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A full day’s work for Dora Manriquez, who drives for Uber and Lyft in the San Francisco Bay Area, includes waiting in her car for a two-digit number to appear. The apps keep sending her rides that are too cheap to pay for her time—$4 or $7 for a trip across San Francisco, $16 for…

January 2023

Despite challenges, Netflix says its ad tier is doing well

January 7, 2023

In November, Netflix unveiled its long-anticipated ad-supported tier which offers customers in select markets, including the U.S., the ability to offset the cost of a Netflix subscription by allowing their viewing to be interrupted with ad breaks. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Netflix President of Worldwide Advertising, Jeremi Gorman, offered some initial […]

Despite challenges, Netflix says its ad tier is doing well by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

This pepper spray will phone your friends as you mace your assailants

January 7, 2023

From the desk of ‘I’m not sure this is a good idea’ at CES in Las Vegas, comes 444. The early-stage startup is planning to combine pepper spray with some electronics so a potential attack victim’s friends can be notified when they’ve had to deploy the defence spray to get themselves out of a bind. […]

This pepper spray will phone your friends as you mace your assailants by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Brane X portable speaker packs a hell of a punch in a small package

January 7, 2023

You probably haven’t heard of Brane Audio yet, but trust me on this one: You will. One of my highlights at CES in Las Vegas today was listening to the company’s debut speaker, the Brane X, side-by-side with some other well-known speaker brands. The company’s founder has a background from high-precision magnetics, and after exiting […]

Brane X portable speaker packs a hell of a punch in a small package by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Is Adobe using your photos to train its AI? It’s complicated

January 7, 2023

A sharp-eyed developer at Krita noticed recently that, in the settings for their Adobe Creative Cloud account, the company had opted them (and everyone else) into a “content analysis” program whereby they “may analyze your content using techniques such as machine learning (e.g. for pattern recognition) to develop and improve our products and services.” Some […]

Is Adobe using your photos to train its AI? It’s complicated by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

HealthAtom empowers LatAm’s small healthcare offices with cloud-based ops

January 6, 2023

HealthAtom is aiming to be the go-to cloud-based operations system for small and midsize healthcare companies across Latin America (LatAm). Although the company has been around since 2012, this is the first time it has announced fresh capital, in the amount of $10 million. HealthAtom’s medilink and dentalink software suites let clinics create schedules, manage […]

HealthAtom empowers LatAm’s small healthcare offices with cloud-based ops by Andrew Mendez originally published on TechCrunch

Mojo Vision puts contact lens production ‘on hold’ as it lays off 75% of staff

January 6, 2023

We’ve met with Mojo Vision for several CESes, watching the startup’s AR contact lenses develop, year by year. These sorts of things take a lot of time and money, of course – and these days it seems increasingly difficult to find either. Today, the California -based firm announced that it is “decelerating” work on the […]

Mojo Vision puts contact lens production ‘on hold’ as it lays off 75% of staff by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

NFT marketplace SuperRare cuts 30% of staff

January 6, 2023

The NFT marketplace SuperRare is cutting 30% of its staff, according to a Slack message from CEO John Crain. Crain posted a screenshot of the message on Twitter. I have some tough news to share: pic.twitter.com/iLDKqgyhQa — SuperRare John 💎 (@SuperRareJohn) January 6, 2023 “During the recent bull run, we grew in tandem with the […]

NFT marketplace SuperRare cuts 30% of staff by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch