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Earlier today, we talked with Phil Haslett, the cofounder and now chief strategy officer of EquityZen, a 10-year-old, New York-based secondary marketplace that connects accredited buyers with privately held company shares that their owners — including founders, employees, and VCs — are looking to sell. It’s a tough business to be running right now, competing […]

This secondary market pro thinks we haven’t hit bottom, but he sees price drops slowing by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

Boundary Layer, which was gunning for local air freight, and announced a slew of launch partners earlier this year, today announced a shift in strategy, with some high-performance foiling personal watercraft. Think low-flying SeaDoo, and you’ve got the right idea. The new product is called Valo, and will be able to carry a couple of […]

Boundary Layer pivots from container ships to hydrofoiling personal watercraft by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Menstrual cups (sometimes known as “moon cups”) have been around since the 1930s, and it’s been a bloody long period since we’ve seen much innovation in that category. Emm just closed a $1 million round of funding to add some smarts. The company adds an applicator and an app tracking feature to help keep an […]

To da moon: Emm aims to innovate on the menstrual cup by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

In the older days of the web, an app called Trillian emerged to solve the problem of allowing users to connect to their friends across multiple messaging services, like AIM, Jabber, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC and others. Lately, I’ve been longing for a Trillian-like service that would allow me to keep up with Twitter’s fleeing user […]

What’s a Twitter user to do? by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Released two years ago, OpenAI’s remarkably capable, if flawed, GPT-3 was perhaps the first to demonstrate that AI can write convincingly — if not perfectly — like a human. The successor to GPT-3, most likely called GPT-4, is expected to be unveiled in the near future, perhaps as soon as 2023. But in the meantime, […]

While anticipation builds for GPT-4, OpenAI quietly releases GPT-3.5 by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The technological advances happening within the space industry are nothing short of dramatic — from propulsion systems, heavy-lift rockets and increased payload capabilities to building commercial space stations to fill the gap when the International Space Station ceases operations in 2030. These are thrilling times, and TC Sessions: Space 2022, which takes place on December […]

Meet the early-stage startups exhibiting at TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Motional, the Aptiv-Hyundai joint venture developing autonomous vehicle technology, cut its workforce this week — the latest example of layoffs in the AV industry and more broadly in the tech sector. Employees were told of the layoffs Wednesday, according to sources who asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak for […]

Hyundai-backed AV startup Motional cuts workforce by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

A little over a year after buzzy coding bootcamp Lambda School rebranded as Bloom Institute of Technology, the venture-backed startup is conducting massive layoffs, according to sources. The workforce reduction, per people familiar with the matter, has impacted half of the company’s staff across content, product, data and engineering teams. The layoff is expected to […]

BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Back in my day, Apple gave us one iPad, and we had to use it, otherwise we’d go to bed iPad-less. Kids today have all the iPad. There’s an iPad for every mood and every day of the week. Big iPads, small iPads, expensive iPads, slightly less expensive iPads. If you’re looking for an iPad, […]

Gift Guide: Picking out the right iPad by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

A galaxy of opportunity awaits you at TC Sessions: Space 2022 on December 6 in Los Angeles. Sounds corny? Sure. But is it true? Absolutely. Some of the space industry’s great visionaries, founders, scientists, engineers and investors will gather for a full day dedicated to expanding humanity’s presence in the final frontier. During interviews, panel […]

Five reasons why you need to go to TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch