Sunday, August 01, 2021

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    The Windows 11 beta is finally out — here’s how to install it

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    Tech Crunch

  • Robinhood’s stock drops 8% in its first day’s trading 3 days ago  –  Once the U.S. consumer investing and trading app began to allow investors to trade its shares, they went down sharply, off more than 10% in the first hours of its life as a floating stock.
  • Horizon Blockchain Games raises $4.5M for its NFT trading card game and wallet 3 days ago  –  Horizon Blockchain Games is — as the name implies — a company building games on the blockchain, along with tools to help others do the same. The company announced today that it has raised another $4.5 million, bringing its total raised to a little over $13 million. Horizon’s first game is Skyweav...
  • Biofourmis receives FDA breakthrough device designation for heart failure “digital therapy” 3 days ago  –  Kuldeep Singh Rajput, the founder of Boston-based Biofourmis, is imagining a future where heart failure patients go home with a prescription, a wearable sensor and an app. Today, a new FDA designation gets the company one step closer to that goal.  Founded in 2015, Biofourmis is a digital therape...
  • Zūm wins $150M from San Francisco schools to modernize and electrify student transport
  • Microsoft in talks to back India’s Oyo
  • Livestream e-commerce: Why companies and brands need to tune in
  • Scarlett Johansson files suit over Disney+ ‘Black Widow’ release
  • Panic sells 20,000+ Playdate handhelds in under 20 minutes
  • Fortnite’s mystery ‘superstar’ virtual music tour kicks off next week
  • Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this
  • Platform as a service startup Porter aims to become go-to for deploying, managing cloud-based apps 2 days ago  –  Any DevOps team can use Porter to manage applications in the cloud, delivering the full flexibility of Kubernetes through a Heroku-like experience.
  • Gopuff confirms new $1B cash injection at a $15B valuation to expand its instant grocery delivery service 2 days ago  –  Gopuff said it plans to use the funding to continue expanding in North America, the U.K. and Europe, among other things.
  • Catch takes hold of $12M to provide benefits that aren’t tied to employers 2 days ago  –  Catch is working to make sure that every gig worker has the health and retirement benefits they need.
  • Airtel Africa gets an extra $200M for its mobile money business from QIA
  • Introducing the Open Cap Table Coalition
  • Daily Crunch: Scarlett Johansson sues Disney, says streaming release of ‘Black Widow’ breaches contract
  • Another banner quarter as Chromebook shipments grow 75% YOY
  • Varda Space Industries closes $42M Series A for off-planet manufacturing
  • 4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise
  • Pinterest shares drop as company misses on user growth 
  • Deliveroo could leave Spanish market ahead of on-demand labor reclassification 2 days ago  –  Deliveroo said it is considering leaving the Spanish market, citing limited market share and a long road of investment with 'highly uncertain long-term potential returns' on the horizon.
  • For tech firms, the risk of not preparing for leadership changes is huge 2 days ago  –  A change of command is one of the most delicate moments in the life cycle of any organization. If mishandled, the transition from one CEO to the next can result in massive downsides.
  • Extra Crunch roundup: Livestream e-commerce, growth marketing interviews, CEO for a day 2 days ago  –  Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch this week; have a great weekend.
  • Kodiak Robotics’ founder says tight focus on autonomous trucks is working
  • Growth roundup: Investing in community, targeting developers, new marketer recs
  • Yat thinks emoji ‘identities’ can be a thing, and it has $20M in sales to back it up
  • Calendly CEO Tope Awotona is joining us at Disrupt 2021
  • The best way to grow your tech career? Treat it like an app
  • A Tesla Megapack caught fire at the Victorian Big Battery facility in Australia
  • Elon Musk calls Apple’s App Store fees ‘a de facto global t
  • Unicorns are ready for a haircut a day ago  –  The digitization of your haircut may not have been on your 2020 bucket list, but 2021 has an even more surprising line item: Tech-powered barbershops are now a business proposition valued at nearly a billion dollars. Squire is a back-end barbershop management tool for independent businesses. I fi...
  • The pandemic effect is slowing a day ago  –  Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment.
  • 5 lessons from Duolingo’s bellwether edtech IPO of the year a day ago  –  Duolingo landed onto the public markets this week, rallying excitement and attention for the edtech sector and its founder cohort. The language learning business’ stock price soared when it began to trade, even after the unicorn raised its IPO price range, and priced above the raised interval. Du...
  • China roundup: Keep down internet upstarts, cultivate hard tech
  • This Week in Apps: Instagram restricts teens’ accounts, Elon Musk criticizes App Store fees, Google Play’s new policies
  • Bring your own environment: The future of work
  • TuSimple’s self-driving truck network takes shape with Ryder partnership
  • Pittsburgh Google contractors ratify deal with HCL
  • Daily Crunch: European privacy regulators fine Amazon $887M over targeted advertising practices
  • Argo AI can now offer the public rides in its autonomous v

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  • Sony’s new PS5 beta update also fixes one of its silliest flaws 3 days ago  –  Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The first major system update for Sony’s PlayStation 5 is arriving in beta form today, finally letting you expand the console’s 667GB of usable storage by adding your own PCIe Gen 4 SSD as well as testing new UI options and expanding 3D Audio support. But...
  • Amazon gives Alexa a new iOS widget and the ability to assign reminders
  • Amazon’s earnings show why Andy Jassy is now in charge
  • Why wildfire smoke can be worse than other air pollutants
  • Joe Biden wants states to pay people $100 to get vaccinated
  • Uncontrolled firing from Russian module causes brief ‘tug of war’ on International Space Station
  • Annapurna showed off lots of cool games at its first showcase
  • Windows 11 now has its first beta release
  • GarageBand can now help you remix tracks from Lady Gaga and Dua Lipa
  • Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over Black Widow’s str
  • A three-pack of Google Nest Minis is only $64 at eBay right now 2 days ago  –  Normally $50 a pop, BuyDig is offering a trio of Google Nest Minis for nearly 60 percent off. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Like Amazon’s Echo Dot, the Google Nest Mini is a miniature take on the larger smart speakers that came before it. The compact device doesn’t boast the same sou...
  • Tesla agrees to pay $1.5 million to settle battery throttling lawsuit
  • The bad science behind trans healthcare bans
  • How to use transitions to make your TikTok videos more interesting
  • Russia blames software glitch for misfired engines that shoved ISS
  • The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest
  • Amazon fined record $887 million over EU privacy violations
  • How Facebook became a lifeline for immigrant bike messengers
  • The bipartisan infrastructure bill is good for EVs, bad for the climate
  • Vaccine carrots only got us so far — now, it’s time for sticks
  • Doubling down on behaviour violating Nuremberg Code
  • Mastodon now has an official iPhone app 2 days ago  –  Decentralized social network Mastodon now has an official iPhone app. The nonprofit behind Mastodon launched the app on iOS today, supplementing an existing web version and several third-party apps for iOS, Android, and other platforms. The app is free and offers a similar feature set to Mastodon...
  • A Tesla Megapack burst into flames at ‘Victorian Big Battery’
  • Vergecast: this quarter’s earnings for Apple, Samsung, Google, and Microsoft
  • June heatwave was the ‘most extreme’ on record for North America
  • ‘May be an image’: what it’s like browsing Instagram while blind
  • Elon Musk calls Apple’s App Store fees a ‘de facto global tax on the Internet’
  • Elon Musk and Apple deny wild story that he tried to replace Tim Cook
  • Microsoft is facing a subpoena for millions of documents in Google’s antitrust case
  • Government denies Blue Origin’s challenge to NASA’s lunar lander program
  • The special effects behind Loki’s doomed planet of Lament
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