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Threads, Meta’s Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from politics, but that doesn’t mean it won’t try to tackle the misinformation that spreads across social media — particularly in the lead-up to national elections. Following user reports of fact-checks spotted on the network, the company confirmed it’s engaged with fact-checking organizations […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

In a little over a week’s time (February 26-29) around 85,000 or so attendees will descend upon the Fira de Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2024. Over the past few years, the show has become arguably the most important mobile event of the year. Phone makers, telecoms and a variety of other tech vendors, journalists […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. I’m having one of those weeks where I’m just constantly, very slowly shaking my head at people. As I sat down to read all the stories […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Tech companies are pledging to fight election-related deepfakes as policymakers amp up pressure. Today at the Munich Security Conference, vendors including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Adobe and IBM signed an accord signaling their intention to adopt a common framework for responding to AI-generated deepfakes intended to mislead voters. Thirteen other companies, including AI startups OpenAI, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Y Combinator is putting hard-tech in the spotlight. On Wednesday, the accelerator released an updated list of ideas it would like to see in applications — with categories like space, manufacturing and defense featured prominently. YC has backed plenty of hard-tech startups before. Launch companies Stoke Space and Relativity Space and satellite broadband provider Astranis, are […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The San Francisco Giants said goodbye this week to a uniform patch that advertised Cruise and its robotaxis — the latest fallout for the GM self-driving subsidiary and its controversial presence in the city. The marketing partnership, which was announced in August 2023, will continue, but with another GM brand. For the 2024 baseball season, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Struggling EV startup Faraday Future owes the landlord of its Los Angeles headquarters nearly $1 million after missing the last two months’ rent, TechCrunch has learned. The landlord, Rexford Industrial, filed a previously unreported lawsuit against Faraday Future this week in Los Angeles Superior Court that accuses the startup of missing its January and February […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Struggling EV startup Faraday Future owes the landlord of its Los Angeles headquarters nearly $1 million after missing the last two months’ rent, TechCrunch has learned. The landlord, Rexford Industrial, filed a previously unreported lawsuit against Faraday Future this week in Los Angeles Superior Court that accuses the startup of missing its January and February […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, a flagship suite of GenAI models, apps and services. But while Gemini appears to be promising in a few aspects, it’s falling short in others — as our informal review revealed. So what is Gemini? How can you use it? And how does it stack up to the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Epic Games is preparing to return to iOS in Europe, as a result of the EU regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the company has now confirmed. The Fortnite maker says it will offer both the game itself and the Epic Games Stores on mobile in Europe, it shared in a blog post that offered […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Google is testing a new feature that will place a call to a business on your behalf, wait on hold and then give you a call once a live representative is available, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The new feature, called “Talk to a Live Rep,” would get rid of the need for users to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

NFTs don’t always get taken very seriously, particularly now that AI and content creators are hogging the spotlight, but not everyone is so quick to discount crypto’s oft-derided younger sibling. According to Animoca Brands’ chairman and co-founder, Yat Siu, the growing influence of artificial intelligence and content is exactly why there is a growing need […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The European Union’s rebooted ecommerce rules start to apply in full from tomorrow — setting new legal obligations on the likely thousands of platforms and digital businesses that fall in scope. The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a massive endeavour by the EU to set an online governance framework for platforms and use transparency obligations […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Equals' Series A deck certainly looks good, and it does a ton of things well. But there are a few areas where it can do better. Let's take a look! © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a second investigation into EV startup Fisker’s Ocean SUV, after the agency received four complaints about the vehicle rolling away unexpectedly, including one injury. The company tells TechCrunch it is “fully cooperating” with the safety agency. The new probe comes just one month after NHTSA’s Office of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The former founder of a To Do lists app which sold for as much as $200 million, comes back, 9 years later, with yet another app to do the same thing. Really? It’s a story that would be hard to make up, but it’s happening.  I guess you can’t keep a good founder down. After […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

After Apple confirmed yesterday it’s breaking web apps for customers in the EU due to its compliance with the EU regulation the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney suggests in post on X there’s another reason behind Apple’s decision: iPhone web apps don’t make Apple money. Sweeney, whose company sued Apple over […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Atlas is developing a work benefits tool for global companies to manage their contractor benefits from one place. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →