Month: December 2022
Fosshost Is Shutting Down
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Fortnite’s latest live event was its strangest yet
Image: Epic Games Fortnite just wrapped up its most recent large-scale live event, and it was a strange one — even by Fortnite standards. The event, dubbed “Fracture,” was meant as a sendoff for Fortnite Chapter 3, and now that it’s over, the game is down ahead of the launch of the next chapter on … Read more
The new Last of Us trailer shows what Ellie and Joel are up against
Image: HBO HBO’s official trailer for The Last of Us shows off the dynamic between Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) as the two traverse a post-apocalyptic US amidst the outbreak of a mutant fungus that turns humans into zombie-like beings. It offers a much more detailed look at the dangers the two come … Read more
Prince of Caricatura
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LastPass hacked, OpenAI opens access to ChatGPT, and Kanye gets suspended from Twitter (again)
Aaaaand we’re back! With our Thanksgiving mini-hiatus behind us, it’s time for another edition of Week in Review — the newsletter where we quickly wrap up the most read TechCrunch stories from the past seven(ish) days. No matter how busy you are, it should give you a pretty good idea of what people were talking … Read more
Will Grayscale be the next FTX?
Grayscale is fighting the good fight on behalf of everyone in cryptocurrency.
Alameda Research invested $1.15B in crypto miner Genesis Digital: Report
Sam Bankman-Fried was consulted on the capital injection, which was made before crypto prices plummeted.
The Witcher: Blood Origin’s latest trailer puts Jaskier in the prequel
Image: Netflix Netflix’s first full trailer for The Witcher: Blood Origin shines a spotlight on the prequel’s key characters played by Michelle Yeoh, Sophia Brown, and Laurence O’Fuarain. But it also comes with a bit of a surprise at the very end, revealing the return of Joey Batey’s Jaskier. The bard’s return doesn’t make all … Read more
Adventures in Advent of Code
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MagSpoof: Wireless Magstrip Spoofer
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PX or REM in CSS? Just Use REM
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This Week in Apps: The year’s best apps, Twitter rival Hive’s security woes, App Store backlash grows
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 … Read more
How to buy food with Bitcoin?
Users can pay bills with cryptocurrency directly from their crypto wallet or using a payment processor acting as an online crypto payment gateway.
Copycats can drown
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. To end the year, let’s continue to return to columns that I wrote that have aged, well, interestingly. In July, I wrote about how Y … Read more
The Dawn of Mediocre Computing
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