Bitcoin clings to $17K as ARK flags ‘historically significant capitulation’
BTC price action is suffering from FTX, but decentralized blockchains are “as strong as ever,” says ARK Invest.
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Telegram Premium tops 1 million subscribers
Telegram Premium has amassed over 1 million subscribers, less than six months after the popular instant messaging app launched the paid offering and began a serious effort to monetize the business. Pavel Durov shared the update on his Telegram channel Tuesday, calling the milestone “one of the most successful examples of a social media subscription … Read more
Apple Music is getting a new karaoke-like feature, Apple Sing
Ready for a holiday sing-along? Apple today announced it’s launching a new Apple Music feature that will turn tens of millions of its top songs into karaoke tracks of sorts, enabled by a tap of a button. With Apple Sing, as the new addition is called, users will be able to tap on a slider … Read more
ClickHouse launches ClickHouse Cloud, extends its Series B
Since its launch as an open-source project by Yandex in 2016, ClickHouse has become one of the leading databases for online analytical processing (OLAP), allowing businesses to quickly generate ad-hoc reports over very large datasets. In 2021, Yandex spun off ClickHouse into its own company and joined an initial $50 million Series A funding round … Read more
How to Replace the Sky
Matt Huynh / The Verge How to Replace the Sky, a comic by Matt Hyunh. At the end of 2020, the painting software I’d used my entire professional life updated itself with a new button. Illustration of a Photoshop window, with the Sky Replacement tool selected in a menu. I made my living as a … Read more
My weather app is now a dating sim
Filling up the heart meter gets you gifts. | Image: Carrot One of Carrot Weather’s main selling points, besides the fact that it’s a genuinely very good app for getting the forecast, is its character. The app has an “AI” that will serve up scalding insults and timely jokes alongside the “feels like” temperature (the … Read more
Polestar 2 gets an over-the-air performance boost ‘without the hassle of a subscription’
Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Polestar is offering an over-the-air (OTA) software update that boosts the electric Polestar 2’s performance by 68 horsepower. And rather than lock it behind an annual paywall as other automakers have done, the Chinese-Swedish company says it will only charge a one-time fee of $1,195. The upgrade adds … Read more
Sushiswap chief says it only has 1.5 years of treasury runway left
The DEX’s operating expenses currently amount to $5 million per year.
It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images
Lensa has been climbing the app store hit lists with its avatar-generating AI that is making artists wave the red flag. Now, there’s another reason to fly the flag, as it turns out it’s possible — and way too easy — to use the platform to generate non-consensual soft porn. TechCrunch has seen photo sets … Read more
Bitcoin Underperforms S&P 500 as Stocks Have Overshot Fundamentals, Crypto Trading Firm QCP Says
Stocks have overtaken fundamentals and could soon fall back, QCP said.
Ledger’s latest crypto wallet taps iPod designer in bid to boost accessibility
Ledger, a security-focused firm that sells crypto hardware wallets, has partnered with the designer behind the iPod, Tony Fadell, in hopes of creating an easier, more accessible way for users to secure their crypto assets. Crypto hardware wallets have gained traction in recent weeks, thanks to users wanting to self-custody their digital assets after industry-changing … Read more
‘Father of the iPod’ helps Ledger create new cold crypto wallet
Tony Fadell, the man behind the iPod, iPhone and Nest Thermostat, collaborates with major crypto wallet firm Ledger to build a new cold wallet.
Mickey 17, the next film from Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, is out in 2024
Image: Warner Bros. Pictures You’ll have to wait a bit to see Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s next project. The sci-fi film, called Mickey 17, will hit theaters on March 29th, 2024. The news was revealed via the briefest of teaser trailers, which shows star Robert Pattinson hanging around shirtless in some kind of tube. The … Read more
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Ledger Partners With iPod Creator Tony Fadell to Build Latest Hardware Wallet
The Ledger Stax is a stylish device that features an e-ink display that can show transaction details and even NFTs on its exterior.
Cacheflow doubles valuation while raising $10M, proving that the venture market is far from dead
Cacheflow, a startup building tools for the software sales closing process, announced this morning that it closed $10 million in new capital. Cacheflow CEO and co-founder Sarika Garg told TechCrunch that the new capital doubled her company’s valuation, added prior lead investor Glenn Solomon (GGV) to its board and brought new investor Crystal Huang (GV) … Read more
The impact of CBDCs on stablecoins with Bitget’s Gracy Chen
While CBDCs will cater to local demands, cooperation between countries could facilitate and support the widespread adoption of readily-available stablecoins.
Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform
Axiom, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on automating identity and access management (IAM) for developer platforms, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $7 million seed round led by S Capital. The idea here is to provide a single platform that provides developers with easy access to the tools they need and … Read more
Kodiak Robotics wins $50M to help US Army build AVs for recon, surveillance
Autonomous trucking technology company Kodiak Robotics won a $49.9 million contract from the the U.S. Department of Defense to help the Army automate future ground vehicles to conduct high-risk missions like reconnaissance and surveillance. The two year contract, which was awarded by the DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on behalf of the Army’s Robotic Combat … Read more
Early-stage startups say no runway, no problem heading into 2023
Startup funding continues to dwindle and layoffs keep making headlines as 2023 nears. And yet, pre-seed and seed companies don’t seem to be enduring the same state of panic as their more mature startup peers. A recent survey of 450 early-stage founders in the U.S. and Europe by pre-seed-focused January Ventures found that despite current … Read more
Oda, the Norwegian grocery delivery startup, raises a fresh $151M, but at a lowered valuation of $353M
Online grocery delivery, a booming business at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, has definitely come down to earth with the shifts in the economy, public health and technology investing. Oda, one of the bigger players in online grocery delivery in Europe with operations in its home market of Norway as well as Finland and … Read more