The average starter home in New York City has shrunk to the size of four parking spots

Modern Spaces The cost of an average starter home in New York City ranges from $400,000 to $800,000, according to StreetEasy.  Starter homes in NYC have shrunk by 9% in the last three years, the real estate marketplace found. The median square footage for a Manhattan home is now equal to that of four-and-a-half parking…

Guillermo del Toro’s magical Pinocchio process video is utterly mesmerizing

Guillermo del Toro taking a peek at a miniature set featuring Pinocchio sleeping or not yet alive in Geppetto’s workshop. | Netflix Once upon a time, it seemed as if Netflix’s upcoming stop-motion Pinocchio from co-directors Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson’s might in a bit of competition with Disney’s “live-action” spin on the classic…

Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin prequel series is coming this December

Laurence O’Fuarain as Fjall, Sophia Brown as Éile, and Michelle Yeoh as Scian. | Netflix While the third season of Netflix’s live-action Witcher series still doesn’t have an actual premiere date, the wait for Declan de Barra and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich’s upcoming The Witcher: Blood Origin prequel series is almost over. Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood…

This Week in Apps: YouTube takes on TikTok, Spotify adds audiobooks, BeReal takes a dive

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…