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A ‘Prevention of Future Deaths’ report following a UK coroner’s inquest into the suicide of British schoolgirl, Molly Russell, who killed herself almost five years ago after viewing content on social media websites that promoted self harm, has recommended the government looks at requiring age verification on sign-up to social platforms to ensure the separation […]

Coroner’s report into UK schoolgirl’s suicide urges social media regulation by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Momentive Global, the parent of the web-survey portal SurveyMonkey, laid off 11% of its workforce this week. Multiple people across divisions including those handling the business development, customer support, recruitment and sales at the San Mateo, California-headquartered company have been impacted, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. “In an 8-K filed on October 13, we announced […]

SurveyMonkey parent Momentive Global lays off 11% of workforce by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

It’s time for procrastination to stop here. Well, it is if you’ve put off buying your pass to TechCrunch Disrupt. Today is your final opportunity to avoid paying full freight. Nobody likes full freight, just sayin’. You can still save $700 if…and only if…you buy your pass before the deal expires precisely at 11:59 p.m. […]

Today – last day to save on Disrupt passes by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Sarah Guo raised $101 million for her new fund to back companies that are building artificial intelligence and what she describes as software 3.0.

Carving out conviction around the future of AI with Sarah Guo by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Beyond Meat expects the job cuts to be completed by the end of the year. 

Beyond Meat to cut 19% of its workforce amid sales slump by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Members of the European Parliament have lodged complaints against three tech giants, Amazon, Google and Meta, with the EU’s Transparency Register — aka, the oversight process that’s intended to track lobbying activity aimed at the bloc’s lawmakers — accusing the trio of breaching the lobbying transparency rules by using smaller front organizations to press their […]

Big Tech and industry lobby groups accused in EU transparency complaints by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Sono Motors, the company building an electric vehicle that’s partially powered by the sun, debuted its flagship Sion in New York City this week as part of a multi-city tour throughout the U.S. The company aims to launch the $25,000 five-seater hatchback in Europe first — production is expected to start in the second half […]

Inside Sono Motors’ family friendly $25,000 solar EV by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch