Sunday, October 23, 2022

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Tech Crunch

  • Sources: BeReal raised $60M in its Series B earlier this year, now has 20M DAUs 3 days ago  –  BeReal, the photo-sharing app, has been a huge hit with Gen Z and beyond. Now with other big social apps rushing to clone some of its no-frills ethos, it’s put together a war chest to work on its next chapter. TechCrunch has learned that the startup closed a round of $60 million earlier this year...
  • EV maker Arrival cutting jobs again in pivot away from UK to the US 3 days ago  –  Commercial EV company Arrival is restructuring its business for the second time in six months as it tries to squeeze the most out of its remaining capital. The company said in a regulatory filing posted Thursday that it is shifting its focus to the United States and away from the UK market, where...
  • Elon Musk reportedly wants to lay off 75% of Twitter’s staff 3 days ago  –  Musk has previously gestured at plans for layoffs if he were to buy Twitter, but those cuts could go even deeper than previously imagined. According to a new report from the Washington Post, Musk plans to purge 75% of Twitter’s workforce, or around 5,600 employees. If Musk’s vision for a much lea...
  • Snap stock down 25% as the social network struggles
  • Watch Draymond Green discuss investing, media and mental health
  • As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home
  • Handoff is creating a more equitable workforce through job sharing
  • Forget flat — small cuts are the new up
  • Zapier extends its automation service with first-party database and UI tools
  • Lyft co-founder says autonomous vehicle
  • Google says India’s antitrust order ‘major setback’ for consumers and businesses, opens ‘serious security risks’ 3 days ago  –  Google says the Indian competition regulator’s order is a “major setback for Indian consumers and businesses” and it is reviewing the decision to evaluate “next steps.” The Competition Commission of India fined Google $161.9 million on Thursday for anti-competitive practices related to Android mo...
  • Amazon says fear of Google putting off vendors from TV hardware partnership 3 days ago  –  Amazon says over half a dozen hardware vendors have indicated that they cannot enter into a TV manufacturing relationship with the e-commerce group over fear of retaliation from Google, escalating tension with the search giant with whom it competes on several businesses. The revelation, officiall...
  • Delhivery falls to all-time low after muted growth report 3 days ago  –  Shares of Delhivery have dropped by over 32% since Thursday, tumbling below its issue price from May, after the Indian logistics firm posted muted quarterly business growth this week. Delhivery said this week that its supply chain service and truckload business volumes had shrunk in the quarter e...
  • YouTube Premium’s family plan gets a price hike in several countries
  • Uber pilots electric cab offering in India
  • Pillar of the community: How Talkbase plans to power user-led growth for any company
  • GM takes another full-size pickup electric with the 400-mile range GMC Sierra EV
  • Uils wants to lend LatAm’s rideshare drivers cash based on their driving record
  • Meta’s $10B metaverse investment is ‘not enough’ according to Animoca Brands’ Yat Siu
  • And the winner of Startup Battlefield at D
  • Africa’s tech talent accelerators attract students, VC funding as Big Tech comes calling 10 hours ago  –  Tech giants are increasingly looking for tech talent in Africa, where the number of developers reached 716,000 last year, up 3.8% from 2020. Africa’s tech talent accelerators attract students, VC funding as Big Tech comes calling by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
  • Why Q3’s median valuations actually make perfect sense 11 hours ago  –  Valuations have been top of mind this year as VCs navigate their overvalued portfolios and founders scramble to conserve cash and grow into lofty valuations. Why Q3’s median valuations actually make perfect sense by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch
  • Brex lands Coinbase as new software customer 14 hours ago  –  Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous w...
  • India’s Wire retracts reports on Meta citing discrepancies
  • Kanye agrees to buy Parler, Elon Musk reportedly plans mass layoffs at Twitter, and Netflix gets into cloud gaming
  • This Week in Apps: Kanye to buy Parler, TikTok’s adult-only streams, BeReal’s B round
  • Pantheon Design alleviates supply chain uncertainty with factory-grade 3D printing
  • Overheard at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022
  • Could machine learning refresh the cloud debate?
  • Poppin’ bottles: VCs continue to pour millio

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  • Valve will soon tell you what components are in your Steam Deck 3 days ago  –  A new beta client update will list the factory-installed components within Steam Deck handhelds. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Valve is rolling out a fresh batch of beta updates for its Steam Deck, one of which could help with servicing and repairs for the handheld gaming PC by list...
  • Jordan Peele’s Nope is coming to Peacock next month
  • Bayonetta 3 developer reiterates support for replacement voice actor after controversy
  • Bethesda’s letting people rescue their Elder Scrolls Online games from Stadia
  • Arlo is now protecting residents when they leave their residence
  • The Glow is gone — Amazon shuts down support for its kid-focused video calling device
    3 days ago  –  Amazon Glow was designed to help keep kids engaged on video calls. It’s shutting down this year. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Amazon will stop supporting its Glow video calling device for kids on December 31st, 2022. The innovative projector-powered gadget with a screen ...
  • Elon Musk reportedly wants to fire most of Twitter’s employees
  • Tesla is now taking votes for its next Supercharger locations
  • YouTube Premium’s family plan just got more expensive
  • GMC Sierra EV Denali revealed: plug-in-p
  • Apple’s lead hardware designer Evans Hankey is leaving 3 days ago  –  Nick Barclay / The Verge The person in charge of the physical look and feel for Apple’s iPhones, Macs, and everything else is leaving the company, as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman first reported. Industrial design vice president Evans Hankey will only remain with Apple for another six months. H...
  • A tiny robot wand for your blinds
  • Wikipedia’s mobile app is the cure for my Google frustrations
  • TikTok fires back at Forbes, denies report of a plan to track specific US citizens using its app
  • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Paldea region is big, beautiful, and built for exploring
  • Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro review: better and better
    3 days ago  –  They’re not quite the super-helpful, ultra-intelligent phones that Google wants them to be, but the latest Pixel devices are more competitive than ever 
  • God of War Ragnarök’s designers want you to express yourself (with violence)
  • Microsoft’s PC Manager is like CCleaner for your computer
  • The joys — and perils — of off-roading in an electric vehicle
  • What on earth is going on with Elon Musk 
  • LG’s new Smart Monitor is a work-from-home TV 2 days ago  –  LG’s 32-inch 4K Smart Monitor with Ergo Stand. | Image: LG LG’s new 4K monitor can pull double duty if you work from home and don’t have the energy (or space) to flop over to the couch to engage in binge-watching. The $499 LG Smart Monitor (32SQ780S) (via HomeKit News) has a 31.5-inch dis...
  • Masahiro Sakurai shows off a prototype of the game that would become Smash Bros.
  • Scorn’s slithering spookiness is only slightly scary
  • I hope someone makes memes out of these funny animal photos
  • Smart rings have a long way to go
  • How to organize your Slack channels
    2 days ago  –  Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge If your workplace (or organization, or friends group, or whatever) is anything like mine, and you’ve used Slack for more than, say, a month, you have no doubt amassed a lot of channels (also known as conversations). This can result in a lot of scro...
  • Google’s Pixel Buds Pro and select Nest products are $50 off today at Wellbots
  • The best workout earbuds you can buy right now
  • TikTok livestreaming is shaping up to be the short-form video giant’s next push
  • Now Pixel 7 owners can test Google’s Clea
  • LG Gram 17 review: big-screen energy 2 days ago  –  There is nothing else like this on the market Continue reading…
  • Apple’s second-gen Magic Trackpad is on sale at Woot for its lowest price ever
  • TiVo is making its case as a smart TV platform
  • Belkin’s MagSafe Continuity Camera mount is an easy webcam upgrade
  • Elon Musk’s Twitter deal could tank the leveraged buyout market
  • House of the Dragon’s season finale has leaked online, and HBO isn’t happy
  • Twitter’s icons are getting a new look
  • Climeworks closes a chapter in early carbon removal tech
  • Verizon’s new prepaid plans are cheaper — but not really
  • Go read this special Nature issue on raci
  • Indian news outlet The Wire retracts its story on Meta 8 hours ago  –  Nick Barclay / The Verge The Wire, an independent news outlet based in India, retracted its story that accused Meta of granting an Indian politician special permissions to remove posts on its platforms. In an update posted on Sunday, The Wire says it has decided to retract its report afte...
  • Everything you need to know about Meta’s moderation controversy in India
  • Facebook warns it could block news in Canada over proposed legislation
  • The new Mac Pro chip could double or quadruple the power of the M2 Max
  • PopGrip JumpStart review: what if a battery bank were also a PopSocket?
  • A history of the horny side of the internet
     17 hours ago  –  Vincent Kilbride / The Verge From the very beginning, people on the internet have been obsessed with sex. That’s the argument laid out in a new book by journalist Samantha Cole, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex. Cole digs through early internet history to show how...
  • WhatsApp is getting Facebook’s Bitmoji-style avatars
  • Leak suggests Ecobee’s entering the video doorbell space
  • Early access for Kerbal Space Program 2 lifts off on February 24th
  • Republicans sue Google over ‘discrimina
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