Queensland Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries Mark Furner examines an IoT-enabled weather station at the launch of the project. Image: Telstra Telstra has teamed up with the Queensland government and the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) to run an Internet of Things (IoT) pilot program to help local farmers ...

OnePlus unveils new hardware, Apple updates its educational offerings and Facebook reveals plans for its next developer conference. This is your Daily Crunch for March 23, 2021. The big story: OnePlus announces its first smartwatch The Chinese smartphone maker announced the OnePlus Watch today, a $159 smartwatch with a minimalist ...

It’s demo day for the current Y Combinator class, so we’ll have a largely early-stage focus at TechCrunch today. But there’s also a host of late- and super-late-stage news this morning that matters. Let’s get to all of it before we start to talk accelerators, overheated pre-seed valuations and the ...

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second largest internet market. A91 Partners led the ...

Google Cloud on Tuesday announced the preview of Network Connectivity Center, its new tool for managing cloud and on-premise networks. The tool is the latest component of Google’s offerings aimed at companies adopting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies.  With the Network Connectivity Center, organizations can create, connect, and manage heterogeneous ...

Social audio app Clubhouse has now promised a time frame of sorts for the launch of its anticipated Android version, following its recent hire of an Android software developer last month. In its weekly Townhall event on Sunday, Clubhouse co-founder Paul Davison remarked that the company was working “really hard” ...

Syniverse Technologies, a company that helps mobile providers move communications across public and private networks, announced an extensive partnership with Twilio this morning. Under the agreement, Twilio is investing up to $750 million to become a minority owner in the company. The idea behind the partnership is to combine Twilio’s ...

For the past few months, I’ve been doing a lot of my daily work tasks on my iPad Pro connected to an external monitor. Using my iPad Pro for work isn’t new, but adding a monitor into the mix has been a new experience that’s made it feel even more ...

Part 2 of 3: ‘This will be seen as the next chapter of digital art history’ Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer new ways for consumers to collect, wear and trade fashion online, and now that most fashion shows have scaled back or gone virtual, they may become an important tool for ...

Starting May 1, apps in China can no longer force users into providing excessive personal data, according to a document jointly released by a group of the country’s top regulators, the Cyberspace Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration for ...