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After Clubhouse’s rise to fame, every platform rushed to build a clone. But in the last year or so, the format’s popularity has faded and companies are rethinking their priorities. On Wednesday, Reddit announced that it is shutting down its live audio product Reddit Talk on March 21 — two years after its launch. The […] Reddit is shutting down its Clubhouse clone Reddit Talk by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →

Synctera, a banking-as-a-service startup, has raised an additional $15 million as it expands into Canada. NAventures, the corporate venture arm of National Bank of Canada, led the financing, which brings Synctera’s total raised to $60 million since its June 2020 inception. Private equity firm The Banc Funds and sponsor bank partners Veritex Community Bank, Midland […] Synctera raises $15M to help companies launch embedded banking products in Canada by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

The company has two new booking tool features for families with disabilities, including guaranteed accessibility in hotel rooms and a price match. Wheel the World grabs $6M to offer guaranteed accessibility, price match for hotel rooms by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meet Tweed, a startup coming out of stealth today that has been working on a white-label cryptocurrency wallet and payment solution. With Tweed, companies can generate wallets for their users so they can buy, hold, send and spend crytpo assets without any technical knowledge. The startup raised a $4 million seed round last summer with […] Tweed is a crypto wallet API to add a web3 flavor to any web service by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

Ken Van Haren and Chris Stanley were data scientists at Google and Square, respectively, who found themselves frustrated by how much time they were spending wrangling infrastructure versus doing actual data science. In surveying their colleagues, they found that it was a common problem. According to one poll, data scientists spend over half their time […] Y Combinator–backed Patterns is building a platform to abstract away data science busywork by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Roku devices are getting an upgrade. The company announced today a series of updates coming to its media streamers and TVs with the new version of its software, Roku OS 12. The updates, which will focus on areas like live TV and sports, among other things, will also be accompanied by a revamp of the […] Roku’s latest software update brings local news, more live sports and a new mobile app by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Net Worth enables Credit Karma members to monitor and track various components of their net worth as they grow and protect their wealth. Credit Karma wants millions of Americans to know their net worth by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Social music streaming startup Stationhead announced today that it’s launching a new live commerce tool that allows select artists and hosts to sell digital tracks to fans during livestreaming parties on their stations. The startup says artists including BlackPink, Niall Horan, TXT and 5 Seconds of Summer have already used the feature during live release […] Social music streaming startup Stationhead launches new live commerce tool by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

По прогнозам Canalys, в 2023 году рост рынка составит 2%... →

Move over, software. Prompts may well be the new oil. Writing the text strings that instruct AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to generate essays, articles, images and more has become a veritable profession, commanding salaries well into the six-figure range. Anyone can come up with prompts, of course. But only certain prompts (e.g. […] A look at the budding market for the text that prompts AI systems by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

So far this week we’ve seen generative AI come to CRM from Salesforce and to customer service chatbots from Forethought – and that’s just the ones I’ve covered personally. Today, we look at ThoughtSpot’s generative AI entry, which lets you query your data using natural language to get text or a graph back, as appropriate, […] ThoughtSpot adds GPT-3 integration to help customers query data by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

Telegram has introduced a new Power Saving Mode to preserve the battery of your device. The mode kicks in when the battery dips below a certain percentage — which is configurable — and turns off resource-intensive features like auto-playing videos and GIFs, sticker animations, and background updates. The new feature has its own menu in […] Telegram introduces a Power Saving Mode for battery preservation by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →

Drone delivery is one of those ideas that’s been sold as “the next big thing” forever. Regardless of how bullish you happen to be on the technology, there’s undeniably a lot that has to be figured out before we can start having serious conversation about mainstream adoption. Regulator issues are a big box to be […] Wing likens its drone ‘delivery network’ to rideshare by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

А гражданам ЕС запретили покупать и продавать рубли.... →

Теперь преимущества продуктов оператора иллюстрируются историями из жизни одной семьи... →

Google has revamped the Google Trends interface adding real-time trends to the home page, updating those trends hourly and linking them to the news articles. This update comes years after Google has last updated Google Trends.... →

Команда и топ-менеджмент группы сохранятся в полном составе... →

Яндекс Маркет запустил в тестовом режиме программу поддержки блогеров.... →

Did you know that Bing Chat also can give you an answer card or box under the chat-based response with citations? We saw Bing provide news cards, local cards, shopping cards, and more but not answer cards.... →

Microsoft's Mikhail Parakhin said that the number one feature request is for Bing Chat to save historical chats for later for users to come back to them later or look them up later. And it seems like they are working on that feature request, plus more.... →