October 2023

Product Hunt cleans house with layoffs impacting 60% of staff

October 19, 2023

Product Hunt, the product discovery site for smaller startups, apps, tech tools, and developers’ side projects, is cleaning house. The company earlier this month announced layoffs, but didn’t give an indication of how widespread those cuts were. We now understand the cuts impacted around 60% of the team, including design, product, sales, and other roles. […]

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SBF asked FTX general counsel to create ‘legal justification’ for using billions in customer funds amid collapse

October 19, 2023

Can Sun, former FTX general counsel, took the stand on Thursday to testify on behalf of the prosecution’s case against Sam Bankman-Fried. Sun has a non-prosecution agreement in exchange for his cooperation. The Yale law school grad joined FTX at the end of August 2021 and stayed until early November 2022 shortly after the crypto […]

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Google takes aim at Duolingo with new English tutoring tool

October 19, 2023

Google’s gunning for Duolingo with a new Google Search feature designed to help people practice — and improve — their English skills. Rolling out over the next few days for Search on Android devices in Argentina, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Venezuela, with more countries and languages to come in the future, the new feature […]

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Pebble’s $100k+ EV travel trailer can live off the grid for 7 days

October 19, 2023

Pebble, the California-based EV startup founded by a veteran of Apple, Cruise and Zoox, unveiled Thursday a prototype of its flagship product: an all-electric travel trailer designed for an off-grid seeking digital nomad. The so-called Pebble Flow, which was revealed virtually, is supposed to bring electrification, automation and the usability of an iPhone to the […]

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