Apple Watch Series 10 debuted at Monday’s “It’s Glowtime”event, just under a decade after the iPhone maker released its first smartwatch. Headlining the new wearable is a redesign — arguably the largest since the device’s launch. The Apple Watch Series 10 has “our biggest screen and thinnest design,” CEO Tim Cook noted.

The company says the screen is “up to 30%” larger than previous generations, covered by “durable onyx glass.”

Developing…

Apple Watch Series 10 debuted at Monday’s “It’s Glowtime”event, just under a decade after the iPhone maker released its first smartwatch. Headlining the new wearable is a redesign — arguably…

Apple Watch Series 10 debuts with bigger screen, thinner display

iPhone 16, Apple Intelligence and more: Everything revealed at Apple Event 2024

More than 90 nations, including the U.S. and China, will convene at a two-day summit in Seoul starting Monday to attempt to establish a blueprint for the use of AI…

U.S., China and other nations convene in Seoul for summit on AI use in military

Steve Brotman started Alpha Partners in 2014 with a novel idea at the time: investing alongside early-stage VCs to help preserve their ownership in promising companies as they transition to…

Alpha Partners raises $153M third fund for pro-rata investments

Apple Event 2024: iPhone 16, Apple Intelligence and all the other expected ‘Glowtime’ reveals

Automation and IT monitoring company Progress on Monday announced that it intends to acquire file management platform ShareFile for $875 million in cash and credit. Progress CEO Yogesh Gupta said…

Progress acquires file management platform ShareFile for $875M

We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce that we’ve finalized our dedicated Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Fintech, SaaS and AI as the other industry-focused stages — all under…

Announcing the final agenda for the Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Apple is likely to unveil its iPhone 16 series of phones and maybe even some Apple Watches at its Glowtime event on September 9.

How to watch the iPhone 16 reveal during this year’s big Apple Event

A flaw in the design of WhatsApp’s “View Once” privacy feature let’s anyone save pictures and videos that should be ephemeral.

Bug lets anyone bypass WhatsApp’s ‘View Once’ privacy feature

Companies’ data architecture today looks nothing like it did 20 years ago, but monitoring and tracing tools haven’t followed suit, making it difficult for engineering teams to identify the root…

YC alum Odigos aims to help enterprises find errors and stamp out latency in their systems

The SMB-focused bookkeeping, accounting and finance startup Finally has raised $50 million in a Series B round of funding and secured a $150 million credit line, TechCrunch is the first…

Miami-based AI bookkeeping startup Finally has raised another big round: $200M in equity and debt

The car rental giant says personal information, credit card information, and driver’s license numbers were stolen in the August cyberattack.

Thousands of Avis car rental customers had personal data stolen in cyberattack

It’s been an infamous year for software updates gone wrong. But what’s the worst-case scenario for a buggy update? Sonos may be trying to find the answer as its mobile…

Sonos delays set-top box after flawed app update

Indian electric scooter manufacturer Ather Energy plans to raise about $370 million in an IPO.

EV startup Ather seeks to raise $530 million in India IPO

Along with the ability to automatically adjust to the surface they’re traversing, the legs move faster and jump higher than their more standardized electric counterparts.

Electro-hydraulic muscles help these robot legs stand straight on uneven terrain

Atomico has historically leaned toward earlier funding rounds while dipping into later stages where it made sense; now it’s setting itself up to focus just as much on the later…

European VC Atomico closes $1.24B across two funds for early and growth-stage startups

YouTube creators The Try Guys claim they’re on-track to reach profitability, with subscriptions to their three-month-old, ad-free service 2nd Try now accounting for 20% of the company’s revenue. Those numbers…

The Try Guys say their subscription strategy is working

When Apple unveiled its AI plans at WWDC in June, analysts suggested the feature could put the iPhone 16 on track for another “supercycle.” Like the addition of 5G before…

Apple Intelligence delays could impede iPhone 16 ‘supercycle’

Elon Musk has denied a report that one of his companies, Tesla, has discussed sharing revenue with another of his companies, xAI, so that it can use the startup’s AI…

Elon Musk says Tesla has ‘no need’ to license xAI models

After weeks in political limbo, France now has a new prime minister, former EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier. But parliament remains bitterly divided, generating uncertainty for many economic sectors —…

La French Tech gears up to go in a new direction

Italy-based app company Bending Spoons, which owns Evernote and Meetup, is planning to lay off 75% of the staff of file transfer service WeTransfer, TechCrunch has learned. Bending Spoons acquired…

Bending Spoons plans to lay off 75% of WeTransfer staff after acquisition

Like other generative AI models, Llama can perform a range of different assistive tasks, like coding and answering basic math questions, as well as summarizing documents in eight languages.

Meta Llama: Everything you need to know about the open generative AI model

The startup has devised a durable way to store solar power as heat that can then be used for household heating or hot water.

Sunamp’s thermal battery uses a chemical found in salt-and-vinegar potato chips

The coolest startup in the Bay Area is a baseball team called the Oakland Ballers

A New York Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages from 16,000 channels found that the messaging platform has been “inundated” with illegal and extremist activity. Specifically, The Times…

Telegram reportedly ‘inundated’ with illegal and extremist activity

Bluesky keeps growing: The company announced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new users, bringing its total user count to more than 9 million. In other…

Bluesky grows to 9M+ users

Warp, a young payroll startup in New York, is in the spotlight following controversial posts from an account tied to the company. On Thursday, an account posting under the name…

Payroll startup Warp disavows ‘affiliate’ who posted about white superiority

Canva is dramatically increasing prices for some customers. Canva Teams subscribers on older pricing plans will see a 300% increase for a five-person plan, jumping from $119.99 per year to…

Canva wants you to pay a lot more for its AI features

After months of delays and uncertainty, Boeing’s Starliner capsule has returned from the International Space Station, touching down in White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico, just after midnight on Saturday. …

Boeing’s Starliner performs flawless touchdown without onboard crew, program’s future remains uncertain

TechCrunch sat down with Shaikh this week at the Korea Blockchain Week 2024 conference in Seoul to talk about Aptos’ expansion; its partnerships with major Asian web2 companies; and how…

Aptos CEO Mo Shaikh shares his journey to web3 and market opportunities in Asia and Middle East

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