A New York Times article Thursday highlighted a lucrative side hustle that is emblematic of the times we live in: gaming algorithms to earn ...
Thursday, September 19, 2024
India weighs easing market share limits for UPI payment operators
Prospero Silvério
September 19, 2024
The governing body overseeing India's popular UPI payments rail is considering increasing its proposed market share cap for operators li...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Palmer Luckey returns to headsets as Anduril partners with Microsoft on U.S. military tech
Prospero Silvério
September 18, 2024
Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is...
CEO of self-driving startup Motional is stepping down
Prospero Silvério
September 18, 2024
Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Hyundai, is shaking up its leadership ranks. Karl Iagnemma, an early pioneer in the auton...
Craig Newmark pledges $100M to fight hacking by foreign governments
Prospero Silvério
September 18, 2024
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what he sees as a growing...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
California’s 5 new AI laws crack down on election deepfakes and actor clones
Prospero Silvério
September 17, 2024
On Tuesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed some of America’s toughest laws yet regulating the artificial intelligence sector. Three...
Why United chose SpaceX’s Starlink to power its free Wi-Fi
Prospero Silvério
September 17, 2024
Late last week, United Airlines announced that it signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring its Starlink internet service to its ...
Monday, September 16, 2024
Tech’s emissions may be way higher than disclosed due to ‘creative accounting’ of carbon
Prospero Silvério
September 16, 2024
Accounting for the emissions of a global tech empire is not a simple task, and what industry standards we do have for disclosure may allow t...
Sam Altman departs OpenAI’s safety committee
Prospero Silvério
September 16, 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is leaving the internal commission OpenAI created in May to oversee “critical” safety decisions related to the company...
Apple AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation review
Prospero Silvério
September 16, 2024
I can’t recall another consumer electronics product category becoming a commodity as quickly as Bluetooth earbuds. Apple’s AirPods played a ...
Myntra bets on 4-hour delivery amid India’s quick commerce boom
Prospero Silvério
September 16, 2024
Myntra, India’s largest fashion e-commerce platform, is trialling a four-hour delivery service in four Indian cities, two sources familiar w...
AWS brings OpenSearch under the Linux Foundation umbrella
Prospero Silvério
September 16, 2024
AWS today announced that it is transitioning OpenSearch, its open source fork of the popular Elasticsearch search and analytics engine, to t...
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Insight Partners is closing in on a whopping $10B+ new fund
Prospero Silvério
September 15, 2024
Insight Partners is reportedly on the cusp of on more than $10 billion in capital commitments for its 13th fund, per the FT. The FT report ...
Flappy Bird’s creator disavows ‘official’ new version of the game
Prospero Silvério
September 15, 2024
A decade after the wildly popular game Flappy Bird disappeared, an organization calling itself The Flappy Bird Foundation announced plans to...
DryMerge promises to connect apps that normally don’t talk to each other — and when it works, it’s great
Prospero Silvério
September 15, 2024
Platforms to connect apps that wouldn’t normally talk to each other have been around for a minute (see: Zapier). But they have not gotten dr...
Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst’s indie band, Good Kid, is almost as successful as his AI company
Prospero Silvério
September 15, 2024
Nick Frosst, the co-founder of $5.5 billion Canadian AI startup Cohere, has been a musician his whole life. He told TechCrunch that once he ...
A walk through the crypto jungle at Korea Blockchain Week
Prospero Silvério
September 15, 2024
Blockchain technology is all about decentralization and virtualization. So it’s a little ironic that humans love to come together in person ...
Saturday, September 14, 2024
DeepWell DTx receives FDA clearance for its therapeutic video game developer tools
Prospero Silvério
September 14, 2024
There’s something oddly refreshing about starting the day by solving the Wordle. According to DeepWell DTx, there’s a scientific explanation...
These two friends built a simple tool to transfer playlists between Apple Music and Spotify, and it works great
Prospero Silvério
September 14, 2024
Soundiiz is a free third-party tool that builds portability tools through existing APIs and acts as a translator between the services. © 20...
Friday, September 13, 2024
This is how bad China’s startup scene looks now
Prospero Silvério
September 13, 2024
In early 2018, VC Mike Moritz wrote in the FT that “Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s lead,” noting the pace of work at tech co...
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs comes out of stealth with $230M in funding
Prospero Silvério
September 13, 2024
Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford professor many deem the “Godmother of AI,” has raised $230 million for her new startup, World Labs, from backers in...
SoftBank-backed Delhivery contests metrics in rival Ecom Express’ IPO filing
Prospero Silvério
September 13, 2024
Indian logistics firm Delhivery has publicly contested the accuracy of metrics presented by competitor Ecom Express in its draft initial pub...
Three and Vodafone’s $19B merger hits the skids as UK rules the deal would adversely impact customers and MVNOs
Prospero Silvério
September 13, 2024
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has delivered its provisional ruling in a longstanding battle to combine two of the country’s major telecommu...
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Oprah just had an AI special with Sam Altman and Bill Gates — here are the highlights
Prospero Silvério
September 12, 2024
Late Thursday evening, Oprah Winfrey aired a special on AI, appropriately titled “AI and the Future of Us.” Guests included OpenAI CEO Sam A...
XP Health grabs $32M to bring employees more affordable vision care
Prospero Silvério
September 12, 2024
Antonio Moraes, the grandson of a late prominent Brazilian billionaire, was never interested in joining the family-owned conglomerate of con...
Bad credits: consumer group files EU suit over ‘manipulative’ payments in games like Fortnite and Minecraft, calls for a ban
Prospero Silvério
September 12, 2024
Video games are some of most lucrative apps in the world, thanks in part because of how they lure people into spending money on credits to p...
WhatsApp brings Meta Verified, customized messages to small businesses in India
Prospero Silvério
September 12, 2024
WhatsApp is now letting small businesses in India sign up for a Meta Verified badge and giving them the ability to send customized messages ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Drama at OpenWeb, as a new CEO is announced – and the founding CEO says he’s staying
Prospero Silvério
September 11, 2024
OpenWeb, a New York startup whose tools help publishers engage users, has a unique problem. Its co-founding CEO reportedly won’t leave, even...
Adam Neumann’s crypto comeback company is reportedly refunding investors
Prospero Silvério
September 11, 2024
In a development that will surprise few, former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann’s climate/crypto/carbon-credit startup Flowcarbon appears to be in t...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
InMobi secures $100 million for AI acquisitions ahead of IPO
Prospero Silvério
September 10, 2024
Adtech startup InMobi has raised $100 million in debt financing as the profitable Indian firm looks to “significantly deepen” its artificial...
Beats makes iPhone 16 cases now
Prospero Silvério
September 10, 2024
The $49 cases work with MagSafe and the iPhone’s new Camera Control button. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ...
Senate leaders ask FTC to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive
Prospero Silvério
September 10, 2024
A group of Democratic senators is urging the FTC and Justice Department to investigate whether AI tools that summarize and regurgitate onlin...
Monday, September 9, 2024
Sri Mandir helps Hindus visit sacred temples and offer donations virtually, from their phones
Prospero Silvério
September 09, 2024
AppsForBharat, the startup behind Hindu devotional app Sri Mandir, has raised $18 million to penetrate into global markets and add new featu...
Seattle Cybertruck became fleeting tourist destination
Prospero Silvério
September 09, 2024
You could argue whether Cybertruck owners crave attention, but attention they receive, often by critics poking fun at the vehicles. People s...
Heart disease is the world’s biggest killer — this Cambridge Uni spinout is using AI to find new treatments
Prospero Silvério
September 09, 2024
Cambridge University spinout CardiaTec is striving to tackle cardiovascular diseases, one of the world's leading causes of death, with A...
Online, led by social media, overtakes TV as the most popular source of news in the UK, Ofcom says
Prospero Silvério
September 09, 2024
Online platforms have now overtaken TV for the first time as the most popular resource for news among adult consumers, at 71% versus 70%, ac...
Thousands of Avis car rental customers had personal data stolen in cyberattack
Prospero Silvério
September 09, 2024
The car rental giant says personal information, credit card information, and driver's license numbers were stolen in the August cyberatt...
Sonos delays set-top box after flawed app update
Prospero Silvério
September 09, 2024
It’s been an infamous year for software updates gone wrong. But what’s the worst-case scenario for a buggy update? Sonos may be trying to fi...
EV startup Ather seeks to raise $370 million in India IPO
Prospero Silvério
September 09, 2024
Indian electric scooter manufacturer Ather Energy plans to raise about $370 million in an IPO. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For ...
Sunday, September 8, 2024
European VC Atomico closes $1.24B across two funds for early and growth-stage startups
Prospero Silvério
September 08, 2024
Atomico has historically leaned toward earlier funding rounds while dipping into later stages where it made sense; now it's setting itse...
Apple Event 2024: iPhone 16, Apple Intelligence and all the other expected ‘Glowtime’ reveals
Prospero Silvério
September 08, 2024
Apple's Glowtime iPhone event will include the iPhone 16, but may also feature new AirPods, a new Apple Watch and possibly even new Macs...
Sunamp’s thermal battery uses a chemical found in salt-and-vinegar potato chips
Prospero Silvério
September 08, 2024
The startup has devised a durable way to store solar power as heat that can then be used for household heating or hot water. © 2024 TechCru...
The coolest startup in the Bay Area is a baseball team called the Oakland Ballers
Prospero Silvério
September 08, 2024
This year, the B’s made their debut in the Pioneer League, a professional baseball organization that’s partnered with the MLB, but unlike th...
Electro-hydraulic muscles help these robot legs stand straight on uneven terrain
Prospero Silvério
September 08, 2024
Along with the ability to automatically adjust to the surface they’re traversing, the legs move faster and jump higher than their more stand...
Saturday, September 7, 2024
How a viral AI image catapulted a Mexican startup to a major adidas contract
Prospero Silvério
September 07, 2024
Antonio Nuño, Fatima Alvarez, and Enrique Rodriguez have been friends since they were five years old. As teenagers, they became volunteers h...
Friday, September 6, 2024
Second Byju’s auditor exits in a year as financial turmoil deepens
Prospero Silvério
September 06, 2024
BDO, the auditor for Indian edtech startup Byju’s, has resigned with immediate effect, marking the second auditor departure for the embattle...
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
Prospero Silvério
September 06, 2024
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hype...
Elon Musk’s X could still face sanctions for training Grok on Europeans’ data
Prospero Silvério
September 06, 2024
Earlier this week, the EU’s lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data to train its Grok AI chat...
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Telegram quietly enables users to report private chats to moderators after founder’s arrest
Prospero Silvério
September 05, 2024
Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov...
A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
Prospero Silvério
September 05, 2024
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All r...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Boom’s macOS camera app lets you customize your video call appearance
Prospero Silvério
September 04, 2024
As someone who talks to many people outside my time zone, I often spend at least a few minutes on a video call explaining my location, time,...
Andreessen Horowitz shutters its Miami office after two years
Prospero Silvério
September 04, 2024
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has closed a satellite office in Miami Beach just two years into a five-year lease it signed for an 8,300-square-...
Boeing and NASA prepare to bring Starliner home without its crew on Friday
Prospero Silvério
September 04, 2024
These final maneuvers will bring to a close a troubled first crewed mission for the Boeing-made Starliner. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights re...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Canva has increased prices for its Teams product
Prospero Silvério
September 03, 2024
Canva, the design platform, is increasing prices steeply for some customers. And it’s blaming the move in part on generative AI. In the U.S....
Snap CEO says the company is testing a ‘simplified’ Snapchat
Prospero Silvério
September 03, 2024
Snap is testing a “simplified version of Snapchat,” CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in a letter to employees published on Snap’s website Tuesday. The...
Neko Health, the body-scanning AI health startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, opens in London
Prospero Silvério
September 03, 2024
Prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes. Today, a splashy startup that has taken that concept to heart — literally and figurative...
Ziina banks $22M as growth explodes for the UAE-based fintech for small businesses
Prospero Silvério
September 03, 2024
The Dubai-based startup, which now counts 50,000 retail and business customers in the UAE, has netted $22 million led by Altos Ventures. © ...
Monday, September 2, 2024
‘Hospital at home’ startup Doccla raises $46 million for its European expansion
Prospero Silvério
September 02, 2024
Hospitals around the world regularly face bed shortages — an issue that can get exacerbated to breaking point when a health scare or other l...
BigEndian founders hope to use their deep chip experience to help establish India in semiconductors
Prospero Silvério
September 02, 2024
India's fabless semiconductor startup BigEndian has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Vertex Ventures SEA and India. © 2024 Tech...
CrowdStrike faces onslaught of legal action from faulty software update
Prospero Silvério
September 02, 2024
Even before Delta came forward, shareholders were looking for their pound of flesh, filing a class action lawsuit against CrowdStrike. © 20...
Want to branch out beyond Google? Here are some search engines worth checking out
Prospero Silvério
September 02, 2024
If you have never considered a search engine beyond Google, you might be surprised to see what else is out there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ri...
Customers of Indian crypto exchange WazirX unlikely to recover full funds
Prospero Silvério
September 02, 2024
Customers of WazirX, the Indian cryptocurrency exchange that suffered a $234 million hack in July, are unlikely to recover their funds in fu...
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Validus, a Singapore-based digital SME lending platform, secures $50M debt financing to help enterprises in Indonesia
Prospero Silvério
September 01, 2024
Validus, a Singapore-based digital lending platform for small and medium businesses, has secured $50 million in debt financing from HSBC und...
Palantir’s CTO, and 13th employee, has become a secret weapon for Valley defense tech startups
Prospero Silvério
September 01, 2024
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar is determined to help Palantir become a driving force for defense tech startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights re...
‘Emotion AI’ may be the next trend for business software, and that could be problematic
Prospero Silvério
September 01, 2024
As businesses experiment with embedding AI everywhere, one area starting to gain more attention is Emotion AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All right...
Why do so many home robots still suck?
Prospero Silvério
September 01, 2024
Home robots’ unfulfilled potential is neither because of lack of demand on the part of consumers nor lack of effort from manufacturers. © 2...
From InstaDeep to Paystack: Here are Africa’s biggest startup exits and how much they raised
Prospero Silvério
September 01, 2024
As we continue to monitor the growth of Africa's tech ecosystem, it’s essential to highlight and analyze the biggest disclosed acquisiti...