June 21, 2025

European leaders worry they’re too reliant on U.S. tech

European governments may be reconsidering their use of American technology and services, according to a new report in The New York Times.

Damus, another decentralized social networking app, arrives to take on Twitter

February 1, 2023

Another decentralized social networking application to challenge Twitter has hit the App Store. Last year, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey donated around $245,000 in bitcoin (then roughly 14 BTC) to fund the development of an open and decentralized social networking protocol known as Nostr, which is based on cryptographic key pairs. Now, the first mobile app […]

Damus, another decentralized social networking app, arrives to take on Twitter by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung’s new Galaxy S23 Ultra arrives with a 200-megapixel camera

February 1, 2023

Common wisdom in digital photography says that megapixels aren’t everything. They matter to an extent, but smartphone makers have a long history of leaning too heavily on those numbers as a kind of shorthand for camera quality. In other words, they play an important role but need to work in concert with a number of […]

Samsung’s new Galaxy S23 Ultra arrives with a 200-megapixel camera by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung has the MacBook Pro in its sights with the $2,400 Galaxy Book 3 Ultra

February 1, 2023

The new MacBook Pros are a lot of things, but cheap isn’t one. Performance, it seems, comes at a price. It’s certainly a philosophy Samsung has long subscribed to with its highest-end products. Take the group of laptops it announced alongside the Galaxy S23 at today’s Unpacked event. There are, fittingly, three primary SKUs for […]

Samsung has the MacBook Pro in its sights with the $2,400 Galaxy Book 3 Ultra by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Tackling huge challenges together

February 1, 2023
History tends to elevate lone heroes, but recent events have shown that enormous challenges can only be solved through team effort. Two celebrated leaders from science and sport discuss how collaboration, resolve, and empathy have contributed to some of their most recognizable achievements. They define their vision for the future, and chart where they’ll set their…

Portugal’s Coverflex raises a €15M Series A to make employee benefits more flexible and engaging

February 1, 2023

In the current environment, Start-ups are having to do a couple of seemingly contradictory things at the same time. Firstly, they have to keep employees (the ones they want to keep, at least) happy. The other is attract new employees in a market where there remains fierce competition for talent. In their armoury to address […]

Portugal’s Coverflex raises a €15M Series A to make employee benefits more flexible and engaging by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Jetpack.io helps developers focus on applications instead of infrastructure

February 1, 2023

Jetpack.io’s founder Daniel Loreto has worked as an engineer at companies like Google, Airbnb and Twitter, companies that had lots of engineering resources to build custom tools. But when he was at his last job running engineering at Verta Health, he noticed that his developer team had to work hard deploying infrastructure, and it distracted […]

Jetpack.io helps developers focus on applications instead of infrastructure by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

FTC slaps $1.5M fine on GoodRx for sharing users’ health data with Facebook and Google

February 1, 2023

Online pharmacy GoodRx has agreed to pay $1.5 million in civil penalties for years of sharing the health information of consumers with third parties like Facebook, Google, and Criteo for advertising purposes, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. In a complaint filed in a California federal court, the FTC accused the healthcare and telemedicine giant […]

FTC slaps $1.5M fine on GoodRx for sharing users’ health data with Facebook and Google by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Report: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks

February 1, 2023

Microsoft is working to incorporate a faster version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, into Bing in the coming weeks in a move that would make the search engine more competitive with Google, according to a new report from Semafor. People familiar with the matter told Semafor that GPT-4 responds much faster than ChatGPT, and […]

Report: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch