Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales ban to resume January 18
Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 sales will be halted again in the U.S. starting at 5 PM tomorrow, January 18, due to the rejection of a bid by Apple to have the sales ban paused throughout its appeal of an ITC decision that found its blood
Read moreCISOs are both anxious and see opportunities: Report
Chief information and security officers both have feelings of anxiety and see opportunity as the new year starts. That’s the summation of the analysis done by IANS Research and Artico Search in their State of the CISO 2023-2024 report. It’s an 18-page summary of interviews conducted last fall with 100
Read moreYouTube to eliminate 100 employees as layoffs at Google continue
Yet another series of layoffs has hit Google, this time at its video-sharing platform, YouTube. The company will eliminate 100 employees, a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. Last week, Google laid off more than 1,000 workers across several divisions, including engineering, services and voice-activated product Google Assistant. “As we’ve said, we’re
Read moreEU calls for laws to force greater algorithmic transparency from music-streaming platforms
The European Parliament is calling for new rules to bring more fairness and transparency to music-streaming across the bloc, including proposals for a new bill to force streaming platforms to open up their recommendation algorithms. The bill would also require Spotify et al to make it clear where a song
Read morePrismatic lands $22M to connect disparate B2B SaaS apps
IT teams today have to juggle an enormous number of tools, apps and systems. The average company was using 130 software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps as of 2022, according to Statista — a volume that’s impacting productivity. Eighty percent of companies responding to a recent MuleSoft poll said that app integration challenges
Read moreSamsung is taking on Oura with the Galaxy Ring
It took Oura (pictured above) to show the world that the ring is a viable health tracking form factor. There have since been a handful of likeminded devices on the market, but no one quite as big as Samsung has further validated the technology by offering up their own take.
Read moreAsk Sophie: What visas could work to come to Silicon Valley for customer discovery?
In this week's Ask Sophie column, Sophie explores immigration options for coming to the United States for customer discovery. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreApple tops Samsung in worldwide smartphone shipments for the first time
Apple’s iPhone has overtaken Samsung for the first time ever as the best-selling smartphone in 2023, according to a new report from IDC. The tech giant accounted for 20% of the global market with 234.6 million shipments last year. Samsung closed the year with 226.6 million shipments, while Xiaomi and
Read moreTesla’s Cybertruck is having trouble living up to the hype
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge During the Cybertruck event last year, Elon Musk showed off a pretty impressive demo that pitted its 6,600-lb EV pickup against a Porsche 911 on a quarter-mile drag strip. The Cybertruck came out on top — with the twist that it was
Read moreThe next iOS update will make it harder to break into your iPhone
Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is expected to include a new security feature in iOS 17.3 next week called Stolen Device Protection that will make it far harder for would-be phone thieves to hijack your Apple ID and any financial information stored on the device. Right now,
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