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.
The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined...
Rimac Group made headlines in June after it raised €500 million ($537 million) in a Series D round led by Goldman Sachs and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The deal valued the Croatian startup at $2.2 billion, prompting the question: How has this company succeeded where so many other EV makers have...
Apple could soon turn to OLED. If you’ve been following recent laptop trends, then you know that OLED is the next big thing in display tech. Yes, it’s been around for a few years, but 2022 seems to be the year when PC makers are finally looking to adopt it on a wide scale. Hell, the Lenovo...
While companies like Sony and Epson strive to bring giant movie theater-caliber projectors into the home, Philips is taking the opposite approach with compact alternatives that create big images from smaller hardware, like its new 1080p Screeneo U4 ultra short throw that looks no larger than a...
It’s hard to get a thrill from glimpses of unreleased smartphone hardware these days, given the baked-in maturity of the mobile market and the general form and function sameness of the sticky rectangles we humans routinely spend hours poking at and peering into each day.
But this rear-view...
The e-commerce market in Egypt is expected to grow 30% to $7.5 billion this year, spurred by a growing number of younger shoppers and rising incomes.
Local merchants are essential in driving this growth, and solving their logistical and operational needs end-to-end is where new upstarts in Egypt...
Apple’s WWDC event came and went without any mention of an AR/VR headset, but that hasn’t slowed the influx of reports and rumors surrounding this highly anticipated product. Despite the first model’s absence, we’re now learning about Apple’s second-generation mixed reality headset.
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European Union lawmakers have reached a provisional agreement that will require companies to make USB-C the standard charging port for devices sold in the region, in yet another example of European regulators facing off against big tech in the name of consumers.
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It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for photography — I’ve been known to take a photo or two in my time — and I have a hell of a weak spot for electronics, to boot. In the upcoming Open Circuits from No Starch Press, authors Windell Oskay, co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, and...
The problem with waiting for quantum computing to bring in the next wave of AI is that it’s likely to arrive a lot slower than people would like. The next best options include increasing the speed of existing computers somehow – but there’s now an important added ijmperative: power-efficient...
Instrumental was launched by two former Apple mechanical engineers in 2015. Having worked on products like the iPod and Apple Watch for the previous six years, they were intimately familiar with the process for checking on manufacturing quality: You got on a plane to Asia and took a look for...
Upcycling polyethylene (the normal ubiquitous plastic we are all familiar with) into high-value plastics that can compete with “virgin” plastic (meaning plastics made directly from petro-chemicals) is a fiendish problem to solve. The fact that it’s been extremely hard to do so means...
Major car manufacturers aren’t giving up on their efforts to stymie Massachusetts’ right to repair legislation. Less than two years after residents in the state voted in favor of updated right to repair laws that would let independent auto repair shops receive telematics data from vehicles,...
Twig, a London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger Millennial consumers with an e-money account that gives them instant cash-outs on fashion and electronics they want to sell, has closed a $35 million Series A round of funding.
The investment is led by UK-based fintech specialist, Fasanara...
Every year at CES, we see innovative TVs. Some are gimmicky—3D TVs and rollable screens, anyone?—but some are flat-out stunning. This year was all about a new display technology called Quantum Dot OLED (QD-OLED), and it’s definitely different from your standard OLED flat-screen.
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Instant purchase and delivery of food and other essentials was one of the big bubbles of opportunity in the world of e-commerce in the last year, with dozens of startups big and small emerging and scooping up funding to build out businesses to bring items like groceries, toilet paper and Tylenol...
Every year at CES the convention centers and hotel-casino ballrooms of Las Vegas convert into a battleground for TV makers trying to prove their displays are brighter, more colorful, and slimmer than the others. This year at CES 2022 was no different: Top dogs Sony, Samsung, and LG, alongside...
We may have just suffered through the year the billionaires traveled to space, but Asus wants you to know it made it there first, and it’s commemorating the achievement with a laptop that looks like it was designed for another planet.
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Hisense announced a new line of TVs and accessories during CES 2022 that’s set to include some cool upgraded technologies at every price point, including ULED and mini-LED, smart home integrations, and next-generation gaming features.
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Hisense announced a new line of TVs and accessories during CES 2022 that’s set to include some cool upgraded technologies at every price point, including ULED and mini-LED, smart home integrations, and next-generation gaming features.
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Hisense announced a new line of TVs and accessories during CES 2022 that’s set to include some cool upgraded technologies at every price point, including ULED and mini-LED, smart home integrations, and next-generation gaming features.
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Hisense announced a new line of TVs and accessories during CES 2022 that’s set to include some cool upgraded technologies at every price point, including ULED and mini-LED, smart home integrations, and next-generation gaming features.
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Hisense announced a new line of TVs and accessories during CES 2022 that’s set to include some cool upgraded technologies at every price point, including ULED and mini-LED, smart home integrations, and next-generation gaming features.
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Sony came out of the gate at CES 2022 swinging, with some big announcements that include the world’s first quantum dot OLED TV and a pivot to mini-LED after years spent perfecting OLED.
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Alienware’s new gaming monitor is massive, curved, and has a generous 1440p resolution, but I don’t really care about any of that. What grabs my attention, and what should be why you might spend big bucks on this monitor, is the QD-OLED technology it uses.
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Alienware’s new gaming monitor is massive, curved, and has a generous 1440p resolution, but I don’t really care about any of that. What grabs my attention, and what should be why you might spend big bucks on this monitor, is the QD-OLED technology it uses.
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Alienware’s new gaming monitor is massive, curved, and has a generous 1440p resolution, but I don’t really care about any of that. What grabs my attention, and what should be why you might spend big bucks on this monitor, is the QD-OLED technology it uses.
Read...
Alienware’s new gaming monitor is massive, curved, and has a generous 1440p resolution, but I don’t really care about any of that. What grabs my attention, and what should be why you might spend big bucks on this monitor, is the QD-OLED technology it uses.
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LG is updating its fleet of OLED TVs at CES, and while the underlying technology remains mostly the same, the company’s 2022 lineup has gained some enticing enhancements.
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LG is updating its fleet of OLED TVs at CES, and while the underlying technology remains mostly the same, the company’s 2022 lineup has gained some enticing enhancements.
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