October 2022

Elon Musk doesn’t know what it takes to make a digital town square

October 29, 2022
It was in 2009 when the power of Twitter really became evident. As some Iranians tweeted through the country’s elections during a media blackout, the site began to emerge as a critical tool of global activists. Later movements, including the 2011 Egyptian revolution and the Movement for Black Lives, relied on Twitter to disseminate information…

Why “generative AI” is suddenly on everyone’s lips: it’s an “open field”

October 29, 2022

If you’ve been closely following the progress of Open AI, the company run by Sam Altman whose neural nets can now write original text and create original pictures with astonishing ease and speed, you might just skip this piece. If, on the other hand, you’ve only been vaguely paying attention to the company’s progress and […]

Why “generative AI” is suddenly on everyone’s lips: it’s an “open field” by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

I made it big on Twitter. Now I don’t think I can stay.

October 29, 2022
For a long time, it was worth it to stay on Twitter because Twitter had the power to change your life. I broke big on Twitter more than 10 years ago with a hashtag, #solidarityisforwhitewomen, and Twitter was great for my career. It gave me access to a global audience and allowed me unprecedented access…

Get Your Ride On: Switch E-Scooter

October 29, 2022
Every scooter can be connected to your smartphone via a Bluetooth Smart App, which allows you to control your scooter.

GM pauses paid advertising on Twitter as Chief Twit Elon Musk takes ownership

October 29, 2022

General Motors has temporarily paused paid advertising on Twitter, one day after billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk finalized a $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform. CNBC was the first to report GM’s decision. TechCrunch confirmed the U.S. automaker’s decision. “We are engaging with Twitter to understand the direction of the platform under […]

GM pauses paid advertising on Twitter as Chief Twit Elon Musk takes ownership by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s Nest Wifi Pro is a dead simple way to bring Wi-Fi 6E home

October 29, 2022

A quick caveat up top. This isn’t a review. TechCrunch does reviews. This isn’t one. There are several reasons for this. First, last week was Disrupt — I was busy on the other side of the country. Second, this week is my COVID week (third round, otherwise self-explanatory w/r/t a limited output). Third, we very […]

Google’s Nest Wifi Pro is a dead simple way to bring Wi-Fi 6E home by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Cruz Foam’s chitin-based packaging brings in $18M as industries scramble to go green

October 28, 2022

The best way to remove plastics from the ecosystem is to make sure they never get there in the first place, and Cruz Foam is well on its way to replacing some of the worst ones out there with its naturally-derived and compostable alternative — and the company just landed an $18M series A to […]

Cruz Foam’s chitin-based packaging brings in $18M as industries scramble to go green by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid is back on the books for October 2023

October 28, 2022

NASA said Friday that its Psyche mission (named after the asteroid the mission is targeting) has been rescheduled to October next year. The news comes just a few months after the agency announced that it would definitively miss its planned 2022 launch attempt. The delayed schedule is due to late delivery of key components of […]

NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid is back on the books for October 2023 by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch