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    The Chainsmokers just closed their debut venture fund, Mantis, with $35 million – TechCrunch

    Alex Pall and Drew Taggart are best known as The Chainsmokers, an electronic DJ and production duo whose first three albums have given rise...

    ‘Tenet’ Didn’t Bring Audiences Back to Movie Theaters. Now What?

    “Death on the Nile” from Disney’s Twentieth Century division is the biggest-budgeted movie still scheduled to come out in October. If “Black Widow” (Nov....

    Triller aims for TikTok with additions of influencers like Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae – TechCrunch

    Triller had been poised to benefit from a potential TikTok ban in the U.S. Though that may not happen now, given the apparent...

    The Search for Life on Venus Could Start With Rocket Lab

    Elon Musk wants to settle humans on Mars with his rocket company SpaceX. Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, wants a trillion people living in space....

    The fitness market doesn’t seem too scared by Apple Fitness+ – TechCrunch

    Usually, Apple making a grand entrance to an entrenched market would spell doom for the players there, but when it comes to Apple’s latest...

    This is the new iPad Air, with Touch ID build into the power button – TechCrunch

    At Apple’s (virtual) hardware event today, the company announced a significantly redesigned iPad Air with a new look and tiny bezels. In a...

    Apple One bundles iCloud, Music, TV+, Arcade,  News+ and Fitness+ for $30 a month – TechCrunch

    Seems everything charges a monthly fee, these days. It also seems that every Apple event brings another way to fork over $10 a...

    Apple Watch Series 6 will measure blood oxygen levels – TechCrunch

    Apple’s new Series 6 watch has some exciting new health features. Thanks to a new health sensor that uses both red and infrared light,...

    TikTok Was a Wasted Opportunity

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Creeping closer to resolving a monthslong saga...

    A Job That Isn’t Hard to Get in a Pandemic: Swindlers’ Helper

    After the fitness center where Denise Newton worked closed down in April because of the coronavirus, she posted her résumé online to look for...

    Waze gets smarter with trip suggestions, lane guidance, traffic notifications and more – TechCrunch

    Google-owned navigation app Waze is gaining a number of new product features as well as a partnership with Amazon Music, the company announced...

    Google launches new AI-powered meeting room hardware – TechCrunch

    Google today announced the Google Meet Series One, a new video conferencing hardware suite for meeting rooms. Built in collaboration with Lenovo, the...

    LanzaTech is developing a small-scale waste biomass gasifier for ethanol production in India – TechCrunch

    As part of the continuing global rollout of LanzaTech’s technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions and turn those emissions into fuel and chemicals, the...

    European Space Agency awards $153 million contract for its first planetary defense mission – TechCrunch

    The European Space Agency (ESA) is doing its part to help protect the Earth from any errant asteroids that may threaten terrestrial life,...

    Black Tech Pipeline proves the ‘pipeline problem’ isn’t real – TechCrunch

    The tech industry has become known as a place that is predominantly white and male. Contrary to the misguided popular belief, it’s not a...

    Kleiner prints gold with Desktop Metal, netting a roughly 10x return – TechCrunch

    Desktop Metal is one of the most interesting startups to come out of Boston in some time, with a technology designed to “print metal.”...