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Tech Crunch

  • PowerZ raises $8.3 million for its video game focused on education 2 days ago  –  French startup PowerZ has raised another $8.3 million (€7 million at today’s exchange rate) including $1.2 million (€1 million) in debt — the rest is a traditional equity round. The company is both an edtech startup and a video game studio with an ambitious goal — it wants to build a game that is...
  • Robotic funding doesn’t grow on trees 2 days ago  –  As I mentioned at the close of last week’s roundup, the biggest issue in writing this roundup on Wednesday is that sometimes news breaks on Thursday morning. Again, I’m asking the robotics community to try not make any big headlines on Thursdays. That would really help a guy out. Last week, news ...
  • Circle is a good example of why SPACs can be useful 2 days ago  –  Circle is the sort of business that is correct for a SPAC-led debut. It could not go public in a traditional manner in its current state of maturity.
  • Rootly nabs $3.2M seed to build SRE incident management solution inside Slack
  • The NS1 EC-1
  • 1 napkin and 22 lines of code, or how NS1 rewrote the rules of internet infrastructure
  • WTF is NS1? It’s DNS, DDI, and maybe other TLAs
  • The fight for the future of DNS is white hot
  • Outages, pandemics and the reengineering of traffic on the internet
  • Miami twins raise $18M for Lula, an insurance infrastructur
  • Stumble-proof robot adapts to challenging terrain in real time 19 hours ago  –  Robots have a hard time improvising, and encountering an unusual surface or obstacle usually means an abrupt stop or hard fall. But researchers have created a new model for robotic locomotion that adapts in real time to any terrain it encounters, changing its gait on the fly to keep trucking when...
  • New York City’s new biometrics privacy law takes effect 19 hours ago  –  A new biometrics privacy ordinance has taken effect across New York City, putting new limits on what businesses can do with the biometric data they collect on their customers. From Friday, businesses that collect biometric information — most commonly in the form of facial recognition and fingerpr...
  • Kurly, the Korean grocery startup, raises $200M on a $2.2B valuation after shifting IPO plans away from the NYSE a day ago  –  Online grocery startups around the world continue to pull in major investment, underscoring how much they have all grown especially in the last year of pandemic living. In the latest development, Kurly — a startup in South Korea that provides next-day grocery delivery services across the country ...
  • Firat Ileri becomes Hummingbird VC’s new Managing Partner, as the firm looks to expand
  • Germany’s VC industry is ready to take off, but bureaucrats need to release the handbrake
  • Temasek, Warburg Pincus, and Bhavish Aggarwal invest $500 million in Ola
  • Europe’s DN Capital launches its new $350M fund after a knock-out year for its portfolio
  • EU fines BMW, VW $1B for running emissions cartel since the 90s
  • Halo will launch a remotely operated car service powered by 5G in Las Vegas
  • Daily Crunch: Indian food delivery startup Zomato will see
  • Growth marketing roundup: cool SaaS, marketing lies, VR ads and more 2 hours ago  –  TechCrunch is searching for the best growth marketers for founders to work with. Click through to learn about some of our favorites.
  • Daily Crunch: European Union demands $1B penalty from VW, BMW for hiding emissions 9 hours ago  –  Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
  • Cloud security platform Netskope boosts valuation to $7.5B following $300M raise 10 hours ago  –  Netskope, focused on Secure Access Service Edge architecture, announced Friday a $300 million investment round on a post-money valuation of $7.5 billion.
  • Is the US labor shortage the big break AI needs?
  • Extra Crunch roundup: NS1 EC-1, Pakistan’s tech ecosystem, SPACs bonanza
  • This early-stage marketing expert says ‘B2B SaaS is actually very, very cool now’
  • Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt
  • This startup just created a fast, accurate COVID test that only needs saliva and links to an app
  • The Artemis Fund focuses on women founders in underserved communities
  • Biden’s sweeping executive order takes on Big Tech’s ‘bad 

    •  The Verge

  • Black Widow’s post-credit scene is Marvel’s biggest Disney Plus push yet a day ago  –  Image:Marvel Studios is practically synonymous with post-credit scenes, so it’s no surprise that Black Widow — the MCU’s first movie in almost two years — continues that tradition. Going all the way back to 2008’s Iron Man (teasing Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and “the Av...
  • Qualcomm’s $1,500 smartphone is for its biggest fans with more money than sense
  • Sony posts and deletes ad featuring an upside-down PS5
  • Facebook’s ‘big blue app’ leader, Fidji Simo, is leaving to take over Instacart
  • League of Legends’ summer event features a visual novel
  • It’s over: ‘Vax That Thang Up’ is 2021’s song of the summer
  • WeChat deleted accounts of student LGBTQ groups in China
  • Stellantis, parent company of Dodge and Jeep, had an ‘EV Day’ and it was extremely weird
  • Startup Halo will bring driverless car service to Las Vegas later this year on T-Mobile 5G
  • Minimum broadband speeds are likely too low, governmen
  • How to turn TikTok’s auto captions on (or off) 19 hours ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Video captions are important. To begin with, they can be a vital accessibility tool for people who are hard of hearing or deaf. In addition, captioning can be helpful for people who are in environments where they can’t use the audio and / or don’t h...
  • FCC listing suggests Google’s midrange Pixel 5A 5G could arrive soon
  • WhatsApp will let you send images and videos in their ‘best quality’
  • Mini LED display reportedly coming to 11-inch iPad Pro next year
  • The Windows update to fix ‘PrintNightmare’ made some printers stop working
  • Square is going to make a hardware wallet for bitcoin
  • Here are the 7 biggest games from Sony’s State of Play event
  • Apple’s upcoming 9/11 documentary focuses on the 12 hours after the attacks
  • Death Stranding: Director’s Cut has new story missions and improved combat
  • Jett: The Far Shore shows off soaring sci-fi exploration in 
  • Foxconn is dangling a shiny new EV plant in front of Wisconsin 15 hours ago  –  Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge iPhone builder Foxconn is dangling a massive electric vehicle project in front of Wisconsin after burning the state with promises of a multibillion-dollar LCD factory that never happened. The Taiwanese conglomerate has also already fallen behind its own ar...
  • Vergecast: Google Play Store fees lawsuit, Nintendo’s OLED Switch, and an ‘EV Day’ event
  • TikTok will start automating video removals for nudity and more in the US
  • Lenovo Yoga 9i (14-inch) review: sounds like a winner
  • As Marvel’s epics get bigger, Black Widow’s stakes feel too small
  • Alto’s Odyssey is adding a vibrant new city for its Apple Arcade debut
  • Nintendo Switch OLED hands-on: a small upgrade that makes a big difference
  • Biden executive order will target right to repair, ISPs, net neutrality, and more
  • The Olympics are still stuck in 2020
  • Apple’s AirPods Max are on sale for their lowest price yet
  • Samsung quietly launched its free TV service on the web 7 hours ago  –  Samsung TV Plus displayed on a screen. | Image: Samsung Samsung recently launched a web version of its free and ad-supported Smart TV Plus streaming service for live and linear programming as well as added casting support for Chromecast devices. The streaming product, which was previously...
  • Biden’s executive order puts net neutrality back in the spotlight
  • President Joe Biden’s latest executive order is a huge win for right to repair
  • The FTC has reportedly opened an investigation into Amazon’s MGM acquisition
  • Space tourism rivalry gets extremely petty ahead of Branson’s spaceflight
  • League of Legends’ US championship will welcome back in-person fans
  • Amazon reportedly doesn’t want employees to know when they’re on performance plans
  • How Tencent’s sweeping new facial scans will catch Chinese kids playing past curfew
  • Universal films will head exclusively to Amazon Prime Video after their run on Peacock
  • Witcher training is no fun at all in the first trailer for The Wi
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