Snapchat+ subscription now has more than 3 million users

April 19, 2023

Snap said today that its Snapchat+ paid plan has more than 3 million users. At its Snap Partner Summit event, the company added that in the coming days, Verizon users will have the option to buy Snapchat+ subscriptions through the carrier’s subscription store called +Play. The company launched the paid tier last June and expanded […]

Snapchat+ subscription now has more than 3 million users by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Dabbsson’s new Home Backup Power Station are here to keep your lights on

April 19, 2023

What do you do when the lights go out? When the snow became too much for the power lines as a kid, I remember candles and Primus stoves. In today’s world of high-tech electrification, we’re going in a slightly different direction and Dabbsson today announced its new Portable Home Backup Power Ecosystem, which harnesses the […]

Dabbsson’s new Home Backup Power Station are here to keep your lights on by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Netflix blames a technical bug for its ‘Love is Blind’ live stream issues, says it will try live again

April 19, 2023

Netflix’s flubbed foray into livestreaming was a topic of discussion during the streamer’s first-quarter earnings on Tuesday with co-CEO Greg Peters telling investors how sorry the company was for “disappointing so many people,” and explaining in more detail what had happened. Over the weekend, Netflix had been set to release its first live reunion special […]

Netflix blames a technical bug for its ‘Love is Blind’ live stream issues, says it will try live again by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Stability AI releases ChatGPT-like language models

April 19, 2023

Stability AI, the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion, today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. Called StableLM and available in “alpha” on GitHub and Hugging Spaces, a platform for hosting AI models and code, Stability AI says that the […]

Stability AI releases ChatGPT-like language models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Opendoor alums raise $15M for Kindred, a home-swapping network

April 19, 2023

The concept of taking existing properties and repurposing them is not a new one. After all, Airbnb is a high-profile example of people turning vacation homes, for example, into revenue generators when they’re not using them. The end result is that travelers have far more options today than they used to when choosing where to […]

Opendoor alums raise $15M for Kindred, a home-swapping network by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch