Evolution Of Digital Audio Technology Into New-Age Podcasts
While technological advancement is bringing in a massive transformation in almost all sectors, integration of modern technologies have made podcasts more accessible and personalized
Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries
Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…
Kenya’s Uncover raises $1M to expand skincare product enterprise across Africa
Africa’s beauty and personal care market is growing accelerated by its growing young and fashion conscious population, increasing spending power, and urbanization. The market’s potential has in recent years attracted major brands, with Fenty Beauty by Rihanna and LVMH being the latest entrants. Niche local brands are also emerging to offer tailored beauty and skin […]
Kenya’s Uncover raises $1M to expand skincare product enterprise across Africa by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision
An automated status updater for Slack isn’t the only thing Mozilla acquired this week. On Wednesday, the company announced that it snatched up Active Replica, a Vancouver-based startup developing a “web-based metaverse.” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source […]
Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Elon Musk suspends Kanye West’s account for breaking Twitter rules
Elon Musk has suspended Kanye West’s (aka Ye) Twitter account after the latter posted anti-semantic tweets and violated the platform’s rules. Just clarifying that his account is being suspended for incitement to violence, not an unflattering pic of me being hosed by Ari. Frankly, I found those pics to be helpful motivation to lose weight! […]
Elon Musk suspends Kanye West’s account for breaking Twitter rules by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Tesla reveals long-awaited Semi Truck and begins first deliveries
Tesla delivered Thursday evening the first production versions of its long-delayed electric semi truck five years after CEO Elon Musk revealed the commercial vehicle. The first Tesla Semi trucks were handed over to Pepsi at an event at the company gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada. Pepsi placed an order for 100 trucks back in December 2017, when […]
Tesla reveals long-awaited Semi Truck and begins first deliveries by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
This secondary market pro thinks we haven’t hit bottom, but he sees price drops slowing
Earlier today, we talked with Phil Haslett, the cofounder and now chief strategy officer of EquityZen, a 10-year-old, New York-based secondary marketplace that connects accredited buyers with privately held company shares that their owners — including founders, employees, and VCs — are looking to sell. It’s a tough business to be running right now, competing […]
This secondary market pro thinks we haven’t hit bottom, but he sees price drops slowing by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch
Boundary Layer pivots from container ships to hydrofoiling personal watercraft
Boundary Layer, which was gunning for local air freight, and announced a slew of launch partners earlier this year, today announced a shift in strategy, with some high-performance foiling personal watercraft. Think low-flying SeaDoo, and you’ve got the right idea. The new product is called Valo, and will be able to carry a couple of […]
Boundary Layer pivots from container ships to hydrofoiling personal watercraft by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
To da moon: Emm aims to innovate on the menstrual cup
Menstrual cups (sometimes known as “moon cups”) have been around since the 1930s, and it’s been a bloody long period since we’ve seen much innovation in that category. Emm just closed a $1 million round of funding to add some smarts. The company adds an applicator and an app tracking feature to help keep an […]
To da moon: Emm aims to innovate on the menstrual cup by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
Rocket Lab carves off defense-focused subsidiary for national security customers
Launch provider Rocket Lab is establishing a subsidiary to handle its sensitive U.S. government business, like launching spysats and experimental military spacecraft. Rocket Lab National Security LLC will handle most of the Defense Department stuff going forward to save the rest of the company a bit of grief. The main arm of Rocket Lab, or […]
Rocket Lab carves off defense-focused subsidiary for national security customers by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
What’s a Twitter user to do?
In the older days of the web, an app called Trillian emerged to solve the problem of allowing users to connect to their friends across multiple messaging services, like AIM, Jabber, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC and others. Lately, I’ve been longing for a Trillian-like service that would allow me to keep up with Twitter’s fleeing user […]
What’s a Twitter user to do? by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch