Google’s podcast search results can now open shows directly in Apple Podcasts

May 18, 2023

Google has made it easier to stream from Apple Podcasts and others when searching for podcasts in Google Search. After earlier this year winding down a feature that let users play podcasts directly from search results, the company said it would “gradually” shift to a new design that would instead offer information about podcasts and […]

Google’s podcast search results can now open shows directly in Apple Podcasts by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group lays off six employees

May 18, 2023

A consulting firm founded and run by two well known cybersecurity veterans laid off six people last week, TechCrunch has learned. Krebs Stamos Group was founded in 2021 by former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos and Chris Krebs, the former director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, who was famously fired by tweet […]

Consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group lays off six employees by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

Okay, but how about a Raspberry Pi device with a BlackBerry keyboard designed for Beeper?

May 18, 2023

One thing you can definitely say about Eric Migicovsky: he seems to be having a lot of fun. The Pebble founder left a three-year stint as a partner at Y Combinator to co-found the chat aggregation app Beeper. During that time, he’s been dipping back into his hardware roots. Back in 2017, he launched a […]

Okay, but how about a Raspberry Pi device with a BlackBerry keyboard designed for Beeper? by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Where remote driving startup Phantom Auto has found new funding and customers

May 18, 2023

Before the COVID pandemic put pressure on an already squeezed transportation and logistics industry, Phantom Auto’s remote driving systems were viewed as an interesting, not essential, piece of technology. “It went from a cool to have, to have-to-have,” co-founder Elliot Katz told TechCrunch, adding that companies were particularly keen to apply the remote driving technology […]

Where remote driving startup Phantom Auto has found new funding and customers by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

A soft e-skin mimics the way human skin can sense things

May 18, 2023
A soft electronic skin could allow people with prosthetics to sense pressure and temperature, helping them to more easily interact with their surroundings. Thin and stretchable like regular skin, the electronic skin sticks to surfaces like a Band-Aid. It contains sensors to measure external temperature and pressure, which it sends to an implanted electrode in…