This week Matthew Panzarino tells us about his week on the dynamic island with the new iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro. We’re also joined by Becca Szkutak talking about the unpredictable state of VC as we enter the fall. And as always, Darrell will catch you up on the tech news you may have missed this week.

Articles from the episode:

• Review of Apple’s iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro: They’re leaning into it
• VC fundraising gets weird as autumn nears

Other news from the week:
 

• Adobe snaps up Figma for $20B, taking out one of its biggest rivals in digital design
• Ethereum switches to proof-of-stake consensus after completing The Merge
• Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120
• Uber investigating cybersecurity incident after hacker breaches its internal network
• Now that the Ethereum Merge is behind us, what’s next?

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell.