July 2023

Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, is attracting users at an unprecedented pace, amassing 10 million signups in just seven hours, according to co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. But the new service, which requires an Instagram account for onboarding, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads account simultaneously terminates the linked Instagram account. In a ‘Supplemental […]

Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

It was only a question of time, I suppose, before someone made a generative AI that can whisper sweet, sweet obscenities at you. Lovense – perhaps best known for its remote-controllable sex toys – this week announced its ChatGPT Pleasure Companion. The company’s newest innovation in sex tech is to do what everyone else seems […]

This sex toy company uses ChatGPT to whisper sweet, customizable fantasies at you by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung announced today that it is holding its next Galaxy Unpacked event on July 26, where the company will likely unveil the Galaxy Fold 5 and the Galaxy Flip 5 foldable phones. The company is hosting the event — termed “On the Flip Side” — in Seoul, South Korea for the first time. It will […]

Samsung is holding its next Unpacked on July 26 to unveil new foldables by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

When it first appeared on the scene around ten years ago, Notion Capital was poised to take advantage of the oft-repeated phrase, “Software is eating the world.” In particular, it was aiming at what was then called the enterprise SaaS space. Several years on, and it’s capitalised on that thesis, investing in in more than […]

Notion hits €300M for its fifth fund, but is unimpressed by big rounds into Generative AI startups by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch