March 14, 2025

Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI

On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden Administration that might suggest the former President “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor lawful speech” in AI products. The Trump Administration’s top technology advisers previously signaled it would pick […]

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Meet Pineapple, the platform aiming to reshape professional networking for Gen Z

November 10, 2022

Pineapple, an app that’s aiming to reshape professional networking for Gen Z, is officially launching to the public today. The idea behind Pineapple is to give young professionals a way to network with others through a visual story profile that’s kind of like a digital portfolio. For now, the platform is only available on iOS. […]

Meet Pineapple, the platform aiming to reshape professional networking for Gen Z by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

“Self-therapy” startups are blooming in the ‘moderate mental health’ space

November 10, 2022

Mental health problems – and the tech products which aim at them – come in all shapes and sizes. There are ‘mental wellness’ products like Calm and Headspace. On the more severe side of things there is Cerebral, Betterhelp, and, of course, marketplaces for actual, card-carrying therapists. If you have more moderate mental health problems […]

“Self-therapy” startups are blooming in the ‘moderate mental health’ space by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Contraline erects $7.2M for contraceptive implants for men

November 10, 2022

The cervix industry has had implants to prevent pregnancy since the late 1960s, but there hasn’t exactly been stiff competition to slow down the fallopian swim team at its source. In fact, Contraline claims it is the first major innovation in this space since the vasectomy was performed on a human some 125 years ago. […]

Contraline erects $7.2M for contraceptive implants for men by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter chief information security officer Lea Kissner departs

November 10, 2022

Twitter’s most senior cybersecurity staffer Lea Kissner has departed the social media giant. Kissner announced the move in a tweet on Thursday, saying they made the “hard decision” to leave Twitter, but did not say for what reason they resigned. Elon Musk completed a $44 billion takeover of Twitter two weeks ago, resulting in layoffs […]

Twitter chief information security officer Lea Kissner departs by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Pinterest launches its collage-making app Shuffles to the general public

November 10, 2022

Pinterest’s new collage-making app Shuffles is now available to the general public, after entering an invite-only test phase earlier this summer. The app grew in popularity with Gen Z users, who used the creative expression tool to make “aesthetic” collages, sometimes set to music and posted to TikTok, or shared privately with friends or the Shuffles community. […]

Pinterest launches its collage-making app Shuffles to the general public by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch