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Israel is in discussions with SpaceX to rollout Starlink internet services, especially for communities near the conflict zone, an Israeli official said Tuesday. Starlink currently isn’t available in Israel, so this would be the first time the service is introduced in any capacity. As it seeks to bolster its own communications during wartime, it is […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Stellantis announced Tuesday that it will cancel its planned presentations and display at CES 2024, the tech trade show that takes over Las Vegas every January. The reason? The automaker, which owns a slew of U.S. brands including Jeep, Ram and Chrsyler, cited the cost of the ongoing United Autoworker strike, which has entered its […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The IRS will test a free tax filing service in 2024 for a subset of lucky taxpayers in as many as 13 states, the agency announced today. Direct File, as the service is called, is a shot across the bows of Turbotax, H&R Block, and other paid tax prep services, whose owners have resisted free […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts, hyper-charging productivity. But it also has a more…nefarious side. In any case, AI tools are not going away — and indeed has expanded dramatically since its launch just a few months ago. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

WeWork has sent a cease and desist letter to rival Codi in response to the startup’s recent marketing campaign it dubs “WeWont,” TechCrunch has exclusively learned. In the letter, viewed by TechCrunch, WeWork’s Chief Legal Officer Pam Swidler cited “unauthorized use and misappropriation of WeWork’s intellectual property, false advertising and Tortious interference with WeWork’s contractual […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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

General Motors is pushing its $4 billion plan to convert its Orion Assembly plant into an EV truck factory to late 2025, a year later than scheduled. GM’s reasoning behind the delay  — which will mean Orion will sit idle for two years — is “to better manage capital investment while aligning with evolving EV […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. The tech industry has seen more than 240,000 jobs lost in 2023, a total that’s already 50% higher than last year and growing. Earlier this year, mass workforce reductions were driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups across many sectors also […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen posted a manifesto on the a16z website, calling for “techno-optimism” in a frenzied, 5,000-word blog post that somehow manages to re-invent Reaganomics, propose the colonization of outer space, and unironically answer a question with the phrase “QED.” Andreessen’s vision of techno-optimism could seem inspiring: he imagines a Libertarian-esque world where technology […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

While some Latin American data, sourced from Sling Hub and Distrito, illustrates certain positive trends, other data from the region points the other direction. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Good morning! We have lots of good stuff for you this Tuesday, so let’s dig right in. Up first, we surveyed six investors who are placing bets on AI. We wanted to know how startups should begin building tools for AI; whether startup-focused AI work is defensible; and how tech companies are thinking about monetization. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Reddit is winding down Community Points — the blockchain-based “internet points” program designed to reward creators and developers — in favor of prioritizing rewards programs that are less difficult to scale. “Though we saw some future opportunities for Community Points, the resourcing needed was unfortunately too high to justify,” Reddit’s director of consumer and product […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Starlink проанализировал свежий калькулятор цен на телерекламу от НРА... →

If you think you could’ve deflected Twitter’s blue check impersonation debacle, then boy do we have the game for you! Techdirt has released the very fun and not at all stressful game Trust & Safety Tycoon, in which you get to simulate running a trust & safety team at a Twitter-like social media startup called […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Despite proclamations from X CEO Linda Yaccarino that usage of the social network was at an all-time high this summer, a new report is throwing cold water on those claims, saying that X usage has actually declined on all fronts, across both web and mobile. According to data from market intelligence firm Similarweb, X’s global […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

PayPal launched a package tracking feature on its app that allows you to instantly see the status of online orders. Rather than manually entering the order number into a carrier website or searching your email inbox to find the delivery status of a package, PayPal now automatically gathers shipping details and tracks them through Gmail […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Баннер привлекал внимание к «зелёным ценам» на маркетплейсе... →

Селлер представил два новых формата для рекламодателей... →

Lucid said Tuesday it delivered 1,457 of its luxury all-electric Air sedans in the third quarter, missing Wall Street expectations by about 500 vehicles. Perhaps more troubling is the year-over-year comparison. Lucid delivered 1,398 vehicles in the third quarter of 2022, meaning growth over the past year is nearly flat. It was the same story […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Компания Apple делает всё больше и больше эксклюзивных вещей для российского рынка В этом году по жалобе "Лаборатории Касперского", российские разработчики смогли добавлять приложения родительского контроля в App Store. Теперь же Apple разрешила россиянам делать приём inn App платежей через внешние сервисы и обеспечила для этого все возможности разработчикам. Комиссия за такие платежи остаётся высокой (не 30%, а 27% — разница в 3 п.п.... →