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…
Early voters line up to cast ballots in the Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker in Kennesaw, Ga., on November 28, 2022. AP Photo/Mike Stewart Georgia voters on Friday cast over 350,000 ballots, setting a one-day statewide early voting record. The previous one-day early voting record was on Tuesday…
Twitter has restored the account of Andrew Anglin, one of America’s most notorious neo-Nazis. The creator of the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer had been banned from the social media platform for nearly a decade. His return would appear to be part of Elon Musk’s offer of “general amnesty” to users who had “not…
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Nissan is just one of the auto manufacturer’s that use Sirius XM’s connected vehicle services. A vulnerability affecting Sirius XM’s connected vehicle services could’ve let hackers remotely start, unlock, locate, flash the lights, and honk the horn on cars. Sam Curry, a security engineer at Yuga Labs, worked with a group of security researchers to…
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. To end the year, let’s continue to return to columns that I wrote that have aged, well, interestingly. In July, I wrote about how Y…
Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan of Georgia. AP Photo/John Amis Geoff Duncan was sharply critical of Herschel Walker’s Senate candidacy in a CBS News interview. “I think Herschel Walker will probably go down as one of the worst candidates in our party’s history,” he said. Walker and incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock are facing off in…
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