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Mark your calendars: on Thursday night, September 10, StrictlyVC — TechCrunch’s boutique evening series — is heading to New York’s West Village (the real one — brownstones, cobblestones, and all — not the Mission Bay stretch of San Francisco that’s earned the nickname “Vest Village” for all the Patagonia-clad VCs roaming around).

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After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic opt-out feature that allows users to stop their posts from appearing in the app’s main Discover feed.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 isn’t a camera phone per se, but I’ve definitely enjoyed shooting with it. From the streets of London to the parks of New Delhi, I’ve carried it more than any other phone since its launch in July. Sure, it has one less camera than its Fold 8 Ultra sibling…

Can a smart ring that measures biometric signals such as heart rate, body temperature, and breathing rate use these data points to accurately determine sleep stages? That question is at the heart of a recent lawsuit in which Oura finds itself entangled. 

AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and scale it more rapidly than ever before. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups. This…

The setting will prevent your posts from being recommended in the algorithmic “discover” feed.

Stealing cars will now require different approaches depending on their make and model.

You’d be forgiven if you didn’t recognize James Pond, the fish spy star of a series of platformers from the early 1990s. But there is a chance you’ve heard about the controversy surrounding the series’ upcoming James Pond Legacy: The Pond Is Not Enough, which collects versions of four James Pond games released across the…

More than 100 companies across AI, tech, finance and other industries have put their names on an open letter calling for improvements to cybersecurity. The long list of participants includes Anthropic, AWS, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and Perplexity.