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MyHeritage debuts OldNews.com, offering access to millions of historical newspaper pages

MyHeritage announced today that it’s launching OldNews.com, a new website that offers access to thousands of historical newspapers, mainly from the 1800s and 1900s. The website includes articles

MyHeritage debuts Reimagine, an AI app for scanning, fixing and even animating old photos

AI is impacting the realm of photography, ranging from tools for professionals like Adobe Photoshop’s new generative AI, to those for consumers, like Google Photos’ forthcoming Magic Edito

AI creative platform D-ID, the tech behind those viral videos of animated family photos, raises $25M

D-ID, the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique, viral experiences like “Deep Nostalgia,” which animates the faces of long-lost relatives in your old photos,

This Week in Apps: Apps blocking Russia, Walmart adds virtual try-on, Netflix’s trivia game

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a re

MyHeritage and D-ID partner to bring photos to life with both animations and voice

Last year, genealogy service MyHeritage went viral after introducing a new “deepfake” feature that allowed users to animate the faces of loved ones in still photos. TikTok users posted vid

MyHeritage now lets you animate old family photos using deepfakery

AI-enabled synthetic media is being used as a tool for manipulating real emotions and capturing user data by genealogy service MyHeritage, which has just launched a new feature — called “d

Francisco Partners is acquiring MyHeritage, sources say for $600M

Genealogy tracking online is a big business, and today comes some M&A news for one of the bigger names in the field. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Israel’s MyHeritage.com —

Ancestry.com rejected a police warrant to access user DNA records on a technicality

DNA profiling company Ancestry.com has narrowly avoided complying with a search warrant in Pennsylvania after a search warrant was rejected on technical grounds, a move that is likely to help law enfo

Curious 23andMe twin results show why you should take DNA testing with a grain of salt

If you’ve ever enthusiastically sent your spit off in the mail, you were probably anxious for whatever unexpected insights the current crop of DNA testing companies would send back. Did your anc

Password AutoFill in iOS 12 will work with third-party password managers

Apple will now allow password manager applications to integrate with Password AutoFill in iOS 12. That means you’ll have easier access to all your passwords when trying to sign into mobile websi

MyHeritage breach exposes 92M emails and hashed passwords

The genetic analysis and family tree website MyHeritage was breached last year by unknown actors, who exfiltrated the emails and hashed passwords of all 92 million registered users of the site. No cre

How MyHeritage found a new business in DNA

At first glance, genealogy may seem like a quiet hobby you take up in your retirement, but it's also a big industry, with the likes of Ancestry, MyHeritage, Helix and others all vying for new users.

MyHeritage launches DNA testing service to help you uncover your family’s history

The popular online genealogy service MyHeritage today announced the launch of its MyHeritage DNA service for helping its users uncover more about their family’s history and ethnicity. Users who

MyHeritage Passes 5 Billion Historical Records, Adds 5 Million Daily

MyHeritage, the popular family history network for genealogy buffs with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and Lehi, Utah, today announced that its digital library of historical records has now passed the 5

MyHeritage Partners With FamilySearch To Add Billions Of Historical Records To Its Genealogy Database

When it comes to online genealogy, the two major for-profit players are Ancestry.com and MyHeritage. Ancestry.com got a major head start over MyHeritage, but it mostly focused on gathering historical

All In The Family: MyHeritage Buys Former Yammer Stablemate Geni.com In An 8-Figure Deal, Raises $25M

A big day for online genealogy sites: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.myheritage.com">MyHeritage</a>, an Israel-based site that lets people research and their family histories and make family tree

Social Network For Families MyHeritage Furthers U.S. Presence With Acquisition Of FamilyLink

Israeli company <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/myheritage">MyHeritage</a>, which operates a huge <a href="http://www.myheritage.com/">family-based social network</a> has acquired <a href="

MyHeritage.com Acquires Family Tree Backup Service BackupMyTree

<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/myheritage">MyHeritage.com</a>, a relatively heavily-funded Israeli startup operating a huge <a href="http://www.myheritage.com/">family-based social network

Build an App for MyHeritage and Win $10,000

<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/myheritage">MyHeritage</a>, Israel's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/myheritage-avoiding-the-metacafe-curse/">best hope</a> of having a big Web 2.

Exclusive: MyHeritage acquires Poland's Bliscy.pl, now 760 million profiles strong

<img src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/bliscy.png" class="shot2" /> <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/myheritage">MyHeritage.com</a>, a relatively heavily-funded Israeli
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