February 6, 2025

What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. As I’ve admitted in this newsletter before, I love few things more than getting on an airplane. I know, it’s a bold statement from a climate reporter because of all the associated…

Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Space in Los Angeles

November 15, 2022

TechCrunch Sessions: Space is back! Happening December 6 — our third dedicated space event. This is a live, in-person event featuring the most influential people in the space industry, across the public, private and defense sectors. This year saw the commercial space industry undergo a lot of change, including significant consolidation and new entrants in […]

Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Space in Los Angeles by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Startup founders go to war with UK government over its moves to appoint bank into key ecosystem role

November 15, 2022

Nothing less than a war has broken out between an influential swathe of the UK tech startup community and the British government, after the latter has allegedly sought to hand the curation and promotion of British startups – both inside the UK and abroad – over to a single UK bank. As we covered previously, […]

Startup founders go to war with UK government over its moves to appoint bank into key ecosystem role by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

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