Former President Barack Obama walks by his presidential portrait as he and former first lady Michelle Obama have their portraits unveiled at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, on February 12, 2018. The former president’s portrait was painted by Kehinde Wiley while the former first lady’s portrait was painted by Amy Sherald. Matt…
Razer, you may recall, recently teased a 5G handheld device that’s focused on cloud gaming. The company took the opportunity at RazerCon to formally announce the system, which it calls the Razer Edge — yep, Razer finally went there with its branding. The Edge has a 6.8-inch AMOLED screen with a refresh rate of 144Hz…
Apple today announced that Apple Card users will be able to open a new “high-yield” savings account from Goldman Sachs and have their Daily Cash automatically deposited into it, with no fees, no minimum deposits, and no minimum balance requirements. Apple says the savings account option will be available “in the coming months,” but it…
iOS 16 continues to leak data outside an active VPN tunnel, even when Lockdown mode is enabled, security researchers have discovered. Speaking to MacRumors, security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry explained that iOS 16’s approach to VPN traffic is the same whether Lockdown mode is enabled or not. The news is significant since…
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Image: Meta Horizon Worlds, Meta’s social universe set in virtual reality (VR), is reportedly struggling to gain and keep users. According to internal documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Horizon Worlds currently has around 200,000 monthly active users, a dip from the 300,000-user milestone Meta confirmed it hit back in February. Horizon Worlds lets…
Art for the Minecraft Dungeons Halloween update. | Image: Mojang Minecraft Live is back for another year, and, just like with past livestreams, the 2022 edition had some notable developments for fans of the inescapable sandbox game. That includes a look ahead at the next major update for the main version of Minecraft as well…
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. Having talked to many insurtech investors lately, I found myself thinking about usage-based insurance (UBI, which in this case doesn’t refer to universal basic…
The internet has been debilitatingly parched, devastatingly eager, and overwhelmingly obsessed with the thirst traps that are coming from the one and only 81-year-old ex-con and home influencer Martha Stewart. On Saturday, Stewart was trending on Twitter not for a new line of home goods or a new cookbook but for a passionate advertisement she…
Bill Maher attends the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 27, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. Arturo Holmes/FilmMagic Bill Maher slammed Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker on Friday. Maher took aim at the candidate’s recent scandals including one centered around Walker’s former…