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Helloooo! Since our last Daily Crunch, our adrenaline-fueled TechCrunch team has added more than 70 stories to the site. We’re picking out some of the best below, but we’ll almost certainly miss a story you wish you’d read. Give our homepage a quick scroll to see what strikes your fancy! — Christine and Haje

The TechCrunch Top 3

• Tim Cook and green bubbles: Christine is an Android user and her iPhone-using friends talk about “green bubbles,” but until now she did not know this was a problem. Christine’s text bubbles come in all different colors and even tells her who is “speaking” when in a group. However, she’s now learned that her iPhone-using friends secretly hate her green bubbles. Tim Cook is on their side, Ivan writes.

• Ambient Mesh: That’s the name of Google and Solo.io’s new Istio service mesh. We’ll yield to Frederic to explain what all of that means.

• Electric vroom: Jeep has three, three new electric vehicles, ah ah ah!, poised to enter the market beginning in 2023, Jaclyn reports.

Startups and VC

It’s day 2 of Y Combinator-vaganza, which means we have buckets and buckets of news for you. Assuming news comes in buckets, but that’s a conversation for another day.

Tage reports that YC’s latest batch cuts African startup presence by more than half, and Anna, Alex and Tage are curious where Y Combinator is startup-hunting in 2022. And Kyle explored 7 AI startups that stood out among the YC hopefuls, and a load of TechCrunch writers selected our 11 favorite companies from Day 1 and Day 2 and the moonshots.

Whew. In addition to YC, Apple ran an event yesterday, and boy did we cover a bunch of that, too. Luckily, Christine has you covered on that front in the Big Tech section below.

Here’s a few more for ya:

• We’ve got our eye on you: Ingrid writes about FocalPoint grabbing $17 million and its mission to fix all that is wrong with GPS.

• Getting farmers to see green: Natasha L does a deep-dive into the world of agriculture technology, focusing on Klim, which raised $6.6 million to help farmers adopt regenerative practices.

• Data grows like a weed: More data means more storage, and Catalog is partnering with Seagate on an interesting approach to data storage using DNA technology, Kate writes.

• Education aspiration: Tage has a look at Nexford, an online university, which banked $8 million “to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education.”

• Cloudy storage days ahead: Lucidity raised $5.3 million to continue developing tools to keep all of your cloud block storage “neat and tidy,” Catherine writes.