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Funding radical startups addressing climate change with Natel Energy and Breakthrough Energy Ventures | Matt Burns | 2,022 | 6 | 7 | Gia Schneider raised $65 million on the road to unlock distributed hydro resources. In July 2021, Libby Wayman from Breakthrough Energy Ventures led Natel Energy’s $20 million Series B, and on June 8, 2022, the two industry leaders are speaking on . We’ll take a look at Natel Energy’s early pitch deck, and hear how Sc... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: 11 PLG tactics, addressing copycat stigma, ‘unicorn glut’ theory | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 6 | 7 | Imagine a world where founders boasted about how much growth they’ve driven, as opposed to their fundraising prowess. The ability to raise capital is less impressive than finding sustainable ways to build a base of paying customers. The right coaching and a strong network can help many entrepreneurs land a sizable seed... |
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Arduino sets its sights on enterprise applications with new funding round | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 6 | 7 | Best known for its open source microcontrollers that have been wildly embraced by the developer community, firmly set on the enterprise world. Specifically, the company believes it’s well positioned to gain a foothold among Gen Z and millennial engineers in the work force. Certainly the company’s ubiquity in the make... |
Apple chooses Joy (Cons) | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 6 | 7 | If you’re the particular kind of person who played Pokémon Crystal on your jailbroken iPhone 3 during your high school math class, then there’s even bigger news coming out of WWDC than the . On iOS 16, Apple iPhones will support bluetooth pairing with Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons and Pro Controllers, giving you more contr... |
In iOS 16, apps can trigger real-world actions hands-free | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 6 | 7 | New functionality arriving in iOS 16 will enable apps to trigger real-world actions hands-free. That means users could do things like start playing music just by walking into a room or turning on an e-bike for a workout just by getting on it. Apple told developers today in a session hosted during the company’s Worldwid... |
Nimbus launches a tiny EV prototype that’s like a motorbike with a roof | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 6 | 7 | As shared e-scooter companies have infiltrated cities and e-bike sales have soared, micromobility has been offered up as a panacea to save us all from the ill humors and packed streets caused by gas-guzzling cars. However, one of the major roadblocks in front of well-intentioned city dwellers who’d love to trade in the... |
Instagram now lets you pin up to three posts to your profile | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 6 | 7 | Instagram today that it’s launching the ability for users to pin up to three posts, including photos or Reels, to the top of their profile grid. The company says the new feature will give creators more flexibility to express themselves on their profiles. The official roll out comes as Instagram confirmed to TechCrunc... |
macOS will soon block unknown USB-C accessories by default | Zack Whittaker | 2,022 | 6 | 7 | A new security feature in Apple’s upcoming will automatically block new USB-C devices from communicating with the operating system until the accessory can be approved by the user. Apple dropped details of the new security feature in its , which appears to be aimed at protecting newer Apple laptops that run its bespo... |
It’s correction time for Latin American VC activity | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 6 | 7 | set to chalk up another quarter of falling venture capital activity, adding to a string of successive periods when the value of investments in the region fell. Leaning on data and looking at venture-backed companies in Central and South America, a TechCrunch analysis indicates that investment volume in deal and doll... |
Good Capital, Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon back India’s SolarSquare | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | Even as India is increasingly adding generation capacity from solar power, setting examples for many other developing nations, there’s a large population of the South Asian nation that is yet to join the clean energy bandwagon: Indian households. Less than 1% of Indian homes have rooftop solar systems. Such slow adopti... |
Duolingo back in China app stores after 1 year, with a local twist | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | Duolingo, the Nasdaq-listed language learning app, is back in China’s Apple App Store and Android stores nearly a year after it from the country’s app stores. Users in China found the Pittsburg-based app unavailable for downloads last August amid the country’s sweeping education crackdown, including restrictions on ... |
NASA assembles a UFO research team to study ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ | Stefanie Waldek | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | NASA has announced the formation of a study team dedicated to UFOs — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), as they’ve been rebranded to shed some of their tin-foil-hat stigma. But don’t expect some sort of “X-Files” team seeking to prove the existence of extraterrestrials. Starting this fall, the study will have res... |
Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey launched a Bitcoin academy in a public housing complex | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | Block CEO Jack Dorsey is teaming up with artist Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) to launch at Marcy Houses, the public housing complex in Brooklyn, New York where Jay-Z grew up. The initiative aims to provide financial education with an emphasis on Bitcoin as a path to financial freedom, featuring free in-person and online clas... |
EV SPAC Faraday Future now has the attention of the DOJ | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | The DOJ’s request for information is related to the SEC probe, according to a submitted by the electric vehicle startup Thursday. Faraday said it’s “in the process of responding to, and intends to fully cooperate with, such request.” The disclosure comes just one day after a Faraday Future said during an investor pre... |
Records show ICE uses LexisNexis to check millions, far more than previously thought | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been using LexisNexis since it parted ways with its previous data broker partner back in 2021. But far from using the platform strictly for checking for those with “serious criminal backgrounds,” the agency is performing searches in the millions, statistics obtained by watc... |
Daily Crunch: Upskilling edtech platform GOMYCODE closes $8M Series A | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | When did it become Thursday? About 15 hours ago, that’s when! Welcome to the 9th of March 2022, and another, extra crunchy Daily Crunch. Serve it with some real cow milk that didn’t come from cows — and if that sounds weird, we’ve got a treat for you in the startups section below. — and We love this story from , a... |
VCs flock to TikTok to reach the next generation of founders and investors | Dominic-Madori Davis | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | Ventures gave one task: Make TikToks about venture capital. At the time, Assir ran TikTok account, creating satire about corporate life and tech trends, amassing more than 56,000 followers and 2.4 million likes in the process. Meanwhile, Redpoint Ventures had just launched a media operation to connect with the nex... |
Meta is reportedly scaling back plans for its AR glasses, pivoting away from marketing Portal as a consumer device | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | Meta is scaling back its plans for its augmented reality (AR) glasses and is pivoting its Portal smart display device away from the consumer market, according to a new report from . The report notes that the company had originally planned to launch the first version of its AR glasses, which are codenamed Project Nazar... |
As DAOs continue to blossom, here’s how to keep yours from wilting | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | This past year has been one big growth spurt for DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) but not everyone in the space is convinced that they’re being formed properly or in a way that ensures success. Before we get into it, it’s important to know that are community-led entities with no central leadership. Decis... |
The case for down rounds | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | Media outfits earlier this week that the crypto lending platform BlockFi is looking to raise roughly $100 million in fresh funding in a round that would value the company at about $1 billion. Very notably, when BlockFi last raised money from investors — $350 million in March of last year — the investors assigned the ... |
Workforce quit | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | announced one more big name for TC Sessions: Robotics. I’ll be at the July 21 event. It’s a bit of a curveball during a day focused on discussions with startups, VC and researchers, but it’s something I’ve been looking forward to discussing for a while. Walsh was appointed to the position last March by President Bid... |
Barely outpacing snails, US lawmakers ponder regulating crypto | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | TechCrunch The United States government took a long-anticipated first step toward comprehensive regulatory clarity for the digital asset space this week in the form of a new bipartisan Senate bill. As much as crypto bulls insist it’s still early days for the industry, it’s even earlier days for U.S. regulators — the b... |
Pitch Deck Teardown: Lunchbox’s $50 million Series B deck | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | more people ordering food from home — a trend that gathered momentum at a time when it was safer to eat at home than in restaurants — the proliferation of so-called “ghost kitchens” is continuing apace. These kitchens focus on takeaway orders and need a layer of technology to keep things running smoothly. “When COVID ... |
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Jaguar Land Rover rolls out what3words geocoding tech to vehicles already on the road | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | Jaguar Land Rover is the latest automaker to integrate geocoding company what3words into its cars and SUVs. JLR said Thursday that it will incorporate both its new and used vehicles with the voice-activated what3words system, which divides the world into a grid to give each 100-square-foot area an address of three rand... |
Russian tech giant Yandex removes national borders from Maps app | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | The reconfiguring of Russia’s digital landscape in the wake of Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine continues to play out at a macro and micro level. Here’s a development on the latter front: Local tech giant Yandex has quietly removed national borders from its maps product. Users of Yandex’s maps app, which is popular i... |
Apply to pitch your startup at TC Sessions: Climate | Neesha A. Tambe | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | The climate crisis is here. As the stakes rise with the temperature, a wide range of startups are striving to help humanity slash emissions and adapt to extreme weather. If you’re an early-stage founder focused on such efforts, then we want to feature you! For the first time ever, TechCrunch is hosting — a special ev... |
Apple said to be planning 12″ MacBook, 15″ MacBook Air and 14.1” iPad Pro for 2023 releases | Matt Burns | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | A pair of reports published today potentially reveal Apple’s 2023 laptop and iPad lineup. If true, big changes are coming. Literally big: Apple is rumored to be building a 14.1-inch iPad Pro and a 15-inch MacBook Air. Both reports come from sources with great track records. , and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman outlining th... |
US safety regulators expand Tesla Autopilot investigation | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | U.S. federal safety regulators have “upgraded” its investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot advanced driver assistance system after discovering new incidents of the EVs crashing into parked first-responder vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it was expanding its preliminary evaluation of Tes... |
Caught COVID-19 abroad? Good luck, you might get stuck | Zack Whittaker | 2,022 | 6 | 9 | stranded on a Caribbean island might not sound like the worst thing in the world after two years of a pandemic, but speaking from experience, it’s not as fun as it sounds. I caught COVID-19 while on vacation overseas. Somehow, my partner did not. But for us to get back to the United States we both had to provide negat... |
Meta’s co-accused Sama to retain B Corp status until case is determined | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | Meta’s main subcontractor for content moderation in Africa, Sama, will retain its B Corp certification until the case against it in Kenya, over claims of union busting and exploitation, is determined. The referenced case, which also includes allegations against Meta, was filed in May this year by Daniel Motaung, a form... |
Sharpen your credit card, the Apple Store is down (UPDATED) | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | The Apple Store was unavailable for about two hours, and returned with two notable changes. Apple removed a service provided by Enjoy following the company’s bankruptcy. The startup, founded by Apple’s former retail chief Ron Johnson, provided customers with the option of having an Enjoy employee deliver and set up Ap... |
China’s tech giants promise speculation-free NFTs | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | The future of non-fungible tokens is getting more clarity in China as the country’s tech giants come together to formulate standards for the nascent industry. The China Cultural Industry Association, along with Tencent, Ant Group, Baidu and others, jointly a “self-disciplined development proposal” for the “digital co... |
Micropyramid lenses triple the light that hits solar panels | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | Stacks of teeny lenses that look like inverted pyramids could juice up solar panels, helping them capture more light from any angle on both sunny and overcast days. Solar panels perform best in direct sunlight, which is why some solar systems track the big fireball across the sky, turning to face it for maximum light. ... |
Visby Medical tests positive for a Series E extension at $1B+ valuation | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | Medical diagnostics company raised $100 million in a Series E round . Today, the company told me it extended that round by an additional $35 million at the same valuation as the rest of the round. This financing will enable Visby Medical to scale production capacity from tens to hundreds of thousands of monthly test... |
Daily Crunch: OpenSea, an NFT marketplace, revealed email data breach that may have affected 1.8M users | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | Greetings, everyone, on this fine day. If you haven’t had the chance yet, please give a shout to our newest reporter, , who wrote today about and turning it into things like sunglasses. We also have a couple of submission requests: to win a Disrupt prize package, and any event on July 21 have until July 7 to do ... |
Crypto wants its own iPhone | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | TechCrunch Apple’s relative hostility to the desires of crypto developers hasn’t gone unnoticed, and as the industry buckles down for a bear market, some of its proponents are pushing forward plans to rebuild the iPhone with their own industry’s best interests at heart. Hello and welcome back to the podcast, where we... |
Nikola delays shareholder meeting to drum up support to issue more shares | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | Troubled electric truck maker Nikola adjourned its annual meeting to July 18, giving the company time to lobby shareholders to pass a money-raising measure to issue more shares of common stock. Nikola said the proposal is crucial to support the growth of the business. The company has been slowed in bringing its Tre sem... |
Fleetzero begins its search for the first giant ship to convert to battery power | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | Fleetzero has an ambitious goal: to compete with global shipping companies with its own boats, . The company just secured $15.5 million in new funding and is looking for the first ship to convert to run on its shipping container-shaped batteries. The company’s plan, described in detail , is to convert existing ships ... |
Instagram tests ditching video posts in favor of Reels | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | Instagram is testing a change that turns video posts into Reels, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The company says the change, which is currently being tested with select users around the world, is part of Instagram’s plan to simplify video on the app. “We’re testing this feature as part of our efforts to simplify ... |
3 questions for the startup market as we enter Q3 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | in just a few hours, meaning that we are trotting toward the third quarter’s starting line. Leaving aside the uncomfortably rapid pace at which time is flying past us, entering a new financial reporting period is an excellent moment to pause, reflect and work out the key questions for the upcoming quarter. After all, ... |
Raspberry Pi introduces a $6 board with Wi-Fi | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | Everyone’s favorite versatile microcontroller maker, Raspberry Pi, just unveiled a handful of new, budget-minded products. The company is building on the success of its $4 Pico board, which has thus far moved just under two million units since its January 2021 launch. The new Pico W for $6 — the “W” (and additional $... |
The SEC rejected bitcoin spot ETFs again. Now what? | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | continue to eye the crypto industry, some digital asset managers are pushing back against regulators in an effort to provide more legal investing opportunities. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday Grayscale Investments’ application to convert its bitcoin trust (GBTC) into an exchange-traded fund... |
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As the NFT boom fades, major gaming companies slow their crypto plans | Karan Bhasin | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | NFTs in video games were a toward the end of 2021, and they continue to be so, spurred by the early success of Axie Infinity’s play-to-earn (P2E) model. After all, it’s hard to ignore a sector that’s playing with billions of dollars. The potential of Axie’s P2E model, which gives players ownership of collectible in-... |
Here’s Carta’s response to venture becoming more global | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | Equity service platform Carta has Vauban, an online platform that helps investors back private companies from end to end. , the deal was framed by Carta as a way to support investors of all sizes, from the sub-million-dollar level into the billions of dollars worth of dry powder. Carta said that it is not disclosing... |
Binance taps TikTok’s mostly silent superstar Khaby Lame to explain how crypto works | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | Khaby Lame is quite literally on top of the world (if TikTok follower counts are the world). After attending his first VidCon and as the most followed TikToker, the Italian-Senegalese comedian signed on as an ambassador for , the world’s largest platform for buying and selling cryptocurrencies. Just last week, Binan... |
Warehouse Wars | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | weeks of work travel amid a seemingly endless pandemic finally caught up with me. Forgive me, as I’m writing this under the influence of green tea and antivirals, so thank you in advance to the regularly Herculean efforts of our copy editor, David. Apparently the old adage of things happening in Vegas staying in Vegas... |
What to look for when hiring a growth marketing agency | Jonathan Martinez | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | for “growth marketing” roles on LinkedIn these days, it’s likely you’ll get over 15,000 results. Contrast that with just a few years ago, when LinkedIn would have yielded a significantly lower number for the same role. The rapid expansion of the growth marketing industry has created a significant problem for startups ... |
Pitch Deck Teardown: Wilco’s $7 million seed deck | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | , freshly minted developer to do when they’re out of coding boot camp but don’t have any real-life experience? You step into the world of simulation. That’s the basic premise of what offers. Last week, , and the company’s CEO, On Freund, was gracious enough to let me use the deck the company created to close that ro... |
Niantic’s Campfire social AR app rolls out for Pokémon Go players | Devindra Hardawar | 2,022 | 6 | 30 | With , Niantic became the poster child for the power of mobile augmented reality (AR) apps. Since then, the company has struggled to recapture that glory. Yesterday’s cemented how difficult things are for Niantic, driven by the pandemic that has made it tough for people to get outside and gather in groups. But it tu... |
Singapore’s taxi operator ComfortDelGro enables tourists from Malaysia and South Korea to use mobile wallets apps for paying fares | Kate Park | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | null |
Juni jumps on $206M to help e-commerce players manage their own money better | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | The e-commerce market is on track to pass in revenues this year, which speaks not only to how much consumers are shopping online these days, but also to how many businesses there are out there now selling to them. Today, a startup from Gothenburg, Sweden, called is announcing $206 million in funding — a $100 millio... |
Content marketplace Pepper lands $14.3 million funding to expand to US | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | , a content marketplace that connects global brands such as Google, Meta, Amazon and Adobe with over 100,000 creators, has raised $14.3 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to the U.S. Bessemer Venture Partners led the Indian startup’s Series A funding round. Tanglin Venture Partners, Lightspeed Ventu... |
Faraday Future says it plans to open a Chinese factory by mid-decade | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | Faraday Future said Wednesday during an investor presentation that it plans to open a factory in China as early as 2025, even as it faces a shortage of capital and an SEC investigation. The electric vehicle maker said it is scouting locations for a site to build its future vehicles and serve as a local headquarters for... |
Departing Amazon exec Dave Clark to head logistics startup Flexport | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | Dave Clark, the former Amazon consumer chief, will take over as CEO of freight forwarding and customs brokerage startup Flexport starting September 1, 2022. Clark resigned from his role as CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer division . His last day at the big tech company will be July 1, after which time he’ll join Fle... |
Apple’s Pay Later installment credit scheme will live under a new lending subsidiary | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | The news that splitting any Apple Pay bill into installments hit the fintech lending world like a thunderbolt. But it turns out the new feature, while simple for consumers, necessitated a bit of backstage reorganizing at Apple, including a whole new subsidiary that will run it. The new feature, called Apple Pay Later... |
Daily Crunch: US law enforcement agencies take down identity theft marketplace | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | On this beautiful June 8, 2022, we celebrate joining the TechCrunch team. Check out and , and ! Woohoo, new colleagues!! — and NGL, we like to bask in some solid anarchy on a Wednesday morning, and Tux has that going on in spades. ’s . / Getty Images Federal spending on technology is expected to hold stea... |
NexStride gadget that helps people with Parkinson’s fight ‘freezing’ attracts $2.8M | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | One of the challenges faced by people with Parkinson’s disease is the possibility of “freezing” during normal movement, causing falls and lack of mobility. Surprisingly, small external cues can help them escape freezes or avoid them altogether — and De Oro has raised $2.8 million to commercialize its , which provides ... |
AT&T killed off the HBO Max bundle in its highest-priced unlimited wireless plan | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | Telecommunications provider AT&T quietly dropped HBO Max as a bundled perk for new AT&T customers on its top unlimited wireless plan, . The company launched the new plan this week, which replaced Unlimited Elite. AT&T confirmed the new plan doesn’t include the streaming service but didn’t provide a detailed explanatio... |
The NFT slump is real | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | boom has deflated, pushing unicorns and recently public companies alike into defensive modes. The decline in consumer trading activity is also extending to newer categories of assets, data indicates, like non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Per , weekly NFT sales declined by just over 70% from a high of nearly 1 million unit... |
Amazon is simplifying the pricing structure for its Kids+ all-in-one subscription service | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | Subscribers to Amazon’s Kids+ multiplatform package have been notified about a price change, which will become effective on July 14. According to the email sent by Amazon, the company is simplifying the pricing structure and will be converting all Prime members to a $4.99 monthly tier and all non-Prime subscribers to t... |
Proposed bipartisan US crypto bill could be ‘sigh of relief’ for the industry | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | world, regulators are trying to address the trillion-dollar elephant in the room: the digital assets market. Because crypto is a nascent industry that currently exists largely outside of legal frameworks, it’s still in murky waters, and those in the industry — and outside of it — seemingly want clear guidelines and cl... |
Twitter will hand over internal data to soothe Musk’s bot fears | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | Elon Musk’s wishes for more information about Twitter bots might just get granted. Twitter is planning to offer its presumptive buyer its full “firehose,” or a comprehensive stream of data on tweets, according to a report from . After agreeing to without doing much due diligence, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has thrown ... |
Dear Sophie: How do we handle being fully remote when it comes to immigration? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. “Whether you’re... |
Spotify hypes the revenue potential of podcasts and audiobooks at its second Investor Day event | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | In its , streaming service Spotify updated the financial community about its potential for further growth and monetization, despite the overall economic downturn impacting the tech sector. The company spent a good portion of its presentation specifically focused on podcasts, which it said had been “largely unchanged” ... |
The early signs of startup layoffs to come | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | Hello and welcome back to , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. As the team takes a break this week, we decided to replay an old yet prescien... |
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GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | GitHub today that it will sunset Atom, the text editor for software development that the company introduced in 2011. In a blog post, GitHub said that it will archive the Atom repository and all other repositories remaining in the Atom organization on December 15, 2022. Atom served as the foundation for the Electron f... |
YouTube TV begins rolling out 5.1 surround sound across Google TV, Android TV and Roku devices | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | YouTube TV is the availability of 5.1 surround sound across Google TV, Android TV and Roku devices this week. Prior to the expansion, 5.1 surround sound was only available across Samsung, LG and Vizio devices running Cobalt version 20 or higher. To take advantage of 5.1 audio, you need a compatible device with the Yo... |
Twitter’s latest feature lets merchants tease upcoming product drops, remind customers to shop | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | Twitter’s future may still , but the company is continuing to move forward with product releases in several key areas of focus including, as it turns out, e-commerce. The social media platform today announced another expansion of its online shopping efforts with the launch of a new feature, Product Drops, which will a... |
Meet the trans, anarchist founder who just landed $25M to reform how crypto is stored | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 6 | 8 | isn’t your average tech founder. They’re a self-taught cryptographer who dropped out of college, a proud member of and advocate for the transgender community and a self-described anti-capitalist anarchist who believes in free-market principles deeply rooted in the early days of crypto, when Bitcoin reigned supreme and... |
Indonesian hyperlocal social commerce app Super gets $70M led by NEA | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | , the Indonesian social commerce startup focused on small towns and rural areas, announced today it has raised an oversubscribed $70 million Series C. The round was led by NEA with participation from Insignia Ventures Partners, SoftBank Ventures Asia, DST Global Partners, Amasia, B Capital, TNB Aura, Bain Capital chair... |
Poparazzi hits 5M+ downloads a year after launch, confirms its $15M Series A | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | , the anti-Instagram social app that last year, is today, for the first time, detailing the growth stats for its business, its future plans and its previously unconfirmed Benchmark-led Series A round. The L.A.-area startup now reports its iOS-only has seen over 5 million installs in its first year, with users primari... |
a16z-backed Loom lays off 14% of staff, one year after becoming a unicorn | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | , an enterprise collaboration video messaging service, has laid off 34 employees, or 14% of its total staff, sources say. Employees across product and people operations were impacted. The venture-backed company confirmed the layoff and number of people impacted, and provided the following statement from founder and CEO... |
SureImpact wins the TC City Spotlight: Columbus Pitch-Off | Neesha A. Tambe | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | I’m excited to announce won today’s City Spotlight: Columbus pitch-off! Winning a free exhibition space at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 and a spot in TechCrunch , the Ohio-based company pitched alongside Skuld and Healia Health on TechCrunch Live earlier today. Founder and CEO Sheri Chaney Jones pitched to two fantastic ... |
Daily Crunch: Buick unveils Wildcat concept car as company shifts to EV-only lineup | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | Extra, extra, read all about it — and said she was stepping down as Meta COO. We’re still figuring out the details, so stay tuned for more. And oh Hai! Or rather, Ohio — more specifically, Columbus, Ohio. Today, we’re doing our City Spotlight, and we’ve been exploring , and . We also dove into . — and Every tim... |
This is the beginning of the unbundled database era | Ethan Batraski | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | cloud, the amount of data being generated and stored has exploded in scale and volume. Every aspect of the enterprise is being instrumented for data, so new operations are built based on that data, pushing every company into becoming a data company. One of the most profound and maybe non-obvious shifts driving this is... |
Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | Google has banned the training of AI systems that can be used to generate deepfakes on its Google Colaboratory platform. The terms of use, over the by Unite.ai and BleepingComputer, includes deepfakes-related work in the list of disallowed projects. Colaboratory, or Colab for short, spun out from an internal Goog... |
Garmin pops solar power onto its fancy Forerunner running watch | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | Garmin just brought solar power to its Forerunner line, a cult-favorite among runners. Along with some other devices, the company took the wraps off its new Forerunner today. The $600 running watch packs a new touchscreen display, physical buttons, up to 20 days between charges via its “Power Glass” , multiband GPS ... |
Sheryl Sandberg will step down as Meta COO | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | Sheryl Sandberg announced today on Facebook that she is leaving Meta after more than a decade as the company’s chief operating officer. Sandberg joined Meta, then Facebook, as COO in 2008. Over the course of 14 years, Sandberg steered the company through an IPO, an unprecedented period of explosive industry growth and ... |
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VC funding for crypto projects fell in May, but many investors remain bullish | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | In 2022, capital is being deployed into crypto at a less noteworthy pace month over month, but in the grand scheme of things, levels are significantly higher than last year, showing that the space has matured significantly and the bar is now much higher. Total venture capital funding in the crypto space fell 38% from $... |
The US is about to get serious about EVs | Tim De Chant | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | last decade, Americans largely ignored electric vehicles. Some brands sold decent numbers, like the Chevy Bolt or Nissan Leaf, but they were largely targeted at thrifty commuters or EV diehards. Others, like the Ford Focus Electric, were intended only to comply with laws that mandated a small number of EV sales. Still... |
Why more funding equates more peace of mind for TRIPP and its users | Anna Heim | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | LA-born startup doesn’t want the metaverse to be a mere “shopping mall for virtual consumers,” its founder Nanea Reeves told TechCrunch. Instead, Reeves’ company is envisioning a metaverse experience that can “deepen connection to self, facilitate mental well-being and enable personal and collective transformation.” ... |
