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Startup T2 Wants to Terminate Twitter
In mid-2021, Gabor Cselle bought a $15 Moleskine notebook to sketch out ideas for new startups. On the first page,…
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A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What’s Left?
“Something’s happened,” I told my wife. She is a veteran of watching me try to fix my body. I told…
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‘The Last of Us’ Is All I Want to Talk About Right Now
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes,…
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How to Use Your Smartphone to Counteract Vision Loss
If full voice control is a bit much, you might use Siri on iPhone and Google Assistant on Android to…
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The Chinese Spy Balloon Shows the Downsides of Spy Balloons
On Friday, United States secretary of state Antony Blinken said he was canceling a high-profile diplomatic visit to Beijing following…
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The 10 Best Games on PlayStation Plus
Yes, Sony’s game subscription service can be kind of convoluted. And, yes, PlayStation Plus is worthwhile for PlayStation owners. Both can…
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The Paradox of the Tyre Nichols Video
Tyre Nichols was a photographer with an eye for the natural world. He was especially drawn to landscape portraiture, its…
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37 Great Deals on Sleep Tech and Smart Frames for Valentine’s Day
if your valentine isn’t a fan of flowers and chocolate, there are plenty of other options to surprise them with—whether…
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Googling for Software Downloads Is Extra Risky Right Now
If you heard rumblings this week that Netflix is finally cracking down on password sharing in the United States and…
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Our Favorite Merino Wool Clothes to Keep You Comfy in Any Weather
Merino wool is a super fiber. Merino T-shirts somehow manage to be comfortable in 95-degree-Fahrenheit heat, and Merino hoodies will…
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China’s XPeng G9 Could Be the Best Electric SUV Around
US investors looking to build an EV portfolio are not exactly spoilt for choice. Aside from Tesla, many companies haven’t…
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Netflix crackdown, monetizing ChatGPT and bypassing FB’s 2FA
Happy weekend, folks, and welcome back to the TechCrunch Week in Review. Henry here, standing in for a vacationing Kyle…
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Dear founders, returning to the office is a numbers game
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host…
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This Week in Apps: Instagram’s founders’ new app, another Twitter rival, Biden admin criticizes app stores
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile…
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Razer’s Cage-Like Mouse Is a $280 Goth-Metal Jewel
Razer could never be accused of subtle branding. From pulsating, RGB-backlit keyboards, laptops, and mice to flashing, light-festooned face masks, the…
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Does usage-based pricing call for a new growth infrastructure stack?
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets…
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More job cuts loom as Sendy changes course in Nigeria
In October last year, Sendy, a Kenyan logistics scale-up, wound up its supplies service, which enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs…
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AWS says growth dropped to mid-teens to start new year as customer cost-cutting continues
Yesterday Amazon reported earnings, with AWS growing a modest 20% for the quarter over the prior year to $21 billion.…
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Tesla, Ford and GM win in EV tax credit change
A few more electric vehicle models now qualify for the federal EV tax credit, including GM’s Cadillac Lyric, the Ford…
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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS pricing strategies, 2022 open source report, can Vine regrow?
I found an old leather jacket in the back of a closet recently. It’s a vintage item in fantastic shape…
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Apple Pay gets the green light to launch its service in South Korea
A South Korean financial regulator said on Friday that the country had approved the Apple Pay launch to allow local…
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Can 4 activist investors play nice in the Salesforce sandbox?
Salesforce finds itself in a rather unusual situation, with four activist investors operating inside the company at the same time:…
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Google tries to reassure investors on AI progress as ChatGPT breathes down its neck
Google worked to reassure investors and analysts on Thursday during its quarterly earnings call that it’s still a leader in…
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Elon Musk says that Twitter will start sharing ad revenue with creators ‘today’
Twitter’s new owner is making moves to build in more revenue streams for creators — or at least he’s tweeting…
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Twitter Circle glitches have users worried about privacy
As more Twitter features break and glitch, users are becoming increasingly concerned about the platform’s stability. We’re about three months…
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Voyager Space raises $80M as it continues development on private space station, Starlab
Voyager Space, a company developing a private space station, has raised $80.2 million in new capital. The new funding comes…
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Venture funding has started flooding back in at least one area: Secondaries
The venture secondaries market has been on the same roller-coaster ride as the broader VC market over the past few…
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Data hints at the value of startup offices
Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs — some citing Elon Musk — told me they planned to…
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YouTube Music contractors strike over alleged unfair labor practices
A group of 40 YouTube Music workers went on strike Friday. Employed by Alphabet subcontractor Cognizant, the striking workers allege…
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Daily Crunch: Apple says it earned $20.8B from 935M subscriptions last fiscal quarter
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m.…
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Elon Musk, Tesla found not liable in ‘funding secured’ tweet lawsuit
Elon Musk was found not liable in a class-action securities fraud trial that centered on the Tesla CEO’s now infamous…
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Meta’s Reality Labs lost $13.7 billion on VR and AR last year
Mentions of the “metaverse” were relatively few and far between in Meta’s quarterly earnings call this week — we counted…
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Plant-based Rebellyous is raising millions to ‘rethink the nugget’
Rebellyous, a startup that’s striving to build “a better chicken,” has raised at least $20 million in fresh funding, TechCrunch…
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Kapor Capital’s new crew is raising an opportunity fund
Four months after closing its largest fund to date, Kapor Capital wants more. The firm is under new leadership after…
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When the government is the customer (some things to keep in mind)
Five years ago, Google backed away from a Pentagon government contract because thousands of employees protested that its tech might…
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China claims it’s cranking out quantum computers
Quantum computers have started rolling off the production line in China, according to local media reports. Global Times offers one…
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The semis are in for a rough ride as the chip bubble bursts
Analysis The semiconductor gold rush is all but over, and we’ve had our fill. Or so the past month of…
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Microsoft blames Iran-backed crew for Charlie Hebdo breach
Microsoft believes the gang who boasted it had stolen and leaked more than 200,000 Charlie Hebdo subscribers’ personal information is…
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India to build open source farm cloud, sidelining Big Tech
India has sidelined Big Tech in its pursuit of a cloud for its agricultural industry. The nation’s government has long…
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Azure usage notifications for partners broken until March
Microsoft has warned its partner community that real-time tracking and notifications of customers’ Azure spend is broken until mid-March, creating…
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Report: Wind, solar helped save EU from energy crisis
Take that, energy crisis: Wind and solar power generation rose to record levels in the EU last year, overtaking natural…
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Scientists use AI algorithms to hunt for anti-cancer drugs
AI is helping scientists discover new antibodies that could trigger our own immune systems into destroying cancer cells. The immune…
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Meta trims datacenter build bills by $4 billion
Meta announced on Wednesday that it will cancel multiple datacenter projects and build future bit barns with a “phased” approach,…
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BT to migrate mainframe apps to the cloud with Kyndryl
BT is has contracted infrastructure services provider Kyndryl to help migrate some of its legacy mainframe applications to the cloud.…
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GPU slowdown earns Discord weird bug of the week
If you’re one to obsess over frames per second or CPU and GPU utilization, you may have noticed some odd…
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Beer maker Super Bock says ‘cyber’ attack ‘disrupting’ ops
Super Bock Group, Portugal’s largest beverage biz, is warning of potential interruption to supplies as it manages the fallout from…
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New shiny for the COSMIC and Xfce desktops is coming
News is emerging regarding the future of two popular Linux desktops: System76’s Pop!_OS and COSMIC, as well as a future…
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BT revenues drop 3 percent, touts growing fiber network
BT Group is leaning into its fiber rollout and cost-cutting to balance the books amid a 3 percent drop in…
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No more free API access, says Twitter: Devs must pay
Twitter is eliminating access to its API, but the once-free comms integration will still be available to those who want…
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Google opens its arms to VMware and Microsoft 365
Google has offered VMware in the cloud and brought support for Microsoft 365 to Linux, which Microsoft itself has never…
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