Monday, June 13, 2022

13 June - Technology - T N W / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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We just discovered a fast radio burst from a distant galaxy — and we have questions

North Carolina’s plan to ban free EV charging is an environmental disgrace

Why Edward Snowden’s talk at TNW Conference 2022 is unmissable

TNW Conference speakers not to miss: Stefanie Knaab is on a mission to fight domestic violence

( I don't know. Sounds like a bad case of 'unclear on the concept' )

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Here’s the complete agenda for next week’s TC Sessions: Climate 2022 3 days ago  –  TC Sessions: Climate, in partnership with the Extreme Tech Challenge 2022 Global Finals, is our first event dedicated to the climate crisis. And our agenda is complete!  Leading scientists, entrepreneurs, VCs and more will gather in person on June 14 at UC Berkeley (and online on June 16) to exam...

  • Netflix announces games tied to its popular shows, including ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ ‘Shadow and Bone’ and more 3 days ago  –  At its annual Geeked Week event, Netflix announced a slew of new titles coming to its gaming service this year. A few of the new games are tied to some of Netflix’s most popular TV shows, including “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Shadow and Bone,” and “Too Hot To Handle.” The streaming service currently h...
    If you must conduct layoffs, don’t be a jerk 3 days ago  –  Since our last column, another smattering of tech startups has laid off employees. We get it. Layoffs happen. But as we conduct yet another week of analysis into a depressing time in tech, we’re thinking about how these difficult conversations could be a bit less awful if we learned to prioritize...
  • Meta rolls out Horizon Home, making it easier to meet up in the metaverse
  • TechCrunch podcasts this week: Startup grants, a16z’s crypto bet and the art of raising money for groceries
  • Telegram confirms it’ll launch a premium sub this month
     3 days ago  –  Free messaging app Telegram is getting into the subscription game. Founder Pavel Durov confirmed today a paid offering is coming later this month which will go above and beyond the current free experience — so a premium offer — without, per the post on his Telegram channel, any negative changes t...
  • Last chance to apply to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt
  • IFC set to invest $26M in Partech’s Africa Fund II
  • Why it’s so hard to market enterprise AI/ML products and what to do about it
  • Investor demands for profitability catch tec
    • Apple enters the BNPL market as regulation, competition intensify 2 days ago  –  How will all of these BNPL-focused providers fare with Apple pounding its way into their market?
  • The Winklevoss twins rock on 2 days ago  –  Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we talked about an arrest in the crypto world that had investors sweating. This week, we’re talking about rocking through the general malaise of a crypto winter. You can subscribe to this newsletter and get it in your inbox every Thursday on TechCrunch’s...
  • QuantumScape loses manufacturing chief over management style mismatch 3 days ago  –  Celina Mikolajczak, who has held senior roles at Tesla and Panasonic, resigned from QuantumScape less than a year after taking the chief manufacturing officer position at the solid-state battery company, according to a regulatory filing. Mikolajczak and QuantumScape are parting ways over “differi...
  • Wow, Facebook really knows how to give someone a send-off!
  • A 7-step method for running effective pitch meetings
  • Daily Crunch: Apple’s M1 chips have an ‘unpatchable’ hardware vulnerability, say MIT researchers
  • How to use human-centered AI with Forethought and NEA
  • The first US crypto rewards credit card on the American Express network is here
  • Charm Therapeutics applies AI to complex protein interactions, locking down $50M A round
  • TechCrunch+ roundup: Growth marketin
  • Crypto lender Celsius pauses withdrawals, transfers citing ‘extreme market conditions’ 16 hours ago  –  Celsius Network, one of the biggest crypto lenders, told customers Sunday evening that it is pausing withdrawals, swap, and transfers between accounts in a move that has sparked discussions and prompted the price of the firm’s token to take a 60% tumble in the past one hour to as low as 19 cents....
  • WWDC stands for ‘wow what dank continuity’ and other TC news a day ago  –  On a very special episode of The TechCrunch Podcast this week, I’m joined by Apple Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing Kurt Knight, who talks us through some of the big updates Apple announced at its WWDC conference on Monday. Kurt specifically talks us through the big new changes to Ap...
  • Investors show Latin American fintech startups the money a day ago  –  Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Greetings from Austin, Texas, where the temps have been over 100 degrees for days now and we’re trying hard just not to melt. The global funding boom in 2021 was unlike anything m...
  • Zendesk punished by investors after vowing to remain independent
  • Here’s why climate tech may avoid repeating clean tech’s failures
  • Apple’s big week was not without its flaws
  • This Week in Apps, Apple WWDC review: Blurred lines, new APIs and a brand-new Lock Screen
  • As startup layoffs continue, some perspective
  • Andreessen Horowitz’s Sriram Krishnan on crypto social networking
  • Why some startups don’t want to be calle
  • Disney and Viacom18 acquire media rights for IPL cricket tournament 6 hours ago  –  Disney and Viacom18 have won the five-year media rights for the Indian Premier League cricket tournament, people familiar with the matter said, beating rivals including Sony to a license that gave the California-headquartered giant a big leg up in amassing over 200 million subscribers. Viacom18 —...
  • How Apple’s thoughtful, measured approach is building a revolution in health 6 hours ago  –  Apple’s health business could now stand alone as one of the largest in the sector in terms of sheer reach — if it could ever be disentangled from the company’s other products, which, by design, it really can’t. At the company’s annual WWDC global developer conference last week, a variety of new h...
  • Tiger Global backs bttn, leading e-commerce infiltration of medical supplies 6 hours ago  –  Over the past year, marketplace customers jumped from 300 to 7,000, while gross merchandise volume grew 1,000%.
  • Echodyne’s compact, steerable radar spots $135M investment and prepares to diversify
    6 hours ago  –  When Echodyne showed off its compact but intelligent metamaterial radar system back in 2017, the applications seemed endless… but some, like urban air mobility and autonomous vehicles, we’re still waiting on. Fortunately the defense industry has buoyed the company up during a couple tough years a...
  • DoorDash rolls out new in-app features, including written reviews, item ratings and more
  • Spotify is acquiring Sonantic, the AI voice platform used to simulate Val Kilmer’s voice in Top Gun Maverick
  • Cereal maker Magic Spoon scoops up $85M as it lands spot on Target shelves
  • All the things Apple Sherlocked at WWDC 2022
  • Astra’s latest launch for NASA also ends in failure
  • Apple’s payment options offer for Dutch d

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  • Google Cloud employee calculates pi to 100 trillion digits 3 days ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao has beaten her own record from three years ago for the number of digits calculated for pi. In 2019 she was able to calculate pi to its 31.4 trillionth digit, and now, using the same Google Cloud y-cru...
  • US no longer requires COVID test for travelers flying into the country
  • Netflix shows off Sonic Prime and an impressive lineup of indie games
  • Tech antitrust is facing its biggest challenge yet in the Senate
  • Dragon Age gets a new anime on Netflix
  • Why France signing NASA’s lunar exploration pact is the most important signature yet
     3 days ago  –  NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (far right) and Philippe Baptiste, president of CNES, signing the Artemis Accords at the French Ambassador’s Residence in Washington. | Image: NASA/Keegan Barber On Tuesday evening, France officially signed onto NASA’s Artemis Accords — the space agency’s se...
  • Ms. Marvel reimagined Kamala Khan’s powers to give her stronger ties to the MCU
  • These little satellites could bring big advances to tropical storm forecasts
  • Meta is adding social hangouts to the Quest’s VR home space
  • Activision Blizzard will begin negotiations 
  • Apple’s giving up ground in its App Store fight with Dutch regulators and Tinder 2 days ago  –  It’s changed the language users will see when they go to pay. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple announced on Friday that it once again updated its rules about how Dutch dating apps can use third-party payment systems, after the company had “productive conversations with the ...
  • The best deals on 4K TVs
  • All the biggest news from Netflix Geeked Week 2022
  • Duke Nukem is getting a movie from some guys who could actually pull it off
  • The best smartphone you can buy for under $500
  • Stadia just made it a lot easier to play the Resident Evil Village demo
  • New AT&T subscribers will no longer get HBO Max (or any other video service)
    3 days ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One perk most wireless carriers offer to pull you to their side is a free streaming video-on-demand subscription, but now AT&T won’t be giving HBO Max to new customers, and hasn’t replaced it with a different service either. The carrier stealthi...
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  • Tesla files for a three-way stock split to make its shares more affordable
  • The best noise-canceling headphone deal
  • Google to pay $118 million to settle gender discrimination lawsuit a day ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is set to pay $118 million to settle a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit that includes around 15,500 women (via Bloomberg). As noted in the settlement’s press release, Google is also required to have an independent labor economist ev...
  • Squid Game season two is finally, officially announced for Netflix
  • How to watch the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase
  • Whistle Health review: for anxious pet parents only
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home is returning to theaters with new Spidey scenes
  • Leaked Galaxy Z Flip 4 photos show a potentially less noticeable crease
  • TikTok’s parent company is gearing up to invest a lot of money in VR
  • The travel-friendly Sonos Roam is still on sale for a rare $37 off
  • Telegram Premium is coming later this month
  • The delight is in the details of Drop’s ne
  • For All Mankind’s first season is currently free to stream 8 hours ago  –  For All Mankind’s third season just started. | Image: Apple The first season of For All Mankind, the science fiction alternate history show from Battlestar Galactica creator Ron D. Moore, is now available to stream free of charge — no Apple TV Plus subscription required. The limited time ...
  • Wikimedia Foundation appeals Russian fine over Ukraine war articles
  • Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient
  • Watch 15 minutes of Starfield gameplay
  • The biggest trailers and announcements from the 2022 Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase
  • Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase 2022: all the news from the event
  • Three Persona titles are coming to Xbox, starting with Persona 5 Royal
  • Diablo IV will bring the blood waves in 2023
     a day ago  –  Image: Activision Blizzard Diablo IV, the next major release in Activision Blizzard’s popular dungeon-crawling series, will be available in 2023, the company announced Sunday. When it launches, it’ll be available on PC, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One, PS5, and PS4, and the game will have cro...
  • Overwatch 2 will be free to play and has an early access release date
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming to Xbox, 
  • John Oliver exposes how Google and Amazon stifle competition 21 minutes ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Years ago, John Oliver galvanized his Last Week Tonight viewers to join in the fight for net neutrality — instigating a flood of comments that broke down the Federal Communications Commission’s website in 2014. Last night, he turned his attention to...
  • Crypto lending giant Celsius halts withdrawals
  • The Apple TV 4K is available for its best price ever
  • Sonos accidentally shipped customers extra speakers and charged them for it
  • How to watch Congress’ public January 6th hearings
  • Amazon’s troubled drone delivery project is finally taking off
  • Bitcoin price plummets below $25K following Celsius freeze
     5 hours ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Sunday night, the Celsius Network, one of the largest crypto lending platforms, abruptly announced a “pause” on withdrawals and transfers, citing “extreme market conditions.” Celsius announced its halt as markets in Asia opened on Monday morning,...
  • Astra’s failed launch resulted in the loss of two NASA weather satellites
  • Microsoft Teams now uses AI to improve echo, interruptions, and acoustics
  • TP-Link’s new smart plug adds HomeKit 
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