Month: August 2021
Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates if your CPU is old
Yesterday, we wrote how Microsoft’s Windows 11 won’t technically leave millions of PCs behind — the company told us it won’t actually block you from installing Windows 11 on a PC with an older CPU, so long as you download and manually install an ISO file all by yourself. But…
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Google allegedly offered Netflix a break on the usual Play Store commission
An antitrust lawsuit filed against Google and its Play Store by several state attorneys general echoed the Epic vs. Apple battle, and a new document highlights how and why Google’s app store is so similar. MLex senior correspondent Michael Acton points out the new complaint, which arrived Friday night from…
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Want to be a more holistic healthcare company? Add some Ginger
When Headspace merged with on-demand mental healthcare platform Ginger, I was surprised. After all, Ginger raised $100 million in Series E funding just a few months ago — and last time I spoke to CEO Russell Glass, he stressed the importance of integrating into employer-paid health plans. To me, Headspace’s…
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This Week in Apps: Developers sound off on App Store settlement, OnlyFans’ flip-flop, Snap’s new camera
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 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using…
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The remote work argument has already been won by startups
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. The debate over remote work, office culture, how to manage teams of…
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Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU stock could be a bumpy ride over the next couple of months Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card top view
Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3060 graphics cards might just be thinner on the ground in the near future, before making a swift recovery, at least if the latest stock-related rumor turns out to be on the money. This is the scoop from Chinese tech site IT Home (as…
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