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…
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From left: Meiloorun Juice, Tatooine Sunset, Sour Sarlac (top) on display. Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The cost of tickets to Disneyland went up 8% in 2021, reports say. Disney is experiencing the effects of inflation like ‘any restaurant on the street,’ expert says. Food and beverage prices at Disneyland…
Rep. Adam Schiff of California. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Rep. Adam Schiff is gauging a potential run for House Democratic leader, per The Washington Post. Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is a prominent face within the party. However, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has long been seen as a frontrunner to succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi….
Elon Musk HANNIBAL HANSCHKE /Getty Images Elon Musk said Saturday that interactions with most Twitter accounts seem “much lower” lately. Musk and Twitter are caught in an ongoing legal battle after he tried to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy the company. Musk filed a countersuit against Twitter on Friday after the…
Feel that gust of wind whipping by? Was it a summer breeze? Or could it have been the two, giant, building-sized asteroids whipping past the Earth this weekend? (It couldn’t, but just imagine.) The two space objects were documented by NASA, and will fly past — and safely miss! — our planet on July 29…
Picture this: it’s 2008 and I’m in my first year of college, badly needing my own laptop but not having a ton of spare income (read: barely any at all). At this point Dell, which had firmly established itself as a brand thanks to the desktops it provided to mine and other high schools, was…
Sony has said it’s aiming to increase the production of PS5 consoles in order to increase supply ahead of the end of 2022 and the holiday season. Sony made the announcement in its latest earnings results, in which it also explains that software sales and gameplay engagement have dropped year-on-year, stating that engagement in particular…
The bridge building tank Biber of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, pictured on September 28, 2018 near Munster, Germany. Alexander Koerner/Getty Images Germany plans to send Ukraine 16 Biber bridge-layer tanks. The tanks deploy assault bridges to help troops cross streams, ditches and other obstacles on the battlefield. The Biber tanks are the latest…
Rachel Mendelson/Insider A South Carolina bill would make assisting people getting abortions online or over the phone a felony. Tech law scholars say laws like these violate First Amendment freedoms. However, other states could soon propose measures to curtail out-of-state abortions, scholars say. As abortion restrictions tighten in certain states across the US, legislators are…