Monday, September 19, 2022

19 September - Technology - T N W / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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Berlin leads Germany’s dream for car-reducing public transport

  • The hybrid workplace could make tech companies less inclusive — here’s what you can do

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    What does Europe’s approach to data privacy mean for GPT and DALL-E?

    The European automobile industry is going quantum

    The vinyl industry is a mess — and this British company thinks it has the tech to fix it

    AI stalks influencers in the wild to expose horrors of high-tech surveillance

    Tech Crunch

  • Byld Ventures, a $15M fund, backs fintechs in Africa 17 hours ago  –  Two years before Youcef Oudjidane co-founded Sudanese fintech Bloom after failing to find startups tackling currency depreciation in Africa to invest in, he was the managing partner and head of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at Class 5 Global, a San Francisco-based venture fund with a keen...
  • Porsche 911’s new meaning, a bot rolls into a crime scene and the bright side of a tiny Detroit auto show 17 hours ago  –  The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. This is a shorter version of The Station newsletter that is emailed to subscribers. Want all the deals, new...
  • SoftBank-backed Ola to cut 200 jobs in India 17 hours ago  –  SoftBank-backed Ola plans to eliminate about 200 jobs across its engineering teams over the next few days, on track to shrink its workforce by over 1,200 this year, as the ride-hailing giant streamlines its operations to improve finances. The company has kickstarted the new wave of layoffs, which...
  • D-ID, the company behind Deep Nostalgia, lets you create AI-generated videos from a single image
  • Swedish last-mile delivery companies Instabox and Budbee to become Instabee in $1.7B merger
  • South Korean prosecutors say Do Kwon ‘obviously on the run’, ask Interpol to issue red notice
  • YC’s Michael Seibel clarifies some misconceptions about the accelerator
  • Stop spending so much time on your product when pitching to investors
  • Varo’s bank charter milestone, more corporate cards and BNPL under a microscope
  • This Mac app makes it easy to create your o
  • Fintech app Portabl raises $2.5M to help consumers securely store financial data 15 hours ago  –  It provides identity management and protection for financial services, banking, and consumer apps. 
  • ‘Just break even’ may be the worst possible advice for startups in turbulent times 15 hours ago  –  A significant number of companies are following popular advice to try and break even, but the sad truth is that this is probably the worst possible advice for most startups right now. ‘Just break even’ may be the worst possible advice for startups in turbulent times by Ram Iyer originally publish...
  • InnerPlant grows with new John Deere-backed millions for sustainable farming 15 hours ago  –  InnerPlant helps farmers reduce the amount of chemical pesticides needed or harvests lost to pathogens. 
  • Indian market regulator puts insurer Digit’s $440 million IPO in ‘abeyance’
  • How to set up eSIM on your new iPhone 14
  • Pano has a burning desire to apply AI smarts to wildfire detection
  • Tesla ramps up production as rivals launch new EVs
  • Rockstar Games confirms GTA 6 footage leak
  • NEAR protocol spin-off Open Web Collective launches venture arm to invest in early-stage web3
  • Brelyon is turning heads with immersive v
  • Meta alumni’s startup TrueFoundry raises $2.3 million to accelerate ML deployments 2 hours ago  –  A group of former Meta engineers is building a platform to help enterprises deploy machine learning models at the speed of big tech companies. Their startup, TrueFoundry, has raised $2.3 million in a funding round. The San Francisco, California-headquartered startup automates repetitive tasks in ...
  • Zopper raises $75 million to solve India’s insurance problem 3 hours ago  –  For more than half a decade, Zopper built a platform for small and medium-sized businesses, helping merchants with invoicing and payments through its point-of-sale platform. It sold that IP to PhonePe in mid-2018, but instead of joining the fintech giant, Zopper has been working on a new venture ...
  • Sequence orders up $19M led by a16z for a new approach to B2B fintech 4 hours ago  –  When it comes to fintech, consumers have commanded the most attention in the last decade, with banking, credit, investing and other legacy services getting the disruption treatment. But at the same time, there’s been a growing trend for building more for the B2B market, and today one of the newer...
  • Daily Crunch: Rockstar’s whoopsie means you can get an early look at GTA 6
  • Max Q: Propulsive!
  • Why Ford will have to eat an extra $1B in supplier costs this quarter
  • TikTok’s BeReal clone is now available as standalone app outside the US
  • BeReal reportedly considers paid features in lieu of advertisements
  • OpenAI begins allowing users to edit faces with DALL-E 2
  • Retail tech startup Swiftly valued at $1B aft

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  • Adobe’s Figma acquisition is a $20 billion bet to control the entire creative market 3 days ago  –  Adobe’s acquisition of Figma is a big deal in the world of creative apps. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Over the past several years, Figma has built its name as a forward-thinking and collaborative design platform and a formidable competitor to Adobe, the giant in the creat...
  • DIY replacement screens and batteries for iPhones and Pixels are 20 percent off at iFixit
  • TP-Link’s latest smart light strip goes with everything
  • The PS Vita’s time is now, again
  • Apple is too strict with copy and paste in iOS 16
  • Lil Nas X, please don’t let League of Legends fans sing the n-word
  • EVGA stops making video cards and blames Nvidia’s bad behavior
  • Best gaming laptop in 2022: seven laptops to get your game on
  • What’s the best student laptop? We asked students
  • How to edit or unsend an iMessage in iOS 
  • Tom Brady just chucked another Microsoft Surface tablet a day ago  –  Touchdown! Tom Brady might as well have been practicing his touchdown spike when he whipped a Microsoft Surface tablet into the ground during the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game against the Saints on Sunday night. The quarterback was visibly frustrated following an incomplete pass, tossed his h...
  • DirecTV fumbles NFL Sunday Ticket... again
  • iPhone 14 Pro users report camera shakiness and grinding noise when using third-party apps
  • The Dynamic Island might come to all iPhone 15 models
  • GTA 6 gameplay leaks online in 90 videos
     2 days ago  –  GTA V was released almost nine years ago. | Image: Rockstar Footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, Rockstar’s next entry in its open-world franchise, has leaked online. PC Gamer reports that a user on the GTA Forums has posted a 3GB file full of 90 videos of GTA VI footage. It’s not exactly clea...
  • Fortnite’s new season adds Spider-Gwen and goopy chrome
  • Elden Ring is getting its own board game
  • In defense of the RGB mouse pad
  • Constantine sequel brings back Keanu Reeves for more occult detective work
  • Knives Out, Weird Al, and more: eight grea
  • Automakers are ignoring the simple solution to the rise of traffic deaths 13 hours ago  –  The government thinks there’s a high-tech fix to the rise of traffic fatalities, but the answer is much simpler. | Image: Department of Transportation Ford announced today that it’s exploring “new smartphone-based communications technology” to warn drivers about pedestrians, cyclists, and...
  • Apple’s hidden redesign makes the iPhone 14 much easier to fix
  • Instacart’s grocery ‘smart cart’ shows how it’s about more than just deliveries
  • The best thing about my new Apple Watch is the super-stretchy band
  • The Pentagon has ordered a review of US psyops on social media
     15 hours ago  –  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Pentagon officials have ordered a sweeping review of US information warfare operations conducted through social media platforms, The Washington Post reports, after Twitter and Meta both identified networks of fake accounts believed to be connect...
  • Rockstar confirms hack, says work on GTA VI will ‘continue as planned’
  • Will the future of music sound a lot like the past?
  • Telemed abortion is expanding in parts of the US
  • Govee’s new multicolor light strip is long and syncs with your music
  • Google’s Nest Wifi Pro pricing leaks early
  • Uber blames Lapsus$ hacking group for security breach 9 hours ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber said that a hacker associated with the Lapsus$ hacking group was to blame for a breach of its internal systems last week, while reiterating that no customer or user data was compromised during the attack. The hack, which was discovered last Th...
  • Metal: Hellsinger might be the only rhythm game I’m good at
  • Sony’s first major PS5 redesign will reportedly have a detachable disc drive
  • Storm season is in full swing in the US, from Alaska to Puerto Rico
  • Diablo IV test build leaks with 43 minutes of gameplay footage
  • Apple confirms frequent ‘allow paste?’ prompts in iOS 16 are a bug
  • LG’s new Ultra PC lineup has motion tracking and new chips
    11 hours ago  –  The LG logo is prominent, as usual. | Image: LG LG is best known in the laptop space for its acclaimed high-end, ultra-light Gram line. Today, it’s announced two models that are heavier and lower-cost but carry a similar portable big-screen vibe: the Ultra PC 17 and Ultra PC 16. The model...
  • Tile now has QR labels for lost items
  • Today’s the last day to get one month of Disney Plus for $1.99 ahead of Andor’s premiere
  • Return to Monkey Island is like hanging o
  • Microsoft eased up on one DRM hurdle for disc games on Xbox 3 hours ago  –  Put a disc in and play. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft is making it easier to play games on your Xbox Series X, even if it’s offline — as of the 2208 update released earlier this month, you won’t be forced to do an online compatibility check to play a game from an Xbox One ...
  • Adnan Syed freed after judge vacates murder conviction
  • Emoji statuses and ‘infinite’ reactions are among Telegram’s latest features
  • Gmail will start spam-proofing political fundraising emails this week
  • Beyond Meat COO reportedly attempts to consume human nose
  • Here’s what it sounds like when Mars gets smacked by a space rock
  • Twitch streamers say one of their own scammed them for gambling money
  • Apple’s fixing the iPhone 14 Pro’s camera shake
  • OnePlus’ flagship phone finally works on all major 5G networks in the US
  • Twitter’s latest feature is a tool to make 

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