great titles just happen to fall a little under the radar. Whether it
Read MoreReach Capital, a San Francisco-based venture firm co-founded by Jennifer Carolan and Shauntel Garvey, focused exclusively on edtech for years before the sector ballooned with unicorns. The rare, female-led partnership closed its third fund in February, a $165 million vehicle and its largest to date. That said, returns from its previous funds show that the
Read MoreAsh Fontana Contributor Share on Twitter Ash Fontana, a managing director at Zetta Ventures, is the author of “The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence.” More posts by this contributor Growing up in the intelligence era Investors in AI-first technology companies serving the defense industry, such as Palantir, Primer and Anduril,
Read MoreBloomberg: Thoughtworks shares close up nearly 40% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at ~$9B, after raising roughly $773M in its IPO — – Tech consulting firm’s CEO ‘constant change’ for two decades — On, Dutch Bros, Definitive Healthcare all climb in debuts
Read MoreA screenshot from Battlefield 2042. | Image: EA Battlefield 2042, Dice’s upcoming entry in the Battlefield series, has been delayed by nearly a month, Dice parent company EA announced Wednesday. The game’s release date has been pushed from October 22nd to November 19th. “Building the next generation of Battlefield during a global pandemic has created
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the shadow of the iPhone 13, and an aggressive new “Forever Upgrade” plan to sell them, T-Mobile executives are complaining about Samsung’s phones, Fierce Wireless reports. Specifically, the lack of them. “Samsung has really fallen behind the eight ball relative to other OEMs on the global supply
Read MoreCatherine Thorbecke / ABC News: UN rights chief calls for a moratorium on sale and use of AI tech that threatens human rights, including facial recognition, until safeguards are put in place — “We cannot afford to continue playing catch-up regarding AI.” — The United Nations Human Rights chief on Wednesday called …
Read MoreLatest and greatest iPhone 13 From $799 at Apple Pros A15 Bionic chip 2.5 hours more battery life Base 128GB, up to 512GB storage Sensor-shift optical image stabilization Cinematic mode and Photographic Styles Cons More expensive The iPhone 13 is faster with the A15 Bionic Chip and has more storage and battery life than its
Read MoreThe sequel to the popular DS game finally lands on Switch. Our favorite blue hedgehog has had a rough run of luck for the past two decades when it comes to video games. The majority of recent releases have been misses rather than hits. However, one highlight from the Sonic graveyard has been Sonic Colors,
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Apna, whose networking app lets blue collar workers upskill and find jobs, raises $100M Series C led by Tiger Global, becoming India’s youngest unicorn — A 22-month old startup that is helping millions of blue- and gray-collar workers in India learn new skills and find jobs has become …
Read MoreLarry Dignan / ZDNet: Adobe says it will launch a payment service via PayPal for Adobe Commerce by the end of the year, adding native payments to customers’ digital storefronts — Customers will be able to manage payments directly from their Adobe Commerce Admin without integration with third-party payment providers.
Read MoreAs of today, Microsoft is offering people the option to remove passwords from their Microsoft accounts, provided you don’t use certain features or applications on a regular basis. “For the past couple of years, we’ve been saying that the future is passwordless, and today I am excited to announce the next step in that vision,”
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