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After 24 seasons of The Bachelor , ABC is about to bring fans back to some of their favorite seasons in a recap spin-off, The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! . While the latest season of The Bachelorette was unfortunately delayed due to stay-at-home measures, the recap is sure to entertain both new fans and those who've been around since the beginning. The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! is set to feature ten, 3-hour-long episodes with each one dedicated to a specific season of the show, along with all of its craziest contestants and unforgettable moments. The final episode airs tonight, Monday June 22, with the previous two airing on June 8 and June 15. While the show is keeping the full list of "greatest seasons" under wraps for the time being, the trailer below does reveal a number of the seasons the show will be recapping, including seasons featuring Bachelors Sean Lowe, Ben Higgins, Jason Mesnick, and Bachelorettes Kaitlyn Bristowe and JoJo Fletch

Manchester City and Burnley face off tonight in their second competitive fixture in the Premier League's 'Project Restart'. Don't miss a kick by following our Man City vs Burnley live stream guide below. Pep Guardiola's side could delay Liverpool's Premier League celebrations, for now at least, with a victory over Lancashire rivals Burnley. Should Man City drop points in tonight's game, Liverpool could secure their first Premier League title in 30 years on Thursday against Crystal Palace. Man City strolled to victory in their first game back after the season was halted against a lackluster Arsenal side. That 3-0 win will fill the team with confidence as they head into tonight's clash at the Etihad. However, the Citizens will be without defender Eric Garcia after he suffered a concussion after a collision with City goalkeeper Edison in the last game. Burnley are unbeaten in their last seven Premier League fixtures following a 1-1 draw in their firs

More accessible, but not necessarily better. In the gaming world right now, all eyes seem to be glued to what Microsoft and Sony are doing with their next-gen consoles — and rightfully so. This upcoming generation of gaming looks to be hugely impressive, with both the Xbox Series X and PS5 promising experiences unlike anything we've had before. I'm just as excited about these consoles as everyone else, but I've also been keeping my eyes on what Google's been doing with Stadia. A little over a week ago, Google ushered in a plethora of important updates for its game streaming service. New titles were added to Stadia Pro (including the excellent SUPERHOT), users gained the ability to change their streaming resolution, and a new test program was launched that expands Stadia to virtually all Android smartphones. In addition to all of that, Google also added virtual touch controls — aka the ability to play Stadia games on your phone without the need for a physical c

Best overall Google Pixel 3a $335 at Amazon $400 at Best Buy Pros Outstanding camera Regular updates More affordable Great battery life Cons Only one camera Plastic build New model incoming The Pixel 3a brings outstanding value with all-day battery life and one of the best cameras you'll find on a phone. Being a Pixel, it's also first in line for updates to the latest version of Android. Premium design TCL 10 Pro $450 at Amazon $450 at Best Buy $450 at B&H Pros Premium build quality Beautiful display Smooth performance Great battery life Cons More expensive Weak cameras The TCL 10 Pro has a gorgeous matte glass and metal design, with four rear cameras and a stunning HDR display. Its cameras aren't the greatest, but its snappy performance and long battery life are enticing. The Pixel 3a helped reshape our expectations for affordable phones when it dropped last year. For around half the price of its flagship counterpart, the 3a c

Fresh off chats with distinguished founders such as Eventbrite’s Julia Hartz , Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra , and Plaid’s Zach Perret, Extra Crunch Live is turning the table around with Alexa von Tobel of Inspired Capital. Next Thursday at 2 p.m. EST/11 a.m. PST/6 p.m. GMT, TechCrunch’s Natasha Mascarenhas and Jordan Crook will bring von Tobel to the EC Live stage. Investor von Tobel formerly founded personal finance website LearnVest which sold for $375 million in 2015 to Northwestern Mutual. In 2019, she teamed up with the former U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Barack Obama, Penny Pritzker, to launch Inspired Capital with a $200 million debut fund. Hear from von Tobel on how Inspired Capital has invested in seed and Series A tech companies in 2020, from the new metrics she cares about to her stance on the reality of remote deals. As always, ExtraCrunch Members get access to previous ExtraCrunch Live discussions, like talks from BLCK VC’s co-founder Sydney Sykes , Sequoia C

There is no word on the phone's launch date yet. What you need to know Motorola is working on a 'Lite' version of its premium Edge smartphone. The Motorola Edge Lite 5G will reportedly feature a 6.7-inch 90Hz display and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 765 chipset. Similar to the Edge+, the Edge Lite 5G will be available through Verizon in the U.S. After returning to the flagship smartphone space with the Edge+ , Motorola is now said to be working on an affordable mid-range 5G phone to take on the likes of the Samsung Galaxy A71 5G and the upcoming Google Pixel 5 . Detailed specs of the upcoming phone, expected to be called the Edge Lite 5G, have now surfaced online. The Motorola Edge Lite 5G will apparently have a 6.7-inch FHD+ display with a 90Hz refresh rate and dual hole-punch cutouts. It will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 chipset, paired with up to 6GB of LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 2.1 storage. On the back of the phone will be a quad-camera array featuring a

If you're looking for more ways to stay entertained in self-isolation, then you can't go wrong with Amazon Kindle Unlimited . Especially if you can try it out for free. A two-month trial of the all-you-can-read eBook service is yours for the low, low price of $0 for a limited time giving you endless reading material for the next several weeks stuck indoors. The deal is only available for new or former Kindle Unlimited users and expires at the end of June. The subscription service normally costs $9.99 a month, so you're saving $20 with this deal. Last July, Amazon gave away three months of the service to its Prime members but unlike that offer, this deal does not require you to be a Prime subscriber so anyone can get in on it. Kindle Unlimited gives you access to over a million titles, spanning from technical documents to cookbooks to fantasy novels to nonfiction. Even some audiobooks are included. Need a self-help book? Want to re-read the Harry Potter books for the

Best Buy is currently running a 4-day sale this week only with hundreds of dollars in savings on smart TVs, laptops, home appliances, and more that you won't want to miss — especially if you're looking to keep more of your money in your pocket. Whether you're shopping for yourself or someone else, you can score limited-time discounts on all manner of tech and home gear and Best Buy offers free shipping on orders totaling $35 or more. Make sure to shop soon, as even though this sale is scheduled to last for four days, some deals could sell out early; one 75-inch Samsung 4K Smart TV already has. If you're looking for a smart TV in today's sale, TCL's 65-inch 8 Series 4K Smart Roku TV is another stellar choice. It's discounted by $700 off its original cost right now, bringing its price down to $1,299.99. Since this model already has Roku functionality, you'll be able to access Netflix, Disney+, and The Roku Channel without having to plug in a streamin

E-commerce has been on a growth tear in the past few months, a result of more people opting to shop and pay for goods online to adhere to COVID-19 social distancing rules. To underscore the surge of business, a company that provides services to online merchants to help run and manage their transactions is today announcing a big round of funding. Checkout.com , which provides an API-based platform for merchants to built checkout experiences accepting multiple forms of payments (currently numbering 150 currencies, all international cards and popular local payment methods), as well as fraud protection and reporting and other analytics around those transactions, is today announcing the it has raised another $150 million in funding, a Series B that catapults the London-based startup’s valuation to $5.5 billion post-money. (It’s one more sign that while some startups and sectors have been feeling a huge pinch, there remain large and very lucrative areas of business where companies are cont

HashiCorp is well known in the developer community for offering a slew of open source tools to help build and manage modern applications. Today the company announced a new cloud platform and plans to eventually offer managed versions of those tools, starting with Consul a tool for connecting and securing services across platforms. HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet says that the pandemic has accelerated demand for cloud infrastructure, and he sees a growing role for his company in helping to build cloud native applications. The company offers open source and commercial versions of several popular tools including Terraform, Consul, Vault and Packer among others. These can run on premises or in the cloud, but McJannet says customers have been hankering for SaaS versions of these tools. “Our customers have told us that it’s a huge challenge running a central shared service like Consul. It requires them to keep it up and running, and they have asked for something they can consume from us wher

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic has just revealed a novel extension of their business mode, through a new agreement signed with NASA enabled by the Space Act Agreement. The arrangement will see Virgin Galactic purchase seats on spacecraft bound for the orbiting International Space Station, as well as provide training and supplies and resources for those individuals. Virgin Galactic is in the process of developing its own, sub-orbital space tourism program using its own spacecraft that will launch from a carrier airplane, but this deal would involve use of other spacecraft that have the capacity to reach orbit and the ISS – which Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo can’t do. The most likely candidate for where Virgin will be procuring those seats right now is SpaceX, although Virgin’s press release announcing the news does not mention the Elon Musk-led company. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which is currently docked at the ISS after its first ever successful astronaut-carrying launch last

TikTok is the latest platform to sign up the European Union’s Code of Practice on disinformation, agreeing to a set of voluntary steps aimed at combating the spread of damaging fakes and falsehoods online. The short video sharing platform, which is developed by Beijing based ByteDance and topped 2BN downloads earlier this year , is hugely popular with teens — so you’re a lot more likely to see dancing and lipsyncing videos circulating than AI-generated high tech ‘deepfakes’. Though, of course, online disinformation has no single medium: The crux of the problem is something false passing off as true, with potentially very damaging impacts (such as when it’s targeted at elections; or bogus health information spreading during a pandemic). The EDiMA trade association, which counts TikTok as one of a number of tech giant members — and acts as a spokesperson for those signed up to the EU’s Code — announced today that the popular video sharing platform had formally signed up. “TikTok

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been hyping a potential battery day for quite a while now, and it looks like we should see it happen within the next few months – Musk said on Twitter that September 15 is the “tentative date” for the “Tesla Shareholder Meeting & Battery Day,” which will include the usual shareholder meeting as well as a tour of the automaker’s cell production system for the batteries that provide the power for its vehicles. The so-called ‘Battery Day’ has already run into a few delays, after originally being planned for April of this year. It’s been bumped to May, and subsequently June, but Musk’s latest timeline of September seems a lot more realistic given the current state of global affairs due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, as well as Tesla’s own complicated issues with its handling of COVID-19, local government shutdown orders and employee health and safety . Battery day has been modified from an earlier event planned to also include a powertrain component, but

