Betweened wants to teach kids how to use social media, not shut them out of it
Keeping kids off social media is idealistic at best, and giving them access to it opens a Pandora’s box of privacy concerns.
ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s first time on stage with his bandmates since he lost the ability to sing two years…
Power Changes The Brain (and Not in a Good Way). Use These Strategies to Counterbalance The Harmful Effects.
Power changes the brain (and not in a good way). Use these strategies to counterbalance power’s harmful effects.
MakersHub deciphers accounts payable data so construction companies don’t have to
MakersHub’s WiseVision technology extracts and contextualizes all data on bills and receipts, including every line item and data field.
J.B. Straubel talks Tesla, Redwood Materials and keeping a startup mentality at any scale
J.B. Straubel has worn many hats in his career: co-founder of Tesla, Tesla Board Member, and more recently, founder and CEO of battery materials and recycling startup Redwood Materials. But in his heart, he’s a engineer, he said during a fireside interview at TechCrunch Disrupt. “I think of myself first and foremost as an engineer. […]
AgTech leaders dish on untapped and overlooked opportunities for founders
Lab-grown meat is buzzy for a reason. The ick factor is palpable, and the benefits of scaling alternatives to factory farming are enormous. Yet, plenty of other crucial corners of agriculture often go overlooked— at least as far as headlines are concerned. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, we asked two leading investors and one founder to […]
Agri-Trak is helping farms replace pen and paper with digital tools to track labor and production
Meet Agri-Trak, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to help farms digitize, track and analyze their labor and production. The Pultneyville, New York-based startup presented today at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield to detail how its labor tracking and H2-A compliance software is helping farms replace pen and paper with easy-to-use digital tools. The platform features a […]
Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately?
Y Combinator has been on the defense as of late. This past weekend, leaders from the popular accelerator were vocal on X (formerly known as Twitter) in their reaction to a comment made by the CEO of another accelerator at an event. Ali Partovi, who founded Neo in 2017, was the keynote speaker at HackMIT […]
AppFactor drags legacy enterprise apps to the cloud through automation
Technical debt is often the unsung villain of the enterprise, crippling companies seeking to modernize as they realize just how much “legacy” lives in their stack. And as with most kinds of debt, there is usually interest to pay, too. This is something that fledgling U.K. startup AppFactor is setting out to solve, with a […]
Reekon hopes high-tech home improvement tools can drag contractors into the 21st century
TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield company Reekon is building the next generation of smart tools for home contractors.
Former Meta AI VP debuts Sizzle, an AI-powered learning app and chatbot
Founded by the former vice president of AI at Meta, Jerome Pesenti, Sizzle is a free AI-powered learning app that generates step-by-step answers to math equations and word problems. The company recently launched four new features, including a grading capability, a feature that regenerates steps, an option to see multiple answers to one problem and […]