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Tech Crunch
- TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic investor survey, 6 issues VCs look for, hiring on a budget 3 days ago – If you can envision a solution that solves a customer's problem, it helps to have technical skills if you want to bring it to market. But that's not a requirement.
- Daniel Ek pumps $50 million into Spotify: ‘I believe our best days are ahead’ 3 days ago – Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek said on Friday that he’s pouring $50 million into the music streaming service, driving its stock price up by more than 3% to a high of $108.98 per share during regular trading hours. The momentary rise, however, is a blip on the radar for Spotify, which has taken a b...
- Ava sets the example for universal live captioning and raises $10M to keep building 3 days ago – When we last checked in with AI-powered captioning service Ava, they had just raised a seed round and it was six months into a pandemic that would reshape how we all work together. Eighteen months later they have investors banging on their door following huge growth, and aim to keep showing the t...
- A changing of the guard 2 days ago – Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. When you start a project, it’s easy to get caught up in it. Then time passes and suddenly it’s b...
- Crypto VC Jill Gunter on what it will take to beat Ethereum 2 days ago – Jill Gunter is no stranger to crypto — she’s seen the market through its ups and downs, conducting research on blockchain protocols, working at multiple crypto startups and co-founding her own, and investing as a crypto VC at Slow Ventures. Gunter first started following the crypto space in 2011,...
- ESPN+ debuts ‘McEnroe vs. McEnroe.’ the first-ever tennis match between a real person and their virtual avatar 2 days ago – Premiering on May 7 at 10 p.m. EDT on ESPN+, Michelob Ultra, in collaboration with tech and production company Unit 9, presents “McEnroe vs. McEnroe,” the world’s first tennis match to feature a real person versus a virtual player — both being a version of the entertaining, confrontational tennis...
- South Korea’s OHouse lands $182M to add AR to home improvement app 16 hours ago – During the worst days of the pandemic, when people were stuck at home and starving for some form of entertainment beyond streaming yet another TV series, many turned to DIY home improvement projects. With the home now a place for work, school and leisure all at once, the DIY home improvement mark...
- Perceptron: AI bias can arise from annotation instructions a day ago – Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column, Perceptron (previously Deep Science), aims to collect some of the most relevant recent discoveries and papers — particula...
- How will tech companies cope with an office-free future? a day ago – Depending on your business, your job, and your living situation, the pandemic showed that many workers didn't need to be sitting in a cubby farm inside a big building to get their jobs done.
- Lordstown reports $90 million loss and no progress on Foxconn deal 3 hours ago – Lordstown Motors said in a filing with the SEC that it has not yet closed a $230 million deal with Foxconn ahead of a May 14 deadline that would allow it to remain a going concern.
- Raising monster rounds for self-driving mobility startups on TechCrunch Live 3 hours ago – Raquel Urtasun founded Waabi in 2021 after spending nearly three years as Uber’s R&D head of Advanced Technology Group (ATG). Waabi’s mission is to develop an AI-first approach to speed up the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, starting with long-haul trucks. To do so, her company ...
- Cloudflare heads effort to make JavaScript environments interoperable 3 hours ago – Cloudflare today announced that it’s collaborating with Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, and individual contributors of the Node.js open source project to create standards that enable developers to write code between Deno, Node.js, and Cloudflare’s serverless app p...
- Hey look, another downturn 6 minutes ago – Paper unicorns are going to fold this year if their financial origami doesn't yield something truly surprising.
- Gradient Ventures backs Mentum’s goal to democratize investment services in LatAm 30 minutes ago – The company offers technology in the form of APIs and widgets that businesses can use to create investment products for their customers.
- Instagram to start testing NFTs with select creators this week an hour ago – Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced today that the platform is going to start testing NFTs with select creators in the United States this week. Mosseri noted that there will be no fees associated with posting or sharing a digital collectible on Instagram. At launch, the supported blockchains fo...
- 2 hours ago – Uber has opted for arbitration to solve a dispute it has with drivers in Kenya over the reduction of commuter fares. The ride-hailing firm asked Kenya’s Supreme Court, in an application, to allow it to solve its issues with the drivers through channels agreed upon in contracts, while stating that...
The Verge
- The best Sonos speaker and soundbar deals 3 days ago – The Sonos Roam launched last year is now on sale in refurbished condition at Best Buy. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Most would agree that Sonos offers some of the best speakers and soundbars currently on the market. That’s because Sonos makes speakers that — more often than not — bo...
- 3 days ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When news broke of layoffs at the Netflix-owned fan site Tudum last week, responses tended to come in two parts: First, of course, was that it sucked for the workers affected. But also, what even is Tudum? Launched less than six months ago, Tudum wa...
- Google’s latest Roboto variant is a font customizable to its core 3 days ago – As someone who is really into fonts, I know that most people don’t share my passion — but I genuinely think that anyone who cares at all about typography will have some interest in what Google announced on Thursday. If you’ve ever used anything made by Google, you’ve seen Roboto. Now, Google’s in...
- Microsoft’s new ‘One Outlook’ email client for Windows is starting to leak out 3 days ago – Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s new Outlook email client for Windows, the so-called “One Outlook” project the company has been working on for some time, appears to be almost ready for prime time. Some users have been able to download the new app, as first spotted by Windows Central, though i...
- 3 days ago – Illustration by Michele Doying / The Verge A district judge in California has dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter, saying the former president’s 2021 ban from the platform appears entirely legal. The order, handed down today, gives Trump and a group of other banned users unti...
- How to enable Alexa person and package announcements on an Echo speaker 3 hours ago – Echo Show smart displays can now automatically show you when there is a person or package spotted by your security camera. | Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge You may already be used to telling your Alexa smart speaker what to do: play your Spotify playlist, set a timer f...
- a day ago – Photo by James Bareham / The Verge An Xbox Live outage prevented some players from launching cloud games, playing digital games, and making purchases from its store. Issues started around 4PM ET Saturday night and weren't resolved until early Sunday morning. “Players should no longer be s...
- Uber CEO vows to be ‘hardcore about costs,’ slow down hiring in memo to employees 29 minutes ago – Photo by Philip Cheung for The Verge Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi vowed to rein in costs at the ride-hailing company in the face of a “seismic shift” in the financial market, according to a memo sent to employees that was first reported by CNBC. The effort to reduce spending is in response...
- 2 hours ago – The F-100 Eluminator is a “Restomod”, meaning it is restored and modified. Last fall, Ford began parading around a fully electric 1978 F-100 pickup truck that could accelerate 0–60 mph in around three seconds. The company brought it to YouTubers, automotive trade shows, Jay Leno, and even...
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