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APUS Wants To Make Your Android Phone An iPhone With Its Launcher App

Google’s new Lollipop release has been heralded by many as a sign of the increasingly sophisticated design of Android, but despite that advancement there still exists a feeling that Apple’s iOS is the...

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Launcher, The Banned iOS Widget That Let You Launch Other Apps, Is Back

With iOS 8, Apple introduced a way for mobile applications to add widgets to its Notification Center that offered snapshots of information, like today’s weather, stock quotes, headlines, and more. But...

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Launcher lets you create iOS widgets that display or hide based on day, time...

You may remember Launcher as the once-banned iOS widget that Apple booted from the App Store after its approval, then months later allowed back in. The problem Apple had with the app, seemingly, is...

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Evie brings instant search to Android

Most smartphone users download zero apps per month, and only tend to use around a half-dozen of their installed apps on a regular basis. Meanwhile, there are millions of native applications available...

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Google’s Pixel smartphones get a new look with Pixel Launcher

Google’s just-revealed Pixel smartphones will feature a new user interface designed to make it easier to access Google’s Assistant – the now smarter, virtual helper that aims to one-up Siri. Part of...

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Launcher brings its powerful widget-making app to iOS 14

Launcher is bringing its customizable widgets to iOS 14 with new functionality, including the ability to rotate a widget’s icons by date, time or even location. It also supports customizable widget...

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Travel bans and H-1Bs, Reddit’s IPO plans, early-stage...

The fees investment banks charge to underwrite IPOs can gobble several points from a public company’s gross proceeds, but new competition is giving some firms a chance to hold on to more of that sweet...

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Launcher shows off its 3D-printed rocket doing a full-scale burn

Rocket engines are tough pieces of hardware to build, but it’s possible that 3D printing them could be the next big thing. Relativity certainly thinks so, and has raised about a billion dollars — now...

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Max Q: Hold fire

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. In this issue: Launcher debuts full thrust of 3D-printed rocket engine A “sustainable” satellite mega-constellation? FAA’s decision on Starbase delayed yet again Don’t...

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Max Q: Insertion burn

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. In this issue: Boeing’s make it or break it launch Fresh funding for SpaceX News from Virgin Orbit, Rocket Lab and more Don’t forget to sign up to get the free...

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Max Q: Mines and metals

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. There is SO much news this week, so let’s dive in. In this issue: Astroforge’s asteroid mining ambitions Boeing’s Starliner comes home News from Virgin Orbit, Rocket...

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Startups set to go to space for the first time on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission

SpaceX is poised to launch 114 payloads to orbit on a Falcon 9 tomorrow morning, the sixth mission of its small-sat ride-share program. But while the rocket company is now an old hand at launches —...

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Max Q: Only a matter of time

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Intuitive Machines enters the public market Silicon Valley goes to war News from Transcelestial, Umbra and more Intuitive Machines’ public market debut...

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Vast acquires Launcher in quest to build artificial gravity space stations

Vast Space, a company that emerged from stealth last September with the aim of building artificial gravity space stations in low Earth orbit, has acquired space tug startup Launcher, TechCrunch has...

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Virgin Orbit’s launch business sold for parts to Vast, Stratolaunch, and...

Virgin Orbit, once valued at $3.7 billion, has been chopped up for parts. The company has concluded the auction for some of its assets, which were put up for sale as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

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Launcher’s Orbiter glitches in orbit, forcing emergency deployment of space...

Launcher’s Orbiter spacecraft experienced an anomaly after reaching orbit that will likely result in the premature end of its customers’ missions, including Starfish Space’s Otter Pup demonstration...

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Starfish Space pulls Otter Pup servicing vehicle back from ‘the brink of death’

Against all odds, Starfish Space has managed to pull its first orbital mission back from the brink of catastrophe, with the startup saying Tuesday that it has regained control over the Otter Pup...

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