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Month: April 2024
Your Android phone could have stalkerware — here’s how to remove it
This simple guide helps you identify and remove common consumer-grade spyware apps from your Android phone. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Too many models
How many AI models is too many? It depends on how you look at it… but 10 a week is probably a bit much. That’s how many we had in the last few days, or close to it, and it’s increasingly hard to say whether and how these models compare to one another — if … Read more
Kia’s more affordable EV2 is getting ready to undercut Tesla
Kia’s lineup of electric vehicles are growing. | Image: Kia The Kia EV2, the automaker’s small, affordable electric crossover, has been spotted on the street in camouflage. It’s the first time the model has been seen in the wild, although the EV2 is not currently confirmed for the US. The timing of the sighting is … Read more
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Target confirms it’s all but completely ditching DVDs in physical stores
Image: Target Target is scaling back the presence of physical media in its stores. A spokesperson for Target tells IGN that the company is “transitioning the limited assortment of DVDs” it sells in stores to its website. “Moving forward, we’ll offer select DVDs in stores when they are newly released or during key times throughout … Read more
Checklist for FinTech Product Growth: Channels, Trends, and Tools
The global fintech market was valued at approximately 226.71 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach a value of around USD 917.17 billion by 2032. This looks promising, but very few web fintech applications that are brought to life actually survive. In order to increase your chances in the harsh yet abundant reality, you … Read more
Meta Unveils Llama-3—We Put the New Top Open-Source AI Model to the Test
Llama 3, Meta’s most advanced large language model arrived early and hit millions of devices across top apps. We took it for a test drive.
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Harvard’s startup whisperer, Peter Gladstone, reveals secrets to validating consumer demand at TechCrunch Early Stage
Validating consumer demand is a crucial step for any startup, and TechCrunch Early Stage is offering a golden opportunity to learn how to do it right. Peter Gladstone, senior adviser for startups at Harvard Innovation Labs, is set to lead an engaging roundtable titled “Validating Consumer Demand: How to Make the Most of Your Expertise.” … Read more
Trucking in America: My Love Song to the Industry
Imagine empty shelves in supermarkets, closed cafes, and abandoned cars on the street with no fuel in tanks. This isn’t the beginning of a global war or a zombie apocalypse — it’s what will happen in America if the trucking industry stops for just three days. Trucking is the backbone of logistics in the States. … Read more
The Hades 2 technical test is a trial in self-control
Image: Supergiant Games Imagine the most perfect barbecue — a prolific spread of smoked meats, all the right sides, every pie, type of cookie or cake, and even your grandmother’s famous dinner rolls. But there’s a catch: most of the food is kept behind glass to be unlocked at a later date, and you are … Read more
You may not need Apple Pay to tap and pay with your EU iPhone soon
Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Apple could soon let developers in the European Union use its tap-to-pay technology. A report from Reuters reveals that EU regulators could sign off on Apple’s proposal to open the payment system next month, putting a two-year-long legal battle to rest. In 2022, the European Commission accused Apple … Read more
Google’s HD Chromecast is going for just $20
Google’s latest streaming dongle offers a cheap way to add smart features and apps to any TV. | Image: Google Almost any TV you can buy these days supports streaming in some form or fashion, but what if you don’t like its user interface or it doesn’t have all of the apps you need? That’s … Read more
Post News, the a16z-funded Twitter alternative, is shutting down
Post was backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator, but the platform never disclosed how much it raised. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Race Is On to Mint One of the First Bitcoin Runes
As the Bitcoin halving nears, anticipation builds among creators trying to etch one of the very first tokens via the Runes protocol.
Startups Weekly: Is the wind going out of the AI sails?
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. After years of booming growth, the AI industry is now experiencing a significant slowdown in investment, as detailed in a recent report from Stanford’s Institute for … Read more
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
Image: Post News Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.” The Andreessen Horowitz-backed platform launched in a … Read more
MarketForce winds down its B2B e-commerce arm
Kenyan B2B e-commerce company MarketForce is winding down its B2B e-commerce business that served informal merchants (mom-and-pop stores) after a turbulent two-year period that saw it scale down operations severely. The shutdown of the B2B e-commerce arm dubbed RejaReja comes months after MarketForce withdrew the service from all its markets, including Nigeria and Kenya, save … Read more
What the Bitcoin Halving Means for Ordinals and BRC-20 Tokens
Increased scarcity for Bitcoin after the halving, paired with demand for Runes tokens, could shake up the Ordinals space.
Maybe I don’t want a Rosey the Robot after all
Friend or foe? The Jetsons’ Rosey the Robot has long been an inspiration for developing home robots. But should it be? | Image: Warner Bros. Television, Hanna-Barbera As a child of the 1980s, my perception of the smart home has been dominated by the idea that one day, we will all have Rosey the Robot-style … Read more
Bitcoin Whales Bought $1.2B BTC Amid the Price Dip, Fueling the Quick Rebound
Large bitcoin investors substantially increased their holdings as prices dipped below $60,000 in early Friday’s panicky action on the crypto markets ahead of the asset’s much-anticipated halving event.