Amazon is discontinuing celebrity voices for Alexa—a feature you may or may not have known about. The three Alexa voices — Samuel L. Jackson, Shaquille O’Neal, and Melissa McCarthy — are no longer available for purchase. The Verge was the first to report the news. Launched in 2019, the celebrity voices use Amazon’s neural text-to-speech […]
Sorry, but Alexa can no longer talk like Samuel L Jackson by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch
Arcimoto, maker of pint-sized electric vehicles, has a new EV. By the looks of it, it’s no joy ride. The Eugene, Oregon-based startup dodged bankruptcy in February and strapped in its third CEO in April. On Tuesday, the company shared its next chapter: a little truck called the MUV (a “Modular Utility Vehicle”) with customizable […]
Arcimoto’s latest teeny-tiny EV is all work and no play by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch
Instacart announced today that it’s introducing a new feature that lets you “favorite” repeat shoppers you trust to have your future orders fulfilled by them. The company is testing the feature in the coming weeks with select customers in some regions, including New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Phoenix and others. Select shoppers […]
Instacart’s new feature lets you ‘favorite’ shoppers to have future orders fulfilled by them by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
If mindlessly browsing the internet is your preferred way to combat boredom and waste time, the indie app makers behind to-do list app Clear and game Heads Up! have a new product you’ll want to try: Web Roulette, a mobile web browser app for iOS built for the short attention spans of the TikTok era. […]
Web Roulette is an addictive, ‘swipeable’ web browser for the TikTok era by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Antimatter is an edtech company that operates under a simple, enticing premise: if a student really understands a topic, then they’ll be able to make a meme about it. “To be able to shitpost, you have to understand the subject matter really well,” Antimatter founder and CEO Jonathan Libov told TechCrunch last year. “In a […]
Antimatter uses memes to turn C students into C+ students by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch