The Mandalorian S3 teaser trailer | Image: Disney / Lucasfilm Disney showed off a teaser trailer for the third season of The Mandalorian at its D23 event on Saturday. While we don’t have an exact date for when the series will arrive on Disney Plus, the streamer previously said it will premiere in February 2023….
Monthly Archives: September 2022
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…
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. In some ways, Y Combinator’s biannual Demo Day is somewhat predictable: There will be Stanford dropouts, last-minute pivots, and, as always, promises of near-term profitability. We even made a bingo board about…
This is not a close-up of a dried orange peel but the incendiary details of the sun in outer space. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, a new instrument based on Earth, has delivered its first images. These snapshots, capturing an area of the burbling solar atmosphere, are giving the world an idea of just…
Instagram is mimicking another social media feature and at this point, it’s not even surprising. The Meta-owned company confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s testing a repost feature that’ll allow users to share others’ content to their feeds. It’s a very similar feature to Twitter’s retweets (rolled out as a button back in 2009) or the…
US House of Representatives Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert met with a Capitol rioter after her release from federal prison. He gave Dr. Simone Gold a flag that once flew over the Capitol as a gift. Gohmert falsely called Gold a “political prisoner.” Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert presented a Capitol rioter with an American…
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. AP Photo/Alex Brandon John Roberts stood in the defense of the Supreme Court’s legitimacy during a Friday speech, per CNN. Roberts said the legitimacy of the court shouldn’t be questioned due to disagreements on rulings. The high court during its previous term voted to overturn the landmark Roe v….
The Federal Communications Commission wants to do something about space junk in low Earth orbit. On Thursday, the agency published a proposal (via Ars Technica) that, if adopted, would put a deadline on how long non-geostationary satellites can stay in space. As things stand, voluntary NASA guidelines published in the 1990s recommend that dead satellites…
The second-gen AirPods (left), second-gen AirPods Pro (middle), and third-gen AirPods (right). | Image: Apple At its “Far Out” event on Wednesday, Apple introduced a new pair of AirPods Pro alongside the upcoming iPhone 14 lineup and long-rumored Apple Watch Ultra. The second-gen AirPods Pro are set to arrive on September 23rd, bringing with them…
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. For the first time, France was one of the top represented countries in Y Combinator’s Summer 22 batch. Three of the eight French startups…