Category: Technology

Twitch is looking at life beyond the livestream

In an open letter published on Wednesday, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy outlined the livestreaming company’s plans for 2024, with a focus ...

To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become ...

Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable with thir...

SEC adopts climate disclosure rules, giving carbon acco...

The financial regulator won’t require publicly traded companies to report indirect emissions, but the rules help the U.S. catch up...

NFT fantasy sports startup Sorare lays off 13% of staff...

Web3-enabled fantasy sports platform Sorare laid off 22 employees based in its New York office in February. The move comes as the ...

Sling TV now lets customers play free arcade games whil...

DISH-owned streaming service Sling TV announced today the launch of its new gaming platform called “Arcade,” featuring classic arc...

Google adds new developer fees as part of the Play Stor...

Google today is sharing more details about the fees that will accompany its plan to comply with Europe’s new Digital Markets Act (...

Applications are open for the TechCrunch Startup Battle...

Calling all early-stage founders: Are you ready? TechCrunch is on the hunt for 200 early-stage founders to feature in the Startup ...

Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling i...

The Apple-Epic saga has just taken a new turn today as the Fortnite game developer, Epic Games, shared that Apple has terminated i...

Showee, a smart shower startup, shines a light on acces...

Showee's shower is designed for people with disabilities, both physical and intellectual. But Showee has another selling point: Wa...

Satellite servicing tech startup, led by former head of...

Kurs Orbital, a startup founded by Ukrainian space industry veterans, has closed a new tranche of funding to accelerate the commer...

a16z-backed Apex Space’s first satellite ‘healthy’ on o...

Apex Space just moved one step closer to its goal of upending satellite bus manufacturing, with the startup announcing on Tuesday ...

To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become ...

Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable with thir...

Worldcoin hit with temporary ban in Spain over privacy ...

Spain’s data protection authority has ordered Worldcoin to temporarily stop collecting and processing personal data from the marke...

Headspace brings meditation to Meta Quest

Mindfulness and meditation apps have tremendous potential in the world of extended reality. The full immersion created by headsets...

OpenAI fires back at Musk, and Monzo raises a megaround

In today's episode, we talk about OpenAI bringing receipts to its tussle with Musk, Monzo's big fundraise, a big startup deal, and...

Babylon Micro-Farms is bringing vertical farming to K-1...

In an e-mail exchange, Babylon Micro-Farms CEO Alexander Olesson tells me “we’ll have these in every school and apartment one day....

k-ID launches a solution that helps game developers com...

Making a video game successful is already hard. Doing so while complying with the growing number of child safety laws and regulati...

Binance made crypto perfume in a baffling attempt to wo...

What does crypto smell like? Ozone, salt and moss, according to Binance’s new fragrance, “CRYPTO.” Binance is the largest crypto e...

This Korean startup wants to take on Carta in cap table...

A South Korean startup called QuotaLab is on a quest to follow in the footsteps of Carta, the cap table management company that’s ...

Remofirst raises $25M to take on Deel and Rippling in t...

Remofirst says that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has grown 10x since it raised its $14.1 million seed round in September 202...

Amazon teams with recycling robot firm to track package...

Amazon generate a lot of trash. Precisely how much is a matter of some debate. In 2021, the company says it used 214 million or so...

Political deepfakes are spreading like wildfire thanks ...

This year, billions of people will vote in elections around the world. 2024 will see — and has seen — high-stakes races in more th...

LLMs are poised to make lumbering business intelligence...

UK startup Fluent has closed a $7.5M seed round to apply LLMs to business databases, making them far easier to interrogate. © 2024...

Apple releases a new API to fetch transactions from App...

Apple’s iOS 17.4 update is primarily about adapting iOS to EU’s Digital Market Act Regulation. But the company has also released a...

MDaaS raises $3M to improve healthcare access and expan...

MDaaS Global, a Nigerian health tech company that operates a network of tech-enabled diagnostic centers across the country, has se...

Cultivated Biosciences poised to take its plant-based c...

The company went public in December with its first proof-of-concept coffee creamer that remains stable when added to hot coffee. ©...

BRKZ, a construction-tech startup eyeing MENA, emerges ...

Saudi Arabia is poised to become one of the largest global construction hubs owing to its trillion-dollar infrastructure and the r...

Spotify submits an update to show pricing information t...

Spotify said today that it has submitted a new version App Store that shows pricing and feature information about the audio compan...

OpenAI says Musk only ever contributed $45 million, wan...

OpenAI, the most valuable AI startup, said Wednesday it intends to dismiss all claims made by Elon Musk in a recent lawsuit and su...

AI could be the solution for bureaucracy, with Emilie P...

Founders have spent a lot of time over the past few years trying to build practical consumer use cases for AI and machine learning...

Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users con...

Update: My mistake, arbitration terms were already in place. But the devices were in fact inaccessible until users agreed to the n...

Windows 11 to lose official support for Android apps

It was only a few years ago — in 2021 — that Windows 11 gained official support for Android apps thanks to a Microsoft-maintained ...

Amazon’s new Rufus chatbot isn’t bad — but it isn’t gre...

Last month, Amazon announced that it’d launch a new AI-powered chatbot, Rufus, inside the Amazon Shopping app for Android and iOS....

Accenture to acquire Udacity to build a learning platfo...

Accenture announced today that it would acquire the learning platform Udacity as part of an effort to build a learning platform fo...

TikTok says its revamped creator fund has increased tot...

TikTok announced today that its revamped creator fund has increased total creator revenue by over 250% within the last six months....

Waymo launches driverless rides for employees in Austin

Waymo will start letting its autonomous vehicles traverse Austin without a safety operator behind the wheel as of tomorrow, a cruc...

Underscore’s Lily Lyman will break down venture relatio...

Venture capital is sometimes called a sales job by folks in the industry, as investors have to pitch LPs to raise their own funds ...

Harness Wealth wants to bring sophisticated tax plannin...

Harness Wealth, which started in 2018 primarily offering financial advice to startup founders and employees, has expanded into the...

YouTube no longer experiencing outages, site confirms

Update: The outages have been resolved as of around 3:00 PM ET. A Google spokesperson told TechCrunch that there was a surge in tr...

Miles Grimshaw leaves Benchmark to rejoin Kushner’s Thr...

In an unexpected move, Miles Grimshaw announced today that he is rejoining Thrive Capital after working as a general partner at Be...

Apple revises its DMA rules after pressure, but keeps t...

No, Apple’s new and controversial “Core Technology Fee” isn’t going away for EU app developers who opt into the iPhone maker’s new...

How a new class of climate startups could get a boost f...

The SEC’s much debated rule has already boosted a burgeoning class of startups that seek to help companies measure, track and repo...

Agility Robotics’ new CEO is ‘focused on the here and n...

There was nothing else like Digit on the ProMat floor last year. The manufacturing supply chain event has gradually morphed into a...

Ema, a ‘Universal AI employee,’ emerges from stealth wi...

Generative AI well and truly has a grip on public technology discourse these days. A new startup called Ema out of San Francisco t...

The 2024 all-electric Dodge Charger debuts with muscle ...

Stellantis introduced Tuesday two all-electric versions of the Dodge Charger packed with the kind of features muscle car fans have...


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