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Max out your annual leave now — here’s how you should spend it
Astronomers have found a VERY sneaky black hole
Twitter’s beef with Musk is hurting shareholders — and a court case won’t solve that
Research: Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain
Netflix losses: The streaming giant’s biggest threat is competitors are catching up
Scientists turn dead spiders into robots able to grip small objects
Why NASA chose gold-plated mirrors for the James Webb telescope
Terrifying or inspiring? Saudi Arabia unveils plan for 170km-long city
Tech Crunch
Gradient Ventures-backed Shypyard aims to ‘raise the sales’ for DTC merchants
18 hours ago –
Shypyard provides tools for entrepreneurs who want to start an e-commerce business but don’t know how to do it.
Root Global wants to be the operating system for food carbon neutrality
18 hours ago –
Our foodchains are notorious for being not-exactly-amazing for
the amount of carbon they crank into the atmosphere. Root Global just
raised a round of funding in a bid to become what it calls the ‘carbon
OS’ for the food industry. It builds software to help companies up and
down the food value ch...
Paragon wants to be the Plaid of SaaS apps
18 hours ago –
Paragon, a startup building a platform that integrates and
aggregates various software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps for enterprise
clients, has raised $13 million in a series A round led by Inspired
Capital, alongside previous investors FundersClub and Garuda Ventures.
CEO and co-founder Brandon Foo ...
Right. Let's stick them out with heavy traffic, rather than with bicycles. Idiots. I wonder how many of these geniuses have driven trucks.
18 hours ago –
Shared micromobility companies have been adopting startlingly
advanced new tech to correct for the thing that cities hate most —
sidewalk riding. Some companies, like Bird, Neuron and Superpedestrian,
have relied on hyper-accurate GPS systems to determine if a rider is
riding inappropriately. Ot...
3 indicators to watch for on Stellantis Q2 earnings day
16 hours ago –
Compared to this year’s drumbeat of announcements from car
companies touting future battery-electric models, Stellantis has
remained quiet, focusing on plug-in hybrids instead. The Amsterdam-based
joint venture between Fiat-Chrysler and PSA Group is pursuing
electrification aggressively, targetin...
TikTok will provide select researchers with more transparency about its platform and moderation system
16 hours ago –
TikTok announced today that it will provide select researchers
with more transparency about its platform and moderation system. The
company is developing a research API to improve access to public and
anonymized data about content and activity on its app. TikTok says
researchers currently don’t h...
Dear Sophie: Should co-founders on OPT, STEM OPT pursue H-1Bs?
17 hours ago –
My two co-founders and I are on OPT and STEM OPT. We're all from
India and are considering the H-1B lottery. How can we structure our
immigration compliance? Any advice for planning?
17 hours ago –
It describes itself as the “future of urban mobility.” With a
93-mile range, and a 50 mph top speed, the futuristic-looking electric
three-wheeler from Nimbus costs $10,000-ish and wants to position itself
as a green alternative to cars, safer than motorcycles, and with a high
degree of ease of o...
Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code
14 hours ago –
Ax Sharma Contributor Share on Twitter Ax Sharma is a security
researcher and reporter. His areas of interest include open source
software security, malware analysis, data breaches and scam
investigations. If combating attacks and hijackings of legitimate
software on open source registries like n...
8 investors discuss fintech’s potential despite the market downturn
14 hours ago –
The fintech sector has had its ups and downs as of late. And
yet, investors remain bullish on the potential value that these startups
can bring worldwide.
8 fintech VCs discuss the shifting investing landscape and how to pitch them in Q3 2022
15 hours ago –
To give TechCrunch+ readers specific knowledge about what
fintech investors are looking for right now, we interviewed eight active
venture capitalists in the sector over the last couple of weeks.
Apple’s latest iOS 16 beta introduces a history log for edited messages
10 hours ago –
Apple has released the fourth developer beta for iOS 16 on
Wednesday, bringing limits to the ability to edit and delete iMessages.
Most notably, the company is adding an edit history log that will give
the person you’re messaging the ability to see any edits you’ve made.
Prior to the introduction...
Twitter is testing a status feature that’s taking us back to MySpace
11 hours ago –
Facebook is trying to be TikTok, but now, Twitter is bringing us
back a little bit of Facebook (or LiveJournal or Myspace). Some users
are reporting that they can now post Twitter statuses, which lets them
tag posts like they’re retro MySpace moods. Some of these statuses
include “Spoiler alert,”...
Meta Q2 sales decline 1% to $28.82B, EPS drops 32%, moves CFO to new chief strategy officer role
11 hours ago –
Meta, under the gun at the moment with regulators and investors,
missed estimates in its Q2 earnings, but in an attempt to offset some
of that, it announced an interesting executive shift: David Wehner, the
company’s current chief financial officer, will be taking on a new role
as its chief strat...
11 hours ago –
Rents are going up in cities across the U.S., but the national
homeownership rate has been steadily declining as prospective buyers
grapple with low supply, weakening purchasing power and record-high
costs. What if there was a way to invest in a city’s home equity market
you think is growing even...
DealCart is focused on price-conscious Pakistani consumers
38 minutes ago –
The price of consumer goods has been soaring all around the
world, creating a major budgeting headache for many people. Social
commerce startup DealCart wants to make life easier for shoppers, at
least in Pakistan. The company announced today that it has raised $4.5
million in pre-seed funding ju...
Pony.ai forms autonomous truck JV with Sany Heavy Truck in China
2 hours ago –
Autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai is forming a strategic joint
venture with Sany Heavy Truck, a subsidiary of Chinese heavy equipment
manufacturer Sany Heavy Industry, to create an autonomous truck brand.
The plan is to combine Pony.ai’s “virtual driver” with Sany’s technical
prowess in building...
Sequoia backs fintech Dbank in maiden Pakistan investment
5 hours ago –
Sequoia, the world’s most influential venture fund, has made its
maiden investment in Pakistan, joining a growing list of high profile
investors who have backed young firms in the South Asian market in the
past one year. Islamabad-headquartered startup Dbank said on Thursday it
has raised $17.6 m...
The Verge
Hulu backs down on ad policy after Dem outcry
17 hours ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
After weeks of mounting pressure from Democrats, Hulu will begin
accepting political issue and candidate ads, according to a new report
from Axios on Wednesday.
Disney, a majority owner of Hulu, made the decision amid a controversy
over the streamin...
20 hours ago –
The Car Thing in action. | Photo by Ashley Carman / The Verge
Spotify has stopped manufacturing Car Thing, a dashboard accessory
designed to make it easier to control the streaming service on your
phone from a car. The change was quietly announced as part of the
company’s latest earnings ...
Vergecast: Instagram is TikTok now, BeReal is everywhere, and the return of our hotline
15 hours ago –
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Every Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast,
The Vergecast, where our editors make sense of the week’s most important
technology news. On Wednesdays, editor-at-large David Pierce leads a
selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in...
15 hours ago –
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge
Street View has returned to select parts of India, Google announced
today at an event hosted in New Delhi and on its blog. The 360-degree
street-level viewpoint debuted in the country in 2011 but was then
rejected by its government in 2016 due to secu...
FTC files to block Meta from buying VR fitness studio Within
13 hours ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint to block Meta
from acquiring Within, the company behind the virtual reality fitness
app Supernatural. The FTC claims Meta bought Within to absorb
competition in the fitness market, where it al...
13 hours ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Google’s improving Gmail’s search results, which should make it easier
to find a specific contact. In a blog post, Google explains it’s
rolling out “intent matching for names and email addresses,” as well as
new “personalized suggestions” in Gmail.
...
Google, like Amazon, may let police see your video without a warrant
11 hours ago –
It’s probably good to read the privacy policy when you’re
putting a camera in your home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Arlo, Apple, Wyze, and Anker, owner of Eufy, all confirmed to CNET
that they won’t give authorities access to your smart home camera’s
footage unless they’re shown a...
11 hours ago –
Hello.
Apple has added an edit history to iOS 16’s new iMessage editing
feature in the latest developer beta released on Wednesday (via
9to5Mac). You’ll be able to check the edit history by tapping on the
“Edited” text that sits below an edited message, and when you do, all of
the edits w...
These 26 Amazon workers want the feds to investigate racist death threats
5 hours ago –
Amazon reportedly told workers they could take unpaid time off
if they felt uncomfortable coming into work. | Illustration by Alex
Castro / The Verge
10 hours ago –
Image: AT&T
For many months, AT&T has been dangling a tantalizing possibility:
what if its network let you instantly try blockbuster games for free?
The company started by generically bundling free six-month subscriptions
to Google Stadia and then began letting its customers strea...
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