Silicon Valley prankster Danielle Baskin launches Moonlight, an online tarot platform
Bay Area artist Danielle Baskin is not a first-time founder – but this is the first time she’s started a tech company that isn’t a performance art piece, or an elaborate joke. Still, she has a tongue-...
Substack’s Notes feature is getting more Twitter-like capabilities
Substack is adding new capabilities to its Twitter-like Notes feature that bring it more in-line with the social network now known as X. The company announced on Tuesday that users can now post videos...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/16/substacks-notes-feature-is-getting-more-twitter-like-capabilities/
WhatsApp is adding filters to easily find messages
For those who use WhatsApp more like an inbox, the app will now become more useful. WhatsApp on Tuesday announced a handful of new chat filters for the app to access certain types of messages easily: ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/16/whatsapp-is-adding-filters-to-easily-find-messages/
Loft Labs brings power of virtualization to Kubernetes clusters
It may seem like a paradox to have virtualized Kubernetes clusters. They are, after all, an abstraction in themselves of virtual machines made popular by VMware in the early 2000s. Loft Labs saw a sim...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/16/loft-labs-brings-power-of-virtualization-to-kubernetes-clusters/
Atlas shrugged: Boston Dynamics retires its hydraulic humanoid robot
Now that humanoids are all the rage in the robotics industry, Boston Dynamics on Tuesday officially retired theirs. The Hyundai-owned firm has always marched to the beat of its own drummer. Even so, i...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/16/atlas-shrugged-boston-dynamics-retires-its-humanoid-robot/
Amazon brings its “Amazon Live” shoppable video to Prime Video and Freevee
Amazon is trying to keep live shopping relevant with the launch of an “Amazon Live” FAST (free ad-supported TV) channel on Prime Video and Freevee. Previously only available as a feature on desktop, m...
Omni Hotels says customers’ personal data stolen in ransomware attack
A ransomware gang called Daixin has taken credit for the breach, and claimed to steal millions of customer records dating back to 2017.
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Amazon Music follows Spotify with an AI playlist generator of its own, Maestro
Spotify isn’t the only one to dabble with AI playlists — on Tuesday, Amazon announced it would do the same. Amazon Music is now testing Maestro, an AI playlist generator, allowing U.S. customers on bo...
Learn how to master cap table management with Fidelity Private Shares
Are you gearing up to secure funding for your startup or maybe you’ve raised a little bit already? If so, ensuring your cap table and data room are pristine could be the difference between a smooth, s...
Indaband’s new app lets you create music with people around the world
The app is designed to make people who usually play an instrument on their own feel like they’re part of a worldwide band.
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GovDash aims to help businesses use AI to land government contracts
Tim Goltser and Curtis Mason have been building things together since high school, when the two were the co-captains of their school’s robotics team. In college, Goltser and Mason teamed up to create ...
Design firm Zypsy will do $100,000 worth of work for 1% equity for early-stage startups
Zypsy, a design firm with a track record of helping early-stage startups, has launched a new and somewhat unique venture investment program. It will be offering 10 startups up to $100,000 of brand an...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/16/design-zypsy-ideo-work-equity-startups/
TikTok partners with AXS to sell tickets for live events worldwide
Tiktok said today that it has partnered with ticketing company AXS to sell tickets for events worldwide. The ByteDance-owned app is introducing this feature in the US, UK, Sweden, and Australia at lau...
SOSV founder says climate investing is a ‘war effort’ as firm closes $306M fund
SOSV’s new fund makes it one of the largest pools of deep tech venture capital to be raised in recent years.
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Overture Maps Foundation releases the first beta of its open map dataset
The Overture Maps Foundation today launched the first beta of its global open map dataset. With this, the foundation, which is backed by the likes of Amazon, Esri, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, is getti...
Tesla layoffs hit high performers, some departments slashed, sources say
Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent layoffs — which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit high performers — were largely due to poor financial performance, a source familiar w...
Two Chairs raises $72M Series C in equity and debt to scale its therapist network
When Alex Katz founded Two Chairs in 2017, he firmly believed that in-person therapy is the most effective for behavioral health. Two Chairs used technology — a proprietary matching algorithm — to fin...
Apple lawsuit behind it, chip startup Rivos plots its next moves
The long-term goal with Rivos is to build chips primarily for servers that can handle intensive data analytics and AI workloads, including generative AI workloads.
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Meta’s Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook
The Oversight Board, Meta’s semi-independent policy council, is turning its attention to how the company’s social platforms are handling explicit, AI-generated images. Tuesday, it announced investigat...
Quilt rides heat pump heat wave with hefty $33M Series A
Quilt promises its heat pump will be a sleeker design that can be installed in more places around a room than competitors’ offerings.
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