Google Fiber will soon offer some really fast internet speeds. | Image: Google Fiber Google Fiber will offer 5Gbps and 8Gbps tiers starting in early 2023 (via 9to5Google). The company is pitching these new offerings for people like creative professionals, those that regularly work “in the cloud” or with large data, and households with many…
Being in the business of convincing people that they deserve a vacation is hard. Being in the business of convincing people that they can co-own a vacation house and enjoy it at the same time can be deceptively harder. Getaway — different from another venture-backed Getaway, which sells escapes to tiny cabins in the middle…
Meta submitted a request to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s complaint about its acquisition of Within. The Los Angeles virtual reality firm makes Supernatural, a rhythm game-turned-workout app that, in our humble opinion, is a legitimately excellent use of VR. It makes sense why Meta wants to absorb the company, but the FTC has raised…
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. We just keep getting more excited about Disrupt, but it turns out there’s other stuff going on in the world. A lot of other stuff, in fact; it’s one of those days…
Framework is at the vanguard of a growing movement to make electronics more repair-friendly. Some have done so by choice and others have been…nudged in that direction by looming right to repair legislation across the globe. Framework, like Fairphone, is making that a core principle of its technology, without sacrificing the final project (check Devin’s…
Then-US President Donald Trump greets the crowd at the “Stop The Steal” Rally on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Jan. 6 committee members unanimously voted to subpoena Donald Trump on Thursday. Members said interviewing Trump is the only way to fill in gaps from uncooperative Trump aides. Members said there was…
A composite Then-President Bill Clinton during his famous 1998 news conference announcing he “sinned” and former President Donald Trump. David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images; José Luis Villegas/AP The House Jan. 6 committee obtained hundreds of thousands of internal Secret Service emails. The messages paint a damning portrait of the president and of fears of violence before…
Credit reporting company Equifax Inc. corporate offices are pictured in Atlanta, Georgia REUTERS/Tami Chappell Equifax recently fired 24 of its own employees for holding two jobs. A handful of the employees reported having three jobs simultaneously. Equifax used its own employment-tracking product to identify and investigate its employees. Credit-reporting firm Equifax fired 24 of its…
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Tug boats escort USS Zumwalt into harbor for a port visit in Yokosuka, Japan on September 26. US Navy/Seaman Darren Cordoviz US Navy destroyer USS Zumwalt is on a tour of the Pacific, making visits to Guam and Japan. The trip is the farthest the futuristic stealth warship has been from home since it entered…