Technology

10 years at TechCrunch

August 28, 2023
It’s been 10 years since I stepped off a ledge and landed at TechCrunch. I don’t get self referential a lot here on the pages of TC, but I figured that a tin anniversary is a nice time to look at what we’ve done over the past decade as we approach this year’s Disrupt, coming […]

DoorDash launches AI-powered voice ordering technology for restaurants

August 28, 2023
DoorDash is launching AI-powered voice ordering technology that will allow restaurants to increase their sales by answering all of the calls they receive, the company announced on Monday. The system will also provide customers with curated recommendations to complement their meal. The company’s 2023 Restaurant Online Ordering Trends Report reveals that one in five customers […]

Splinter group officially launches OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform

August 28, 2023
Earlier this month HashiCorp announced that it was changing the open source license it uses for Terraform and its other developer tools. The change triggered an uproar in the open source community. On Friday, a splinter group announced it was developing an open source fork of Terraform, and officially launched the OpenTF project. “We completed […]

The battery business is booming and Zeekr kicks off it IPO roadshow

August 27, 2023
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Better.com’s public market debut was Miserable.com

August 27, 2023
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Better.com finally went public last week, and the stock’s performance was worse than expected. Affirm, on the other hand, saw its shares get a boost on the back of a better-than-expected earnings report. There was also a […]

VFX artists show that Hollywood can use AI to create, not exploit

August 25, 2023
Hollywood may be embroiled in ongoing labor disputes that involve AI, but the technology infiltrated film and TV long, long ago. At SIGGRAPH in LA, algorithmic and generative tools were on display in countless talks and announcements. We may not know where the likes of GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion fit in yet, but the creative […]