Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) It’s the weekend, which means it’s time for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best tech deals from around the web includes a small but noteworthy discount on a one-month Disney+ subscription. If you’re a new or lapsed subscriber to the streaming app, you can currently grab a month of…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
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. I first covered Launch House in Oct 2020, when the co-founders described a strong focus on inclusion when creating hacker homes. A co-founder said then, “I wouldn’t say we’re the next Y…
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…
To avoid censorship for the spread of COVID-19 misinformation, anti-vax groups on Facebook have begun coding their messages with the carrot emoji, according to a report from the BBC. The emoji is used in place of the word “vaccine” to avoid the wrath of Facebook’s automated moderator algorithms. The BBC reports that these groups often…
Users can now upload their photo to the Walmart app if they want to see how clothes look on their body in new technology. Courtesy of Walmart “Be Your Own Model” is Walmart’s next phase of personalizing the online clothes shopping experience. The retail giant acquired virtual try-on platform Zeekit in 2021. Shoppers can upload…
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Too many subscriptions? Many of us are feeling this way, and so are companies: In a downturn, cutting unnecessary expenses is more important than…
Volunteers mingle outside of St. Andrews Episcopal Church. Two planes of migrants from Venezuela arrived suddenly Wednesday night on Martha’s Vineyard. Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Two planes with 50 migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard last week. The planes were organized with the help of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who used state funds…
The Department of Justice has asked a US federal judge to participate in the upcoming appeals case between Epic and Apple, according to court documents seen by Reuters. The companies will return to court next month to argue over the outcome of their 2020 antitrust case. The Justice Department filed a brief to enter the…
Today, we welcome the ‘Best Design Android Phone’ as Motorola calls it – the Edge 30 Neo – to our office. We have the unit in its Veri Peri purple color, Pantone’s 2022 Color of the year. The other three colors – Aqua Foam, Black Onyx, and Ice Palace – also make it clear the…
Yes, we are going to talk about this thing today. | Image: Razer Recently, The Verge’s reviews team has been making an effort to get rid of some of the ancient products we have lying around our office. We have donated or thrown away some truly prehistoric gadgets. But there was one device that, the…