Oct 28th
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
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The Latest
AI
Common Sense Media, a popular resource for parents, to review AI products’ suitability for kids
8:02 am PDT • July 17, 2023
Common Sense, a well-known nonprofit organization devoted to consumer privacy, digital citizenship and providing media ratings for parents who want to evaluate the apps, games, podcasts, TV shows, movies and…
AltC’s merger with Oklo and ACG Acquisition’s purchase of two critical minerals are both SPACs, but they couldn’t be more different.
Social
Facebook puts more emphasis on video again with new discovery and editing tools
8:00 am PDT • July 17, 2023
Facebook announced new video-related features today ranging from editing to discovery to make the platform competitive with YouTube and TikTok. It is also renaming its “Watch” tab to “Video” tab…
With the pandemic acting as an accelerant, the healthcare industry is embracing AI enthusiastically. According to a 2020 survey by Optum, 80% of healthcare organizations have an AI strategy in…
Featured Article
The $2,899 EcoFlow Blade robotic mower disappoints with shoddy hardware and software
When the EcoFlow Blade works, the results are fantastic. My yard looks great, and I didn’t have to spend an hour on a tractor. The Blade is quiet and capable. It’s also cheaply built, suffers from terrible software and the installation is far from advertised. I’ve been using the Blade for about two months, and…
7:22 am PDT • July 17, 2023
Space
Virgin Galactic gearing up for second commercial suborbital flight in August
7:20 am PDT • July 17, 2023
Fresh off its first commercial mission, Virgin Galactic will return to the skies on August 10 to take three private citizens to suborbital space and back. The crew for the…
Sheela Foam, the maker of the mattress brand Sleepwell, will be acquiring a 35% stake in furniture startup Furlenco, the publicly listed firm said Monday as it pushes for a…
Microsoft still doesn’t know — or want to share — how China-backed hackers stole a key that allowed them to stealthily break into dozens of email inboxes, including those belonging…
The Ford F-150 Lightning is now a bit less expensive. The automaker announced today significant price cuts to its electric pickup, citing improved manufacturing efficiencies as the cause of the…
Identity and access management firm JumpCloud says it reset customers’ API keys after nation-state hackers breached its systems. JumpCloud, a directory platform that allows enterprises to authenticate, authorize and manage…
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Featured Article
OnePlus 81 Pro mechanical keyboard review
A mechanical keyboard is an odd addition to the OnePlus product line by virtually any measure. OnePlus is a phone maker first and foremost. Always has been and likely always will be. Since 2014, the company has made its name as the producer of thoughtfully considered Android handsets at non-premium prices. Diversification is, of course,…
6:00 am PDT • July 17, 2023
We firmly believe that all founders must have access to the tech world’s immense opportunities — and to our events. The TechCrunch Include Founders program is designed to promote and…
In the last few months, Twitter alternatives — new and old — have found an audience willing to try out a new text-based social network. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill and T2…
Hardware
Artiphon’s latest mashes Orba and Instrument 1 into a clever new music maker
6:00 am PDT • July 17, 2023
Between Instrument 1 and Orba, Artiphon has established itself as the maker of innovative — and delightful — music instruments. Today the Nashville-based hardware startup returns to the crowdfunding platform…
What does one expect from a website builder in 2023? That’s the question many startups — and incumbents — are trying to answer as the landscape changes, driven by trends…
Biotech & Health
Herself Health, providing primary care to women 65 and over, raises $26M
5:30 am PDT • July 17, 2023
Six months after raising a $7 million seed round, Herself Health is back with some additional venture capital to expand its clinic footprint.
Privacy
Meta’s behavioral ads banned in Norway on Facebook and Instagram
4:36 am PDT • July 17, 2023
Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway — unless it obtains users’ consent to the processing. The urgent order of provisional measures…
Fintech
Thunes pockets $72M at a $900M+ valuation to expand its cross-border, B2B payment platform
4:06 am PDT • July 17, 2023
Thunes, a Singapore and London-based fintech that has built a payments platform for businesses to send money to each other internationally by tapping into the growing network of mobile wallets…
Israel-based early-stage VC firm TLV Partners today announced its fifth fund, unsurprisingly called Fund V. TLV Partners raised its last fund, the $220 million Fund IV, in October 2021. Including…
Crypto
Gnosis launches Visa card that lets you spend self-custody crypto in Europe, soon US and Hong Kong
3:00 am PDT • July 17, 2023
The world of cryptocurrency has often been criticized for being exclusive, catering primarily to speculators and crypto-savvy individuals. Despite this, many advocates believe that the underlying decentralized technology has the…
