Star Trek: Picard’s latest teaser reveals some unexpected comebacks

Image: Paramount Plus Star Trek showed off the latest trailer for the final season of Picard at the New York Comic Con on Saturday, revealing some unexpected reappearances by legacy characters: hologram James Moriarty (Daniel Davis) and Data’s evil counterpart, Lore (Brent Spiner). The trailer opens with Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) receiving a distress … Read more

This Week in Apps: Twitter gets an Edit button, Instagram increases ads, Google gets serious about wearables

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

Toil and trouble and … startup acquisitions!

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. I think it took maybe three days after I roasted our rather dry M&A season for the news cycle to prove me wrong. This week we saw Naver acquire Poshmark, Duolingo buy … Read more