Bird tanks on word that a Canadian company is saving its bacon

December 20, 2022

Scooter company Bird is certainly down, but it’s not yet out.  The five-year-old firm says that it and Bird Canada — a separate, private company that licenses Bird’s software and name — will merge “as soon as possible,” with an “estimated total of $32 million in new financing” from Bird Canada’s investors, “$4 million of […]

Bird tanks on word that a Canadian company is saving its bacon by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

Irwin Lebow’s rosemary challah

December 20, 2022
In 1992, Irwin Lebow ’48, PhD ’51, submitted this recipe to Moment Magazine’s Ultimate Challah Contest. The judges named it the top recipe in the non-traditional challah category. Lebow called it a liberal adaptation of a recipe by Ruth Brooks in Food for Thought (Sisterhood of Temple Emunah, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1972). Moment called it “A…

Amazon adds free music videos, viral videos and more ad-supported content to Fire TV

December 20, 2022

Amazon has announced that Fire TV users in the U.S. can now watch tens of thousands of music videos from major and independent labels for free. No downloads, fees or subscriptions are required to watch the music videos. The ad-supported music videos will be available from artists on the Billboard Hot 100, including Taylor Swift, […]

Amazon adds free music videos, viral videos and more ad-supported content to Fire TV by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect

December 20, 2022

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca caught up with Alice Albrecht about her early-stage AI startup re:collect. Alice talked about why she founded the company that uses machine learning algorithms to help creatives brainstorm and recall information without breaking focus. She also talked about […]

Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

Vercel makes it easier to collaborate on preview deployments

December 20, 2022

Vercel, the popular front-end development platform, now allows you to comment directly on preview deployments, using a highly visual commenting system that is similar to Figma’s. The company had been testing this feature since September and it’s now generally available to all users. As Vercel co-founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch told me, the idea here […]

Vercel makes it easier to collaborate on preview deployments by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Humans at the center of effective digital defense

December 20, 2022
Digital information has become so ubiquitous that some scientists now refer to it as the fifth state of matter. User-generated content (UGC) is particularly prolific: in April 2022, people shared around 1.7 million pieces of content on Facebook, uploaded 500 hours’ worth of video to YouTube, and posted 347,000 tweets every minute. Much of this…