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TechCrunch Minute: Why Tesla’s big layoffs happened, and what comes next

April 16, 2024

Tesla’s layoffs and executive departures took a bite out its share price this week. The well-known electric vehicle company shed around 10% of its staff, impacting an estimated 14,000 staff or more. Two well-known executives also decided it was time to move on. In response to the news, shares of Tesla lost ground. The company’s […]

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Silicon Valley prankster Danielle Baskin launches Moonlight, an online tarot platform

April 16, 2024

Bay Area artist Danielle Baskin is not a first-time founder – but this is the first time she’s started a tech company that isn’t a performance art piece, or an elaborate joke. Still, she has a tongue-in-cheek tagline to pitch her latest venture: “It’s SaaS for witches.” She’s not kidding. Moonlight is a free online […]

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Substack’s Notes feature is getting more Twitter-like capabilities

April 16, 2024

Substack is adding new capabilities to its Twitter-like Notes feature that bring it more in-line with the social network now known as X. The company announced on Tuesday that users can now post videos directly to Notes in the Substack app and on the web. Users can now also embed Notes on external webpages. The […]

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WhatsApp is adding filters to easily find messages

April 16, 2024

For those who use WhatsApp more like an inbox, the app will now become more useful. WhatsApp on Tuesday announced a handful of new chat filters for the app to access certain types of messages easily: All, Unread, and Groups. The “All” filter is selected by default and shows you an unfiltered version of your […]

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Loft Labs brings power of virtualization to Kubernetes clusters

April 16, 2024

It may seem like a paradox to have virtualized Kubernetes clusters. They are, after all, an abstraction in themselves of virtual machines made popular by VMware in the early 2000s. Loft Labs saw a similar problem with resource utilization in Kubernetes clusters that VMware saw with server utilization, and has built a virtualization tool to […]

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Crossword answers revealed

April 16, 2024
Give up? Here’s the solution to the May/June 2024 crossword puzzle “Not that MIT.”