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  • Daily Crunch: WhatsApp launches payments

    WhatsApp is adding support for in-app payments, Apple is upgrading the MacBook Pro and Mac Pro desktop and we argue about the future of startup hubs.Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 15, 2020.1. WhatsApp finally launches payments, starting in BrazilAfter months of talks and trials, WhatsApp has finally pulled More

    Daily Crunch: WhatsApp launches payments
  • Snapchat redesigns its app with new action bar

    Snap is unveiling some important changes for Snapchat at its Snap Partner Summit. The navigation has been rethought with a new action bar at the bottom that lets you access Snap Map and Snap Originals in just a tap.Snap Map is also getting some brand new features to More

    Snapchat redesigns its app with new action bar
  • Imaging startup Light is exiting the smartphone business

    Light’s push into smartphones was an inevitability. Sure, the startup turned heads with its pricey L16 camera, but these days mobile photography is almost exclusively the domain of the handset. Early last year, the answer arrived in the form of the trypophobia-inducing Nokia 9 PureView. In a category where manufacturers More

    Imaging startup Light is exiting the smartphone business
  • You can now install the first beta of Android 11

    After a series of developer previews, Google today released the first beta of Android 11 and with that, it is also making these pre-release versions available for over-the-air updates. This time around, the list of supported devices only includes the Pixel 2, 3, 3a and 4.If you’re brave enough More

    You can now install the first beta of Android 11
  • Decrypted: iOS 13.5 jailbreak, FBI slams Apple, VCs talk cybersecurity

    It was a busy week in security.Newly released documents shown exclusively to TechCrunch show that U.S. immigration authorities used a controversial cell phone snooping technology known as a “stingray” hundreds of times in the past three years. Also, if you haven’t updated your Android phone in a while, now would More

    Decrypted: iOS 13.5 jailbreak, FBI slams Apple, VCs talk cybersecurity