Monthly Archives: July 2022

Building the future of robotics

Hello and welcome to a special edition of Equity! Today, Alex sat down Brian Heater, a long-tenured TechCrunch denizen, our hardware editor, podcast extraordinaire, and genial chap. He also put together a really neat robotics-focused event that we’re hosting next week. The event is online, and free, which means that everyone can come and hang…

An Arizona man is suing a clinic that provided abortion pills to his ex-wife 4 years ago

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images Mario Villegas sued a Phoenix clinic for giving his then-wife abortion pills four years ago. In 2019, he filed a petition to become the representative of the terminated seven-week-old embryo, according to ProPublica. “All he wants to do is make sure it doesn’t happen to another father,” his attorney said. An Arizona…

This Week in Apps: Elon wants out, TikTok’s content ratings, a new milestone for subscription revenue

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. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by…

After Roe’s reversal, founders of women’s health startups prepare for battle

Advocates and organizers had been preparing for Roe v. Wade to be overturned since the U.S. Supreme Court draft decision leaked in early May. But Nadya Okamoto, co-founder of period care company August, still felt heartbroken when the decision became official in late June. “One of the things that always made me passionate about policy…

The career rise of ‘Avatar’ director James Cameron, from a flop ‘Piranha’ sequel to making 2 of the biggest movies of all time

James Cameron. Amanda Edwards/Getty Images James Cameron directed two of the top 10 biggest movies of all time, “Titanic” and “Avatar.” “Avatar’s” long-awaited sequel, “The Way of Water,” comes to theaters in December. Here’s how Cameron rose to become one of the movie business’s most successful filmmakers. James Cameron, 67, quit his job as a…