Steve Jobs’s Son Is Diving Into Venture Capital — and His Focus Hits Close to Home
Reed Jobs, 31, launched venture capital firm Yosemite, which already boasts $200 million from investors and institutions.
The Download: autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots
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. How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade For decades, handmade narco subs have been some of the cocaine trade’s most elusive and productive workhorses, ferrying multi-ton loads of illicit drugs…
‘You Need to Stand for Your Values’: Heineken CEO Dolf van den Brink Talks Bud Light Beer Sales Decline
The company posted a 5.6% decline in beer sales in the first half earnings report of 2023.
Why Can’t Ed Brubaker Just Write Something Nice?
Listen in on this chat on all things creative with crime comic book mastermind Ed Brubaker whose trippy new book “Night Fever” is out now.
Allo is a new app that aims to help people create positive habits with their finances through mindfulness
Allo, a new financial app that can be described as Headspace for personal finance, is aiming to help users meaningfully engage with their finances without becoming overwhelmed with numbers and spending. The idea behind Allo is to help users create a mindful money practice that allows them to approach their earnings, spending, saving, investing and […]
TechCrunch+ Roundup: SaaS architecture, Kimberly Bryant’s next move, managing cloud security
“Building a plane in mid-air” is something Silicon Valley visionaries love to say, but it has little to do with the iterative work of developing software.
Meta is reportedly preparing to release AI-powered chatbots with different personas
Meta is gearing up to roll out AI-powered chatbots with different personas as early as next month, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The chatbots are designed to have humanlike conversations with users on Meta’s social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. The report indicates that these chatbots will take on different […]
These Translation Earbuds are Only $99.97 During Our Back-to-School Sale
Speak a language without knowing it with these 37-language translator earbuds.
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In challenge to TikTok, YouTube Shorts gains new creation tools like Collab and Q&As
As competition with TikTok and Instagram Reels heats up, YouTube today announced an expanded suite of creation tools for its own short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts. Among the new features are tools for remixing, adding effects, stickers, going live, and others aimed at encouraging inspiration. The company is also starting a test of a new […]
Kickstarter requires generative AI projects to disclose additional info
As generative AI enters the mainstream, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has struggled to formulate a policy that satisfies parties on all sides of the debate. Most of the generative AI tools used to create art and text today, including Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT, were trained on publicly available images and text from the web. But in […]