February 2023

Ethereum moved to proof of stake. Why can’t Bitcoin? 

February 28, 2023
Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. Last year, Ethereum went green. The second-most popular crypto platform transitioned to proof of stake, an energy-efficient framework for adding new blocks of transactions, NFTs, and other information to the…

Cycle is a new product management hub that centralizes all customer feedback

February 28, 2023

Meet Cycle, a French startup that is building a collaboration tool for product managers where they can collect data from various tools, work on the next product iterations and close the feedback loop with the most engaged customers. The company raised a total of $6 million across two funding rounds, including a recent funding round […]

Cycle is a new product management hub that centralizes all customer feedback by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Meta says it is experimenting with AI-powered chat on WhatsApp and Messenger

February 28, 2023

No company is immune from the generative AI wave, and everybody wants in. Meta is the latest entrant in testing AI-powered tools for its products. Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company is building “a new top-level product group” to integrate generative AI into its services used by billions of users. Zuckerberg said the team […]

Meta says it is experimenting with AI-powered chat on WhatsApp and Messenger by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April

February 28, 2023

Tokyo-based ispace said Monday that its Hakuto-R lunar lander is on track to reach the moon at the end of April. ispace launched the lander on board a Falcon 9 in December; since then, the spacecraft has traveled around 1,376 million kilometers, the farthest a privately funded, commercial operating spacecraft has ever journeyed into deep […]

Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Waymo to test driverless rides with employees in Los Angeles

February 28, 2023

Waymo will begin testing its autonomous Jaguar I-Paces without a human safety operator in Los Angeles in the next couple of weeks. This is the company’s next step on its path to commercializing robotaxi services in its second California city. To start, only employees will be able to hail rides in the driverless robotaxis. While […]

Waymo to test driverless rides with employees in Los Angeles by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Chris Rock gears up to talk about “The Slap” in a live performance on Netflix this Saturday

February 28, 2023

Chris Rock is a widely beloved comic; he’s also a savvy entrepreneur. Though Rock might have talked with media outlets about being assaulted by actor-producer Will Smith last March during the Academy Awards — he could have also chosen to sue Smith — he instead stayed mum, turning The Slap into material for his first […]

Chris Rock gears up to talk about “The Slap” in a live performance on Netflix this Saturday by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

Senator Markey calls on Elon Musk to reinstate Twitter’s accessibility team

February 27, 2023

After several rounds of layoffs, Twitter’s staff is down from about 7,500 employees to less than 2,000 — and one of the numerous cuts across the company eliminated the platform’s entire accessibility team last year. In an open letter to Elon Musk, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) called on the new Twitter owner to bring the […]

Senator Markey calls on Elon Musk to reinstate Twitter’s accessibility team by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch