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I’m heading back to the South Bay next week, thanks to Google I/O, which is coming back to the Shoreline Amphitheater. I honestly don’t expect much of anything related to this beat, though AI is going to be all over that thing. That’s hardly a new phenomenon, of course — previous developer conferences have showcased […] The life and death of a robot vacuum by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

Popular chat and streaming app Discord is making every single one of its users change their names, and you could be forgiven for wondering why make such a disruptive move at all. But the platform’s founders say it’s more necessary than you might think. Ordinarily, Discord users are identified by a name and random number […] Why is Discord making you change your name? by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch... →

Shopify laid off 20% of its global workforce today – its second sizeable employee culling after a reduction of 10% announced last July. This latest downsizing also includes the wholesale divestment of an entire line of business: Shopify’s in-house logistics arm, which sought to own more of the warehousing and fulfillment chain for its merchants. […] How Shopify bungled its latest layoffs and made employees feel like NPCs by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch... →

Wondering where your Uber Eats order is? Alexa will soon be able to tell you. Amazon today announced a new partnership with Uber that will give Echo device owners the ability to track their Uber Eats orders via Amazon’s voice assistant. Starting later this month, Uber Eats users will be able to turn on a […] Alexa’s new feature lets your Echo speaker announce your Uber Eats order updates by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

For this week's teardown, Haje buddied up with the team at Trulytell to improve a slide deck until it became the perfect pitch deck. Pitch Deck Teardown: The Perfect Pitch Deck by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →

Beleaguered EV company Lordstown Motors seemed to have found a financial savior in Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer best known for making iPhones for Apple. But now, with that relationship faltering, it appears the the road is ending for Lordstown’s Endurance EV truck and maybe even the company. Lordstown issued a warning May 1 that it […] Lordstown Motors’ Endurance EV pickup truck is dying by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch... →

Look, I’m not going to sit here and pretend like the entire world didn’t know this was happening next week, but is a bit of theatrics too much to ask? Google learned a few years back that the best way to juice a product hype cycle is to “leak” the thing yourself, and here here […] Oh hey, Google just announced the Pixel Fold by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

Tellus, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed fintech company that claims it can offer people higher yields on their savings balances by using that money to fund certain U.S. single-family-home loans, is under scrutiny by the U.S. government. On May 2, as first reported by Barron’s, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs […] Senate Banking chair urges FDIC to look into Tellus, a fintech backed by Andreessen Horowitz by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrun... →

Эти и другие обновления появятся у всех пользователей в течение нескольких недель — начиная с 4 мая 2023 года.... →

HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan told investors that generative AI is going to "rapidly” change the business landscape. As generative AI finds its footing in enterprise products, how will companies charge for its use? by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

WhatsApp is adding a few new updates around polls and sharing on its platform, the company announced on Thursday. Most notably, you can now create single-vote polls and forward media with captions. You now have the option to create single-vote polls, which means you can run a poll where people are only allowed to vote […] WhatsApp now lets you create single-vote polls and forward media with captions by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

Senzai’s technology measures impact, experimentation and optimization to determine which sales campaigns will appeal to customers. Senzai taps into AI optimization to guide LatAm companies to the right customers by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Around two years ago, Victor Cardenas and Kevin Bai — college dropouts from Stanford University and the University of Waterloo, respectively — built a fintech platform called Slash that lets users create shareable virtual cards to split recurring expenses. Slash quickly became popular with teenagers because its virtual cards were debit-based, available to people 13 […] Slash aims to corner the Gen Z market with business-focused banking features by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

The European Union’s top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection. One (Case C-300/21) deals with compensation for breaches of the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); and the second (Case C-487/21) clarifies the nature of information that individuals exercising GDPR rights to obtain a copy […] Europe’s top court clarifies GDPR compensation and data access rights by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Премьера картины, снятой на МКС, состоялась 20 апреля... →

Mozilla is expanding its investment in the decentralized social media ecosystem Mastodon with today’s announcement it’s opening up its own server — or “instance,” in Mastodon lingo — into private beta testing. The company announced last year its plans to create and begin testing a publicly accessible instance at Mozilla.social, with the goal of focusing […] Mozilla expands its Mastodon investment with private beta launch of its own highly-moderated server by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Авторизацию отключают постепенно: некоторым пользователям, например, — с 5 мая, другим — позже.... →

Компания хочет простимулировать партнёров, которые умеют взаимодействовать с покупателями и продают качественные товары... →

Hulu Live TV announced Thursday that it is adding new channels to its library, bringing the total to over 90 channels across live sports, news and entertainment. The streaming will soon launch channels like PBS Kids, local PBS stations and Magnolia Network. In the coming months, local PBS affiliates will roll out to Hulu Live […] Hulu Live TV adds channels to its lineup, including PBS and Magnolia Network by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch... →

The partnership will provide Alibaba’s clients with a launchpad that aims to help businesses launch their own metaverse spaces on Avalanche’s blockchain. Alibaba Cloud, Avalanche partner to deploy metaverses on the blockchain by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch... →