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An Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility

Though Amazon has faced issues with warehouse safety, the company said that the death was not work related.

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Discord users can now link their Crunchyroll accounts

November 17, 2022

Anime streaming service Crunchyroll has partnered with Discord. Starting today, users will be able to display the movie or TV show they’re currently watching on their Discord profile. Crunchyroll is the latest media company to add “Rich Presence,” the “Now Playing” functionality that automatically displays the video you’re watching, the game you’re playing, the song […]

Discord users can now link their Crunchyroll accounts by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

With $8.6M in seed funding, Nx wants to take monorepos mainstream

November 17, 2022

Narwhal, the company behind the popular monorepo-focused open source Nx build system for JavaScript code, today announced that it has raised an $8.6 million seed funding round co-led by Nexus Venture Partners and Andreesen Horowitz. A number of angel investors, including GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, also participated in this round. Founded by two former Google […]

With $8.6M in seed funding, Nx wants to take monorepos mainstream by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

WhatsApp broadens in-app business directory and search features

November 17, 2022

WhatsApp is introducing new Yellow Pages-like features to help users find businesses from within the instant messaging app, part of the Meta-owned platform’s growing attempts to make deeper inroads with e-commerce. The encrypted messaging service, used by over 2 billion users worldwide, said on Thursday that it’s expanding a feature called ‘Directory’ to all users […]

WhatsApp broadens in-app business directory and search features by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

OnlyFans partners with Spring to add shopping features

November 17, 2022

Merch is coming to OnlyFans. In a partnership with Spring — the merch company formerly known as TeeSpring that just got acquired by Amaze — OnlyFans creators can sell physical products to their supporters directly on their platform pages. The feature works via an integration. If you go to a creator’s page who has a […]

OnlyFans partners with Spring to add shopping features by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Speak lands investment from OpenAI to expand its language learning platform

November 17, 2022

Speak, an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. Notably, Speak is the third startup in which OpenAI, the AI lab closely […]

Speak lands investment from OpenAI to expand its language learning platform by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch