Friday, December 24, 2021

24 December - Technology - T N W / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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Tech Crunch

  • This Dapper Labs-backed company is turning Dr. Seuss characters into NFT trading cards 2 days ago  –  Back in 2012, a Brooklyn-based mobile apps development startup was hired to do a job by the 83-year-old trading card company Topps. For that Brooklyn outfit’s president, Erich Wood, a UCLA graduate who’d studied economics and loved trading cards, the opportunity not only sounded fun but would cha...
  • Global stakeholders should use AI to mitigate impact of heat islands in cities 2 days ago  –  Interventions involving public health officials, enterprises, governments, communities, nonprofits and tech partners are the way to democratize technology and rectify urban heat island devastation.
  • AWS just can’t catch a break 2 days ago  –  For the third time this month, AWS today suffered an outage in one of its data centers. This morning, a power outage in its US-EAST-1 region affected services like Slack, Asana, Epic Games and others. The issues started around 7:30 a.m. ET and the knock-on effect of these issues continues to plag...
  • Dear Sophie: What’s allowed between a K-1 visa and a green card?
  • Fisher-Price’s Chatter phone has a simple but problematic Bluetooth bug
  • AngelList just closed a $25M fund to back startups based on hiring velocity
  • TikTok rival Triller to go public via merger with SeaChange International
  • Sage acquires remaining stake in retail management platform Brightpearl for $340M
  • Carve out a place for your brand with a positioning statement
  • Serial fintech founder raises $20M for Ant Money to make 
  • This AI-powered art app lets you paint pictures with words a day ago  –  The reality-bending powers of AI have been kept increasingly busy over the past decade. We’ve had computer vision-powered 3D dioramas; trend-setting style-transfer; viral photorealistic selfie-tuning, selfie-retouching, face-swaps and — ofc — deepfakes; and plenty of frivolous (and hilarious) fun...
  • New European deep tech-focused fund Outsized Ventures hits first €60M close of inaugural fund a day ago  –  So-called “Deep Tech” venture capital has been experiencing a wave of interest in the couple last years, with several new funds launching. Many are focused on the European market, which has a deep bench (no pun intended) of talent and innovation, thanks in part to its many excellent universities....
  • With $36 million Series C, Brazil’s Ambar hopes to make civil construction more efficient 2 days ago  –  Brazilian construction tech startup Ambar announced it has raised a large Series C round of R$204 million, approximately $36 million, to boost the digitization arm of its business.
  • SK Hynix gets China approval to take over Intel’s NAND business 
  • Despite scrapped IPO, Babbel sees fast growth for its language learning service
  • Apple’s App Store Connect will be open on Christmas: Can developers take advantage?
  • Daily Crunch: European startup data company Dealroom raises €6 million Series A
  • As exhibitors mull attendance amid omicron, CES organizers stand firm
  • FDA authorizes Pfizer’s Covid antiviral pill for people 12 and older
  • Amazon workers at two Chicago warehouses walk out to de
  • Snapchat knows you want to see what you’d look like in the metaverse a day ago  –  Snapchat released an Avatar lens AR filter today, which makes you look like a Sims character. Or, in more modern parlance, it makes you look like what you’d look like in the metaverse. To use the lens, open your camera in the Snapchat app to scan the QR code on Snapchat’s website, then look at […]
  • Kathy Lueders on Artemis, restructuring NASA and the lifecycle of the ISS a day ago  –  Kathy Lueders, head of NASA’s newly minted Space Operations Mission Directorate, joined us at TC Sessions: Space last week for a chat about the future of the agency and what she is looking forward to — and dreading — in the next decade of missions. In the first place, Lueders explained the reason...
  • Codecademy sends it with Skillsoft in a $525M deal a day ago  –  Coding class platform Codecademy has sold to Skillsoft for $525 million, in a mix of stock and cash, marking yet another instance of consolidation in the educational technology sector. The sale comes nearly a year after Codecademy raised a $40 million Series D and pivoted its consumer-focused pro...
  • Merck’s COVID-19 antiviral pill is the second authorized by the FDA
  • Social media and dating apps have a serious identity problem
  • 2 exercises that will bring your brand persona to life
  • Automation Anywhere expands into process discovery with FortressIQ acquisition
  • Skio raises $3.7M to help brands on Shopify sell subscriptions
  • Lenovo to ‘suspend’ in-person CES activities as more exhibitors embrace omicron caution
  • US government must embrace stablecoins to maintain dolla
  • Tech companies: Stop conflating privilege with potential an hour ago  –  Socioeconomic status must be part of the “diversity” conversation –– it is underreported and underdiscussed.
  • Gift Guide: TechCrunch’s Favorite Things of 2021 an hour ago  –  We made it, friends. Another year in the books. Was it the very normal year we all wanted? No. But, for many, it was at least a step in that direction. Or maybe two steps in that direction, and one step back. Yeah, it was still a weird one. No matter the year, we here […]
  • Microsoft pulls in-person CES 2022 presence 2 hours ago  –  GM, Google, Lenovo, Intel, T-Mobile, AT&T, Meta, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok, Pinterest, and now Microsoft. The software giant just became the latest big name to announce that it will no long be attending CES in-person in less than two weeks’ time. “The health and well-being of our employees is o...
  • TechCrunch+ roundup: Ahrefs’ homepage, digital health trends, 2022 marketing predictions
  • How Rocket Lab questions the fundamentals of building both rockets and launch companies
  • TikTok moderator sues over mental trauma caused by graphic videos
  • Memes, money and madness: 2021 in tech
  • Nigeria’s Teesas secures $1.6M, to expand across Africa and launch tutor marketplace
  • Can America meet its next Sputnik moment?
  • Tesla will disable in-dash video games while its cars are in m

    • The Verge

  • Amazon workers in Staten Island refile union petition 2 days ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, have refiled a union petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), NLRB press secretary Kayla Blado confirmed to The Verge. Workers also staged a “lunchtime walkout” in an attempt to ge...
  • Here are 47 last-minute gifts you can still get before the holidays
  • HBO Max 2022 trailer offers a peek at Westworld and its new Game of Thrones spinoff
  • Jack Dorsey’s hot Web3 takes are apparently too much for Marc Andreessen to handle
  • How to get the most out of your Pixel’s Now Playing feature
  • Zombie brand RadioShack is launching a crypto market for ‘the older generation’
  • GameStop will have PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X bundles in-store on December 23rd
  • Own goal for Arsenal FC as regulator bans crypto fan token ads
  • Level’s planning a very visible keypad for its very invisible smart locks
  • Amazon briefly banned itself on Twitch after rogue host exp
  • Our favorite apps, games, and entertainment from 2021 for all of your new tech a day ago  –  Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Our staff lists their choices for the best of the year Continue reading…
  • What to expect from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launch
  • 11 great shows and movies from 2021 to stream on HBO Max
  • Watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt as former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in new TV show teaser
  • Alexa is nagging you more because Amazon knows you don’t care about its new features
  • Huawei’s foldable P50 Pocket has a circular external screen that’s perfect for notifications
  • First super fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs teased ahead of CES
  • Apple closes several stores due to COVID-19 outbreaks, encourages online shopping
  • LG Display brought a reclining curved OLED throne to CES this year
  • Amazon’s AWS logs third outage this month, affecting Slack
  • CES 2022 loses another key exhibitor as Intel pulls out of in-person show a day ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge CES 2022’s exodus of exhibitors over rising COVID-19 concerns continues, with the latest withdrawal coming from Intel. The company typically has one of the biggest presences of major tech companies at the show. Intel joins a slew of other key compan...
  • The Matrix Resurrections has an incredibly smart take on showing video games in movies
  • Amazon’s nationwide NLRB settlement makes it easier for workers to organize
  • Astronomers discover largest group of ‘rogue planets’ yet
  • The latest trailer for the Uncharted movie displays a borderline contempt for the laws of physics
  • Samsung’s massive Odyssey G9 gaming monitor is down to its lowest price yet
     a day ago  –  Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge With the current end-of-year promotion happening at B&H Photo, you can get the massive Samsung Odyssey G9 gaming monitor for its lowest price ever. This monitor’s list price is $1,599 and it typically retails around $1,500, but you can currently g...
  • Where is Spotify HiFi?
  • Take a look at this delicious lickable screen to see the future we knew was coming
  • All the news from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope mission
  • FDA authorizes second COVID-19 antiviral pill
  • CES 2022 loses Microsoft in Las Vegas over COVID fears 4 hours ago  –  Microsoft is the latest company to drop a physical presence at CES, as the increased prevalence of COVID-19 spooks exhibitors. It joins a growing list of major companies ditching the world’s largest technology show. “After reviewing the latest data on the rapidly evolving COVID environment, Micro...
  • Apple must let dating apps offer alternate in-app payment options, says Dutch regulator
  • An app gave crucial seconds of warning before a major California earthquake
  • Google faces nearly $100 million fine in Russia over failure to delete banned content
  • PSA: You’ll miss 25 minutes of The Expanse’s final season if you don’t pause it
     9 hours ago  –  If you’re a fan of The Expanse, like me, you’re probably wondering whether its final six episodes — currently airing each Friday through January 14th — are enough to wrap up its epic story. What you’re probably not wondering: whether Amazon has buried nearly one-tenth of the show’s final season i...
  • Sex ed info on TikTok shows gaps in traditional education
  • The gadgets we broke
  • 8 great TikTok accounts from 2021 to follow
  • TikTok sued by former content moderator for allegedly failing to protect her mental health
  • Tesla update lets drivers turn their cars into megaphones
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