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VTubers — online personalities who use motion-capture-powered manga- and anime-inspired avatars to interact with the world alongside games, over YouTube, and in other places — have become big business, with the most popular of them collectively racking up hundreds of millions of hours of viewership in a month, along with loyal fan bases, lucrative sponsorships […]

Hyper raises $3.6M from Amazon and more for its iPhone-based, VTuber-friendly avatar platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Instagram Notes is today getting its first set of new features following its December 2022 public launch. Currently, Instagram Notes allows users to leave a status message that appears for their Close Friends or mutuals at the top of their inbox. With today’s update, Notes will also support music and translations, according to a post […]

You can now share music on Instagram Notes, plus view translations by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

To get the pulse of what’s germinating in this fast rising industry, TechCrunch+ surveyed five alternative protein investors, and they had a lot to say on the subject.

VCs remain confident alternative protein has a real future despite public-market woes by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

ABB this week announced that it has acquired Eve Systems, a German firm best known for a broad range of smart home accessories, including smart lights, plugs, air monitors and security cameras. I’ll admit the deal initially struck me as strange, given that Zurich-based ABB is well known – in my world, at least – […]

ABB buys smart home device maker, Eve Systems by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch