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Tech Crunch
After EU child safety complaints, TikTok tweaks ad disclosures but profiling concerns remain
8 hours ago –
A long-running EU engagement with TikTok — initiated following a
series of complaints over child safety and consumer protection
complaints filed back in February 2021 — has ended, for now, with the
video sharing platform offering a series of commitments to improve user
reporting and disclosure re...
Data management vendor Ataccama receives $150M infusion from Bain
9 hours ago –
In recent years, there’s been an explosion of tools that allow
businesses to connect, transform, analyze and serve data from all kinds
of sources. Combined with the increasing pressure on businesses to
digital transform their operations, this can lead to a patchwork of
solutions that aren’t easy ...
Zenysis raises $13.3M to scale its big data platform for emergencies across Africa, Asia and South America
10 hours ago –
Zenysis Technologies, a big data startup headquartered in San
Francisco and Cape Town, announced today that it has closed $13.3
million in a Series B round. The financing was led by the Steele
Foundation for Hope, a nonprofit organization that says it’s focused on
finding and funding lasting solu...
10 hours ago –
In mid-May, Wingcopter announced an extremely ambitious plan
to deploy some 12,000 of its fixed-wing UAVs in Sub-Saharan Africa over
the next half decade. As far as drone delivery markets go, it certainly
makes sense, targeting users in remote areas that can often be hard to
reach due to infrastr...
Glowforge raises another $43M
6 hours ago –
Seattle-based laser-cutting hardware startup Glowforge announced
this morning that it has raised another healthy round. The $43 million
Series E joins the roughly $70 million the company has raised since its
2015 founding. It’s been a few years since the firm has had a
significant raise, but the ...
Fitbit rolls out a new premium ‘Sleep Profile’ feature to better assess sleep patterns
7 hours ago –
Google announced today that Fitbit is introducing a new premium
feature called “Sleep Profile,” which will offer users a new
longitudinal analysis of sleep patterns while making sleep data easier
to interpret. The new Sleep Profile feature will analyze sleep across 10
key metrics, including new d...
That agent who sounds like they’re from Paris, Texas? Try Paris, France
7 hours ago –
Our daily lives are more linked into a globalized grid than ever
before. Products are sourced and shipped from afar; traveling to a
place 3,000 miles away can be easier than getting across a big city in
traffic; and information disseminates to anyone and everyone at the tap
of a finger. A startup...
Liteboxer goes portable
5 hours ago –
I’m confident I’m not alone when I say that space has been a
major barrier of entry between me and fully embracing home fitness. I
live in New York City, and things are already tight without having to
deal with a treadmill, bike or, for that matter, a big, connected
punching bag. Thankfully, a nu...
IKEA rolls out an AI-powered interactive design experience for shoppers
5 hours ago –
Today, IKEA is launching a new AI-driven interactive design
experience called IKEA Kreativ for IKEA.com and the IKEA app. With the
new feature, U.S. customers can design and visualize their own living
spaces with digitalized furniture on their smartphones instead of
traveling to the brick-and-mor...
eBay acquires NFT marketplace KnownOrigin for an undisclosed sum
5 hours ago –
eBay announced today that it’s acquiring Manchester-based NFT
marketplace KnownOrigin. The financial terms of the deal were not
disclosed. eBay says the companies have signed and closed the deal as of
June 22nd. KnownOrigin was founded in 2018 by Andy Gray, David Moore
and James Morgan. All three...
5 hours ago –
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s new company Nothing will not be
bringing its first phone — the Phone (1) — to the U.S. The firm said
that at the moment “a limited number of our private community investors
in the U.S.” will get the device through a closed beta program. The
development comes a day af...
Zap Energy nets $160M Series C to advance its lightning-in-a-bottle fusion tech
3 hours ago –
Zap Energy has reached two milestones that could nudge it ahead
in the race to offer low-cost, carbon-free energy — a $160 million
Series C round, and a successful test of a prototype fusion reactor.
Now’s the time to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt
3 hours ago –
It’s time to apply to Startup Battlefield 200, the
world-renowned pitch competition where early-stage startups from across
the globe go head-to-head to compete for glory, investor interest, media
coverage and $100,000 in equity-free prize money. As usual, the
competition goes down at TechCrunch ...
Spotify is developing ‘Community,’ a new place to see your friends’ activity in the mobile app
3 hours ago –
Spotify is developing a new feature called Community that would
allow mobile users to see what sort of music their friends are streaming
in real-time as well as what playlists they’ve recently updated in a
dedicated place in the app. The company today offers a similar “Friend
Activity” feature on...
Apple is finally getting serious about removing junk messages
17 minutes ago –
Apple has just rolled out the second developer beta for iOS 16,
and the first thing that’s caught our eye is revamped message filtering.
With this update, the company has signaled that it’s getting serious
about streamlining your SMS-based messages. Here’s a quick rundown of
what’s being included...
Black LPs fuel a16z’s third Cultural Leadership Fund
17 minutes ago –
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced last week
that it closed its third Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF), an investment
vehicle led by partner Megan Holston-Alexander. The fund formed four
years ago with a mission to explicitly raise money solely from Black
investors. As part of the n...
Wilco gamifies your path through your software engineering career
44 minutes ago –
Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive
upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of stealth
this week with its first public version, and a stash-box with $7 million
worth of fresh seed funding. It’s just weird enough that it’s the kind
of thing I completely love...
The Verge
Samsung’s 75-inch Neo QLED TV is down to its lowest price ever at Best Buy
a day ago –
Save on this 75-inch Samsung TV and other hot tech today. |
Image: Samsung
The Verge Deals team is back in action this week, serving up some
excellent savings from across the internet. If you’ve been biding your
time on buying a new high-end TV, you may want to check out this
day-long dis...
Daycare monitoring apps are ‘dangerously insecure,’ report finds
a day ago –
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Popular daycare and childcare communications apps are “dangerously
insecure,” according to newly published research, exposing children and
parents to the risk of data breaches with lax security settings and
permissive or outright misleading priv...
a day ago –
Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge
The best cheap laptops under $800 from HP, Lenovo, and more.
Twitter makes it easier for your profile page to advertise what you’re selling
8 hours ago –
Image: Twitter
Twitter is partnering with Shopify on an integration that will keep a
seller’s Twitter profile page updated with direct links to the products
they have for sale. Shopify users who install the new Twitter add-on can
connect their Twitter account with Shopify and then start b...
Govee’s DreamView G1 Pro gaming lights are discounted for the first time
6 hours ago –
The DreamView G1 Pro Gaming Lights are on sale for $20 off when
you buy them direct from Govee. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The
Verge
Want to add some fun colors to your gaming space? Right now, Govee is
offering its first discount on its new DreamView G1 Pro gaming lights.
The c...
7 hours ago –
Virtual furniture can be placed in an image of your room. |
Image: Ikea
Ikea is launching a new virtual design tool today that can make it
easier to imagine how its furniture might look in your home. Ikea
Kreativ’s Scene Scanner feature lets you scan a room using Ikea’s iOS
app, erase yo...
The best noise-canceling headphones to buy right now
an hour ago –
Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones have an all-new design. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
Get some peace and quiet with the best noise-canceling headphones for a variety of uses
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4 hours ago –
Polestar, one of the first automakers to adopt Google’s
Android Automotive operating system for its electric vehicles, is now
throwing a bone to all the iOS users. The company announced that its
Polestar 2 electric sedan now supports Apple CarPlay, thanks to a recent
over-the-air software update....
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