While Major League Soccer continues to push the sport in the United States to new heights at club level, the league has also seemingly attempted to dismantle one of the sport’s oldest hallmarks in the U.S. The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup is the most prestigious soccer competition in the nation, established in 1913/14 and […]
Google to remove some Indian apps over Play Store fees violation
Google has warned it will begin removing apps in India from its Play Store if developers do not comply with its billing policies, taking a definitive step on a three-year matter in what is the company’s largest market by users. Google said that 10 companies in the country, including “many well-established” names it did not […]
Apple cancels its autonomous electric car project and is laying off some workers
Apple is scuttling its secretive, long-running project to build an autonomous electric car, according to Bloomberg. The company has already started laying off some people who worked on the project, TechCrunch has learned. The scope of the layoffs could not immediately be determined. Many of the nearly 2,000 employees who were still working on the […]
Apple’s Vision Pro is here: These are some of the most exciting indie apps and games
With the Vision Pro finally available, many consumers are curious about Apple’s AR/VR headset and the apps that come with it. While some are from companies you recognize — Disney+, Max, TikTok, Zoom, Reddit and others — there are plenty of independent developers that launched visionOS-optimized apps. From spatial puzzle games to an app where […]
As Techstars retools, some former staffers say it lost focus on what made it successful
Well-known accelerator group Techstars announced a slew of changes to its operations this week, including the shuttering of some of its city-based programs. Criticism from former members of its decisions lit social media channels who argued that the famed startup accelerator has lost focus on the very thing that historically made it so successful: city-based […]