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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Howdy_Mobile.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Roku’s latest streaming bet is off to a solid start. Its affordable subscription service, Howdy, has now passed 1 million subscribers, according to data from research firm Antenna. This is a notable milestone for a platform that’s still pretty new, and suggests that it’s striking a chord with viewers who are tired…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2043993878-e1722276196662.jpg?resize=1200,676″] Uber customers in the United States can now book hotels directly through the app, one of several new features announced Wednesday that pushes far beyond the company’s original ride-hailing purpose and even deeper into its users’ lives. Uber announced the new hotel-booking feature on Wednesday during its product-heavy annual Go-Get event in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/fortnite-epic-games.jpg?w=1024″] Epic Games has scored another procedural win in its fight with Apple over App Store fees, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has now granted the Fortnite maker’s latest motion. The decision means Apple must continue to allow developers to link to external payment options in their apps…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-157501301.jpeg?resize=1200,803″] A model is only as good as its data, and for Roman Teslyuk, the data wasn’t coming fast enough. “I hate delays,” Teslyuk, founder and CEO of Earth AI, told TechCrunch. For the last few years, Earth AI has been searching for critical minerals like copper, platinum, and palladium in parts of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-477672484.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that a payment of about $625,000 (about 199.7 million Sri Lankan rupees) to the U.S. Postal Service has been missing for several weeks, after U.S. officials reported that the payment had failed to arrive, reports local media. Authorities detected the incident after hackers allegedly tried to divert…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DSC07538.jpg?resize=1200,675″] In a Pacific conflict, the nearest U.S. drone factory is thousands of miles away. Ships and planes carrying parts to the front lines would be vulnerable to attack. Defense startup Firestorm Labs thinks the answer is a drone factory that fits inside a shipping container. The company announced on Wednesday that it…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/BMW-Portraits-BMW-i-Ventures-2026-03102660-copy.jpeg?resize=1200,800″] BMW i Ventures has launched a new $300 million fund with a timely thesis: AI will reshape how the automotive industry operates. And the independent venture arm of BMW AG wants to be in the driver’s seat. The fund, announced on Wednesday, will invest in early-stage through Series B startups in North…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2270785056.jpg?resize=1200,686″] Shapes, an app where humans and AI characters chat together in shared group conversations, is emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding. Think Discord, but with AI characters alongside humans.  Founded in 2022, Shapes has more than 400,000 monthly active users. The app’s founders, Anushk Mittal and Noorie Dhingra, believe…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/google-translate.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Google Translate is now 20 years old, and to celebrate, the company has added a new feature that lets users practice their pronunciation and enunciation of words and phrases in different languages. When you translate a word, sentence, or phrase, you can navigate into the “Practice” menu to find a “Pronounce” button,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/divine-featured-img.webp?w=1200″] A new project to bring back Vine’s six-second looping videos is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play. Divine, as this Vine reboot is called, offers access to an archive of roughly 500,000 Vine videos, restored from a backup of the original service, and allows creators to post…