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TechCrunch Minute: Everything you need to know about iOS 18

It’s time to upgrade your iPhone to iOS 18. We know — updating your phone is annoying, and sometimes those software downloads can take a weirdly long time. But if you like customization and fun perks like iMessage text effects, it’s worth the upgrade. And if you’re often texting friends and family who use Androids, […]

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TechCrunch Minute: It’s never been easier to migrate your Spotify playlists to Apple Music

A pair of friends turned founders, Thomas Magnano and Benoit Herbreteau, have created a service that can make your life a little easier if you want to migrate your music listening between streaming services. They founded their company Soundiiz in 2013, which was originally supposed to be a music search interface, but they found that […]

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Amazon mandates full 5-day return to office

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a memo to the company’s employees Monday morning, calling for a full return to office at the start of 2025. For the last 15 months, Amazon employees have been expected to work in the office three days per week. Now Jassy expects five days of in-person work from employees, with […]

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The LinkedIn games are fun, actually

I have a guilty pleasure, and it’s not that I just rewatched “Glee” in its entirety (yes, even the awful later seasons), or that I have read an ungodly amount of Harry Potter fan fiction in my time. My guilty pleasure is that I play the LinkedIn games. To answer the obvious question: Wait, LinkedIn […]

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DeepWell DTx receives FDA clearance for its therapeutic video game developer tools

There’s something oddly refreshing about starting the day by solving the Wordle. According to DeepWell DTx, there’s a scientific explanation for why our brains might feel just a bit better after a quick break to play a game. In fact, DeepWell now has the FDA clearance to support its claim that video games can treat […]

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TechCrunch Minute: The latest SpaceX mission saw the first private spacewalk

When I told our video producer that I wanted to make a video today about the SpaceX Polaris Dawn launch, she responded, “This story has everything! Space, Mars colony, crazy space suits, and a billionaire in space.” She’s right. Polaris Dawn is intriguing, to say the least. The commercial SpaceX mission will travel farther than […]

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Taylor Swift cites ‘fears around AI’ as she endorses the Democratic ticket

After a historic presidential debate replete with discourse about eating pets, Taylor Swift ended the evening with a bang. Arguably the most powerful figure in American pop culture, the singer-songwriter chose debate night to announce on Instagram that she plans to vote for Kamala Harris in the presidential election. Swift’s endorsement is monumental. She holds […]

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TechCrunch Minute: Why this entrepreneur is running the Oakland Ballers like a startup

The coolest startup in the Bay Area isn’t making AI robots or self-driving taxis. It’s actually a baseball team. As his beloved Oakland A’s plan to leave the Bay, serial entrepreneur Paul Freedman sought out a different type of venture. What if he could take what he learned from leading edtech startups to build the […]

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