Category: Technology

Is there anything AI can’t do?

The current-generation AI technology is the tech equivalent of a toddler, and all the mediocre reviews various GenAI software is g...

Spotify, Epic Games and others pen letter to EC, claimi...

Epic Games, Spotify, Proton, 37signals and other developers had already signaled their displeasure with how Apple has chosen to ad...

Rants, AI and other notes from Upfront Summit

Venture capitalists were in Los Angeles this week for the Upfront Summit, an invite-only conference with celebrity sightings and p...

Ultraleap is bringing haptic touch to cars and VR heads...

In May 2019, Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion became Ultraleap (not to be confused with Magic Leap, which operates in the same space)....

MyHeritage debuts OldNews.com, offering access to milli...

MyHeritage announced today that it’s launching OldNews.com, a new website that offers access to thousands of historical newspapers...

Spotify, Epic Games, and others pen letter to EC, claim...

Epic Games, Spotify, Proton, 37Signals, and other developers had already signaled their displeasure with how Apple has chosen to a...

Compete or cooperate? Five deep tech investors opt for ...

The collaborative, known as Venx, allows Boston VCs to share offices, pitch meetings, and insights. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights ...

Threads says it will make its API broadly available by ...

Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June. Company’s engineer...

Facebook plans to shut down its news tab in the US and ...

Meta is trying to distance itself from news media-related regulations and payment complexities as it plans to remove the news tab ...

AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires ...

Groq, a startup developing chips to run GenAI models faster than conventional hardware, has an eye toward the enterprise — and pub...

Fohm rebrands to Saintly, for a heavenly clean bottom

When it comes to doing business — not startups, that other kind of business, that you have a whole separate room for in your house...

MyHeritage launches OldNews.com, a website with access ...

MyHeritage announced today that it’s launching OldNews.com, a new website that offers access to thousands of historical newspapers...

AgZen’s RealCoverage wants to keep pesticides only wher...

A 2021 study found that if farmers didn’t use pesticides, they would lose 78% of fruit production, 54% of vegetable production, an...

Apple reverses decision about blocking web apps on iPho...

Apple has reversed its decision about blocking web apps, also known as Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), on iPhones in the EU. The comp...

MWC: Swayy app lets you share your future location with...

Given that this week Instagram revealed that it was developing a “Friend Map” feature, it was interesting and timely to run into a...

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of...

Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers have ...

Thoma Bravo takes critical event management software co...

Everbridge, a critical event management (CEM) software company, is going private in a $1.8 billion all-cash deal that will see it ...

NSA says it’s tracking Ivanti cyberattacks as hackers h...

The U.S. National Security Agency has confirmed that hackers exploiting flaws in Ivanti’s widely used enterprise VPN appliance hav...

Pitch Deck Teardown: CommandBar’s $4.8M seed deck

In the midst of CommandBar's pretty slim pitch deck, there are some innovations that are worth shining a light on. © 2024 TechCrun...

Now the EU is asking questions about Meta’s ‘pay or be ...

Meta’s controversial pay or be tracked ‘consent’ choice for users the European Union is facing questions from the European Commiss...

Google pulls popular Indian apps from store over fee di...

Google pulled more than a dozen popular apps including recruitment platform Naukri, matrimony service Shaadi, audio storytelling p...

Backed by $10M Series A, TravelJoy is riding the post-C...

A travel-focused startup that the COVID pandemic could have killed has instead thrived. TravelJoy, a company providing a suite of ...

Rec emerges from stealth to modernize Parks & Rec manag...

Park and recreation organizations help communities thrive. However, many of them use outdated systems that make program registrati...

Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwate...

As crucial as the ocean is to countless industries, we lack the kind of systematic knowledge of it that we have of the surface. Sy...

Will we reach AGI before Stripe goes public?

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we un...

Karma3 Labs raises $4.5M to improve trust in web3 with ...

There’s no reputation system in the decentralized world of web3, so it’s hard to figure out which entities and individuals to trus...

Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks servi...

After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan late last year, Spotify today is introducing a $9.99 p...

Google pulls popular Indian apps from store over fees v...

Google began removing some apps from the Play Store in India on Friday after warning earlier in the day that it will be taking act...

NFX’s James Currier will break down MVPs at TechCrunch ...

Everyone has heard of minimum viable products (MVPs), early versions of a future startup’s product that contains precisely what it...

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of...

Elon Musk sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and affiliated entities on Thursday, alleging the ChatGPT make...

Google pulls popular Indian matrimony apps from store o...

Google began removing some apps from Play Store in India on Friday after warning earlier in the day that it will be taking actions...

Google removes some Indian apps over Play Store fees vi...

Google began removing some apps in India on Friday after warning earlier in the day that it will be taking actions against develop...

Google to remove some Indian apps over Play Store fees ...

Google has warned it will begin removing apps in India from its Play Store if developers do not comply with its billing policies, ...

Facebook plans to shut down its news tab in the U.S. an...

Meta is trying to distance itself from news media-related regulations and payment complexities as it is planning to remove the new...

Fisker is laying off 15% of staff and says it needs mor...

Electric vehicle startup Fisker is planning to lay off 15% of its workforce and says it likely does not have enough cash on hand t...

Intuitive Machines’ first moon lander also broke ground...

Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander officially lost power today after spending seven days on the moon. The lander made history ...

Spotify’s new ‘Song Psychic’ is like a Magic 8 Ball tha...

Spotify is rolling out a new feature called Song Psychic that will allow its customers to ask Spotify questions and get answers in...

A minor league baseball team trolls Disney with its ‘St...

I’ve seen enough: the prize for the best use of public domain Mickey Mouse goes to the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. For its public d...

Lordstown Motors charged with misleading investors abou...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged bankrupt Lordstown Motors with misleading investors about the sales prospects o...

A leaky database spilled 2FA codes for the world’s tech...

A technology company that routes millions of SMS text messages across the world has secured an exposed database that was spilling ...

Fisker is laying off 15% of staff and says it needs mor...

Electric vehicle startup Fisker is planning to lay off 15% of its workforce and says it likely does not have enough cash on hand t...

Bitcoin jumped and Coinbase’s app crashed, while Aptos ...

Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto. Here’s the biggest news this week: bitcoin’s price jumped and Coinbase’s app crashed, Telegram rolle...

MacPaw’s Setapp becomes one of the first to agree to Ap...

Mac and iOS software development company MacPaw is becoming one of the first to publicly adopt Apple’s new DMA (Digital Markets Ac...

Reddit should go public at $5B, according to secondary ...

If secondary buyers aren't buying shares at more than a $5 billion valuation, it wouldn't be wise for Reddit to price its IPO abov...

How much are Nvidia’s rivals investing in startups? We ...

Over the past couple of years, Nvidia, by far the largest AI chipmaker, has ramped up its investments in startups that propel it d...


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