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Preview program offers a taste of Android 13 to vivo X80 Pro and iQOO 9 Pro owners in India
vivo and iQOO are starting their Android 13 Preview programs in India today. Owners of a vivo X80 Pro or ...
Some Pixel owners are getting an update for Android 12 instead of 13 by mistake
Google started updating supported Pixels to Android 13 yesterday, but that’s not what some users are seeing – several users ...
iQOO Z6 Lite to launch next month
The iQOO Z6 series currently includes three smartphones in India – Z6, Z6 44W, and Z6 Pro. A new media ...
Four Pixel 7 models certified by the FCC: two with mmWave, two with UWB
The Pixel 7 series is expected to go into mass production at Foxconn soon while Google continues preparations for the ...
OnePlus 10 Pro gets OxygenOS 13 Open Beta 2
The OnePlus 10 Pro got its first Android 13-based OxygenOS 13 Open Beta build last week and it is now ...
MIUI 13 on Android 13 beta arrives for Xiaomi 12 and 12 Pro
Android 13 is now official and smartphone manufacturers are jumping on the hype train to announce their public beta. Xiaomi’s ...
Airbnb is now testing its anti-party tools in the U.S. and Canada
Airbnb is making it harder to party in the U.S.A. The company has announced it will begin trialling “anti-party technology” ...
Mobile solar-powered nanogrid brings energy to disaster-struck areas
When disasters related to climate change, such as hurricanes or extreme floods hit and power goes off, fossil fuel-based nanogrids ...
Wanna play ‘Doom’? Do I have the John Deere tractor for you!
Folks, we’ve done it. We’ve put in the work, and now we’re reaping the rewards. Doom can run on anything. ...
The best Apple deals as of Aug. 16: iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, and more
UPDATE: Aug. 16, 2022, 12:30 p.m. EDT We’ve updated this post with the best deals from across the Apple universe. ...
Amazon’s NFL games will give us a real idea of live streaming’s popularity
When Amazon starts exclusively streaming football games in September, it won’t be as shy about sharing ratings as other streaming ...
Signal users’ phone numbers exposed in major Twilio hack
On Monday, Signal, often viewed as the most secure messaging app, shared that a security breach of its phone number ...
India’s Exponent Energy may have found the secret to 15 min rapid EV charging
Bangalore-based Exponent Energy might have come up with a way to deliver 15-minute rapid charging for electric vehicles. The startup, ...
Biden admin says about 20 models will still qualify for EV tax credits
The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday, says that if automakers want their electric vehicles ...
Getting power from poop, with Levidian’s Loop
The U.K. water processing industry produces a godawful amount of biogas annually. The gasses are primarily used to generate operational ...
Eat Just bags $25M, gets Alibaba’s help to sell alternative protein in China
China is a notoriously difficult market for international startups to crack, but one company seems to have found the recipe ...
YC grad QuotaBook raises $11M to scale its equity management platform
QuotaBook, a Seoul-based equity management platform, has raised $11 million in funding led by Elefund, with participation from Access Ventures, ...
American Airlines to buy 20 jets from Boom Supersonic
American Airlines will buy up to 20 jets from Boom Supersonic, an aircraft maker that aims to commercialize supersonic, and ...
Google makes robots smarter by teaching them about their limitations
If you’ve used a smart voice assistant such as Alexa, Siri and whatever-Google’s-smart-assistant-is-called, you’ll probably have noticed that the tech ...
From ‘literally zero’ experience to $100M, this VC is raising his second climate tech seed fund
If you ask me, climate tech investor Contrarian Ventures isn’t so contrarian anymore. The five-year-old firm is targeting $100 million ...
Daily Crunch: 7 months after emerging from stealth, YC alum Arc secures $20M Series A
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. ...
SAIC Mobility Robotaxi valued at $1B after $148M Series B
SAIC Mobility Robotaxi, an arm of state-owned Chinese automaker SAIC that aims to launch a commercial robotaxi service, raised $148 ...
BOE, supplier of OLED panels for the iPhone, deals with power rationing at its factory in China
Apple iPhone display supplier BOE is having to deal with power rationing at a factory in Sichuan due to above-average ...
Android 13 update might have led to the disappearance of a new Pixel search feature
The Android 13 update was followed by the disappearance of unified search capabilities available from the search bars on the ...
The taskbar on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 could also come to older Z Folds
Samsung could bring one of the signature features of the Galaxy Z Fold 4 to older Folds as well. Powered ...
Some Pixel users receive update for Android 12 instead of 13
Google accidentally sent some Pixel users an update for the Android 12 build that already runs their phone instead of ...
25% Android users considering switching to iPhone, largely thanks to iOS 16: survey
As many as 49 percent of US-based Android are considering ditching phones running Google’s OS for the iPhone, says a ...
Android has written off Face ID way too soon
Just a couple of years ago, Android flagship phones commonly had a secure face recognition system, but today it’s hard ...
Galaxy Watch 5 is thicker and heavier than Samsung led us to believe
The Galaxy Watch 5 and 5 Pro are thicker and heavier than Samsung led us to believe but the Korean ...
Redesigned entry-level iPad has reportedly entered production
The new entry-level iPad will likely debut alongside the new iPad Pro in October. Powered by WPeMatico
