To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here . Hey, folks! Chromecasts have been a hacker and nerd favorite for a moment or two, and we’re pretty psyched to see the price (with a remote!) dropping to $30. Apropos hardware, Brian and Kirsten just published our Apple Watch Ultra first look review, so we’ve been enjoying that, too.  — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Love gadgets? Y ...read more

Reviewers Liked Excellent noise cancellation Very good sound quality Case has speaker and pinpoint location finding Seamless integration with Apple devices IPX4 rating for workouts Reviewers Didn't Like Still no EQ adjustments Siri doesn't activate perfectly all the time Same old design Lightning connector No hi-res codec support Competitors and Related Products Our editors hand-pick these products using a variety of criteria: they can be direct competitors targeting the same ...read more

In a nutshell: NASA has shared another image from the James Webb Space Telescope of a target in our own backyard. On Wednesday, the space agency published an image of Neptune captured using Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The ice giant, which was first discovered in 1846, resides in the outer solar system and is roughly 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth. The Sun is so small at that distance that if observed at high noon from Neptune, it'd look like a dim twilight. Webb's image pr ...read more

from the who-are-you-trying-to-help-here dept So, we’ve talked quite a bit about the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), Senator Amy Klobuchar’s attempt to do Rupert Murdoch’s bidding and force successful internet companies to send cash to media companies for… linking to them. Yes, not only do the news orgs want the traffic from Google, but they also want to get paid for it. This whole scheme was dreamed up by Rupert Murdoch, who after decades of pretending to be about ...read more

Apple TV+’s original programming has received a major boost with the company landing a deal with “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” creator Vince Gilligan. Apple signed a two-season deal for his new project — dubbed as a grounded drama —that will be unrelated to two hit series. Deadline, which first reported the development, noted that “Better Call Saul” star and Emmy nominee Rhea Seehorn will play a lead in the upcoming series. The report also said that Gilligan wil ...read more

Pallavi Mehta Wahi (left), managing partner in Seattle for KL Gates, interviews T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert at the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce annual luncheon at The Westin in downtown Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert was a featured speaker at a luncheon Thursday hosted by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Sievert joined Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile in 2012 and became CEO in 2020, just after T-Mobile merged with Sprint. ...read more

Something to look forward to: As the new Ryzen 7000 series processors reach store shelves, with RDNA 3 right behind it, AMD has fully adopted 5nm processors for their products. However, the company doesn't plan on staying at 5nm for long. Team Red intends to meet with TSMC to negotiate future 2nm and 3nm chip supplies. Recently, AMD unveiled its new Ryzen 7000 series processors and the upcoming RDNA 3 graphics card architecture. Team Red is notably shrinking the process node size to an impres ...read more

Rad Power Bikes, a popular American e-bike brand that has raised over $300 million in the past two years, will start offering bikes as a subscription service next week. The company is partnering with Cycle, a Berlin-based e-bike subscription service that caters to couriers and last-mile delivery, to pilot the offering in Berlin. Starting September 22, Cycle will provide two cargo bikes, the RadRunner and RadWagon, for rent with a starting price of €79.90 per month and the choice between ...read more

PillPack founders TJ Parker, left, and Elliot Cohen. (Photos via LinkedIn) PillPack co-founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen will leave Amazon, four years after the tech giant acquired the online pharmacy in 2018 as an early step in its broader push into healthcare. Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, informed employees in the group about the impending changes in an internal email this morning, obtained by GeekWire. Describing it as bittersweet news, Lindsay wrote t ...read more

from the being-tough-on-crime-having-no-effect-on-crime dept Along with the call for law enforcement reforms following the inflection point created by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd, there has been increasing demand for bail reform. Bail reform isn’t new. It’s something activists and politicians have attempted to achieve for years. The problem with bail is that it exacerbates what’s already a multi-tiered justice system. Those who can easily afford ...read more