Saturday, November 06, 2021

6 November - Technology - T N W / Tech Crunch / The Verge

T N W - The Heart of Tech

Can your car tell you what it needs? Porsche thinks so

Why everyone is talking about ‘green steel’ at COP26

Everything you wanted to know about the metaverse (but were afraid to ask)

How to make almost any digital piano sound like the real thing, part 2

Move over Python — Rust is the highest paid programming language of 2021

China says it has a quantum computer a million times more powerful than Google’s

Google launches DeepMind 2, a pharmaceutical hullabaloo

Why are people with nothing to hide so scared of Clearview AI’s facial recognition?

Amazon’s 2021 Kindle Paperwhite is even better than the Oasis

From Elon’s mind to Bill Gate’s wallet: How GPT-3 ended up on Azure

Who the fuck is the $6,099 M1 Max MacBook Pro for?

Tech Crunch

  • What does Zillow’s exit tell us about the health of the iBuying market? 2 days ago  –  Selling an asset at a loss is a bad idea in most areas of business, but it is a particularly bad idea in a market where sales cycles are slow, unpredictable and largely out of your control.
  • Google invests $1B in CME Group as part of long-term Google Cloud deal 2 days ago  –  Google Cloud announced a major deal today with The CME Group to move CME’s futures and options markets to the cloud over a 10-year period. The deal has several components, including a $1 billion investment from Google into CME. Google would not say how much the total deal is worth, however. Phili...
  • Rivian hit with gender discrimination lawsuit that alleges toxic ‘bro culture’ 2 days ago  –  Rivian, the electric automaker that recently filed for an IPO, has been sued by a former sales and marketing vice president for alleged gender discrimination. The lawsuit alleges that Laura Schwab, a former sales and marketing executive who had a long employment history with Jaguar Land Rover and...
  • Uber squeaks tiny adjusted profit in Q3 despite $2.4B net loss
  • Studio behind ‘early access’ crypto game Blankos Block Party banks monster $1.25B valuation from a16z
  • Goodly, focused on student loan repayment as an employee benefit, finds tailwinds
     2 days ago  –  Goodly, a three-year-old, San Francisco-based startup, has been steadily building its business with a five-person team and not much funding — $1.5 million secured in 2019 and, more recently, an undisclosed amount of funding from Beth Axelrod, a longtime HR exec and the global head of employee exp...
  • Israel’s tech sector is on the wrong track
  • Gwoop raises $1.8M for its esports training platform as it starts working with high school gaming leagues
  • Isomorphic Labs is Alphabet’s play in AI drug discovery
  • UK warns Facebook to focus on safety as minister eyes fa
  • Meta is reportedly planning physical stores to showcase its products a day ago  –  The company formerly known as Facebook had been mulling opening retail stores way before it rebranded itself as Meta. Discussions about opening brick-and-mortar shops started last year.
  • Autonomous driving startup Momenta raises another $500M 2 days ago  –  In the wake of a $300 million investment from General Motors in September, Momenta, an autonomous driving solution provider from China, announced today an additional $500 million added to its Series C round. The new injection brings the total of the startup’s Series C to over $1 billion. Momenta ...
  • Tencent’s foray into chips isn’t at all surprising 2 days ago  –  Tencent unveiled its progress in chips for the first time this week, which immediately gave its stock price a modest boost. Silicon seems distant from the giant’s main arenas of video games and social networks, so observers suggest that Tencent’s move is to signal that it’s aligned with China’s l...
  • The DJI Mavic 3 is the company’s best consumer drone yet
  • An accelerator and fund says it’s giving away its voting rights to scientist founders
  • Daily Crunch: IBM managed IT services spinoff Kyndryl starts trading on NYSE
  • Theodore Tewksbury to take over as Velodyne CEO
  • Mark Cuban and former Oculus CEO back 3D e-commerce startup VNTANA
  • Twitter now lets you tune into Spaces without an account via direct links
  • Push it jumps to No. 1 on App Store promising a way to sen
  • Why we rebuilt our equity plan for flexibility (and how you can, too) a day ago  –  The most competitive startups will not only give staff the shares that they deserve but will also do so in a way that’s tax-advantaged, de-risked and highly customizable.
  • TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study a day ago  –  Cargo ships are stacked up outside ports, and empty shipping containers are in short supply, as are the truck drivers who would take them to market. This is not the time for doing business as usual.
  • All systems go: Buy your pass to TC Sessions: Space 2021 a day ago  –  Space Race 2.0 is heating up fast, and whether your role lies in the private or public sector, TC Sessions: Space 2021 focuses on the emerging trends, essential data science and creative collaborations required to build a sustainable space economy. Yesterday, we announced a portion of the fully v...
  • An inclusive new DTC beauty platform secures $3 million in funding — and a supercharged offline strategy
    a day ago  –  Earlier this week, Thirteen Lune, a direct-to-consumer beauty platform that was launched last year in LA with $1 million in seed funding from Diddy, Gwyneth Paltrow and Beautycounter founder Gregg Renfrew, announced $3 million in additional seed funding. We might not normally pause on this kind o...
  • Appetiser’s co-founders discuss building client relationships and getting to MVP
  • Cruise lays out its plan for ‘how’ it will make robotaxis a reality
  • IAB Europe says it’s expecting to be found in breach of GDPR
  • US government offers $10M bounty for DarkSide ransomware hackers
  • Rent the Runway co-founder Jenny Fleiss and Volition Capital’s Larry Cheng talk early-stage fundraising on TechCrunch Live
  • VCs are racing to pay more to get smaller pieces of less pr
  • All things in moderation, including moderation 4 hours ago  –  Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Indiegogo, an early startup that capitalized on the crowdfunding movement, will begin more closely screening crowdfunding campaigns on its platform, it announced...
  • This Week in Apps: Facebook tests App Store rules, Apple fights sideloading, Netflix games go global 4 hours ago  –  Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year...
  • How one startup is shaking up the consumer trading boom 5 hours ago  –  Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment.
  • Should your company be using a flexible pricing model?
  • Teaching robots to socialize
  • What I learned building a fact-checking startup
  • Helion Energy will use $500M Series E to power up its fusion energy efforts
  • New antitrust suit from Phhhoto alleges Facebook copied and killed the competition
  • Twitter is rolling out a feature to make it easier to search a user’s tweets
  • With a Section 1045 rollover, founders can salvage QSBS b

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  • US government offers $10 million bounty for information on Colonial Pipeline hackers 2 days ago  –  The Colonial Pipeline attack targeted key fuel pipelines, like these pipes seen in Canvey Island, in the UK. | Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images In May, a ransomware attack shut down a pipeline carrying 45 percent of the fuel used on the US East Coast. The Colonial Pipeline incident led ...
  • Twitter makes it easier to search tweets from specific accounts
  • DJI releases new flagship Mavic drones — Mavic 3 and Mavic 3 Cine
  • How Instagram and Twitter buried the hatchet
  • Brembo’s ‘intelligent’ brake system could apply pressure to each wheel individually
  • iPhone 13 DIY screen replacements break Face ID unless you can microsolder
  • Uber prices are still way up, so the company is bringing back carpooling
  • New York City’s mayor-elect says he wants to be paid in Bitcoin
  • Rivian accused of ‘toxic bro culture’ in gender discrimination lawsuit
  • Taika Waititi is making a movie based on Alejandro Jodorows
  • Apple’s Dr. Brain is a bold, genre-bending thriller a day ago  –  Image: Apple A decent Korean original series debut for the platform, helmed by a seasoned director Continue reading…
  • Facebook sued by defunct photo app Phhhoto on antitrust grounds
  • Lime raises over $500 million, confirms plans to take its electric scooter company public
  • Pfizer says its antiviral pill reduces hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19
  • A fake press release claiming Kroger accepts crypto reached the retailer’s own webpage
    A fake press release claiming Kroger accepts crypto reached the retailer’s own webpage a day ago  –  Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Cryptocurrency and blockchain news presents many headlines that are hard to believe, so when a seemingly authentic press release ties a major retail outlet to second-tier crypto, it can take a moment to find o...
  • The latest 12.9-inch iPad Pro is selling for its lowest price yet
  • The Dune movie flushed away a chance to talk about wastewater
  • Code suggests Google’s folding Pixel will return to 12-megapixel camera next year
  • Asus’s latest overkill gaming phones arrive in Europe with up to 18GB of RAM
  • Google Stadia will finally let you join multiplayer games wit
  • Facebook reportedly is aware of the level of ‘problematic use’ among its users 12 minutes ago  –  More leaked documents suggest Facebook is aware of its problems | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s own internal research found 1 in 8 of its users reported compulsive social media use that interfered with their sleep, work, and relationships— what the social media platfo...
  • Federal appeals court temporarily halts new Biden vaccine rule for companies
  • Someone stole an entire shipment of EVGA RTX graphics cards
  • Stranger Things 4 will have a summer 2022 release date
  • Google Pixel 6 appears to fall short of expected 30W charging speeds
  • Jack in the Box suing crypto exchange FTX, says it ‘brazenly’ copied its Jack mascot
  • Riot swapped a live show for a massive music video at Worlds 2021
  • Alienware X17 review: pretty pixels for a pretty penny
  • Apple’s handy AirTag Loop is selling for a low price at Amazon
  • Stranger Things 4’s new teaser promises ‘the best spring b
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