Hardware startups have a serious disadvantage over SaaS companies: Once you ship, it’s somewhere in the hard-to-impossible range to make changes to the product. That means you’d best get it right. But knowing what to ship can be challenging. Prelaunch.com first caught my eye at CES in Las Vegas this year, where the company had
Month: March 2023
Mar 23, 2023 Laptops Speaker 1: If there’s one thing I love more than being at a funky cocktail lounge, it’s being at one where there’s a bunch of cool new laptops and if I love something more than that, it’s having gaming laptops. And if there’s something I love more than a new gaming
Genshin Impact released their most broken character earlier this month. She’s no longer available in the seasonal rotation, but fans are still upset at her lackluster abilities. While some players have been submitting reports and airing their grievances on Twitter, others have gone a step further. Players who have regularly spent money on Genshin have
The Sims 4’s Growing Together Expansion Pack DLC is exactly what fans have been waiting for. If you’re a discerning Sims 4 fan wading through the massive amounts of Expansion Packs, Game Packs, Stuff Packs, and now the extra bite-sized Kits, searching for only the most crucial offerings, you’ll want to add Growing Together to
/ Google has been watching YouTube accounts get hacked for years — is there more the tech giant could do to protect creators? Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked this morning, with the channel’s 15.3 million subscribers seeing videos for crypto scams instead of tech hardware reviews.
Huawei is going all-in on luxury with its latest smartwatch, the Huawei Watch Ultimate. This connected timepiece is styled after classic dive watches from the likes of Breitling, Rolex or TAG Heuer, and features up to 14 days of battery life, a bevy of health-tracking features and the ability to survive in the ocean in
The funding landscape remains very tough for technology startups, but there are still some pockets, and specific companies, driving a lot of interest right now among investors because they look like they’ll break through whatever current macroeconomic trends that are gripping the world. Today, a startup out of Munich called IntegrityNext announced that it has
Lun, a climate tech startup out of Denmark, is on a mission to help homes decarbonize fast — starting with heating systems and swapping out boilers for electric heat pumps. What are heat pumps? The technology is a low carbon form of heating which is based on the principle of refrigeration that offers an alternative
Proptech company Roofstock has laid off about 27% of its staff today, according to an email sent to employees viewed by TechCrunch. The cuts come just five months after the startup laid off 20% of its workforce. The company’s website states that it has 400+ employees, or “Roofsters” as they’re dubbed, but it is not
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 to Humpday Crunch! Today we’re sad that Aloria passed away on Sunday, as Lorenzo reported. She was a veteran of the cybersecurity community, especially the one in New York, her home
The Securities and Exchange Commission sent out a press release today announcing that “Crypto Entrepreneur” Justin Sun is being charged with fraud over his manipulation of the crypto market. That’s great news, but also of interest is the fact a whole range of celebrities were charged alongside him. CC Off English Sun, along with three
Netflix hosts a whole lot of reality TV. Dig deep enough and you’ll encounter some wacky-sounding titles, including a series all about “animal influencers” (Pet Stars) and a show where contestants try to make gourmet meals out of leftovers (Best Leftovers Ever!). While I haven’t seen either of these, I know Netflix has some great original
Redfall, the upcoming vampire shooter from Arkane, is only going to be available on Xbox and PC when it launches later this year. However, it seems that wasn’t always the case. A new interview has revealed that Arkane was working on a PlayStation 5 version of the game until Microsoft bought the studio’s parent company,
The European Commission has laid out another piece of its Circular Economy Action Plan today — adopting a proposal to set common EU rules which are intended to make it easier for consumers to get faulty products repaired. The “right to repair” measures are aimed at reducing e-waste by preventing repairable products from being prematurely
While Zoom has become ubiquitous for virtual meetings, Verizon‘s rollout of a free subscription for its video conferencing tool seeks to edge out the competition. On Wednesday, Verizon announced the launch of BlueJeans Basic, a new plan that grants users unlimited free meetings without any time cutoffs. Up to 25 attendees are allowed in meetings,
/ Microsoft’s Bing said Google’s Bard had been shut down after it misread a story citing a tweet sourced from a joke. It’s not a good sign for the future of online misinformation. Bard prominently tells users it’s an experiment, but that doesn’t mean they’ll listen. Image: Google If you don’t believe the rushed launch
Over his two decades of experience in the tech industry, CodiumAI co-founder and CEO Itmar Friedman has personally experienced the pain of building test suites to check his code logic. He found that while there are tools to check for code security and performance, there has been a dearth of code logic checkers. He launched
/ The Alphabet-owned company published a paper that presents the safety case for its autonomous vehicles, saying it wants regulators and its competitors to join the effort. Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Waymo published a paper today outlining a safety case for autonomous vehicles that the company says should serve as a blueprint
If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Emblem is announcing today that it has raised nearly $54 million (€50 million) for a new European seed fund. And this is only the first close — the firm expects to raise
It’s all to play for at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Wednesday, as India take on Australia in the final one-day international of this entertaining three-match series. India enjoyed a dominant five-wicket victory in the first ODI, only for Australia to level the series in some style, bowling out the hosts for just
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, successor to 2017’s Breath of the Wild, is out soon. And while there’s a big fancy collector’s edition of the sequel available, which includes a book, Nintendo is this week taking the time to revisit the original, releasing for free a book called The Explorer’s Guide. CC
TikTok on Tuesday announced a ban on some deepfake videos as part of a refresh of its community guidelines that comes as the Chinese-owned video-sharing app faces a possible ban in the US over security and privacy concerns. The new rules were introduced just days before TikTok’s CEO is scheduled to testify before Congress this week. Shou
Ubisoft, the publishers behind Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon, tonight announced that an “AI tool” is currently helping its developers write dialogue for some of its games. CC Off English This tool, called Ghostwriter, is described as: Introducing Ubisoft Ghostwriter, an AI tool developed in-house that aims to support our scriptwriters by generating
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Artificial Intelligence After a few hours of chatting, I haven’t found a new side of Bard. I also haven’t found much it does well. Share this story Image: Google/David Pierce If there’s a secret shadow personality lingering inside of Google’s Bard chatbot, I haven’t found it yet. In the first few hours of chatting with
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Ben Lamm, the founder and CEO of Colossal, a genetics startup that looks to bring extinct species back to life to help with environmental conservation efforts. Ben talked about how he got to this point
After 25 years of extremely detailed reviews of digital cameras and accessories, the irreplaceable DPReview is being shut down by Amazon as the company proceeds with a new round of layoffs. DPReview was founded in 1998 in England, and bought by Amazon in 2010, which relocated the team to Seattle to be closer to its
Japan won its semifinal game against Mexico in the World Baseball Classic last night in thrilling fashion, coming back from three runs down and punching its ticket to the final with a walk-off, two-run double by Munetaka Murakami, the current home run champion of Nippon Professional Baseball. The US had an easier time in its
/ Users in the US and UK can join a waitlist for access, but Google is rolling out Bard with caution and stressing that the AI chatbot is not a replacement for search. Google is stressing that Bard is an experiment rather than a finished product. Image: Google Today, Google is opening up limited access
/ Bard is not a good search engine. Neither are ChatGPT and Bing. Figuring out what they’re actually good at and how we should use them is going to take a while. Bard looks like a search engine, though Google says it isn’t one.Image: Google “Bard is a complement to search.” That’s how Google describes
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