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Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons - Techcrunch - 29/03 6:50 am

A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any parallels between itself and Microsoft in the 1990s. It???s a comparison into which the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland leaned heavily in last week???s filing. While portions of the United [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Uber Eats courier’s fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law .. - Techcrunch - 29/03 5:58 am

On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had received a payout from Uber after racially discriminatory facial recognition checks prevented him from accessing the app, which he had been using since November 2019 to pick up jobs delivering food on Ubers platform. The news raises questions about [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Activision investigating password-stealing malware targeting game players - Techcrunch - 29/03 4:38 am

Video game giant Activision is investigating a hacking campaign that???s targeting players with the goal of stealing their credentials, TechCrunch has learned. At this point, the hackers??? specific goals ??? apart from stealing passwords for various types of accounts ??? are unclear. Somehow, the hackers are getting malware on the victims computers and then stealing [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know - Techcrunch - 29/03 4:00 am

Welcome to Elon Musk???s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don???t matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech; now, it???s the one-year anniversary since he made his [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Buy now, pay later on a Porsche? Zaver now has $30M to make it a reality - Techcrunch - 29/03 3:42 am

We last checked in on Zaver, a Swedish B2C buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) provider in Europe, when it raised a $5 million funding round in 2021. The company has now closed a $10 million extension to its Series A funding round, bringing its total Series A to $20 million. Total investment to date stands at $30 million. [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison for fraud and money laundering .. - Techcrunch - 29/03 3:42 am

Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Southern District of New York (SDNY) Judge Lewis Kaplan, about five months after he was found guilty on all seven counts related to fraud and money laundering during his trial. When [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Meet Kidsy, a kids’ clothing startup that sells what parents need at .. - Techcrunch - 29/03 3:00 am

All parents know that raising kids is expensive. Especially in those early years when they quickly outgrow clothes or toys, leaving parents on a never-ending cycle of buying new stuff when the old stuff is hardly worn or used. Enter Kidsy, a new Chicago-based e-commerce startup that aims to give consumers greater access to discounted [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





SBF sentenced, Worldcoin hit with another ban order and big web3 pre-seed .. - Techcrunch - 29/03 3:00 am

Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto, formerly known as Chain Reaction. This is the last edition of this newsletter. I want to personally thank each of you for reading this and if you would like to stay in touch, you can follow me on X here for future updates. With that said, the show goes on. This [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





YouTube now lets creators share exclusive Shorts with their paying .. - Techcrunch - 29/03 2:42 am

YouTube is launching ???members only??? Shorts, allowing creators to share short-form videos exclusively to their paying viewers. ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Skyflow raises $30M more as AI spikes demand for its privacy business - Techcrunch - 29/03 2:07 am

This morning, Skyflow announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B extension led by Khosla Ventures. The deal is interesting on a number of fronts, including the rounds structure and how Skyflow has been impacted by the growth of AI. The new capital comes after Skyflow expanded its data privacy business to support [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





US offers $10M to help catch Change Healthcare hackers - Techcrunch - 29/03 1:40 am

The government's reward for information now extends to ALPHV's affiliates, which claimed responsibility for a massive weekslong healthcare cyberattack. ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Ibotta’s expansion into enterprise should set it up for a successful .. - Techcrunch - 29/03 12:26 am

Ibotta's recent partnerships with brands Exxon, Shell and Walmart helped the company reach profitability. ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





LinkedIn targets users caught between TikTok and what used to be Twitter - Techcrunch - 28/03 11:01 pm

Two weeks ago, TechCrunch broke the news that LinkedIn was getting into games, helping users deepen relationships through puzzle-based interactions. And on Wednesday, TechCrunch reported that the Microsoft-owned social network was experimenting with short-form videos. Its as if LinkedIn is targeting a whole new type of user one caught in limbo somewhere between two [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





After spat with TikTok, UMG expands Spotify partnership to include music .. - Techcrunch - 28/03 10:47 pm

In the wake of Universal Music Groups (UMG) public spat with TikTok, which saw the label pulling its full catalog from the video app earlier this year, the company is doubling down on its deal with Spotify. On Thursday, UMG announced an expansion of its strategic relationship with the streaming music service that will focus [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Google.org launches $20M generative AI accelerator program - Techcrunch - 28/03 10:05 pm

Google.org, Googles charitable wing, is launching a new program to help fund nonprofits developing tech that leverages generative AI. Called Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI, the program is to be funded by $20 million in grants and include 21 nonprofits to start, including Quill.org, a company creating AI-powered tools for student writing feedback, and World Bank, [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Matter Venture Partners raises $300M first fund to invest in ‘hard .. - Techcrunch - 28/03 10:00 pm

Matter Venture Partners will invest in between 15 and 20 companies with the new fund in the area of "hard tech." ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





AI21 Labs’ new AI model can handle more context than most - Techcrunch - 28/03 10:00 pm

Increasingly, the AI industry is moving toward generative AI models with longer contexts. But models with large context windows tend to be compute-intensive. Or Dagan, product lead at AI startup AI21 Labs, asserts that this doesnt have to be the case and his company is releasing a generative model to prove it. Contexts, or [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





StealthMole raises $7M Series A for its AI-powered dark web intelligence .. - Techcrunch - 28/03 11:00 am

StealthMole, an AI-powered dark web intelligence startup that specializes in monitoring cyber threats and detecting cybercrime, announced Thursday that it has raised a $7 million Series A funding round. The Singapore-headquartered startup with an R office in South Korea will use the fresh capital to establish additional R centers and support more commercial uses of [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Accel rethinks early-stage startup investing in India - Techcrunch - 28/03 9:58 am

By any benchmark, Accel is among the top venture firms in India. With nearly two dozen Indian unicorn startups, including several category leaders, Accels track record speaks for itself. Yet the partners leading the firms early-stage accelerator program, called Atoms, are uncharacteristically introspective about their learnings and the changes they have been implementing to improve [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Understanding humanoid robots - Techcrunch - 28/03 6:54 am

Robots made their stage debut the day after New Year???s 1921. More than half-a-century before the world caught its first glimpse of George Lucas??? droids, a small army of silvery humanoids took to the stages of the First Czechoslovak Republic. They were, for all intents and purposes, humanoids: two arms, two legs, a head [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment - Techcrunch - 28/03 6:22 am

Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last September. The $1.25 billion it invested at the time must be producing results, or perhaps theyve realized that there are no other horses available to back. The September deal put $1.25 billion into [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





LinkedIn is experimenting with a TikTok-like video feed in its app - Techcrunch - 28/03 4:15 am

LinkedIn is testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. With this new test, LinkedIn joins numerous other popular apps that have launched their own short-form video feeds following TikToks rise in popularity, including Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Netflix. The feed was first spotted by Austin Null, a strategy [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





The UK threw a splashy event in New York this week to woo more American VCs - Techcrunch - 28/03 3:52 am

U.K. officials unveiled a hologram statue and threw a big party to celebrate the U.K. as the third $1 trillion tech economy. ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months - Techcrunch - 28/03 3:01 am

Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries, leading to an internal audit that started in December and took months to complete, TechCrunch has learned. The EV startup was ultimately able to track down a majority of those payments or request new ones from customers whose payment [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





NewRetirement aims to shake up retirement planning with a holistic approach - Techcrunch - 28/03 12:02 am

NewRetirement builds software to help people create financial retirement plans. ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Google will now let you use AI to build travel itineraries for your .. - Techcrunch - 28/03 12:00 am

As we inch toward the summer holidays, Google is announcing a slate of travel updates that place it squarely in the travel planning process and give it a lot more insight into purchasing intent in the travel sector. First up, Google is rolling out an update to its??Search Generative Experience (SGE) that will allow users [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Google will let you swipe right or left on clothes to get better fashion .. - Techcrunch - 28/03 12:00 am

Google is rolling out an update that makes it easier for users to find personalized shopping results, the company announced on Wednesday. The new feature lets users rate different products in order to get style recommendations when shopping for apparel, shoes and accessories. The update comes as Google continues to compete with companies like Amazon [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Musical toy startup Playtime Engineering wants to simplify electronic .. - Techcrunch - 27/03 11:37 pm

Troy Sheets began making music at 15 years old in his home studio with a keyboard synthesizer, drum machine and four-track cassette recorder ??? an impressive setup for a high school sophomore. However, it???s rare for young, up-and-coming musicians to have access to advanced equipment (other than a free app on their phone). And most [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Cyvl.ai is bringing data-driven solutions to transportation infrastructure - Techcrunch - 27/03 11:01 pm

In the summer after his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an engineering school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Cyvl.ai co-founder and CEO Daniel Pelaez needed a job. He went home and worked at his local public works department, where he noted that there was very little software for tracking road repairs. He was told to go [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Orchard vision system turns farm equipment into AI-powered data collectors - Techcrunch - 27/03 10:58 pm

Agricultural robotics are not a new phenomenon. We???ve seen systems that pick apples and berries, kill weeds, plant trees, transport prod





Observe, the data observability platform, raises $115M with Snowflake .. - Techcrunch - 27/03 9:11 pm

Enterprises today store and use data across an ever-growing number of applications and locations, making it challenging if not impossible to manage and query that data in a holistic way. That spells opportunity for startups building tools to stitch together that fragmentation, and today one of them Observe is announcing $115 [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Century Health, now with $2M, taps AI to give pharma access to good .. - Techcrunch - 27/03 9:00 pm

Century Health is applying AI to clinical data to uncover new applications for drugs. ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Act fast ??? just 3 days remain to grab your TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 .. - Techcrunch - 27/03 9:00 pm

March 29 is the final day to grab your early-bird savings for TechCrunch Early Stage 2024. With only 3 days left to secure your tickets, dont miss out on this opportunity to join us for a transformative event dedicated to startup success. TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 is set to take place in Boston, offering invaluable [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





New Summit is raising a new $100 million fund to back climate tech and .. - Techcrunch - 27/03 9:00 pm

The size of the new fund suggests that it is bullish that it can convince LPs to open their wallets based its impact-focused approach. ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Amazon will have to publish an ads library in EU after all - Techcrunch - 27/03 8:57 pm

Amazon will have to provide information about the ads running on its platform in a publicly accessible online archive after all, following a decision by the European Unions highest court Wednesday. The ads transparency requirement is contained in the blocs Digital Services Act (DSA), an online governance and algorithmic accountability rulebook, which has applied to [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Databricks spent $10M on new DBRX generative AI model - Techcrunch - 27/03 8:00 pm

If you wanted to raise the profile of your major tech company and had $10 million to spend, how would you spend it? On a Super Bowl ad? An F1 sponsorship? You could spend it training a generative AI model. While not marketing in the traditional sense, generative models are attention grabbers and increasingly [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Marissa Mayer’s startup just rolled out photo sharing and event .. - Techcrunch - 27/03 3:18 pm

When Marissa Mayer co-founded a startup six years ago in Palo Alto, Ca., expectations were sky high for the former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee. When that startup, Sunshine, revealed that its first app centered around subscription software for contact management, people wondered if something more ambitious might be around the corner. Today, after [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





PayPal backs Indonesian insurance startup Qoala in $47M funding - Techcrunch - 27/03 11:02 am

PayPal Ventures latest investment is in an Indonesian startup that provides personal insurance products covering a variety of risks, including accidents, phone screen damage, and ticket cancellations to over 5 million customers. Qoala has secured $47 million in a new round co-led by PayPal Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, the five-year-old startup said Wednesday. MUFG Innovation [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





Robinhood’s new credit card goes after Apple Card with ability to .. - Techcrunch - 27/03 7:00 am

Eight months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95 million, Robinhood announced today the launch of its new Gold Card, with a list of features that could even give Apple Card users envy. Robinhood, better known for its brokerage app aimed at the everyday investor, is touting all sorts of benefits with its new [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.





How to turn off Instagram’s political content filter - Techcrunch - 27/03 5:11 am

Its election season in the U.S., and Instagram has changed the way that it recommends political content. On both Instagram and the newer X competitor Threads, this change wont impact what you see from accounts you already follow. But the platforms wont proactively recommend content about politics, which could limit users ability to learn about [] ?? 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.




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Alamo Insurance Provides Notice of Data Breach .. - Jdsupra
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Goats, Google and games: The future impact of a tech .. - Foxnews
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