This story is part of 12 Days of Tips, helping you make the most of your tech, home and health during the holiday season. TikTok is good for a few things: niche memes, butter boards and dance routines, for sure. But you might want to look elsewhere when seeking out financial advice. Risky money advice
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Shared electric scooters came onto the scene five years ago with a promising vision of getting people out of cars and onto greener modes of transportation. Yet despite billions in VC money and plenty of hype, the future that micromobility companies promised still hasn’t quite arrived. In cities like Paris, most people aren’t replacing car
This story is part of 12 Days of Tips, helping you make the most of your tech, home and health during the holiday season. Interest in calorie counting goes hand-in-hand with New Year’s resolutions. If you’re looking to “finally get fit” in 2023, it makes sense that counting calories in (and out) would be a
Barbara Walters, a trailblazing TV journalist who was the first woman to anchor an evening news broadcast, has died at 93. Walters, who became a cultural icon during her more than 40 years at ABC TV, died Friday at her home in New York, according to a tweet Friday evening by Robert Iger, CEO of
This story is part of 12 Days of Tips, helping you make the most of your tech, home and health during the holiday season. You’ve heard the joke: If you go to Target for one thing, you’ll end up buying a bunch of other stuff, too. Many people love shopping at Target because of its
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Welcome back to your daily digest of TechCrunch goodness. It is my last day with you (you’re welcome!), so Christine will be back in the Daily Crunch seat on Tuesday. Haje will
Generative AI is coming for videos. A new website, QuickVid, combines several generative AI systems into a single tool for automatically creating short-form YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat videos. Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2 and adds
Securing funding is a stressful endeavor, but it doesn’t have to be. We recently sat down with three VCs to figure out the best way to go about spinning up an investing network from scratch and negotiating the first term sheet. Earlier this week, we featured the first part of that conversation with James Norman
Despite, well, everything, the U.S. is still the best place in the world for Black startup founders to raise money. The check sizes are bigger, the market more mature, the ambition oversized. There are more funds, more options, more opportunities, more, more, more. It’s quite easy to harp on the dismal funding and often discriminatory
The biggest news last week wasn’t another of Elon Musk’s Twitter tantrums, but the announcement that scientists had finally cracked one of fusion power’s biggest challenges — successfully getting more energy out of a controlled fusion reaction than they had put in. Fusion power, which has always seemed like science fiction and just about as
Next-generation chips from Apple partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. just entered mass production, the company announced on Thursday. TSMC is highlighting the new chip’s reduction in power consumption, possibly signaling longer battery life for the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. The new chips will be built on a 3-nanometer process, which TSMC says will require
Lukas Gentele Contributor Kubernetes is a wonderful but complex software that can present significant “Day Two” challenges when put into production. Developers who are new to Kubernetes — and most are — face a large knowledge gap when they look to sustain and optimize Kubernetes clusters. In this piece, I will share several ways to
In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. At the time, Flipkart and Snapdeal were the only two e-commerce startups in India that had shown a semblance of scale. Swaroop made a case that as more Indians come online,
This story is part of 12 Days of Tips, helping you make the most of your tech, home and health during the holiday season. It’s a running joke that if you go to Target for one thing, you’ll end up buying a bunch of other stuff, too. Many people feel drawn to Target, because of
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. We’re almost there, folks. It’s the last Thursday of 2022, and today we have some news for you out of Alibaba and Spotify, as well as some crypto news out of India.
Still waiting around for your invitation to Miles Bron’s breathtaking Glass Onion island estate? Here’s some exciting news. The venue from the hit Netflix murder mystery is listed on Zillow for a modest $450 million. But before you hop on a yacht to paradise, you should know Netflix is just promoting its buzzy Knives Out sequel.
Taking a deep breath as I write these words: Next week, TechCrunch will return to our first in-person CES in three years. Phew. It felt good to finally get that off my chest. The last time our team flew to Las Vegas for the event was January 2020. An auspicious date. It wouldn’t be long
The grocery delivery company reportedly suffered a 75% valuation cut compared to its $39B peak Anna Heim 3 days As much as we like to end the year with some good news, what we are hearing from grocery delivery company Instacart is not exactly that. According to The Information, citing “two people familiar with the
Hasan Piker is rich, okay? He may espouse the benefits of democratic socialism and teach the kids about the horrors of late-stage capitalism, but he is also a pretty rich boy with expensive taste. Last year, when he bought an almost $3 million home in West Hollywood, California, the internet almost imploded with people calling
With the holidays coming to a close and a new year on the horizon many of us now face the challenge of figuring out how to store our artificial Christmas trees, wreathes and other holiday decor. Fortunately, tree storage bags, along with wreath and garland storage options are discounted by up to 49% right now
For organizations that do a good chunk of their work through virtual meetings, simply hitting record or taking notes isn’t enough to capture everything that’s said. Some build their own meeting integrations to capture data, but that’s time-intensive and costly. Recall.ai helps with a unified API that currently works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft
Warning: Spoilers for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery ahead. After a brief stint in theaters back in November, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is streaming now on Netflix (read our full review here). And this onion isn’t making many people cry. As of Wednesday, Glass Onion is the top movie on the streaming service,
CoffeezillaIn a three-part video series totaling a little over an hour, Stephen “Coffeezilla” Findeisen—a YouTuber who “uncovers scams, fraudsters, and fake gurus that are preying on desperate people with deceptive advertising”—looked into CryptoZoo. What the hell is CryptoZoo? Well, as Paul explains it, it’s a “really fun game that earns you money.” According to the
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, folks, welcome back! Below we’ve got some 2022 roundups and even some news. I suspect it’ll get even leaner as the week wears on, but no matter! There will always be
The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, is expected to enter his plea in court on Jan. 3, according to court documents. Bankman-Fried is scheduled to appear in a New York City courtroom for his arraignment, where he’ll either plead guilty to the eight fraud and conspiracy charges against him or go to
The promise of increasing developer efficiency, not headcount Anna Heim 1 day More than half of professional developers have CI/CD, DevOps and automated testing tools and services available at their organization, Stack Overflow’s 2022 developer survey uncovered. However, Stack Overflow noted, only 38% of the 34,906 respondents reported having a developer portal to make it
In horse racing, the most reliable tips about which horse will likely win often come from the stable boys, since they’re the ones closest to the source. So when we thought about the best ways to find out what’s happening in a particular sector, we figured why not get it straight from the horse’s mouth
Building an investor network from scratch sounds daunting. This is true particularly if, like many founders, you don’t happen to be part of a social or economic circle where striking up early conversations with potential investors is a no-brainer. We recently sat down with three VCs who have also been founders to talk about different
Advertisement Still, January 2023 continues the subscription service’s recent momentum with another full slate. In addition to Jedi: Fallen Order, Fallout 76 and Axiom Verge 2 will also be freebies for paid subscribers. While Fallout 76 probably should have gone free-to-play long ago, there’s plenty to dig into there if you’ve ever been morbidly curious
When you think of the biggest tech stories of the year, you probably think of something like Elon Musk buying Twitter, former crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX filing for bankruptcy, all the people who lost their life savings when UST imploded or the tens of thousands of tech workers who got laid off. It was
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