Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Michael Chime, the co-founder and CEO of Prepared, a startup that allows 911 callers to stream video to emergency dispatchers. Michael discussed how a nearby tragedy in high school helped inspire the company, how the
Month: February 2023
The number of Shopify live websites grew a whopping 201% between March 2020 and January 2022 with the shift to e-commerce during the global pandemic. With all of those stores going after customers it’s difficult for individual merchants to cut through the clutter. That problem has given rise to startups eager to offer their no-code
/ As bots, avatars, and AI get more and more human, how do creators prove they’re the real deal? Illustration by Brian Scagnelli / The Verge Last April, 27-year-old Nicole posted a TikTok video about feeling burned out in her career. When she checked the comments the next day, however, a different conversation was going
Tablets are super useful devices for having around the home, whether you need to check in on your emails, follow along with a recipe or scroll through social media. But if you already have a decent phone and laptop, you might not want to spend too much on an in-between device like a tablet, which
The ISO Hemlock assault rifle, one of the newest additions to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0, is quickly becoming a go-to weapon. Though you’ll have to make some progress in the battle pass to unlock it, it’s free for all players, making it a must on your list of can’t-miss items
/ Longtime Fitbit users are beyond fed up with server outages, nerfed products, and Google sunsetting their favorite social feature. Once the king of fitness trackers, Fitbit’s recent outages and a decision to shutter Challenges have left users disgruntled.Illustration: The Verge These days, Fitbit users seem to be asking each other the same question: is
/ Alphabet’s Everyday Robots subsidiary will no longer exist as a discrete unit, with team members and technology folded into other divisions. It’s a disappointing end for another robotics venture. Alphabet is shutting down its Everyday Robots project — another casualty of job cuts at Google’s parent company and the latest in a long list of
/ The multi-week test comes in response to Canada’s Online News Act, which would require platforms like Facebook and Google to negotiate deals to pay news publishers for content. Illustration: The Verge Google is running tests that block access to news for some Canadian users in response to a new bill that could force it
Dr. Jaishree Naidoo was in charge of pediatric radiology at a South African hospital in 2014, when she had a moment of epiphany after coming across a news story on the usage of AI recognition pattern in distinguishing animals. As a radiologist with 20 years of experience, Naidoo was already familiar with pattern recognition, and
Like Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian before it, The Last of Us is keeping up a high-profile TV series tradition: things are appearing in shots that shouldn’t be there. It’s not as unforgivable as plasticware and modern drinks in the battered final season of Game of Thrones. In this instance, it’s people. Human film
The world received some very sad news earlier today when we learned that legendary English football commentator John Motson, whose career spanned decades (and included very long stints in video games), had passed away at the age of 77. CC Off English Even the most casual English-speaking football fan will know his work, regardless of
In a word: “telecom.” Network and enterprise have long played a key part in Barcelona’s big mobile show, but more than ever, such topics are going to have an outsized role at the event. The consumer element appears to be taking an increasing back seat at the event, which kicks off in earnest next Monday.
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Happy Thursday, landlubbers and salty sea dogs! We’ve got some fun updates from the events team — Lauren S announced the TechCrunch Early Stage Audience Choice winners. And if you get all
Sometimes, you don’t feel like snacking on a 2-hour movie. Sometimes, you want to shove 10 gorge-worthy hours of a Netflix TV show into every crevice of your face. This list has got you covered. Your 10 hours will be well spent. Every show on this list has scored at least a 70 on Metacritic,
We get it, new-gen games are expensive. At $70 a pop for PlayStation’s most sought after first-party games that are jam-packed with all the goodies you’d want in a PS5 game (like ray-tracing, higher frame rates, and less load times), it’s understandable if you don’t have an extensive collection just yet. The era of $70
It’s been a minute since Sony’s last State of Play showcase, and PlayStation fans have been hungry for new updates and big reveals on the PlayStation 5’s future. What they got today was not that. Resident Evil 4, Street Fighter 6, and more known quantities all got fresh trailers, while an extended gameplay demo for
Big players including Microsoft, with its new Bing (or is it Sydney?), Google, with Bard, and OpenAI, with ChatGPT are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these Large Language Model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like
/ Mozilla discovered privacy disclosure discrepancies for apps like TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook following investigation into Google Play Store data safety labels. Eighty percent of the 40 most downloaded Android apps were found to have discrepancies between their actual privacy policies and the information listed on Google Play’s data safety section.Photo: STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images
For an ecosystem that covers a majority of the planet, the oceans have basically been ignored by startups and investors alike. Sure, plenty of money is spent on ocean-based industries, but most of today’s marine investments are into either extractive industries like fishing or oil and gas, or activities like shipping, which aren’t extractive but
/ The changes are rolling out soon to the Chromecast with Google TV and TVs that run Google’s software. Image: Google When it comes to browsing entertainment, is there really a big difference between organizing content in different tabs or splitting it into totally separate pages? Google seems to think so. Today, the company is
Google/ Tech / Google’s giving Drive, Docs, Slides, and Sheets a small refresh. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Workspace apps are getting a makeover. Google plans to refresh the design of Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides in the coming weeks to more closely align with its Material Design 3 design system, the
/ The feature used to only be available on phones with the company’s Tensor processors, but now it’s coming to the standard Google Photos for Android and iOS app. Illustration: The Verge Google has announced that the Magic Eraser feature, which tried to automatically remove unwanted parts of a picture and debuted with the Pixel
Based in the Netherlands, blossoming agtech startup Source.ag has announced a $23 million Series A funding round to help grow its business, less than a year after its previous, $10 million round. The company assists commercial greenhouse crop growers adjust their growing conditions, optimize their resources and maximize their yields by using state-of-the-art AI models
The Mac Mini is one of our favorite desktop PCs and continues to be the cheapest way to get in on the Mac ecosystem. And right now, Amazon is making the Mac Mini even more affordable with as much as $49 off 2023 models. If you’re already set up with a display and a keyboard and
Supply chain management software startup Slync, which was at one point valued at $240 million, hasn’t had the easiest go of it lately. Slync’s founder, Christopher Kirchner, was charged by the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this month for misappropriating $20 million from the company to fund a lavish lifestyle, including a
Last year’s Academy Awards featured perhaps the most infamous moment in the Oscar’s long history: Will Smith storming on stage to slap Chris Rock. The shocking incident was apparently a wakeup call for the Academy, which will implement a “crisis team” at this year’s show in order to react more swiftly in case something, anything,
Byju’s is weighing whether to wind down WhiteHat Jr, a coding platform that it acquired over two years ago at an enterprise value of $300 million, as the edtech group looks to cut expenses and eliminate a business unit that has drawn considerable criticism to the firm. The Bengaluru-headquartered firm, India’s most valuable startup at
I know this isn’t the most pressing issue facing the video game community, but I just think it’s funny: someone at Ubisoft has finally got around to fixing a bug that has impacted one particular version of Assassin’s Creed on one specific platform that has been bugging people (or maybe just one person?) for years.
Razer debuted new 16-inch and 18-inch sizes of its Blade laptop line at CES 2023, but the company was mum about whether its 15-inch model would remain in the line. Well, now we know it will. Along with Nvidia’s latest RTX 4070, 4060 and 4050 mobile GPUs, Razer launched a new version of the 15-inch
It was announced earlier today that Elden Ring, FromSoftware’s 2022 Game Of The Year For Loads Of People (including most staff at this website), has sold 20 million copies worldwide since its release a year ago. That is a lot. CC Off English You may be wondering, why am I pointing this out on Kotaku,
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