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The quantum mysteries of black holes
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Meet Crowd.dev, an open source user-led growth platform for fostering developer communities
Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an ecosystem of fervent users that draws in new customers organically, serves as a support network for millions, and bangs a company’s drum completely off its own volition. Businesses such as Stripe, Slack, Canva, Notion, and Figma have … Read more
TouchBistro bakes CAD$150M into restaurant management tech recipe
TouchBistro, an iPad-based restaurant management platform, secured CAD$150 million, or $110 million, in growth financing from Francisco Partners to accelerate its growth, expand its product pipeline and make some strategic acquisitions. It’s been a while since we checked in with the Toronto-based company, which was founded by Alex Barrotti and Geordie Konrad back in 2010. … Read more
XPeng to begin autonomous driving public road tests in Guangzhou
XPeng received a permit Monday to begin testing its G9 electric SUV as an autonomous vehicle on public roads in Guangzhou. The company will begin testing a small fleet as soon as possible with a human safety operator in the driver’s seat. This is a milestone for XPeng as it aims to use its vehicles … Read more
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Halloween: Go For Launch (2020)
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You now have to pay to use Pantone colors in Adobe products
Pantone Color Books now require a paid subscription for Adobe products, with even old PSD files now displaying black in place of used Pantone colors. | Image: Adobe Last week, Adobe removed support for free Pantone colors across its Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator Creative Cloud applications. PSD files that contained Pantone spot colors now display … Read more
Sony’s new PlayStation Plus subscriptions are off to a rocky start
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The number of people subscribing to Sony’s PlayStation Plus fell from 47.3 million to 45.4 million this quarter, the company announced in its latest earnings release. It’s the subscription service’s third quarterly decline in a row, and comes despite Sony launching a revamped subscription lineup between May and … Read more
Hard User Separation with NixOS
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Volocopter raises $182M to bring air taxi closer to certification
Volocopter, a German startup building electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, has secured $182 million for the second signing of its Series E round. That’s on top of the $170 million Volocopter raised for the same round in March at a $1.87 billion post-money valuation. Volocopter is currently in full swing testing its two-seater … Read more
Command-line data analytics
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Cover Genius lands $70M infusion to grow its embedded insurance business
In 2014, Angus McDonald, the former head of publisher partnerships at Yahoo (full disclosure: TechCrunch’s parent company), teamed up with ex-Googler Chris Bayley to found Cover Genius, an insurtech platform that prices and handles claims for virtually any line of insurance or warranty. After expanding the business to all 50 U.S. states and more than … Read more
Phrasebooks are dying out
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Rapyd Ventures backs Indian fintech-as-a-service startup Decentro
India’s Decentro, the Y Combinator-backed startup that helps companies enter the fintech market by deploying its APIs, has raised $4.7 million in a Series A round. The Bengaluru-based startup offers banking and payments APIs that allow development of fintech products such as banking, payment cards, neobanking and collections and payout services in a short period … Read more
Guide to Transient Astronomy
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