After 93 days on orbit, Starliner is coming home. The spacecraft is a “go” for undocking from the International Space Station at 6:04 PM EST, though...
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India's fabless semiconductor startup BigEndian has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Vertex Ventures SEA and India. \u00a9 2024 TechCrunch. A...
CoinSwitch, a prominent Indian cryptocurrency exchange, is suing rival platform WazirX to recover trapped funds. \u00a9 2024 TechCrunch. All rights r...
In Latin American countries like Brazil and Chile, messaging platform WhatsApp has become one of the most popular apps to use to buy things online. I...
Limited partners selling their investment stakes in venture capital funds to other LPs on the secondary market is nothing new. But traditionally thes...
The Port of Seattle, which also operates the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, said it was hit with a “possible cyberattack” that appeared to aff...
Y Combinator’s first defense startup, Ares Industries, launched earlier this week. In a post on the YC website, the startup outlined a vision to buil...
Travly is a new social-first discovery and hotel booking platform designed to cater to the growing number of travelers who rely on short-form video c...
Apple will be unveiling new products on September 10, with the announced phones going on sale on September 20, according to a report from Bloomberg’s...
After fintech Bolt surprised the industry with a leaked term sheet that revealed it is trying to raise at a $14 billion valuation, things got weird. ...
Mical Jeanlys-White built WealthMore out of frustration. She spent years on Wall Street, building products at American Express and serving as a mana...
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The AI boom is fueling the demand for data centers and, in turn, driving up water consumption. (Water is used to cool the computing equipment inside ...
EliseAI employs an army of chatbots to text with, email, and respond to calls from renters about things such as apartment tours, maintenance requests...
WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company, is officially gearing up for a U.S. public debut, over a year after China started easing its effective ...
Ola Electric, the largest electric two-wheeler maker in India, jumped as much as 11.8% on its public debut Friday in what is the biggest listing amon...
In 1996, two companies, Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions, formed a venture called CloudPay to provide payroll and payments services to enterprise c...
Seeking mental health support is a complex process, but some founders believe that using AI to formalize techniques like Congestive Behavioral Therap...
Reddit users will soon see AI-generated summaries at the top of search results. Reddit CFO Drew Vollero told investors during its earnings call on T...
COVID-19 pushed people to take up outdoor activities. Now, startups are helping companies and consumers keep up with demand. \u00a9 2024 TechCrunch. ...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway cut its Apple holding by around half, to $84.2 billion, according to an SEC filing. While Apple remains the firm’...
Dojo is Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer that’s designed to train its “Full Self-Driving” neural networks. \u00a9 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reser...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Justice Department are z TikTok and ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, with violating the Children’s...
The software supply chain faces threats from all sides. A 2024 report by the Ponemon Institute found that over half of organizations have experienced...
Critics have long argued that wararantless device searches at the U.S. border are unconstitutional and violate the Fourth Amendment. \u00a9 2024 Tech...
Indian crypto exchange WazirX on Thursday confirmed it had suffered a security breach after about $230 million in assets were suspiciously transferre...
Bill Weber is out as chief executive at Firefly Aerospace, following a nearly two-year stint in the role, the maker of launch vehicles, lunar landers...
Adobe's report noted that consumers spent $7.2 billion on the first day as compared to $6.4 billion on the first day in 2023. \u00a9 2024 TechCrunch....
Tinder revealed last year that it was testing a photo-selection feature that uses AI to help users choose the best photos for their dating profiles. ...
Elon Musk is doubling down on his commitment to Texas by vowing to move SpaceX’s massive headquarters from its long-time Hawthorne, California home t...
This Amazon Prime Day, users will be trawling through the ecommerce marketplace looking for the best deals for their baskets. Once the boxes are pack...
Meta announced on Wednesday that users aged 10 to 12 will soon be able to interact with others in VR if they have their parents’ approval to do so. U...
An adtech business owned by Microsoft is the target of a complaint backed by European privacy advocacy group, noyb — a nonprofit that punches far abo...
According to a recent Dealroom report on the Spanish tech ecosystem, the combined enterprise value of Spanish startups surpassed €100 billion in 2023...
The situation around a data breach that’s affected an ever-growing number of fintech companies has gotten even weirder. Evolve Bank & Trust announced...
Adept, a startup developing AI-powered “agents” to complete various software-based tasks, has agreed to license its tech to Amazon as the startup’s c...
We’re at a transitional moment in streaming — user growth is slowing and major players are looking to consolidate, but the long-promised dream of pro...
General Motors is investing $850 million into Cruise as the autonomous vehicle subsidiary slowly makes its way back to testing in Phoenix, Dallas and...
Former Autonomy chief executive Dr Mike Lynch issued a statement Thursday following his acquittal of criminal charges, ending a 13-year legal battle ...
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 jo...
The change would see Instagram becoming more like the free version of YouTube, which requires users to view ads before and in the middle of watching ...
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We all know that certain personality types will suit some roles better than others. But introverts – loosely defined as those who prefer spending tim...
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has raised $6 billion in a new funding round, it said today, in one of the largest deals in the red-hot nascent space, a...
The best known mycoprotein is probably Quorn, a meat substitute that’s fast approaching its 40th birthday. But Finnish biotech startup Enifer is cook...
After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top o...
X users will now be able to discover posts from new Communities that are trending directly from an Explore tab within the section. \u00a9 2024 TechCr...
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real-time for conversational patterns ...
Charging has long been the Achilles’ heel of electric vehicles. One startup thinks it has a better way for apartment dwelling EV drivers to charge ov...
President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to fund efforts that improve semiconductor manufacturing by using digital twins. Digital twins are vi...
Starting a business from scratch is never easy, especially in a market as crowded as the digital space. When I started Cedarwood Digital back in 2016...
Finally, something that both sides of the aisle can agree on: social media companies are too powerful. According to a survey by the Pew Research Cent...
Well, if you are a big TikTok fan and live in the United States, I have some bad news for you: A bill that would force a sale of TikTok or ban it in ...
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in an order on Tuesday that BloomTech, the for-profit coding bootcamp previously known as t...
As the Gulf region gains growing strategic importance for the tech war between the U.S. and China, Microsoft makes a big move into one of its richest...
Heya, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the past few days in tech. Google’s annual enterprise-focus...
Starting an ecommerce business with no experience may sound daunting, but it’s not impossible. My own journey is a testament to this. As a mum wantin...
Roku said it discovered malicious hackers compromised more than half a million user accounts while investigating an earlier spate of account hacks. \...
The story of warehouse robotics is a story of attempting to keep up with Amazon. It’s been more than a decade since the online giant revolutionized i...
At the upcoming TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 event taking place in Boston on April 25, one session will stand out for early-stage companies seeking to...
Ember’s first Indiegogo campaign drew sideways glances when it launched in 2015. Would anyone actually buy a $129 heated coffee mug? Nearly a decade ...
The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capital at a March 13 meeting. The...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! I’m filling in for Mary Ann, who is on a much deserved break. This week, we look at Griffin...
Pilot season has officially begun for the world of humanoid robotics. Last year, Amazon began testing Agility’s Digit robots in select fulfillment ce...
The National Payments Corporation of India, the firm that built the eponymous UPI payments rail in the country, approved Paytm’s application to parti...
TikTok is expanding its Effect Creator Rewards monetization program to more regions and lowering its payout threshold, the company announced today. T...
Ocean intelligence company Saildrone has just put the first of a new generation of Surveyor autonomous vessels in the water: an aluminum version that...
Spotify said today that it has submitted a new version App Store that shows pricing and feature information about the audio company’s different plans...
Qatar unveiled its startup investment program at the recent Web Summit through its development bank. The program aims to attract seed and growth-stag...
Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander officially lost power today after spending seven days on the moon. The lander made history for being the first...
Yesterday, Mistral AI, a Paris-based AI startup working on foundational models, announced a new large language model that could rival OpenAI’s GPT-4,...
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, Google launc...
With the European Commission set to rule on Spotify’s complaint focused on competition in the streaming music market, there are hints that the ruling...
Amazon is preparing to make another attempt to break into India’s fast-growing fashion and lifestyle e-commerce sector, setting up a battle with riva...
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Almost a year ago, Alphabet’s growth stage venture arm, CapitalG, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the unit’s founder, David Lawee...
The London-based wellness brand is tapping into functional mushrooms and nootropics to create a line of powder blends that it touts enhances energy, ...
Bugcrowd — the startup that taps into a database of half a million hackers to help organizations like OpenAI and the U.S. government set up and run b...
Tech's ability to reinvent the wheel can mean ignoring truths that others have learned. But new founders are sometimes figuring it out for themselves...
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Software asset management — an area of enterprise IT designed, in part, to help companies save money — continues to draw a lot of money itself. In th...
Copilot, Microsoft’s family of AI-powered chatbots and assistants, is getting a few new upgrades timed with a flashy Superbowl LVIII ad campaign. In ...
Just when we thought the WeWork saga was over, the company is back in the news again: although admittedly, not through any fault of its own. With los...
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says that her job is like being a substitute teacher. It’s not what you’d expect from the head of an experimental, up-and-comi...
A survey of TechCrunch readers reveals that while the spot ETFs may boost bitcoin's price, they may not be attracting many people who don't own bitco...
Every technological advance has its downsides. One innovation that has reduced more unrest and unhappiness is ChatGPT — is it causing employees anxie...
Spend management startup Ramp has acquired AI-powered startup Venue as it expands its procurement offering. Founded in 2022 by TK Kong, Young Kim, an...
Some thoughts on AI aesthetics, the challenge of uninsurability, and how to pitch a biotech startup to non-experts. \u00a9 2024 TechCrunch. All right...
Count Spotify among those not thrilled with how Apple has chosen to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which sets the stage for sideload...
The FTC is aiming to unravel the complex and secretive corporate relationships in the top AI companies out there in a new inquiry. Orders have been s...
It’s been a little over 180 days since Worldcoin publicly launched – and its futuristic looking Orb device is getting an upgrade, Alex Blania, CEO an...
Aniai, a startup that has built a burger-grilling robot, Alpha Grill, said today it has raised $12 million, bringing its total raise to $15 million. ...
After securing your seed round, the race is on to scale ARR (annual recurring revenue). ARR is arguably the most critical startup metric founders nee...
Sierra Space has completed a key test of its inflatable space habitat, as the company progresses toward launching and operating a private space stati...
VF Corp., the parent company of the popular apparel brands Vans, Supreme, and The North Face, said Thursday that hackers stole the personal data of 3...
The latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) were marked by labour market pessimism, suggesting a...
After using Figma to create user interfaces and experiences, developers are left with the hefty task of coding the designs in order to create functio...
CES 2024 is in full swing in Las Vegas. We’re on the ground giving you the most talked about news and announcements from the event, but much of the f...
This is the lowest percentage of venture capital allocated to such teams since 2016, when they picked up 1.6% of all venture funds. \u00a9 2023 TechC...
Tesla is now selling the revamped version of its Model 3 sedan in the United States, just four months after it debuted in China and Europe. It’s the ...
Kia is following up a strong year for its passenger EVs by sharing what it wants to do for businesses looking to go electric. The Korean automaker ju...
Today’s job market is a tale of two worlds. While some sectors enjoy bountiful wage raises, others are taking a cautious approach to payroll planning...
Business debates around the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) have been thrown a curveball, as a new survey shows that firms who are rea...
More than 20,000 electric scooters belonging to Superpedestrian will be auctioned off later this month, along with other equipment from the startup’s...
Another proptech startup has run into trouble. Frontdesk, a startup that managed more than 1,000 furnished apartments across the United States, laid ...
I’ve been one of the those “I don’t own a TV” people for a long time. Really my entire adult life, excepting those times when I shared my living spac...
Skincare girlies, fear not — your moisturizer probably does not attract spiders. Sol de Janeiro’s Delícia Drench Body Butter, which launched earlier ...
Earlier this month, at the Slush tech conference in Helsinki, this editor had the opportunity to sit down with Sanna Marin, the popular former prime ...
Terran Orbital may be close to receiving a major payment from its biggest customer, CEO Marc Bell announced internally at a company-wide meeting earl...
Salesforce started the year with an unusual level of turbulence, but after escaping activist investors, it ended up having a good year. \u00a9 2023 T...
When faced with seemingly insurmountable odds or a potential windfall investment, what is most important is that you stay true to your company's miss...
For today’s businesses, particularly those which operate remotely, business communication tools have been a lifeline for keeping workers connected an...
Against a backdrop of layoffs and continuing economic uncertainty, the announcements — particularly in such quick succession — point to a few underly...
Apple has officially launched its Journal app with the release of iOS 17.2, the tech giant announced on Monday. The new app, which was first announce...
SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe, the Americas and Australia — has picked...
Joy to the world, the Christmas markets are back. And this year, Brits are spoilt for choice, as new research shows that four UK cities rank amongst ...
Legacy automakers have scaled back or set overly modest electric vehicle production targets. They may come to regret that. \u00a9 2023 TechCrunch. Al...
Fisker, the California-based EV startup, cut its annual production guidance in an effort to free up $300 million in working capital, the company said...
When did you last use the office phone? The days of being chained to your desk by the curling cable of your landline are long gone. Most of us are no...
India’s Enforcement Directorate, its anti-money laundering agency, has found that Byju’s violated the nation’s foreign exchange law to the tune of $1...
It may be difficult for just any company to court OpenAI employees even if compensation packages are eye-poppingly high because of loyalty to Sam Alt...
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has quit the firm, he said Friday, hours after the Microsoft-backed giant abruptly fired its chief exec...
Samsung has admitted that hackers accessed the personal data of U.K.-based customers during a year-long breach of its systems. In a statement to Tech...
Instagram’s Threads app has been duping Twitter/X in a number of ways and today it’s adding one more feature that’s been core to the Twitter experien...
Machine learning models are taking over in the field of weather forecasting, from a quick “how long will this rain last” to a 10-day outlook, all the...
To stream as their ethereal alter ego, Mai, a VTuber known as M41H41, typically had to juggle at least four to seven different programs. Running all ...
Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering the past week (or so) in tech industry happenings. This week marked...
It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. Image corpora tends to be U.S.- and Western-centric, partly because...
During SiriusXM’s “Next Generation” event in New York, the company announced its revamped SiriusXM streaming app, which features an upgraded media pl...
The most bearish thing we can summon is that Coinbase is skating atop a wave of rising interest-based incomes. \u00a9 2023 TechCrunch. All rights res...
If you’ve lost your business mojo or you just want a new challenge, selling your company might sound appealing. But without people around you who kno...
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works. This will give chance to developers to create different apps and experienc...
Though attendees grumbled about Las Vegas as a city, the community sentiment at this year’s TwitchCon was notably more optimistic than it was at last...
Xpeng is often called the Chinese challenger to Tesla for its efforts to bring advanced driving capabilities to its electric vehicles. It’s now getti...
Robotaxi oversight is now a priority at Los Angeles City Hall. At a press briefing on Wednesday, Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez told Waymo and Crui...
Less than a month after Waymo’s Los Angeles County expansion, labor organizers and an LA lawmaker are calling for new autonomous-vehicle regulations....
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that highlights notable tech industry happenings over the past few days. Lif...
Tesla has finally set a date for the first deliveries of the Cybertruck. CEO Elon Musk posted on social media Wednesday that the Cybertruck delivery ...
Developer community site Stack Overflow has laid off 28% of its staff, the Prosus-owned company announced Monday. In a blog post, Stack Overflow’s CE...
When X (formerly Twitter) launched paid subscription verification, Mistress Rouge, a professional dominatrix, hoped that it would help her advertise ...
On January 14, 2022, former crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted: “First, we’re launching a $2 billion venture fund, FTX Ventures. As a founder, it’...
Chinese electric vehicle startup WM Motor has filed for bankruptcy, an example of yet another once-promising EV upstart that has been pushed to insolv...
Probation is essentially a trial period for new recruits. During their probationary period, managers assess the employee’s performance. This allows b...
Starting in January, the IRS will make the $7,500 federal EV tax credit available immediately via dealers. The Treasury Department announced the updat...
In September, Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 9 at its annual event, which included a new gesture: the double tap. The gesture, which gives us...
Uber is expanding its peer-to-peer package delivery service, Uber Connect. Now, customers who don’t want to schlep a package to the post office can re...
Consumer interest in open-source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s a...
Following the successful launch of Spotify’s AI-powered DJ feature and, more recently, added support for AI-translated podcasts, Spotify now appears t...
In this edition of Week in Review, we cover Tinder's pricey new subscription, Amazon's investment in Anthropic and the features of Apple's next-gen Ai...
In a blow to Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub, a New York judge on Thursday ruled to allow the implementation of the minimum pay rate of $18 per hour for Ne...
Palo Alto Networks’ stock price has been on the rise on the back of strong earnings and growing demand for cybersecurity services, and now the company...
Nx, a startup developing tooling to make it simpler for software dev teams to work within a single code repository, today closed a $16 million Series ...
"Accessibility is a human right," reads a sticker from the Howe Innovation Center. And for sure, it is great to see startups help companies make this ...
Grocery delivery has long been a problematic area for the major supermarkets. Since they first began experimenting with the internet as a platform fo...
Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is shutting down its Circle feature — bringing an end to its glitchy history — The feature allowed users to share...
The pandemic had a profound effect on retail, accelerating the rise of online shopping. The monthly share of online sales regularly breaks its ceilin...
Africa’s agricultural sector has a significant social and economic impact, per McKinsey. The percentage of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa e...
Stoke Space, a startup that’s taking an unconventional approach to rocket design, successfully completed a key test of its second stage prototype, bri...
As startups navigate various macroeconomic challenges, such as interest rate hikes, soaring inflation, and devastating business energy costs – trying...
French battery maker Verkor secured more than €2 billion (around $2.1 billion) to build its Dunkirk gigafactory, which is set to be operational by 202...
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With all of the challenges that come with running a business – an overwhelming project management workload, a never-ending to-do list, and an ever-ev...
California state Assembly has voted in favor of a right to repair legislation that increases consumer ability to fix devices at home. After winding it...
General Motors said Thursday it boosted its contract offer to a 20% wage hike for U.S. autoworkers, including 10% in the first year, in a move to avoi...
Lotus revealed Thursday evening in New York City the Emeya, an all-electric four-door grand tourer that aims to compete with the likes of Porsche on s...
The fan membership platform Patreon is beginning to roll out a chat feature, connecting creators directly with their fanbase in a group message. The o...
Josys, a startup offering a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to automate corporate IT software application management, has raised a $93 million S...
AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing a range of text-generating AI tools, has raised $155 million in a Series C funding round led by Walden ...
Solana Pay, a decentralized payment protocol by Solana Labs, has integrated its plug-in with Shopify, allowing millions businesses on its platform to...
QIA, Qatar’s sovereign fund, will invest $1 billion in Reliance Retail for a 0.99% stake in India’s largest retail chain, the two firms said Wednesda...
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Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. It also ...
Traditionally, companies looking to extract data from websites have had to create custom code to get at the data, an expensive and time-consuming pro...
Rocket Lab will launch two small satellites for NASA that could help scientists better understand how a warming climate will affect the massive ice s...
Iraq’s telecom ministry lifted the ban on Telegram over the weekend, days after the agency blocked the chat app over security concerns. The ministry ...
The world’s largest smartwatch market is about to get two new smart rings. While wrist-worn wearables are still wildly popular in India, a pair of do...
Here’s a reminder for students or recent grads. You’re the startup world’s future generation, and we’re investing in you. How? By offering passes to ...
Hackers could have hijacked the user accounts of a popular transportation app and used them to get free rides and access people’s personal informatio...
The UK is facing its longest recession on record. With this crisis looming, uncertainties about business safety are rife, and industries such as real...
In the intensity of starting a business, it can be hard to separate your own wants and needs from those of your company. This can take its toll on fa...
Google has filed a new motion to the court in its antitrust battle with Epic Games and Match Group, where it claims that the dating app maker owes ad...
Does a photo still remain a photo when you add a music track to it? Hard to tell. Instagram said today that it will allow users to add music to their...
Regardless of the weather outside, the hospitality industry remains in the eye of the vicious shortage-of-staff storm that continues to cause havoc f...
The widespread protests against Reddit’s API changes reached a boiling point last month after the company forcibly reopened r/malefashionadvice — the...
Anthropic, the AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI execs, has released an updated version of its faster, cheaper, text-generating model available thro...
London is the best city in the world for networking, according to new research published by Solopress. The rankings are based on factors including ne...
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and chief executive of Paytm, has entered into a deal with Ant Financial to acquire a 10.30% stake in the Indian financ...
The first official piece of policy around diversity efforts in venture capital may soon see the light of day, but not because of any action by the go...
Israel’s National Cybersecurity Directorate said there was “no breach” of its network after passwords belonging to a senior agency official were stol...
Chat app Discord has let go of nearly 40 employees (4% of its workforce) as part of company’s restructuring efforts, according to multiple reports. S...
The competition in the spend management space continues to intensify. Brex and Rho today each announced AI-powered/enabled accounts payables offering...
Ford said it will triple production capacity of its all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck following a six-week shutdown to expand and retool its ...
Lately I’ve been thinking about media publishing startups (think Semafor and Puck) and their fundraising rounds. Semafor recently raised a $44 millio...
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As a growing number of employers force employees to return to the office and say goodbye to flexible work arrangements, concerns are being raised abo...
Earlier this month, Twitter — which has since rebranded as X — began sharing ad revenue with verified creators in an attempt to retain top talent on ...
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Fundraising is hard, so it’s no wonder that SAFE (simple agreement for future equity) rounds are popular. Conceived by Y Combinator as an alternative...
During Spotify’s second-quarter earnings call this morning, CEO Daniel Ek teased a few ways the streaming service could introduce additional AI-power...
Amazon today introduced a new feature that will allow consumers to be better informed about potential product safety alerts and recalls. Now, instead...
Spotify has announced that it’s raising its premium plan prices, confirming reports that first started to surface over the weekend. The music-streami...
As many entrepreneurs know to their cost, the loss of a single individual in a business, or the sudden illness of a director or founder, can cause a ...
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Two months after launching for iOS, ChatGPT is available to “pre-order” for Android users who want to take the ubiquitous chatbot on the go. If it’s ...
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The inability or unwillingness of many venture-backed startups to go public is starting to sting. Backers of venture funds are increasingly leery abo...
Google fixed a zero-day in Chrome that was found by an Apple employee, according to comments in the official bug report. While the bug itself is not ...
With the cost of living ever more painful, and Generative AI supposedly gunning for your job, at least — for the moment — it might be here to save yo...
ForwardX this week announced an additional $30 million in funding, bringing the Beijing-based firm’s Series C up to $61 million. The funding follows ...
Despite earning six-to-seven-figure-a-year incomes, many content creators are denied the capital they need to expand their businesses. The reasons va...
It was day 76 of the Hollywood writers’ strike, and once again, comedian Chris Stephens journeyed out to the picket line. But when he arrived in fron...
The U.K.’s competition authority has said that it plans to greenlight Broadcom’s $69 billion bid for virtualization software giant VMware. The news c...
TikTok is launching its new subscription-only music streaming service called “TikTok Music” in Australia, Mexico and Singapore. Today’s expansion com...
Peacock is delivering bad news to its subscribers tonight. Beginning at 12 a.m. EDT, the streamer is notifying existing customers that it’s raising i...
Driving financial inclusion through digital payment methods is among the top priorities for the governments of Africa’s biggest tech ecosystems where...
Having a global recruitment strategy gives startups access to a huge talent pool that offers different skills, perspectives and availability. Hiring ...
More young people are choosing the school of life over higher education, as a new report records a rapid increase in the number of student entreprene...
The YouTuber apology video is an art form. A penitent creator must be remorseful, but not theatrical. Concise, but not rehearsed. Honest, but not def...
Through a new lawsuit, a free speech group and research coalition that studies technology’s effect on society are pushing back against a ban on TikTo...
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Average office rental costs in the UK are nearing £3,000 per month, as evidence grows that more companies are switching to a coworking model to reduc...
There are a number of companies in the U.S. that offer revenue-based financing to SaaS companies including Capchase, Pipe, Founderpath and Arc. But t...
Knowing that a doctor on your hospital staff is who they say they are would seem like a no-brainer, but poor access to real-time credentialing data i...
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The Bank of England raising interest rates to a 15-year high of 5% is another blow to UK startups already battling the cost of living crisis, a tech ...
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Four years after partnering with Apple on the launch of the Apple Card, Goldman Sachs may be eyeing the exits. The Wall Street Journal reports that G...
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Global ecommerce platform Shopify has today debuted its ‘Collabs’ influencer marketing feature in the UK. The new software will help online sellers t...
Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life. An internal investigation by IRL’s board of directors found that 95% of the app’s r...
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Amazon plans to more than double its investment in India in the next seven years, the e-commerce group said, joining a roster of other high-profile A...
A recent study has ranked the top finance influencers across various social media platforms. The new research conducted by online trading expert Inv...
Supercritical, the carbon removal marketplace aimed (at the moment) mainly at tech companies that want to hit ‘net zero’, has raised a $13 million Se...
Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar has formed a joint venture with Xingji Meizu, a mobile phone and consumer electronics company, to build an op...
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The Justice Department has arrested and charged a Russian national for his alleged role in multiple LockBit ransomware attacks against victims in the...
Venture capital, as an asset class, is an industry of short-term wins. Most funds have a 10-year cycle: two years of initial investments; then two to...
Meta announced today that it’s rolling out Instagram’s Channels features for broadcasting messages globally. Until now, the feature was available to ...
Bejul Somaia, the founding partner of Lightspeed India, staunchly defended the allure of South Asia’s investment landscape, even in the wake of unset...
BrightDrop, the electric delivery van subsidiary of General Motors, has made its first delivery outside of the U.S. The company delivered 50 BrightDr...
The Philippines’ startup ecosystem is poised for strong growth, thanks to the country’s rising GDP, fast adoption of online services and a new genera...
A newly declassified government report confirms for the first time that U.S. intelligence and spy agencies purchase vast amounts of commercially avai...
British early-stage venture firm Black Seed has raised £5 million ($6.2 million) as part of its inaugural fund to solely support Black founders in th...
Support for Tesla’s charging connector and charge port — called the North American Charging Standard — has accelerated in the days since Ford and GM ...
Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service startup Termii has raised $3.65 million in new financing, bringing its total funding to date to slightl...
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All new Tesla Model 3 vehicles will now qualify for the full $7,500 federal EV tax credit, according to a change in Tesla’s website. The EV tax credi...
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AI researchers have built a Minecraft bot that can explore and expand its capabilities in the game’s open world — but unlike other bots, this one bas...
Boeing and NASA said Thursday that the first crewed flight test of the Starliner capsule would be further delayed due to a new crop of technical issu...
Nearly a decade after its launch, ETA’s simple drive times app is finally making its way to Apple’s CarPlay. The newly updated app, which offers an a...
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India’s JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday, eclipsing a long-standing milestone set b...
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Shares of edtech company Chegg still haven’t recovered from their dive earlier this month. As you may recall, its stock fell off a cliff after the co...
Ford has reached an agreement with rival Tesla that will give owners of Ford EVs access to more than 12,000 Superchargers across the U.S. and Canada....
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California is urging the Biden administration to grant approval for its proposal that mandates all new vehicles sold within the state by 2035 to be e...
Google Chrome is releasing a new update that makes it easier to customize and personalize your browser’s look, the company announced on Tuesday. For ...
Meta has finally found a willing buyer for Giphy, the animated GIF search engine it acquired for $400 million three years ago. Shutterstock announced...
Shein is partnering with Reliance to re-enter India, a strategy which, if proven viable, could set an example for startups grappling with the China b...
One of Endua’s hydrogen power banks One major problem with renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydro is intermittency. This means they cann...
Almost eight in ten employees (78%) would be in favour of a four-day week, but are unclear what the policy looks like in practice, according to a new...
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A popular fertility tracking app shared users’ sensitive health information with third-party advertisers without their consent, a new Federal Trade C...
It’s no secret that Elon Musk has been deeply frustrated with OpenAI since stepping down from its board in February 2018, culminating in an open lett...
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Varda Space Industries, the in-space manufacturing startup that wants to revolutionize the production of pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and more, i...
The second-generation Tesla Roadster — the all-electric sports car that made a splashy and surprise debut in November 2017 — will “hopefully” go into...
After igniting a global obsession over generative art, ten-month-old Midjourney appears to be entering the Middle Kingdom, the world’s largest intern...
Aldagram, a startup out of Japan developing project management software for construction companies, has picked up a new strategic backer to help it b...
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The Department for Business and Trade has announced it will scrap the EU’s Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR), in a move which has major repercussio...
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News from Google’s AI-soaked developer event this week makes it plain that we’re on the cusp of a new era of search. Following Microsoft’s moulding o...
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Software maker Brightly has confirmed that hackers stole close to three million SchoolDude user accounts in an April data breach. SchoolDude is a clo...
Linda Yaccarino, the woman hotly tipped as the next CEO of Twitter, has not made any statements confirming or denying the rumors. But she is definite...
Byju’s has raised $250 million and is close to securing about $700 million more, two people familiar with the matter said, as the Indian edech giant ...
Frustrated Gen Z employees are quitting and exposing their toxic jobs live on TikTok, hinting at a generational disconnect between companies and thei...
Toyota Japan has apologized after admitting to leaving millions of customers’ vehicle details on the public internet for a decade. The car maker said...
Twitch released a small but mighty product update on Thursday, introducing a new tool that lets streamers craft and share short, vertical video clips...
Peer-to-peer car sharing company Getaround said Thursday it will acquire the assets of HyreCar, another car sharing marketplace, for $9.45 million. G...
Nexon, one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, is wading into web3 like some of its peers in Asia. The developer of MapleStory is creating ...
Bird’s first-quarter earnings show a company struggling to maintain ridership and revenue — two legs of the profitability stool for the shared microm...
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon pleaded not guilty in a Montenegrin court on Thursday to a charge of forging his passport and travel documents. Kwo...
Software, it turns out, is hard for automakers. And building a so-called software-defined car — the term du jour in automotive circles — is even hard...
Intuitive Machines is preparing for its first lunar mission to the moon’s south pole in the third quarter of this year, while also facing a protest t...
Six years ago, Yiğit Ihlamur, a former senior program manager at Google, observed that AI was surpassing human capabilities in certain areas — at lea...
Meta today announced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts and image cropp...
Axiom Space’s second private crewed mission to the International Space Station is now scheduled to launch in just ten days, with the four-person crew...
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Can AI work backward from a text description to generate a coherent song? That’s the premise of MusicLM, the AI-powered music creation tool Google re...
Millions of people use sign language, but methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly those for written and spoken l...
Meta is killing its Messenger for Apple Watch app on May 31, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Apple Watch users who have the app inst...
WhatsApp has announced that it has introduced back-end updates to tackle spam calls, which are particularly prevalent in India right now. It has impa...
Video game consultant Rami Ismail was a bit sleepy in an early morning meeting, until his client said something particularly strange: “I’m really jus...
Peloton is recalling roughly 2.2 million exercise bikes over safety concerns, several outlets reported this morning. The reason is a faulty assembly,...
Among the slew of announcements at Google I/O, the tech giant revealed that it has enabled app streaming through Phone Hub in ChromeOS Beta. The feat...
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The U.K.’s floundering National Health Service (NHS) is not in the best of shapes by just about any estimation, the victim of chronic underfunding an...
Apple is facing another antitrust investigation in Europe over privacy rules it applies to third party apps running on its mobile platform which affe...
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In a series of votes in the European Parliament this morning MEPs have backed a raft of amendments to the bloc’s draft AI legislation — including agr...
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Builder.ai tapped into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps with a turnkey approach, accelerated by the rapid digitization of life ...
SoftBank Vision Fund lost $32 billion in the financial year ending March as the Japanese investment giant, the most prolific global investor in tech ...
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Better Tomorrow Ventures’ Sheel Mohnot landed some of his biggest wins before he ever started a venture firm. The investor previously worked as a par...
Alongside its work to integrate more AI features into Search, Google today also announced it’s introducing a new “Perspectives” filter will be coming...
Google announced Wednesday that it’s working with Cisco, Microsoft and Zoom to bring conferencing into vehicles via Android Auto — a feature that may...
Google announced Wednesday at its I/O event that all cars with Google built-in will have YouTube available, starting with Polestar vehicles in the co...
In addition to its AI-powered Play Store updates, Google also introduced today several new security and privacy features for both app developers and ...
At its annual Google I/O conference, Google announced a few updates to Health Connect, which is a platform that allows users to store health data and...
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To paraphrase Andreessen Horowitz, generative AI, particularly on the text-to-art side, is eating the world. At least, investors believe so — judging...
Shares of Amplitude, Airbnb and Twilio are down sharply this morning following their earnings results yesterday. It might seem odd to group these com...
Some of the biggest names in the space industry are billionaires: Elon Musk. Jeff Bezos. Richard Branson. The newest person to join this small cadre,...
Etsy announced today that it’s launching Etsy Registry, a new feature that allows couples to register for personalized and handmade wedding gifts on ...
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Kenya is proposing a special tax regime on startups’ Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs), as it aligns to its plan to spur innovation. The finance...
Helion, the clean energy company with its eye firmly on the fusion prize, announced a couple of years ago that it had secured $2.2 billion of funding...
The U.S. government said it has disrupted a long-running Russian cyber espionage campaign that stole sensitive information from the U.S. and NATO gov...
Artificial gravity space station startup Vast announced that it intends to put the first commercial space station in orbit in August 2025 via launch ...
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TikTok has invited a select number of sellers to sign up to its latest version of TikTok Shop on Beta, before launching to the rest of the public. Th...
Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen. A handful of verified Facebook ...
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