Apple plans to launch third-generation AirPods with a form factor design "similar to AirPods Pro" in the first half of 2021, according to the latest research note from TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, obtained by MacRumors. Introduced in November 2019, the AirPods Pro feature an in-ear design with three sizes of soft, flexible silicone tips included in the box, along with shorter stems below the ear. AirPods Pro also have several upgraded features over regular AirPods, including active noise cancellation, improved sound quality, and water and sweat resistance. The current AirPods lineup includes second-generation AirPods with a wired charging case for $159, second-generation AirPods with a wireless charging case for $199, and AirPods Pro with a wireless charging case for $249. Kuo also reiterated that iPhone 12 models will not include EarPods in the box, which he believes will help boost AirPods shipments into 2021. He also expects AirPods shipments to

Spotify appears to be exploring the possibility of adding music videos to the streaming service's "Now Playing" app interface. Serial app de-coder Jane Wong discovered and enabled the feature, which currently consists of a tabbed interface for the Now Playing screen that offers different options for showing content while listening to tracks. The new tabs include standard album art, the new video player, and "Canvas," which is the Spotify feature that shows a looping video clip or animation in place of album art. Spotify has included video content before, but not on the scale that's presumably being considered here – showing full music videos, similar to how YouTube Music does. Spotify is finally working on a tab to switch between Canvas, Album Art, and Video (which is new!) pic.twitter.com/xOwvoSnBdV — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) June 20, 2020 As the graphic above mentions, Spotify is "still exploring" what to do with this new vid

If you're on the hunt for a video doorbell, there are some killer Ring deals worth your consideration at Amazon today. Devices like the Ring Video Doorbell Pro and the Ring Video Doorbell 2 are discounted by as much as $60 but the real kicker is that they both come with a free Amazon Echo Dot. Given that the Dot alone goes for up to $50, you're saving as much as $110 with these limited-time deals and, unlike previous offers, these deals are available to everyone — not just Amazon Prime members. Ring's Video Doorbell Pro takes the place of your existing hardwired doorbell at home. It's equipped with a 1080p HD camera featuring infrared night vision that lets you view its video feed using an app on your smartphone, tablet, or computer, and you'll be able to do so from anywhere in the world. It's also equipped with a microphone and built-in speaker that allows you to speak with any visitors that arrive at your door. Meanwhile, its integrated motion sensor

Apple has several new features for its iOS Safari browser in the works, including voice search, translation integration, improved tabs, a "guest mode" option, and new iCloud Keychain functionality. Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman rounded up the new features in development in a tweet , while making it clear that there was no guarantee that they would be revealed at this week's WWDC. Rumors of new Safari features have been trickling out ever since a leaked version of iOS 14 began circulating earlier this year. Notable among those rumors, Apple is said to be adding ‌iCloud‌ Keychain warnings whenever a password is reused as well as the ability for ‌iCloud‌ Keychain to generate two-factor authentication codes. Elsewhere, a built-in language translation feature would allow users to translate web pages without using a third-party app or service. The translation option is expected to be available for each website that's visited, but an automatic translation featur

The streaming stick will run Android TV 9.0. What you need to know Key specs of Xiaomi's upcoming Android TV-based Mi TV Stick have surfaced. The Mi TV Stick will apparently be available in two variants: Full HD and 4K. The Full HD version is tipped to be priced at $49, while the 4K version might cost $133. Xiaomi teased the launch of its first streaming stick based on Google's Android TV platform last month. Ahead of its launch, the upcoming Xiaomi Mi Stick has been listed online by a few retailers, revealing nearly all its key specs and pricing for various markets. An early unboxing video of the Mi TV Stick has surfaced as well, giving us our best look yet at the upcoming streaming stick. Xiaomi Mi TV Stick listings on AliExpress and GearBest suggest the streaming stick will be offered in two versions. The Full HD version will come with 1GB of RAM and a $49 price tag, while the 4K Mi TV Stick will have 2GB of RAM and a $133 price tag. Since the Mi TV Stick hasn&

Fujifilm is developing software for Mac that will enable its cameras to be used as high-quality webcams, the company announced today (via The Verge ). Fujifilm, Canon and Panasonic all offer software that brings webcam functionality to their cameras. The cameras are connected via a USB cable and provide a sharper picture for video calls, but most apps are PC only. Fujifilm says it is bringing the same functionality to Mac due to the "overwhelming response" of its customers when it released the app for PC. The macOS version of the Fujifilm X Webcam software is due to be released in mid-July 2020. Fujifilm has also expanded the number of X-series mirrorless cameras that work with its Fujifilm X Webcam software, with the X-T200 and X-A7 now supported. Other cameras already supported include the X-H1, X-Pro2, X-Pro3, X-T2, X-T3, and X-T4. Fujifilm X Webcam also works with all three GFX medium format cameras. This article, " Webcam Software for Fujifilm Cameras Comi