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New Red Hat partnerships with SAP and Oracle could bode well for owner IBM

February 1, 2023

It’s been a good week for Red Hat, and by extension IBM, the company that owns it. That’s because Red Hat signed two partnership agreements this week, one with Oracle and the other with SAP. Those are some big players, and if it results in more deployments for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), it could […]

New Red Hat partnerships with SAP and Oracle could bode well for owner IBM by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Netlify acquires frontend platform Gatsby

February 1, 2023

Web development platform Netlify today announced that it has acquired its competitor Gatsby, the company behind the opensource GatsbyJS framework. Gatsby, which had raised a total of $46.8 million, including a $28 million Series B led by Index Ventures in 2020, never quite got the traction that competitors like Netlify itself or Vercel saw in […]

Netlify acquires frontend platform Gatsby by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Summari pivots to AI-generated link previews that really click

February 1, 2023

Summari took a shot at making article summaries on demand a must-have tool for the overloaded reader. But a year later the startup is leaving that model in the dust for a new, and in retrospect way better, use for its summarization service: link previews. And once you give them a shot, you may find […]

Summari pivots to AI-generated link previews that really click by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

The biggest names in D&D are going independent on ‘Worlds Beyond Number’

February 1, 2023

“If you could open this article sort of Rolling Stone style…” Brennan Lee Mulligan suggests, then without changing his tone, pitches his lede: “In a Corvette, racing down the 5, [podcast producer] Taylor Moore swerves, then bites right into a massive wheel of brie cheese…” It’s what you’d expect from Mulligan, who got his start […]

The biggest names in D&D are going independent on ‘Worlds Beyond Number’ by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Hear how to find profitability early with Cambly and Benchmark on TechCrunch Live

February 1, 2023

TechCrunch Live is back! I’m thrilled to bring this event series back for its third season. We’re booked for months, and I’m delighted to host the upcoming guests. Join us for our first episode with Benchmark and Cambly taking place today, February 1, 2023 at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. Our first guests are Sameer […]

Hear how to find profitability early with Cambly and Benchmark on TechCrunch Live by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month

February 1, 2023

Aiming to monetize what’s become a viral phenomenon, OpenAI today launched a new pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, its text-generating AI that can write convincingly human-like essays, poems, emails, lyrics and more. Called ChatGPT Plus and starting at $20 per month, ChatGPT Pro delivers a number of benefits over the base-level ChatGPT, OpenAI says, including […]

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Damus, another decentralized social networking app, arrives to take on Twitter

February 1, 2023

Another decentralized social networking application to challenge Twitter has hit the App Store. Last year, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey donated around $245,000 in bitcoin (then roughly 14 BTC) to fund the development of an open and decentralized social networking protocol known as Nostr, which is based on cryptographic key pairs. Now, the first mobile app […]

Damus, another decentralized social networking app, arrives to take on Twitter by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung’s new Galaxy S23 Ultra arrives with a 200-megapixel camera

February 1, 2023

Common wisdom in digital photography says that megapixels aren’t everything. They matter to an extent, but smartphone makers have a long history of leaning too heavily on those numbers as a kind of shorthand for camera quality. In other words, they play an important role but need to work in concert with a number of […]

Samsung’s new Galaxy S23 Ultra arrives with a 200-megapixel camera by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch