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Daily Crunch: News and updates from TechCrunch’s Meta Connect 2022 coverage by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
The demise of a spacecraft is usually something rather poignant. But two weeks ago, NASA celebrated one’s destruction. On September 26, NASA executed the final stage of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), in which a spacecraft intentionally crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos to investigate whether or not such an impact could deflect an Earth-bound […]
Smashing success: NASA’s DART spacecraft bumped an asteroid off its orbit by Stefanie Waldek originally published on TechCrunch
Jesse Powell is stepping down from the CEO role at U.S.-based crypto exchange Kraken, The Wall Street Journal reported last month. Co-founded by Powell and Thanh Luu in 2011, Kraken is now the fourth-largest crypto exchange by volume, according to CoinMarketCap. It’s a critical inflection point for the company, which was valued at $10 billion […]
Kraken’s Jesse Powell on why he’s stepping down as CEO of the crypto exchange by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch
Many Americans feel comfortable treating their advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), which partially automate certain driving functions, as full self-driving systems, according to a study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The survey explored habits, expectations and attitudes among regular users of General Motors Super Cruise, Nissan/Infiniti ProPILOT Assist and Tesla Autopilot. A […]
Many Americans treat driver assist systems like self-driving by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Huge news for, like, five people: you can take videos on Horizon Worlds and share them to Facebook and Instagram Reels, Meta’s TikTok clone. At today’s Meta Connect event, the company formerly known as Facebook announced this new way to share content from Horizon Worlds, Meta’s flagship social VR app. Despite launching about a year […]
No one asked for this, but you can share Horizon Worlds videos to Instagram Reels by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
Earlier this year, when we covered the news that Meta had signed on fast food giant McDonald’s as a customer for Workplace, the B2B service that was originally conceived as a Facebook for enterprises, we noted that Workplace the product had, curiously, been moved into a larger “Reality Labs” division to bring it closer to […]
Meta’s next enterprise push is into the metaverse by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
IMO, “growth hacking” is a sloppy way to describe the iterative work required to fine-tune marketing campaigns and systems.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Growth hacking real talk, RPA market slowdown, AI and IP by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch