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Previously on Twitter, X announced on Friday it partnered with Polymarket to name its platform's official forecast market partner. Launched in 2020, Polymarket allows users to use cryptocurrencies to bet on the results of real events. The company did not release any details about the partnership, but shared that it will launch a “integrated product to provide data-driven insights and recommendations.” Polymarket's forecast, combined with X data, provides Live Insights, along with real-time annotations of market movements from Grok and associated X Post, explained in a press release. The product will be the first of a “sequence of integrations and…

As Apple prepares to unveil iOS 19 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, several rumors have emerged, including a potential new name for the operating system, an all-new design inspired by the Vision Pro. Here is a summary of the most notable features rumored to come to iOS 19. New name Sources told Bloomberg that Apple plans to change the name of the operating system to reflect the year of release, rather than using version numbers. This means that iOS 19 will be renamed iOS 26, just like how you specify iOS 19. This name change also applies to other software…

Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC 2025, starts at 10am Pt/1 PM ET. Monday. Last year's event was notable for its focus on AI, and this year, there has been considerable pressure on the company based on that promise. As in the past few years, the company is focusing on software updates and new technologies that are rumoured to have the most significant design changes since the introduction of iOS 7. Here's how to watch the live stream of the keynote speech: iOS has received the most dramatic design changes for over a decade When Apple introduced a massive overhaul to…

Time is running out. TechCrunch's gates from the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 to the Startup Battlefield 200 are about to be closed. In just three days, the windows close to take part in the most iconic live startup competition. Over 10,000 high-tech Titans, Top Tier VCs and Media Powerhouse will be viewed. This is your chance to launch, roar and rewrite the future of a startup. This is not a demonstration day. It is the battlefield, where ambition meets execution, only the boldest breakthrough. If the startup has momentum, vision, or fire, June 9th is the deadline to throw hats…

This is that. There are only two tables to show at all stages of TechCrunch, which will take place in Boston on July 15th. The reservation window will officially close at 11:59 PM. If you've been waiting for your move, now is the time to book your table. Why should your startup be in your room? This founder-focused conference is where startups from early stages to IPOs are discovered, funded and quickly tracked. The show floor at TC All Stage depicts people who are all about investors, founders, media and ecosystem leaders looking for the following: Image credit: Photo group,…

A US court has refused to stay in a ruling that requires the company to suspend claims to the developer for payments made outside the App Store via app links. This means in the US, if Apple clicks in-app links to take you outside the app store for payment, resulting in a potential loss in payment, they will no longer be able to charge developers for fees. “Apple” is burdened with showing that the situation justifies the exercise of [our] The court said in its filing. “After considering the relevant factors, they have not convinced them that the stay is…

Circle, one of the world's largest issuers of USDC, is a stubcoin pinned to US dollars, ending its first trading day as a public company at $83.23 per share. The IPO POP shows national investors' interest in cryptocurrencies and ridiculous currencies, particularly amid the Trump administration's supportive stance on cryptocurrencies. A massive surge in Circle's first-day trading could encourage institutional investors to raise IPO prices on future lists. The imminent IPOs include Omada Health, which is priced Thursday, and Klarna, a fintech that is scheduled to list next week. The company, which sold its shares, set its initial market value…

Perplexity received 780 million questions in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared it on stage at the Bloomberg Technology Summit on Thursday. Srinivas said that AI search engines are seeing growth of over 20% per month. “If we can maintain this growth rate, we'll give you a year and ask a billion questions per week,” Srinivas said. “And on the first day of 2022 we only did 3,000 queries for one day, so that's pretty impressive. From there to 30 million queries a day, it was incredible growth.” Srinivas noted that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially in the new…

Bonfire Social, a new framework for building communities on the Open Social Web, launched Thursday at the Fediforum Online Conference. Bonfire Social is a Federated App, but it has the same underlying protocol as Mastodon (ActivityPub), but is designed to be more modular and customizable. This means that the bonfire community has more control over what your app features, how features and defaults are in place, and what your roadmap and priorities include. There is clearly a destructive bend in the software. The software describes it as a place where “all living things thrive, communities thrive, and there is no…

X announced Thursday that it would begin an experiment to recognize posts that people who normally disagree with are preferred. This experiment utilizes the platform's crowdsourced community notes feature. This is currently used when content is marked misleading or incorrect. Starting Thursday, a subset of community note contributors will evaluate feedback on a particular post and display callouts to provide feedback. Callouts will be displayed based on similar activity at the beginning of the post. X says this feedback will help develop open source algorithms that can identify posts that people with different perspectives prefer. Image credits: x Contributors are…