A quick caveat up top. This isn’t a review. TechCrunch does reviews. This isn’t one. There are several reasons for this. First, last week was Disrupt — I was busy on the other side of the country. Second, this week is my COVID week (third round, otherwise self-explanatory w/r/t a limited output). Third, we very…
Elon Musk officially owns Twitter now and it’s cause for celebration in some conservative circles. The new ‘Chief Twit’ has already made public his intentions to bring back right-wing accounts that were banned after breaking Twitter’s rule But now that Musk is intent on making Twitter more “red,” where does that leave other alternative conservative…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OCTOBER 28: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) takes measurements around Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s home after her husband Paul Pelosi was assaulted with hammer inside their Pacific Heights home early morning on October 28, 2022 in San Francisco, California, United States. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via…
Elon Musk’s Twitter account is displayed on the screen of an iPhone on April 26, 2022 in Paris, France. Chesnot/Getty Images Tesla competitor General Motors told CNBC it is pausing ads on the platform as it assesses Twitter under Musk. Musk took over Twitter on Thursday, and some companies that advertise on the platform are…
Potential details for the upcoming Pixel 7a are getting reported thanks to various tidbits of info being made available from multiple sources. From what’s being described, the next budget-friendly Pixel device from Google sounds like a serious contender to be your next smartphone. Gathered together and made easily digestible by our friends over at 9to5Google,…
I didn’t think buying a new iPad would require an advanced degree in cost-benefit analysis. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Last week, I decided I was going to buy a new iPad. There’s nothing wrong with the sixth-gen iPad I currently have, except it’s heavier than I’d like. All I want to…
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Organizers at Apple’s Towson Town Center store in Maryland claim that the company isn’t telling the whole truth when it comes to withholding benefits from workers at the location. As the company’s first retail location to unionize in the US pushes to negotiate a contract, workers say it’s…
Enlarge / A Comcast Xfinity service van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Sundry Photography) Comcast has a problem—it isn’t signing up many new broadband customers. But Comcast also has a solution—get more money from existing subscribers. Comcast failed to add any broadband customers in Q2 2022, holding steady at 32,163,000…
Cold and flu symptoms can easily be mistaken for COVID-19, but the reverse is also true. Pexels This post has been updated. It was originally published on 3/25/2020. By now, almost everyone has experienced a COVID-19 case. The milder COVID symptoms—which are often the early signs of an infection, and sometimes the only signs you’ll…
The new goal is higher than the existing target set by the EU in 2018. DepositPhotos It’s not just New York and California passing major measures to stifle and eventually stop new gas-powered car sales recently—just today the European Union announced their own version on Thursday. This step is just the first part of the…