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TechCrunch+ collected book recommendations from both venture capitalists and founders. Here we have investor favorites, and we’ll follow up with notes from founders tomorrow.

The best books that venture capitalists read in 2022 by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch

The knotty issue of how Ukraine’s now-critical Starlink satellite internet should be paid for has been at least temporarily resolved, according to the country’s minister for digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov. It appears that a few European Union nations have decided it’s in everyone’s interest to keep the country online as the Russian invasion persists. In […]

Ukraine lines up 10,000 more Starlink terminals as funding issues are ‘resolved’ by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Prepare for an era of working with bots, digital humans, holograms and algorithms as colleagues.

The chief gaming officer at NFT marketplace Magic Eden sees the traditional and web gaming worlds coming together.

Magic Eden exec sees NFT gaming like the ‘early days of mobile gaming’ by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Scooter company Bird is certainly down, but it’s not yet out.  The five-year-old firm says that it and Bird Canada — a separate, private company that licenses Bird’s software and name — will merge “as soon as possible,” with an “estimated total of $32 million in new financing” from Bird Canada’s investors, “$4 million of […]

Bird tanks on word that a Canadian company is saving its bacon by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

In 1992, Irwin Lebow ’48, PhD ’51, submitted this recipe to Moment Magazine’s Ultimate Challah Contest. The judges named it the top recipe in the non-traditional challah category. Lebow called it a liberal adaptation of a recipe by Ruth Brooks in Food for Thought (Sisterhood of Temple Emunah, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1972). Moment called it “A…

Amazon has announced that Fire TV users in the U.S. can now watch tens of thousands of music videos from major and independent labels for free. No downloads, fees or subscriptions are required to watch the music videos. The ad-supported music videos will be available from artists on the Billboard Hot 100, including Taylor Swift, […]

Amazon adds free music videos, viral videos and more ad-supported content to Fire TV by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca caught up with Alice Albrecht about her early-stage AI startup re:collect. Alice talked about why she founded the company that uses machine learning algorithms to help creatives brainstorm and recall information without breaking focus. She also talked about […]

Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open-sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. According to a paper published alongside the code base, Point-E can produce 3D models in 1 to 2 minutes on a single […]

OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch