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As the worm turns | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 10 | you to mull over this fine Thursday morning: Do agtech robotics need a reset? Granted, we’re dealing with a small sample size here, but a string of news items over the past year have left me wondering why the category is — thus far — failing to live up to some very strong potential. Warehouse fulfillment and last-mile... |
Amazon, Microsoft and Google have suspended cloud sales in Russia | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 3 | 10 | As the war in Ukraine continues, companies as varied as Exxon, Visa, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola have suspended sales in Russia. Tech companies like have joined in over the last couple of weeks. We queried the world’s top cloud infrastructure vendors (including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Cloudflare) to find out ... |
Dot Pad tactile display makes images touchable for visually impaired users | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 3 | 10 | used by people with vision impairments, but despite widespread improvements to accessibility on the web and smart devices, innovation for braille-reader hardware has essentially been stalled. Dot has taken a huge step forward with a smart braille device that not only allows for easy display of text, but tactile repres... |
DoorDash is testing a feature that lets you return packages to post offices, FedEx or UPS | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 10 | confirmed it’s testing a new feature called “Return a Package” that allows customers to use the service to return packages to the nearest post office, UPS or FedEx location. The feature is part of a small beta test and is not yet widely available, DoorDash said, and declined to share which markets are offering the opt... |
Quest 2 fitness tracking finally lands Apple Health integration | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 3 | 10 | Meta’s Quest 2 headset has managed to carve out a surprisingly sizable niche as a high-tech piece of exercise equipment as people use software like Beat Saber and Supernatural to get a cardio workout in. There have been some limits to the experience, though, given the standalone nature of the virtual reality headset... |
Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen back $30M fund exclusively investing in NFT art | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 3 | 10 | The world of NFTs is never dull — as long as the money never stops. While investors continue to pour billions into the sector, albeit at a slowing pace, more crypto buyers are spinning up funds to back NFT platforms, projects and the non-fungible tokens themselves. While dedicated funds solely devoted to NFTs as an ass... |
We’re breaking down usage-based pricing and growth strategies at TechCrunch Early Stage | Jordan Crook | 2,022 | 3 | 10 | Software as a service (SaaS) — both a revelation and a revolution — completely disrupted the decades-old software selling paradigm. It turned buying software from an infrequent, high-cost and, for many companies, time-consuming process into a hosted, monthly and predictable cost-per-seat subscription service. SaaS has ... |
Failure is complex, especially in the world of startups | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 3 | 19 | As I hear about more startups struggling amid shifting market conditions, the great resignation and the general inflection point that begins once a company hits growth stage, it’s worth addressing an elephant in the room that comes around often in the tech versus media debate. How do we cover failure? There’s the argum... |
Stilt secures $114M in debt & equity to help fintechs and neobanks launch credit offerings with its API | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 3 | 10 | Stilt |
We keep trying to reinvent startup accelerators | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 3 | 26 | Critiquing the value of a startup accelerator and demo days has been a decades-long conversation in the world of tech. The programs promise napkin-stage founders help with everything from finding their co-founders to hitting product-market fit to raising that pivotal first check. Led by worldwide programs like Y Combin... |
Riding an API to platform status | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 19 | Happy Saturday, friends; I hope you are well. As you read this, I have scooted back to my regular digs up in the Northeast, leaving sunny New Orleans behind. Yes, next week’s writing will be more emo on account of the weather. Regardless, there are two things to talk about today, so let’s get busy! — Earlier this week... |
China’s driverless delivery startup Whale Dynamic targets US market with $2.5M funding | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 3 | 19 | A nascent Nuro challenger from China has its sight set on the delivery market in the U.S. and just raised some seed funding to advance its ambitions. , a Shenzhen-based autonomous delivery startup founded by Baidu veteran David Chang, said it has closed a seed round of about $2.5 million. Qianchuang Capital, a Beijing-... |
Are we about to see a unicorn selloff? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 26 | Welcome to the weekend! We have a of ground to cover today, so pour some coffee, settle in, and roll with me. Remember when Amplitude , started to trade, and then when it reported Q4 2021 earnings? It was hardly alone amongst public tech companies in taking a haircut in early 2022, but the scale of its repricing st... |
This Week in Apps: Google’s alternative billing, Instagram’s chronological feeds, digital driver’s licenses | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 26 | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the year-end . Global spending... |
SME lending platform Validus acquires Citi Singapore’s CitiBusiness loan portfolio | Kate Park | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | null |
To raise a fund, this agtech outfit built a content company first (now it has $60 million to put to work) | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | Rob Leclerc has the kind of pedigree that investors tend to like: He has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Calgary and a Ph.D. in computational biology from Yale. In fact, 10 years ago, what he really wanted to do with his degrees was to find and fund agriculture-related projects that tackle ... |
Learn which startups strategic mobility investors are seeking at TC Sessions: Mobility | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | Marcus Greer is an equity investment analyst at Capital Group where he oversees research for major automotive OEMs along with the autonomous and electric mobility ecosystem. Prior to joining Capital, Greer served as a public equity investor at Fidelity Investments. Earlier in his career, he worked as a private equity a... |
This Week in Apps: Instagram’s parental controls, Tile’s anti-stalking update, iOS 15.4 arrives | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 19 | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the year-end . Global spending... |
Daily Crunch: Corporate management startup Ramp doubles its valuation to $8.1B with new financing | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, March 21, 2022! Short and to the point today: Follow our newest hire, , who joined the TechCrunch+ team as a senior crypto reporter. We’re super stoked to have her aboard! – Kicking off the day’s startup news, a report … not about a startup. Instead, , which will a hos... |
With $9.3M in fresh funding, Zestworld plans a newsletter service for creator-owned comics | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | The comics world has seemingly been waiting for a digital revolution since the birth of the internet. Launched in 2007, ComiXology has come the closest to delivering such a play to the medium, so naturally, Amazon went and purchased the service and messed it up. Its most recent offering left subscribers in the lurch, f... |
Max Q: All eyes on Astra | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | Hi folks, welcome back to Max Q. This week we have news on rockets both small (Astra’s Rocket 3.3) and very, very large (NASA’s Space Launch System). Plus further fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and some funding news too. Max Q is brought to you by me, Aria Alamalhodaei. Thoughts, comments and tips can be se... |
Talkspace-owned Lasting launches new ‘Parenting Guide’ app, its latest self-guided advice service | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | , which is owned by mobile therapy company , has launched a new app aimed at parents. The app, which is called , is designed to help parents become more confident in their approach to raising children. The company says the app gives parents and caregivers access to resources to raise healthy and resilient children. T... |
Be an entrepreneur who leads with transparency | Marjorie Radlo-Zandi | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | , you’ll encounter many hills and valleys growing your company. As much as you want to present positive information to stakeholders, it’s equally important to be forthright when product and financial performance fall short of expectations. As an angel investor who funds promising startups, on occasion — and thankfully ... |
Luminar acquisition brings high-performance laser capabilities in-house | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | Luminar, a company that builds vision-based lidar and machine perception technologies for autonomous vehicles, is acquiring high-performance laser manufacturer Freedom Photonics on Monday. The all-stock transaction involves Luminar transferring 3 million shares of its common stock, or about $42.3 million at today’s sha... |
Lawsuit prompts Grubhub to add disclosures about hidden fees | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine today that his office filed a lawsuit against Grubhub for “misleading District residents and taking advantage of local restaurants to boost its own profits.” The alleges that Grubhub violated D.C.’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA) in eight different ways, which... |
Tala founder on the fintech’s fundraising success and creating an equitable financial system | Maggie Stamets | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | null |
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French aerospace company Gama raises $2M to develop a solar sail spacecraft | Stefanie Waldek | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | Just as sea breezes propel sailboats across the sea on Earth, solar radiation might one day be able to propel spacecraft between the stars. Or at least that’s the hope of French startup . The aerospace company was founded in 2020 by Louis de Gouyon Matignon, Thibaud Elziere and Andrew Nutter, whose goal is to develop ... |
China’s EV upstarts are building their own investment powerhouses | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | The investment game going after automotive startups is getting more competitive in China with not only established venture capital firms joining the fray but also industry veterans. Two mobility-focused funds that recently closed new rounds have the backing of the country’s leading electric car-making upstarts. Rockets... |
Miruku replacing animals with plants to create dairy proteins | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | Miruku, a New Zealand-based foodtech company, is applying its molecular farming process to program plant cells to be mini factories for producing proteins and other molecules, like fats and sugars, traditionally made by animals. The company was founded in 2020 by Amos Palfreyman, Ira Bing, Harjinder Singh and Oded Shos... |
Apple sends new offer to Dutch antitrust authority over dating apps payments, racks up 9th fine | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | Apple has been fined in the Netherlands over an antitrust order related to dating apps. The order requires it to allow local dating apps to be able to use third-party payment technologies if their developers wish, rather than being locked to only being able to use Apple’s in-app payment API for iOS. Since January, th... |
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter will keep flying on Mars through at least September | Stefanie Waldek | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | It’s been a busy year on Mars for NASA’s helicopter, and it’s not about to slow down now. After 21 flights, the aircraft is still in excellent condition, so NASA has extended its mission through at least September. Ingenuity arrived on the red planet with NASA’s rover on February 18, 2021. Its original mission was ... |
Plotlogic scoops up $18M to put hyperspectral imaging to work in the mines | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | Mining is one of the oldest industries out there, but it has increasingly embraced high-tech methods as demand has increased. uses hyperspectral imaging, a technique generally found in labs and satellites, to add a new layer of data and automation to these crucial but often dated operations. Hyperspectral imagery is ... |
After Anaplan, which SaaS company will private equity target next? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | equity firm Thoma Bravo said . The financial planning software company’s stock has declined sharply in the last six months, which likely gave the PE firm a chance to pounce. The stock market hasn’t been kind to SaaS companies in recent months, which makes us wonder if we’re seeing the beginning of a trend of private ... |
New data underscores a slowing e-commerce market | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | , Ashwin Ramasamy, a , asked on TechCrunch if the “e-commerce shift” the world was seeing as COVID-19 shook up the global economy . The answer was yes. But that doesn’t mean that the same pace of online commerce growth that the world saw during the pandemic will be maintained. Indeed, as 2021 came to a close, data be... |
FedEx app’s test appears to show the ability to track deliveries from other services | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 21 | FedEx has been working on a new feature for its consumer mobile app that would seemingly allow it to better compete with the popular . One of the bigger selling points for Shopify’s Shop is how it allows users to track their purchases and shipments from across services, including not only Shopify, but also Amazon, and... |
Una Brands teams up with KlickBrands to enter South Korea’s e-commerce market | Kate Park | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | null |
Opaper takes the friction out of social commerce | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | While working her way through grad school, founder Joan McIntosh ran an online bakery. “I would wake up at 3 a.m., 4 a.m., go to a commercial kitchen and go door to door, delivering food or putting it in grocery stores.” After graduating, McIntosh’s professional life became decidedly more high tech—she was senior pro... |
Zoox acqui-hires team from robotic strawberry-picking startup, Strio.AI | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | Amazon-owned robotaxi firm Zoox that it has acquired Strio.AI. The Boston-based robotics startup was founded in 2020 by MIT alumns to bring autonomous picking and pruning to strawberry crops. It got up and running quickly during the pandemic, bringing its first prototype system to farms in California and Florida with... |
UK’s Thirdfort nabs $20M for tools to help with ID verification, and detect money laundering and payment fraud | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | Money laundering has been a hot topic of late in the UK, which is facing pressure to not just make tighter rules to track down the origins of money that’s spent on large assets in the country like prime real estate — the capital city has been dubbed by some as the “ ” — but also, in light of sanctions on Russia in rece... |
Apple suspends Search Ads on the Russian App Store ‘until further notice’ | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | After last week’s announcement that it would , Apple has now informed its developer community that it’s suspending its Apple Search Ads service on the App Store in Russia. According to an email shared with developers, Apple Search Ads ads — which allow developers to run advertising campaigns on the App Store — have no... |
Better.com plans to lay off about 4,000 people this week, sources say | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | The number ended up being “just over 3,000,” according to a Better.com spokesperson, who confirmed the figure on the afternoon of March 8 and shared a link to the that CFO Kevin Ryan ended up sending to employees on the matter. |
Daily Crunch: Hackers leak nearly 200 gigabytes of internal Samsung source code | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, March 7, 2022! We have a packed newsletter today, so get hype for a news digest. But, first, is , so the excitement-o-meter here in TechCrunch HQ Providence (aka my house) is off the charts. And to add to my general state of animation, we ! – Before we get into our usu... |
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Cityblock co-founder discusses why an affordable, human-centered healthcare model works | Maggie Stamets | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | On Found Live Darrell and Jordan got to chat with Cityblock co-founder and president, Toyin Ajayi. Cityblock provides primary care, behavioral health and social care to folks who have been historically marginalized in the healthcare system, primarily people who are receiving their health insurance through Medicaid, wit... |
Google’s Android 12L officially launches, will come to select devices this year | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | Google in October announced a , a version of the Android operating system designed specifically for large-screened devices. Today, Android 12L is , offering features that will make it easier to use Android on tablet devices. The software will begin to roll out to supported devices from Samsung, Lenovo and Microsoft s... |
What we expect from Apple’s Peek Performance event | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | these virtual events is they’ve really got a way of sneaking up on you. Back in the good ‘ol days of corporate travel, you could expect a few weeks’ heads-up ahead of the big show to allow you the proper time to book a night at the Palo Alto Travelodge (decent Wi-Fi, less decent free breakfast). The move to virtual al... |
Uber boosts Q1 profit guidance as the world gets moving again | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | U.S. ride-hailing and food delivery giant Uber raised its guidance for adjusted profitability in the first quarter, a rosier-than-anticipated outlook triggered by a spike in demand. this morning, Uber said it now expects adjusted EBITDA — a heavily-modified profit metric that strips out a host of costs, including shar... |
So is there a bottom for tech stocks, or what | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | Here at TechCrunch we keep tabs on the stock market. And the stock market has turned into an awful vomit-machine lately, puking up last year’s gains onto its own shirt, and, by extension, the larger technology market and startup-land. Not that this should be news per se; if you have been tracking the markets at all — ... |
Apple TV+ begins rolling out to Comcast’s Xfinity platforms | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | Apple TV+ is now available across Comcast’s Xfinity platforms, Comcast on Monday. The company said Apple TV+ is beginning to roll out on the Xfinity X1, Xfinity Flex and XClass TV today and will be available across all eligible devices in the coming days. You can now access Apple TV+ by saying “Apple TV+” into your X... |
Robotics founders: Build your pitch deck around problem-solving, not technology | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | remarkable often feels at odds with the practical. The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos. It was one of the most exciting examples of robotics engineering since Boston Dynamics first made the scene. Commercial applica... |
Google’s latest Pixel update includes a feature that lets you type responses during calls and more | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | Google’s is launching today with several new updates, including a feature that lets you type to talk during phone calls. The updates are rolling out to Pixel 3a through Pixel 5a 5G devices today, while Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro devices will begin receiving the updates later this month. The most notable new feature is a... |
Twitter says it’s trying to fully restore service in Russia | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | Twitter’s service continues to be partially accessible in Russia, although the social networking platform confirmed today that it is aware of reports of users in the country having “increasing difficulty” accessing its service, adding that it is investigating and working to restore full access. “We’re aware of reports ... |
Slava Rubin and Sahil Lavingia break down crowdfunding options at TechCrunch Early Stage | Jordan Crook | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | Sure, you can find plenty of big-name companies that bootstrapped their way to success without any outside investment — Calendly, GoPro, MailChimp and SPANX come to mind. Historically though, the majority of early-stage startups eventually have to move out of their bootstrapping stage to tap into outside sources of cap... |
Google says Chrome on macOS is now faster than Safari | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | Version 100 of Google Chrome will within the next few weeks, but even after all of this time, there’s still some room for speeding up the browser. As Google announced today, version 99 of Chrome on macOS manages to score 300 points on the Speedometer benchmark, which was originally developed by Apple’s WebKit team. T... |
Instagram’s Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps disappear from app stores | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | A week after Instagram confirmed its plan to in order to better focus on initiatives, like Reels, the company confirmed it’s pulled two more of its older apps from the app stores. This includes its , first launched in 2014, and looping , launched in 2015. According to data provided to TechCrunch by , Hyperlapse an... |
Klarna shows that BNPL growth is not cheap | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 7 | has been a busy in the last few days, so you will forgive me for missing that Klarna dropped its 2021 financial results last week. We’re remedying that oversight today. Klarna is an interesting company. It’s incredibly , and, despite remaining a private company, reports its earnings on a regular basis. This means t... |
Antler East Africa closes $13.5M fund to invest in early-stage startups | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | . |
Berlin-based Swobbee wants to bring micromobility battery swapping to Europe | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | Swobbee, a Berlin-based startup that’s working on commercializing battery swapping for micromobility vehicles, has raised a $6.5 million Series A led by new strategic investor EIT InnoEnergy, a major accelerator of sustainable energies in Europe that’s supported by the European Union. The startup will rely on both the ... |
Alice&Bob, a quantum computing startup, raises $30M to launch its first fault-tolerant ‘cat qubit’ computers in 2023 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | Quantum computing has been something of a holy grail in the world of technology: In theory, it promises an unprecedented amount of processing power that could be used to solve the most complicated problems; in practice, most attempts at building the physical manifestation of the concept produce too many errors as a byp... |
Game streaming platform Loco raises $42 million to build ‘Twitch for India’ | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | Game streaming startup Loco said on Thursday it has raised $42 million as it looks to build what it has described to some investors as “Twitch for India.” Hashed, Makers Fund, Catamaran Ventures, Krafton, Lumikai, Korea Investment Partners and Hiro Capital invested in the startup’s Series A financing, which gives Loco ... |
Do Americans want to gamble on individual athletes? Marc Lore is betting on it | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | , a seven-month-old, New York-based company, says it’s looking to build a new sports stock market that lets fans bet on athletes just like stocks. Though the plan is to launch this fall, the young outfit has already raised $75 million in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital, with participation from renowned entrepren... |
Sony suspends PlayStation store and console sales in Russia | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | Sony is the latest company to pull business out of Russia in light of the country’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Sony’s gaming division Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Wednesday that it would cut off hardware shipments and software launches in Russia in light of the Russian government’s escalating hostilit... |
Did Netflix ruin Formula 1 with ‘Drive To Survive’? | Jordan Crook | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | If you followed along with the 2021-22 Formula 1 season, you know that Netflix’s latest installment of is certain to be a doozy. Luckily, the wait is nearly over. Drive To Survive Season 4 launches on March 11, and Netflix released the official trailer for the show today. Here’s the thing: There are few, if any shows... |
AI helps historians complete ancient Greek inscriptions damaged over millennia | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | As if being a scholar in ancient Greek wasn’t hard enough fundamentally, the primary texts they rely on are frequently damaged beyond repair, being as they are thousands of years old. Historians may have a powerful new tool in , a machine learning model built by DeepMind that makes surprisingly accurate guesses at mis... |
Daily Crunch: Atlantic Money wants to make international money transfers even cheaper than competitors | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, March 9, 2022! A few notes before we dive into the news: First, our Austin City Spotlight and pitch-off is coming together, so startups, . And we just announced that , which is going to be a treat. – Kicking off our startup coverage today, a few notes from our enterpr... |
SpaceX launches 48 more Starlink satellites on an ‘American broomstick’ | Stefanie Waldek | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | It’s up, up and away for another SpaceX Starlink mission. At 5:45 this morning PST, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida, adding 48 new satellites to SpaceX’s 2,000-strong constellation of internet-providing devices orbiting the Earth. This launch was the fourth for th... |
The PlayStation version of Roblox is materializing | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | A new job posting from Roblox hints that the company’s loose plans to expand to Sony’s gaming console are getting much closer to becoming a reality. The seeks a PlayStation console senior software engineer to develop a Roblox app for PlayStation — hardware that Roblox’s game platform-within-a-platform has yet to reac... |
How to calculate your startup’s TAM, SAM and SOM | Marjorie Radlo-Zandi | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | the size of the market you’re targeting is critical to securing funding for your business. Angel investors and VCs alike want to see a breakthrough product or service that scales and can acquire a significant share of a sizable market. At any stage of investment, be it seed or a Series B, it’s necessary to include a s... |
Why isn’t the Studio Display also an Apple TV? | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | Apple finally delivered what many have been asking for in the Apple enthusiast community: a first-party display that doesn’t cost a minimum of $5,000. The new instead costs $1,600, which is still a lot more than a lot of people want to pay for a monitor, but it’s still probably a welcome addition for many. Apple even... |
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White House issues its executive order on cryptocurrencies | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | The Biden White House showed off a new executive order on Wednesday regarding the regulation of cryptocurrencies. The order essentially lays out a broad strategy for how the government plans to balance consumer protection while ensuring that the United States continues to be a space for innovation in the sector. For th... |
Colossal grabs $60 million Series A for moonshot mammoth project | Emma Betuel | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | Colossal, the company known for its mission to resurrect a woolly mammoth (or at least, an elephant with some very mammoth-like traits), is back with $60 million in Series A funding. But despite the fanfare and cash, there’s not a ton of scientific progress to report. Colossal is spun out of the work of , one of the c... |
Hire a writer and a lawyer before releasing a cryptocurrency white paper | John Biggs | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | white papers are staid, scientific documents intended to describe a complex, precise method for creating unique blockchain products. In practice, however, white papers are frequently a marketing play intended to help crypto startups . Even so, they are still very much in demand — in certain situations. To find out wh... |
Amazon suspends access to Prime Video in Russia, halts shipments to the country | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | Amazon is suspending access to Prime Video for customers based in Russia amid the country’s invasion of Ukraine. In a about the announcement, the company also noted that it has suspended the shipment of retail products to customers based in Russia and Belarus. Amazon will also no longer be accepting new Russia and Be... |
Apply Now! Austin founders pitch at TechCrunch Live | Neesha A. Tambe | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | Stay tuned for more info on the illustrious judges we have coming in for the event! |
VW’s futuristic electric bus is real and coming soon (finally) | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | More than five years ago, Volkswagen showed off its vision for its next generation of vehicles — a cheerful two-tone lime yellow and white microbus concept that gave a nod to its T1 van life past and embraced an electric and connected future. That electric microbus future has finally arrived. At least, for Europe. Volk... |
Touch ID forever, Face ID never | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 3 | 9 | Apple has, thank god, deigned to continue to offer a budget ticket into its planet-spanning luxury funhouse: the iPhone SE 3. If they discontinued this useful item, I’d have to switch to an iPad or back to Android, since the only alternatives have both an ugly notch and the Face ID it contains. Fortunately the new SE s... |
6 methods for reducing bias in candidate sourcing and screening | Steve Bartel | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | several years, an increasing number of companies have pledged to hire a more diverse workforce and begun releasing their diversity numbers annually. The results have been a . With so many organizations saying that diversity hiring is among their top goals and making good-faith efforts to revamp their recruiting p... |
GoPro’s new battery grip triples your action-cam shooting time | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | You just your battery will kick the bucket at the worst possible time, right when you’ve perfected your sick, hella nar-nar skateboard tricks, bruh. The new (who names these things, jeez) has directional audio, 5.3K video, an LED light source and the powered Volta grip. It’s wild to , when the first HERO camera wa... |
Daily Crunch: Intel will reportedly buy cloud-optimization startup Granulate for $650M | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 31, 2022! It’s a beautiful day in our neck of the woods, and we have a great lineup of news for you today, so let’s goooooo. Grab your calendar and add these two: We’re doing a on April 26 for the big data aficionados, and now is your last chance to . Don’t worry... |
As counting wraps for the day, mixed results emerge in Amazon union votes | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | As of the close of in the Bessemer, Alabama Amazon Union election, “no” votes are ahead 993 to 875. It’s a positive outcome thus far for Amazon, which has managed to ward off labor organizing in its fulfillment centers for the entirety of its 27-year existence. The margin is, however, significantly smaller than the r... |
Biden’s answer to high gas prices is to boost US battery production | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | President Joe Biden will trigger the Defense Production Act to secure U.S. sources of critical minerals and materials like lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and manganese that are used to make batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage. The order is in response to spiking gas prices and supply chain constraints... |
E3 2022 canceled, planners say gaming show will return next year | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | Back in January, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced that it had canceled plans for the return of an in-person E3. The news came as Omicron concerns lingered following the end of the holiday season. Today, the organization confirmed reports that the 2022 version of the gaming show is not happening in... |
Better learning through ‘complex dough-manipulation’ | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | A disproportionate number of the early industrial food-making robots we’ve seen have been . I’ve long posited that this is for two key reasons. First: People like pizza. We eat a lot of it. Americans alone eat three billion pizzas a year. Second: It’s relatively easy to make. The dough provides a fairly straightforwar... |
Behold the robo-berry | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | If you’ve never picked a raspberry, well, first of all that’s too bad, because a fresh raspberry is a beautiful thing. But second, and more immediately relevant in this case, you would not know that there is a technique to it that, surprisingly, robots aren’t super good at because they tend to be… crushy. But designe... |
Goldman Sachs’ OTC Bitcoin options trade ‘doesn’t mean much,’ but can pave way for more institutional involvement | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | to testing the waters with crypto, with institutional clients looking for more exposure in the space. Last week, Goldman was the first major U.S. bank to execute an with Galaxy Digital, which some market players say is foreshadowing more institutional adoption of digital assets. “Crypto markets need large, credible ... |
Co-founders of Ukrainian startup Delfast discuss navigating through a crisis | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | taught the world how to work from home, but Russia’s war in Ukraine has taught the employees at Delfast, a Ukrainian e-bike startup, how to work from bomb shelters, while on the move and under threat of violence. |
Microsoft acquires process mining vendor Minit to grow its automation offerings | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | Signaling its ambitions in the process automation market, Microsoft has acquired , a Bratislava, Slovakia-originated process mining technology vendor, for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced today. Microsoft says that the purchase will “further empower” it to “help … customers digitally transform” by creating ... |
Hiveminded | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | , of a robot dog walking down the streets of Shanghai with a bullhorn strapped on its back. There are those who will, no doubt, view it as a kind of apocalyptic vision. I’d be lying if the thought hadn’t crossed my mind. It’s a strange thing, living through history and imagining yourself traveling back in time as rec... |
Wordle chaos! Here’s why the popular puzzle game had two answers this week and how to fix it | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | Did The New York Times just ruin Wordle? Thankfully, no. When the popular puzzle game was the news media company in January for a low seven-figure sum, the deal came with that there would be “no changes” to Wordle’s gameplay after the move. But that appeared to no longer be true this week when a number of Wordle ad... |
All eyes are on Swvl as it starts trading on a SPAC combination | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | Swvl was founded by , Mahmoud Nouh and Ahmed Sabbah in 2017. The trio started the company as a bus-hailing service in Egypt and other ride-sharing services in emerging markets with fragmented public transportation. Its bus-hailing services enable users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a f... |
The how and why of raising OT security capital | Matt Gatto | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | huge for the cybersecurity market, fueled by rising incidents of cyberattacks, particularly ransomware that disrupted services and held companies hostage. The numbers are striking: Investments in the space more than doubled from the year before to $29.3 billion, according to a by investment bank Momentum Cyber. Two r... |
Pursuit closes $10M fund to spin up a self-sustaining job training program | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | More Americans than ever want to escape the rut of a low-paying job, but quitting to pursue a new profession is a risky proposition. has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. T... |
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Deepki grabs $166 million to help real estate investors reduce carbon emissions | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | French startup has raised a $166 million Series C funding round (€150 million). The company is building a software-as-a-service platform for the real estate industry. It’s a monitoring and analytics product that helps you take better decisions. Companies using Deepki can track and analyze ESG (Environmental, Social, ... |
Google Meet gets in-meeting reactions, PiP, end-to-end encryption and more | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | Google a major update to Google Meet today that includes a number of long-requested features and plenty that you didn’t even know you needed. There is a long list here, but the main additions are likely in-meeting reactions to give immediate updates to the Meet companion mode, emoji-based feedback, the ability to use... |
SEC investigates Faraday Future as regulatory crackdown on EV SPACs continues | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | Several executives at EV company Faraday Future have been subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an investigation into inaccurate statements made to investors, . The subpoena comes nearly two months after Faraday Future’s internal investigation determined employees made inaccurate stateme... |
Meta and Sama face legal action in Kenya for alleged poor work conditions | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | Meta and , its main subcontractor for content moderation in Africa, are facing a lawsuit in Kenya over alleged unsafe and unfair working conditions if they fail to meet 12 demands on workplace conditions brought before them. Nzili and Sumbi Advocates, the law firm representing Daniel Motaung, a former Sama employee wh... |
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