Imagine if you had the power to influence people’s subconscious minds. It would be great, wouldn’t it? As a marketer, you could reach out to consumers and persuade them to click through and buy your product, or they’d see an advert offline and instantly want to rush and buy what you’re selling. What if I…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Realme has announced the Android 12-based Realme UI 3.0 open beta program for the Realme X3 in India, which was launched in June 2020 with Realme UI based on Android 10. Those interested in getting a taste of Android 12 and Realme UI 3.0 on their X3 can apply for it by navigating to their…
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Maybe Elon Musk doesn’t want a court battle with Twitter? After having his lawyers spin up a 165-page argument about why he no longer wants to go through with his $44 billion deal to buy the platform, Musk suggested hashing things out in public — perhaps…
Photo by Abigail Bassett for The Verge Toyota is offering to buy back its bZ4X electric SUV crossovers after recalling the vehicle in June, as first reported by Electrek. The recall, which Toyota issued not even two months after the bZ4X’s release, involves loose hub bolts on the steering wheel that could cause it to…
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, Andrew Kelly/Reuters Elon Musk issued a “challenge” to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Saturday. The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO called for a public debate on how Twitter reports its spam bots and fake accounts. Musk has repeatedly accused Twitter of having far more bots than it reports, citing this as one…
Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia. AP Photo/Megan Varner Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said state Republicans must “run like we’re hungry again,” per the AJC. Kemp made the remark at a campaign event in a state that has become an electoral battleground. Kemp is running for reelection against Democrat Stacey Abrams in a rematch of their…
Fitbit is discontinuing support for PC and Mac syncing. On a support page spotted by 9to5Google, the company said it would remove the option for users to sync their trackers over its Connect app on October 13th, 2022. After that date, the only way to transfer your data off your Fitbit wearable will be through…
In Web2, apps and advertisers track our every move. With decentralized identities in Web3, we will own our data and make it work for us.Read MoreRead More
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. Gumroad’s Sahil Lavingia broke into the venture world as one of the early testers of the rolling fund, an AngelList product that allows investors to raise capital on a subscription-like basis. That…
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…