Boldstart Ventures has two new funds to plug into teams with an idea and little else | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | , a seed- and early-stage venture firm that markets itself as a “day one partner for developer-first, crypto-infrastructure and SaaS founders,” has closed on two new funds roughly 14 months after announcing its last two funds. The firm — which began in New York with a $1 million proof-of-concept fund in 2010 — has clos... |
Former OpenSea exec arrested and charged with insider trading of NFTs | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | A top former executive at the highly valued NFT startup OpenSea was arrested Wednesday and charged “with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to commit insider trading,” according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York (SDNY). TechCrunch the firi... |
Who’s liable for AI-generated lies? | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | for harmful speech generated by large language models? As advanced AIs such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 are being cheered for impressive breakthroughs in natural language processing and generation — and all sorts of (productive) applications for the tech are envisaged from slicker copywriting to more capable customer service ch... |
Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. As a part of an expansion, Google today announced that it’ll invest just over $8 million in organizations ... |
Boundary Layer wants to steal air freight’s lunch and transport it by water instead | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | If you’ve ever spent time writing beat poetry about container ships chugging their way into and out of harbors, “nimble” or “fast” will be unlikely to make it into your finely crafted written words. And if your (admittedly increasingly esoteric) poetic bent is more of an air freight persuasion, it’s likely that “afford... |
Slack now supports pronunciation guides in profiles | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | Not everyone is on board with the idea of . But for those who are, Slack’s new profile features released today should make some workday tasks, particularly onboarding, a bit easier. Slack now supports pronunciation guides for profiles, allowing users to add name pronunciations in the form of phonetic spellings or audi... |
Plenty of opportunities for students at TC Sessions: Climate | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | Calling all climate-change warriors! If you’re determined to join the new wave of entrepreneurs fighting the climate crisis, don’t miss on June 14 in Berkeley, California with an online day on June 16. Hear from and engage with some of the climate world’s leading scientists, researchers, founders, CEOs, investors and... |
Dear Sophie: How do we qualify for each of the O-1A criteria? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,022 | 6 | 1 | of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. “Whether you’re... |
Three-quarters of Asia’s wealthy investors will own digital assets by 2022 | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 6 | 6 | Seventy-three percent of “affluent” investors in Asia intend to hold some form of digital assets by the end of 2022, according to a new from consulting firm Accenture. It’s unclear how Accenture surveyed the population across the expansive region or defined “affluent” investors. What’s clear is that the well-to-do in... |
Indonesian crypto trading app Pintu scores $113M Series B | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 6 | 6 | Last year and if ’s funding announcement today is anything to go by, that looks set to continue. The cryptocurrency-focused app has raised a $113 million Series B from Intudo Ventures, Lightspeed, Northstar Group and Pantera Capital. Launched in April 2020, Pintu bills itself as “Indonesia’s leading homegrown crypto... |
Axon’s AI Ethics Board resigns over plan to surveil schools with armed drones | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 6 | 6 | Nine of 12 members of an ethics board appointed by Axon to advise its technology decisions have resigned, citing the company’s . “After several years of work, the company has fundamentally failed to embrace the values that we have tried to instill,” the departing members write. “We have lost faith in Axon’s ability to... |
Sheryl Sandberg a source of inspiration for f7 Ventures’ general partners as they deploy first fund | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 6 | 6 | Perhaps it’s the end of an era now that . However, to Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko, general partners at , an early-stage venture firm, they are carrying forward in their new endeavor the influence Sandberg had on them during their time at Facebook. All of f7 Ventures’ initial seven founders are long-time... |
India considering appeals panel with power to reverse Facebook, Twitter and YouTube content moderation decisions | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 6 | 6 | India is proposing to create an appeals panel with the veto power to reverse content moderation decisions of social media firms, it said Monday evening, to the IT rules after quietly withdrawing it last week. If enacted, it would be the first time globally that a nation creates an appeals panel of this kind. New Delh... |
Endurance events marketplace Let’s Do This raises $60M Series B led by Craft and Headline | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 6 | 6 | The appropriately named endurance (so: running, triathlon, cycling, etc.) events marketplace (a YC alumni) appeared a couple of years ago listing all kinds of endurance activities globally and the backing of stars such as Usain Bolt and Serena Williams, alongside more standard venture investors such as EQT. Founded... |
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