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It’s been a whirlwind few years for Oura. The hardware-maker rode the early days of the pandemic to the top of the wearable ranks, establishing itself as the top smart ring maker by a mile. With the promise of detecting early COVID warning signals, the company struck up brand partnerships with some of the world’s […]

Oura/Best Buy partnership brings the smart ring to 850 stores across the US by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Constrafor provides embedded financing and software to keep payments flowing between contractors and their subcontractors.

Constrafor, a construction procurement company, goes ‘SAFE’ route with new capital by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why child safety bills are popping up all over the US Bills that are supposed to make the internet safer for children and teens have been popping up all over the United States…

This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. Hello and welcome to The Technocrat!  Bills ostensibly aimed at making the internet safer for children and teens have been popping up all over the…

After removing thousands of legacy verification checkmarks on April 20, Twitter is restoring the Blue tick marks for large accounts — even if they didn’t pay for subscriptions. Over the weekend, multiple top accounts (with more than 1 million followers) got their verification marks back. However, many of them including writer Neil Gaiman, footballer Riyad […]

Twitter reinstates Blue verification mark for top accounts — even if they didn’t pay for it by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

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Early-stage fintech startups just got a new funding source by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Swytch offers regular bike riders a way to turn their existing bike into something with a little more oomph.

How Swytch used ‘crowdshopping’ to scale without VC money by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Hello, friends, and welcome to the latest edition of Week in Review (WiR), the weekly newsletter where we recap the past several days (or so) in tech news. We’d argue that there’s no better way to get your news fix, but we’d be biased. Still! Trust us when we say it’s a labor of love. […]

AI-generated chart toppers, Apple gets into savings, and Microsoft drops Twitter by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch