IBM and Maersk Abandon Ship on TradeLens Logistics Blockchain
An enterprise blockchain project from bygone bear markets will wind down after five years.
Elon Musk is delaying Twitter’s paid verification to avoid Apple’s 30 percent cut
You might have to buy Blue somewhere else. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s revamped Blue subscription might not be available as an in-app purchase on iOS when it eventually relaunches so that it can dodge Apple’s 30 percent cut of App Store purchases, according to Platformer. When the new Blue was … Read more
SBF reveals what was behind FTX’s reopening of Bahamian withdrawals
The former FTX CEO has explained why the exchange only reopened withdrawals for Bahamian citizens shortly before filing for bankruptcy.
Brazilian Chamber of Deputies Approves Bill Regulating Crypto Transactions
The bill still requires the approval of the executive branch before it becomes law.
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Jack Dorsey’s TBD Is Looking to Trademark ‘Web5’ to Deter Its Misuse
The move is meant to prevent confusion about the meaning of Web5.
Good luck getting a new iPhone 14 Pro before the holidays
iPhone 14 Pros are a scarce sight these days. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is on track to ship 20 percent fewer iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max units than expected this quarter due to recent covid lockdown restrictions and labor protests at an iPhone production plant owned by Foxconn. The … Read more
Iterative launches its second fund for Southeast Asia startups
Despite global headwinds, Southeast Asia’s early stage startups are still going strong, say the founders of Iterative Capital. The Singapore-based venture capital firm, which runs a YC-style accelerator program, announced today it has raised $55 million for its Fund II from LPs like Cendana, K5 Global, Village Global and Goodwater Capital. Other backers include a … Read more
Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2 million NASA contract for lunar construction tech
ICON, a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. The $57.2 million contract is a continuation of a previous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) dual-use contract with the U.S. Air Force, which was … Read more
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Let’s-a-go again with a new ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ trailer
One month after Nintendo debuted its first trailer for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” the company has revealed yet another trailer—this time giving fans a first look at Princess Peach and Donkey Kong. In the newest trailer, viewers get to see more of Illumination’s incredible animating skills with Donkey Kong, voiced by Seth Rogen, completely … Read more
Daily Crunch: Apple announces its 2022 App Store Award winners
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Oh hey! While we have you here, grab your calendar — we’ve got some things for you to add. For the stargazers among us, we’ll be in Los Angeles doing TC Sessions: … Read more
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Learn from FTX and stop investing in speculation
Speculative investing led people to FTX. Now that we’ve seen the consequences, let’s hope they start looking for value-based propositions.
Magic creator Richard Garfield on why he put a paper game on the blockchain
Richard Garfield is a name familiar to many in the tabletop gaming world, most notably as one of the creators of Magic: The Gathering, the most prominent trading card game out there. But Garfield is dipping his toes into the world of digital and in particular blockchain-adjacent games, and TechCrunch took the opportunity to quiz … Read more
The new Super Mario Bros. trailer is a peach
Nintendo Today, Nintendo gave fans a second look at The Super Mario Bros. Movie with a new trailer, giving us another opportunity to hear Chris Pratt as the preeminent pixelated plumber. We also got the first official glimpse of Donkey Kong and Princess Peach and heard Anya Taylor-Joy’s rendition of the Mushroom Monarch. It’s interesting … Read more
Amazon built the most realistic version of SimCity we’ve ever seen
Image: AWS and uCrowds Amazon has a new AWS service, AWS SimSpace Weaver, that lets users build massive simulations that look like real-world SimCity maps. The idea of this new service is that users can take advantage of Amazon’s massive AWS resources to run simulations that scale across multiple servers without running into computing or … Read more
‘I never opened the code for FTX’: SBF has long, candid talk with vlogger
The disgraced former head of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange tells his side of the story in candid but occasionally inarticulate interviews.
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The creator of the FTSE100 launches indices for crypto
The constituent coins that make up the indices have not yet been released, but it does include performance data for the first three quarters of 2022.