Month: September 2022
Free the female-presenting nipple and other TC news
Is Tumblr porn making a comeback? No, it’s not — and Amanda Silberling joins me on this week’s TechCrunch podcast to explain why, and why people thought it might be. Devin Coldewey also joins us to talk about NASA’s DART mission, which saw the U.S. space agency throw a little spacecraft at a big asteroid … Read more
Oh goodie, now everyone can share NFTs on Instagram or Facebook
Now, your posts can have a little verified check mark to prove you didn’t just right-click, save, and post. | Image: Meta Meta announced on Thursday that it’s giving everyone in the US the ability to share “digital collectibles” (read: NFTs under a new name that social media execs think is more appealing) on Facebook … Read more
Teenage Engineering’s new Record Factory is your own personal record maker
The PO-80 has an arm to play music with, and another to carve it in. | Image: Teenage Engineering Teenage Engineering is known for its playfully designed audio synthesizers you can digitally make music with, but now it’s made a way you can save your tunes in the most analog way possible: on records. The … Read more
Indian market regulator tightens IPO disclosure norms
India’s market regulator has tightened disclosure norms for firms looking to file for an initial public offering after lackluster performance of more than half a dozen tech startups in the past year and a half. Firms looking to raise funds from public offers will now be required by law to disclose their key performance indicators … Read more
I fell in love with Stadia right as it shut down
Image: Google Google is shutting down Stadia, its polarizing cloud gaming service, only four weeks after the company’s target audience of me, Makena Kelly, actually started using it. When Stadia was announced in 2019, Google pitched it as the future of gaming, providing a more accessible alternative to expensive PC rigs or whatever $500 next-gen … Read more
Anker’s new earbuds line includes models for gaming and sleep
Anker’s Soundcore VR P10 earbuds are designed to provide lag-free audio for gaming. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Anker announced its latest wave of wireless earbuds yesterday, and the products indicate that Anker is expanding its focus beyond the usual sound quality upgrades. The company announced three pairs in all: the Soundcore … Read more
The Nord Stream pipeline leaks are a disaster — the oil and gas industry has a much bigger mess
In this Handout Photo provided by Swedish Coast Guard, the release of gas emanating from a leak on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea on September 28th, 2022, in At Sea. | Photo by Swedish Coast Guard via Getty Images This week, the world watched what’s likely to be the fossil … Read more
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500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators
It’s been a little over a year since accelerator 500 Startups rebranded to 500 Global in an attempt to reposition itself as a venture firm. It also launched a $140 million fund to invest in later-stage companies for a total of $2.8 billion in assets under management, according to its website. The new 500 fund … Read more
Crypto Biz: The Voyager Digital auction is over. What now?
FTX US was the successful bidder in the Voyager auction. But, one industry insider tells Cointelegraph that the deal didn’t have depositors’ best interest in mind.
Twitter is rolling out a refreshed user interface for DMs on Android
Twitter is launching a redesigned user interface for DMs on Android, the company announced on Friday. Starting today, Twitter users on Android will see a more modern interface for direct messages that is consistent with the rest of the app. With this rollout, Twitter is bringing the Android experience on par with its iOS interface. … Read more
Build flexible and scalable distributed training architectures using Kubeflow on AWS and Amazon SageMaker
In this post, we demonstrate how Kubeflow on AWS (an AWS-specific distribution of Kubeflow) used with AWS Deep Learning Containers and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) simplifies collaboration and provides flexibility in training deep learning models at scale on both Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon SageMaker utilizing a hybrid architecture approach. … Read more
Ubisoft will let you transfer your Stadia purchases to PC
A screenshot from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. | Image: Ubisoft Stadia may be shutting down next year, but if you’ve purchased Ubisoft titles on the cloud gaming platform, you’ll be able to transfer those purchases to PC at some point in the future, Ubisoft confirmed to The Verge. “While Stadia will shut down on January 18th, … Read more
Twitch is testing ‘elevated chats’ that let you pay to highlight a message
Between recent drama around gambling and its controversial decision to take a bigger slice of the subscription revenue pie, it’s been a dramatic couple of weeks for Twitch. Now, the company says it’s testing one new way for streamers to bring in cash from their most committed followers in the form of “elevated chats,” which … Read more