February 5, 2025

Supersonic planes are inching toward takeoff. That could be a problem.

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in a test flight of its XB-1 jet last week, marking an early step in a potential return for supersonic commercial flight. The small aircraft reached a top speed of Mach 1.122 (roughly 750 miles per hour) in a flight over southern California and exceeded the speed of sound…

Yahaha raises $40M more for its user-generated, low-code immersive gaming platform

November 15, 2022

Yahaha, a Helsinki- and Shanghai-based immersive, user-generated, low-code gaming platform founded by a group of Chinese gaming vets, made a splash in January when it announced a cumulative $50 million in funding ahead of its alpha launch in April. Now, with 100,000 creators and hundreds of thousands of players, it’s raised a further $40 million […]

Yahaha raises $40M more for its user-generated, low-code immersive gaming platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Spotify’s video podcast publishing tools expand to creators worldwide

November 15, 2022

Spotify today is expanding its video podcasting capabilities to creators in more than 180 markets worldwide, which means the functionality is now available in nearly all the markets where Spotify’s podcast creation software, Anchor, is currently available. The feature, first entered wider testing last year, then officially launched in April to a handful of key […]

Spotify’s video podcast publishing tools expand to creators worldwide by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

TheGist taps AI to summarize Slack channels and threads

November 15, 2022

Itay Dressler and Itzik Ben Bassat, who’ve held various software engineering and executive roles at startups together over the years, are accustomed to exchanging brief messages. Ben Bassat has ADHD, and for that reason prefers to keep texts on the shorter side. But as he and Dressler were faced with wrangling an increasing number of […]

TheGist taps AI to summarize Slack channels and threads by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Payload raises $4.7M for its developer-first headless CMS

November 15, 2022

Payload, which develops a headless open-source content management system (CMS), today announced that it has raised a $4.7 million seed round led by Google’s AI-focused Gradient Ventures. Other investors include MongoDB Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Grand Ventures and Exceptional Capital, in addition to a number of angel investors. Unlike most CMS tools, Michigan-based Payload […]

Payload raises $4.7M for its developer-first headless CMS by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Retool launches Workflows to go beyond the front end

November 15, 2022

Since its launch in 2017, Retool has made a name for itself by offering developers an easier way to build line-of-business apps for their internal users. Unlike the many low-code/no-code tools on the market today, Retool’s focus remains squarely on developers, despite its helpful drag-and-drop interface. Now, about half a year after announcing its $45 […]

Retool launches Workflows to go beyond the front end by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

MotherDuck secures investment from Andreessen Horowitz to commercialize DuckDB

November 15, 2022

Jordan Tigani — a founding engineer at Google BigQuery, Google’s fully managed data analysis platform — was working as the chief product officer at SingleStore when he noticed that the vast majority of database workloads were small (less than 10GB in size) and low-bandwidth. While vendors were building for massive data sets, the term “big […]

MotherDuck secures investment from Andreessen Horowitz to commercialize DuckDB by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

AI-driven fashion platform Shoptrue constantly learns its users shopping habits

November 15, 2022

An A.I.-powered online fashion marketplace, Shoptrue, is launching its website into beta today with plans for a public release early next year. The site blends artificial intelligence and personalized recommendations with taste-driven shopping, the company says, which helps give users a source for style inspiration as well as the ability to create and share outfit […]

AI-driven fashion platform Shoptrue constantly learns its users shopping habits by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Unified employee experience: Fireside chat with Constellation Research and Infosys

November 15, 2022
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” R “Ray” Wang, from Constellation Research, and Lax Gopisetty, from Infosys, discuss why it is essential for enterprises to bring the unified employee experience to the forefront. They also shared their views on how automation and AI play a critical role…

Building a sustainable future with cloud

November 15, 2022
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Watch this panel discussion led by Heinrich Seeger from CIO Magazine on “Building A Sustainable Future with Cloud,” with panelists Fonlinda Frasheri from Commerzbank and Mats Andersson from Lefdal Mine Datacenter. Click here to continue.