Max Q: A Starlink terminal and a Kuiper terminal walk into a bar - 57分前  TechCrunch

Welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Why space parachutes are so hard, a new lawsuit alleging safety issues at Blue Origin, news from Loft Orbital, Relativity Space and more © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Mastercard launches Shopping Muse, an AI-powered shopping assistant - 3時間前  TechCrunch

Mastercard is launching a new generative AI shopping tool called “Shopping Muse” that is designed to help users get personalized product recommendations. The tool is powered by Dynamic Yield, a personalization company that was acquired by Mastercard in April 2022. Mastercard says the idea behind Shopping Muse is to “revolutionize how customers search for and […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Atomic Industries closes $17M seed to exascale America’s industrial base - 4時間前  TechCrunch

In 2014, investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel infamously posed the distinction between companies that deal in “atoms” versus those that deal in “bits.” In its crudest terms, the former category includes businesses focused on things like hardware and manufacturing; the latter, software and financial services. Just shy of ten years on, the distinction now strikes […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The makers of pro photography app Halide venture into video with Kino, due this February - 5時間前  TechCrunch

Lux, the startup and makers of the popular pro photography app Halide and others, is venturing into video. The team today announced its plans to debut a new app, Kino, arriving in roughly two months’ time, that will allow iPhone users to work with video in a more professional capacity. The news follows advances in […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs - 6時間前  TechCrunch

Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. The tech industry has seen more than 240,000 jobs lost in 2023, a total that’s already 50% higher than last year and growing. Earlier this year, mass workforce reductions were driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups across many sectors also […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Spotify’s layoffs make sense when you consider its margins and market - 7時間前  TechCrunch

Spotify is simply tinkering with its economics so that it is more attractive to investors. That means it needs to pay fewer salaries. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Twilio lays off another 5% of employees following activist pressure - 7時間前  TechCrunch

Just a few hours after Spotify announced a large round of layoffs, Twilio is also announcing hundreds of job cuts. Around 5% of the company’s workforce will be impacted. Today’s news proves that we’re not done with tech layoffs. And this isn’t even Twilio’s first round of layoffs as the company cut around 11% of […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Negotiating cross-border investments: Insights from a seasoned investor - 8時間前  TechCrunch

For LatAm startups, investments from foreign VCs can bring in experienced advisers and contributors who can help the company expand to new markets. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Up Catalyst draws €4M seed round to make battery graphite from carbon dioxide - 8時間前  TechCrunch

Up Catalyst can tweak the basic process to also manufacture carbon nanotubes for paint or reinforced concrete, as well as graphite tailored to hydrogen fuel cells. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

ArmorCode raises $40M to consolidate security data in one place - 9時間前  TechCrunch

ArmorCode, a cybersecurity platform that gathers vulnerability data from connected apps and software infrastructure, consolidating the data into a single location and standardizing it for analysis, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by HighlandX with participation from NGP Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Sierra Ventures and Cervin. Bringing ArmorCode’s total raised to $65 […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

‘Animate Anyone’ heralds the approach of full-motion deepfakes - 1時間前  TechCrunch

As if still-image deepfakes aren’t bad enough, we may soon have to contend with generated videos of anyone who dares to put a photo of themselves online: with Animate Anyone, bad actors can puppeteer people better than ever. The new generative video technique was developed by researchers at Alibaba Group’s Institute for Intelligent Computing. It’s […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A Y Combinator-backed startup called Velt wants to make more apps collaborative - 3時間前  TechCrunch

Online collaboration has become routine thanks to productivity apps like Google Docs and team design platform Figma, among others, but there are still hosts of internet-connected applications where users cannot interact with colleagues, add notes or otherwise collaborate with one another. That’s something a new startup called Velt wants to fix with the launch of […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

AI invades ‘word of the year’ lists at Oxford, Cambridge, and Merriam-Webster - 4時間前  TechCrunch

Few would disagree that 2023 was, in the world of technology at least, dominated by artificial intelligence. The dictionaries have taken note in their “word of the year” lists, and notably all the AI-related words they highlight are, in fact, existing words that have been appropriated and regurgitated with new meanings. A little on the […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users - 6時間前  TechCrunch

On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. The company also said that by accessing those accounts, hackers were also able to access “a significant number of files containing profile information about other users’ ancestry.” But 23andMe would not say how many […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models - 6時間前  TechCrunch

Companies are betting big on generative AI to gain a competitive edge. But adoption challenges remain. According to a recent survey from EY, a significant portion of businesses looking to embrace generative AI say that the field’s rapid progress — and the surge in vendors claiming to have AI expertise — is complicating their deployment […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Tesla’s cheapest vehicle is losing half its tax credit next year - 7時間前  TechCrunch

Tesla’s lowest-priced vehicle, the rear-wheel drive Model 3, won’t be eligible for the full $7,500 federal tax credit as of next year.  Tesla started warning buyers (and window shoppers) on Monday that the Inflation Reduction Act credit for its cheapest Model 3, as well as the long range variant, will drop to $3,750 for deliveries […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Threads downloads return to growth as X adds Walmart to its advertiser exodus - 8時間前  TechCrunch

Recent efforts by Meta to grow Threads’ install base have been working. According to a new analysis of app store trends, Instagram Threads is now outpacing X, formerly Twitter, at least in terms of new downloads. App intelligence firm Apptopia indicates that, although Threads’ daily downloads had been declining since September, things have shifted in […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Bitcoin is on the move, Spotify cuts staff, and more money floods AI - 8時間前  TechCrunch

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. And we had a lot to […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Strava gets in-app messaging to help you bypass WhatsApp - 9時間前  TechCrunch

Strava is taking one big step closer to becoming a true social network, as the fitness-tracking platform introduces in-app messaging to let users send private one-to-one and group messages. The new messaging feature, which is available to both free and premium subscribers, goes some way toward unifying everything in a single app, so budding athletes can […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The best kitchen gifts for techy chefs in 2023 - 10時間前  TechCrunch

The kitchen is a sacred place. Some chefs insist on keeping things low-tech — Christine’s favorite purchase of the year is a piece of plastic from QVC, and Haje thinks that the Internet of Things has gone too far with Wi-Fi enabled toasters. But some of us cannot resist the allure of a highly precise […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.