Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. We’ve been living through a lot of tech history over the past two years, but the brutal Twitter layoffs feel especially sad, complex and exhausting…
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…
Just days after newly minted Twitter CEO Elon Musk floated changes to Twitter’s system for verifying user accounts, including charging $8 per month for the privilege, Twitter appears to have begun rolling out a new tier of Twitter Blue, its premium subscription service, that reflects some of the changes that Musk has proposed. According to…
Elon Musk’s satellite internet company is about to start slowing some users down. According to Starlink’s (the internet division of SpaceX) new fair use policy, folks who use Starlink for home internet may now experience throttling if they use too much internet during a monthly billing cycle. If you don’t know, throttling is the practice…
Ron DeSantis at a football game in Jacksonville, Florida on October 29, 2022. James Gilbert/Getty Images Ron DeSantis spent a year after college teaching at a private school in Georgia, per The New York Times. Former students said he had a “smug” air about him and was a “total jock” who partied with students. Some…
As recently as October 24th, Ukraine’s military suffered a partial internet outage after 1,300 Starlink terminals went offline due to a funding shortage, reports CNN. The blackout occurred amid ongoing talks between SpaceX and the Department of Defense that continue despite Elon Musk having said his company would continue to foot the bill for the…
These shelves are sturdy, too. Jean Levasseur Pretty much everybody has shelves in their home. But not everybody has shelves that make their friends stop, step back, and say, “Now, wait one minute. How on Earth are those things attached to the wall?” Though they may seem like magic, so-called floating shelves are a straightforward…
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. As much as I like spotting new trends, it is just as important to get confirmation on previous predictions we made or heard. This…
Ron DeSantis. James Gilbert/Getty Images Ron DeSantis spent a year at a private school in Georgia teaching history and government, per The New York Times. A former student said DeSantis would “play devil’s advocate” over controversial subjects like the Civil War. The student also said DeSantis was “mean” and “hostile” to her because she was…
Bayonetta 3 was reportedly “scoped as a semi open-world game”. That’s according to games journalist Imran Khan, who offered an insider peek at the sequel’s lengthy delay on his Patreon, reflecting on why those open world rumours seemingly didn’t amount to anything in the end. “At one point in development, Bayonetta 3 was scoped as…