Relying on vanity metrics are like attending a Little League awards dinner: Everyone goes home a winner!
TechCrunch+ roundup: Vanity metric dangers, planning for failure, Black founders survey by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca caught up with Alice Albrecht about her early-stage AI startup re:collect. Alice talked about why she founded the company that uses machine learning algorithms to help creatives brainstorm and recall information without breaking focus. She also talked about […]
Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch
The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open-sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. According to a paper published alongside the code base, Point-E can produce 3D models in 1 to 2 minutes on a single […]
OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Solo GP Nichole Wischoff told TechCrunch that she is hoping to fund “American dynamism … the real one.
This VC is bullish about American dynamism – ‘the real one’ by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch
Vercel, the popular front-end development platform, now allows you to comment directly on preview deployments, using a highly visual commenting system that is similar to Figma’s. The company had been testing this feature since September and it’s now generally available to all users. As Vercel co-founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch told me, the idea here […]
Vercel makes it easier to collaborate on preview deployments by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Microsoft says a vulnerability it discovered in a core macOS security feature, Gatekeeper, could have allowed attackers to compromise vulnerable Macs with malware. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-42821, was first uncovered by Microsoft principal security researcher Jonathan Bar Or, and dubbed the “Achilles” vulnerability. Bar Or said the bug could allow malware to skirt Gatekeeper’s […]
Apple fixes bug that let malicious apps skirt macOS’ security protections by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
After years of promises and millions in investments, Porsche today pumped the first gallons of its fully synthetic fuel into a car. That car? A 911, of course. Porsche has been talking about eFuels since 2020, when it made a 20 million euro investment into a project with Siemens Energy to create a pilot plant […]
Porsche pumps first synthetic fuel as Chilean plant finally starts producing by Tim Stevens originally published on TechCrunch
Most companies agree that user experience is important. In a 2019 report from UserZoom, 70% of enterprise CEOs said that they see user and customer experience as a competitive differentiator. But figuring out what exactly users want — and what frustrates them — can prove to be a challenge. Customer satisfaction and market research surveys […]
User Interviews, which helps companies recruit survey participants, raises $27.5M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch