Saturday, January 29, 2022

29 January - Technology- T N W / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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This mysterious space object pulsed for 3 months and disappeared. WHAT THE HELL?

From Couch Guy to West Elm Caleb: How TikTok replaced modern-day tabloids

The 4 biggest science breakthroughs that Gen Z could live to see

Be still my aching heart: Nissan’s releasing an electric Micra

SpaceX’s derelict rocket will crash and create a worrying new Moon crater

Why Google is in deep trouble for tracking your ‘dark patterns’

I found out why metaverse avatars don’t have legs

( On Spotify ?   LOL )

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  • Web3’s early promise for artists tainted by rampant stolen works and likenesses 2 days ago  –  Jillian C. York didn’t want to be a non-fungible token. A Berlin-based author and activist, York is also the director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. For some reason — York doesn’t agree with her inclusion there — her name also appears on a list of s...
  • Atlassian acquires Percept.AI 2 days ago  –  Atlassian today announced that it has acquired Percept.AI, an AI company from Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch that offers an automated virtual agent support solution — a chatbot, basically — based on a proprietary AI engine for natural language understanding. Atlassian plans to integrate this vi...
  • TikTok is confronting Holocaust misinformation, but antisemitism persists 2 days ago  –  In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, TikTok launched a portal on its Discover page this morning, intended to educate users about the historic catastrophe, as well as the ongoing threat of antisemitism. The platform also hosted a similar portal last year. When users navigate to the...
  • European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021
  • Laparoscopic surgery performed by a robot without human assistance
  • The robotic arm of the law
  • Facebook reportedly ditches Diem stablecoin with asset sale
  • Here’s how far VCs have lowered revenue expectations for seed through Series B
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  • FTC: US consumers lost $770 million in social media scams in 2021, up 18x from 2017
  • Quan raises $1.15M from YC to tackle post-pandemic em
  • CausaLens gets $45M for no-code technology that introduces cause and effect into AI decision making 2 days ago  –  One of the most popular applications of artificial intelligence to date has been to use it to predict things, using algorithms trained with historical data to determine a future outcome. But popularity doesn’t always mean success: Predictive AI leaves out a lot of the nuance, context and cause-an...
  • Asset financiers to the rescue as Bolt plans to sign-up 200,000 new drivers in Africa to meet growing demand for ride-hailing services 2 days ago  –  Bolt, the Estonian mobility tech company that recently closed a huge round, is planning to onboard an additional 200,000 drivers in Africa this year, as it kicks-off expansion to more cities within its existing markets while keeping up with the growing demand for e-hailing services across the con...
  • Event marketing is a ‘team sport,’ and Vendelux is coaching companies to find the best ROI 2 days ago  –  Vendelux pulls data from publicly available sources, and is able to show which companies and speakers will be at a certain event.
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  • Google will let legacy G Suite users migrate to free Google accounts
  • The first ‘Super Pumped’ trailer is here to dramatize Uber’s reckless ascendance
  • Inside Iyin Aboyeji’s plan to build charter cities for African tech
  • Zapp snaps up $200M to supersize its instant grocery play
  • Google to invest up to $1 billion in Indian telecom operator 
  • TechCrunch+ roundup: 2021 edtech report, UBS-Wealthfront deal, falling startup revenue a day ago  –  I could spend hours discussing early-stage startup operations and community-based marketing, but deal flow is my blind spot.
  • To cool down China’s overheated robotics industry, go back to the basics a day ago  –  The price-to-earnings ratio is no longer applicable for many listed companies, and the market-to-sales ratio has also gone out the window.
  • Tesla is selling a microphone for in-car karaoke, but only in China a day ago  –  Tesla is now selling a microphone for in-car karaoke. The TeslaMic is only available in China for the time being, and was introduced amid the rollout of a Chinese New Year software update.
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  • Joby Aviation wants to conduct dramatic eVTOL flights over San Francisco Bay
  • Bullish or bearish? What to expect for Europe VC activity in 2022
  • Why Robinhood is getting hammered today
  • Membership, mentorship or just messy
  • Rise is a new calendar app with a scheduling engine for tea

    • Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young, pulls her music from Spotify over vaccine misinformation 8 hours ago  –  Spotify’s Joe Rogan headache is about to get a lot worse. Earlier this week, musician Neil Young announced that he would pull his music from the streaming service to protest Spotify’s relationship with Joe Rogan, who the company brought under its wing in an exclusive $100 million deal two years a...

  • The return of the lean, green startup 9 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. The market is down. The party is over. And Peloton of X startups aren’t too happy right now. As tech stocks take a hit, the big question on my mind is how […]
  • This Week in Apps: iPhone payments, App Store upgrades, Snapchat’s AR shopping 9 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 number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combine...
  • Frozen giants, and why everyone is competing with everyone regardless of what they say
  • Please make a dumb car
  • Lessons from a fintech founder: Solving for C by going B2B
  • Dashworks is a search engine for your company’s sprawling internal knowledge
  • Daily Crunch: Google will offer G Suite legacy edition users a ‘no-cost option’
  • 3 experiments for early-stage founders seeking product-market fit
  • Smartphone shipments grew last year, for the first time sin

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  • HP’s Elite Dragonfly G3 gets bigger keys and a 3:2 display 2 days ago  –  Here it is. HP has overhauled its Elite Dragonfly with some significant changes, some of which will likely be welcome in consumer and business circles alike, and some of which may be... controversial. We got a chance to try out a prototype of the new Elite Dragonfly G3, which isn’t perfo...
  • Apple made more money than ever, even with the supply chain crunch
  • Death Stranding Director’s Cut on PC will be a $10 upgrade if you already own the original game
  • Peacock reveals its strategy for winning subscribers: spend, spend, spend
  • Apple might let you use Face ID with a mask in the next iOS update
  • SpaceX planning to launch up to 52 missions in 2022
  • 7 great movies from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival
  • Google is adding an Offers tab to Google Play to help you find deals on games and apps
  • Wyze discontinues its original WyzeCam
  • The biting lip emoji coming in iOS 15.4 will instantly make c
  • Fortnite’s return to iOS via GeForce Now feels just fine 2 days ago  –  The game plays much better than I expected. Fortnite hasn’t been available on iOS since Apple yanked it from the App Store in August 2020, but I’ve been able to play it on my iPhone once again thanks to a closed beta on Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service. While it’s not quite as se...
  • Samsung’s QLED TV is back to its lowest price
  • WhatsApp sets its sights on the US
  • Apple trolls Spotify with Neil Young tweets, playlists, and push notifications
  • Apple now has 1.8 billion active devices
  • Logitech’s latest mechanical keyboards are affordable and understated
  • Google leaks Pixel 6A name in, of all things, a coloring book
    2 days ago  –  A leaked render of the unannounced Pixel 6A. | Image: Steve Hemmerstoffer / 91Mobiles A Google-produced coloring book may have just offered the first official mention of the Pixel 6A, the rumored affordable followup to last year’s flagship Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, Droid-Life reports. The colori...
  • Power tool companies have discovered USB-C — and DeWalt’s two-way charger sounds awesome
  • The best deals on true wireless earbuds right now
  • Major airlines shrugged off 5G fiasco, but small regional c
  • The best gaming headset deals you can get right now a day ago  –  Logitech’s budget-friendly G435 boasts color and comfort, as well as a host of solid features. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A good gaming headset is practically a necessity these days. Clean and precise audio is essential for competitive gaming, allowing you not just to p...
  • Appeals court upholds California’s net neutrality law
  • Google seems to be giving its Android Tablets division some attention
  • Here is the Spotify COVID content policy that lets Joe Rogan slide
  • Pokémon’s next Daniel Arsham art collaboration reaches across time and space
    a day ago  –  Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK Inc./TV Tokyo While Pokémon Arceus is revealing all new things about the franchise’s past, artist Daniel Arsham’s next collaboration with The Pokémon Company is all about a ruined, fossilized future. Building on the larger themes of his previous two Poké...
  • The FAA, AT&T, and Verizon are getting closer to a solution for their 5G mess
  • Jabra rolls out multipoint Bluetooth support for Elite 7 Pro and Active earbuds
  • How to install the iOS 15.4 public beta
  • Head of WhatsApp on releasing an iPad app: ‘We’d love to do it’
  • Neil Young says he ‘felt better’ after leaving Spotify and it
  • FCC announces $1.2 billion fund for broadband deployment in rural areas 5 hours ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced over $1.2 billion in funding through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to expand broadband service across 32 states. The FCC calls this “the largest funding round to date,” and notes 23 broa...
  • T-Mobile will reportedly fire corporate employees who aren’t fully vaccinated by April 2nd
  • The IRS is reportedly looking for ID.me alternatives amid privacy concerns
  • Logitech’s outstanding StreamCam is on sale for nearly its best price to date
  • Galaxy S22: What to expect from Samsung’s February Unpacked
  • Joni Mitchell removes music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s podcast
  • My new toy is a USB-C cable with a built-in power meter
  • Epic largely lost to Apple, but 35 states are now backing its fight in a higher court
  • Life360 is getting out of the business of selling precise user location data
  • NLRB alleges Amazon broke the law with anti-labor action i
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