Month: April 2021
This Week in Apps: An Apple event, more Clubhouse clones and an app store antitrust hearing
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 is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion…
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The most gruesome fatalities in Mortal Kombat history Mortal Kombat 11
What’s the first thing that springs to mind whenever you think of Mortal Kombat? Perhaps it’s certain iconic characters like Scorpion, Sub-Zero or Johnny Cage. Maybe it’s the fascinating lore, or even the hit-and-miss movie adaptations thus far. Or that theme tune. ‘MORTAL KOMBAT! But throughout the almost three-decade history…
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Samsung Galaxy A52 5G review: a midrange phone that will last
If a $100 budget phone is the fast-food dollar menu and a $1,000 flagship is a steakhouse dinner, then the Samsung Galaxy A52 5G sits comfortably halfway between the two: the laid-back all-day cafe with surprisingly tasty food. It’s good. More importantly, it’s good where it matters. Sure, you have…
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Score your summer with these video game soundtracks game music
Summer is almost here (unless you’re in the southern hemisphere), and to say we’re excited would be an understatement. For many of us life is finally returning to being semi-normal again. So, with the sun and longer days soon to be in full swing, we put together a list of…
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Get a load of this week’s best tech deals
It’s the weekend, so that’s our cue to fire off this handy list of the best tech deals we’ve laid eyes on over the past few days. There weren’t many big surprise price drops, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some great pieces of tech to buy. This week’s best…
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SpaceX capsule with four astronauts on board docks with the International Space Station
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts aboard successfully docked with the International Space Station early Saturday to start its six-month mission, NASA announced. Crew-2, as it’s been dubbed, is SpaceX’s third astronaut mission under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. It brings NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide of…
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