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A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet, the fallout continues. Twitter apparently suspended its open source competitor Mastodon from the service on Thursday afternoon. Just prior to its suspension, Mastodon (@joinmastodon) tweeted a link to the jet tracking account on […] Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account, making a good case for Mastodon by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

Elon Musk’s plan to “operate as a giant distributed utility” is creeping towards reality. First, Tesla piloted a “virtual power plant” in California, in which Powerwall home battery owners were invited to sell stored electricity back to the grid to mitigate brown outs. The automaker then expanded the effort into Australia and Japan. Next, it’s […] Tesla Powerwall customers in Texas can now sell their electricity back to the grid by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch... →

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. Daily Crunch: Major tech firms partner with Linux Foundation to support open map data development by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach that produces weird and compelling music using not audio but images of audio. Sounds strange, is strange. But if it works, it works. And it does work! Kind of. Diffusion is a machine learning technique […] Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch... →

Even after billions of venture capital raised and invested into the digital health space, it’s still difficult to access quality healthcare. And while that may raise questions on if a scrappy startup has a fighting chance at fixing things, to entrepreneur Akili Hinson, it just means that Juno needs to be even smarter about the […] Juno raises millions to provide family-first healthcare from Inglewood to Harlem by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Sun King, a provider of off-grid solar energy products in Africa and Asia, has secured a $70 million equity investment led by LeapFrog Investments. It’s an extension of the $260 million Series D round the solar company announced this April, which was led by BeyondNetZero, the climate investing venture of General Atlantic and M&G Investments’ […] Sun King, a provider of solar energy products in Africa and Asia, expands Series D to $330M by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Six investors we surveyed recently told us that the macro environment has had a big impact on dealflow, valuations and M&A in biotech. As AI pervades biotech, what are investors looking for in 2023? by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch... →

Heartex, the well-funded machine learning data labeling startup, is launching a major update to its platform today that will open up new use cases for its tools by making annotating audio files in the commercial and open source versions of its Label Studio a lot easier for its users. These updates include a new user […] Heartex’s Label Studio makes labeling audio for ML easier by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

To get a better idea of how AI is affecting biotech in 2022, we asked six investors to tell us what they look for in a biotech startup today. 6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch... →

The fight over whether gig workers are independent contractors or employees has been heating up this week on both state and federal levels. The stakes? A once disruptive business model could soon be disrupted itself. On the state level, this week has seen developments in the Proposition 22 saga as companies relying on gig workers […] The battle over gig worker status is heating up by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch... →

If you’re reading this, I’m willing to bet you probably weren’t arrested this week and are now sitting in a Bahamian jail. SBF’s handcuffs aren’t loosening up anytime soon by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch... →

MedCrypt shared with us the deck it used to raise a $25 million Series B. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →

A short one this week, as I’m taking some time off. I didn’t want to leave you hanging, so I’ve spoken with some leading names in the field to keep Actuator chugging along. Last week, we spoke to MassRobotics’ chief of operations, Joyce Sidopoulos. Next week, we’ll be talking to U.C. Berkeley’s Ken Goldberg. Right […] Investing in the future of robotics by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious, Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics, the company behind the widely-used robotics dev software Gazebo and Robotic Operating System (ROS). Specifically, Intrinsic is buying Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC), the for-profit arm of Open Robotics, and Open Source Robotics Corporation Singapore […] Alphabet’s Intrinsic acquires DARPA-backed firm behind open source robotics software by Kyle Wiggers... →

As China looks to reignite growth, what role will its tech industry play? And is enough capital flowing to support new tech startups that could keep China competitive? Can China’s venture capital market help it reignite growth? by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

Компания уже начала испытания своего устройства на людях.... →

After reports circulated that “Westworld,” among other titles, would soon be pulled off HBO Max, the company sent out an announcement via email yesterday confirming the sad news. Westworld isn’t the only show to get the axe. More than a dozen shows will leave the streaming service in the coming days, including “The Nevers,” “Raised […] Here are the 13 shows leaving HBO Max (yes, ‘Westworld’ is one of them) by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch... →

А для разблокировки пользователь может попросить друзей в соцсети подтвердить его личность.... →

Every developer knows that it’s a bad idea to hardcode security credentials into source code. Yet it happens and when it does, the consequences can be dire. Until now, GitHub only made its secret scanning service available to paying enterprise users who paid for GitHub Advanced Security, but starting today, the Microsoft-owned company is making […] GitHub brings free secret scanning to all public repos by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →