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14:50 08.03.2024

Worldcoin says it’s filing legal challenge to Spain’s temporary ban

A German subsidiary involved in Sam Altman’s controvercial crypto blockchain digital identity business, Worldcoin, was reported Friday to have filed a legal challenge against a suspension order from Spain’s data protection authority. Earlier this week it emerged that the Spanish authority, the AEPD, had instructed Worldcoin to temporarily stop scanning people’s eyeballs or further processing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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14:25 08.03.2024

Baron values Swiggy at $12.16B, above prior private market valuation

Baron Capital, an investor in Indian food delivery startup Swiggy, has increased the value of its stake in the Indian firm, implying a valuation of $12.16 billion, surpassing the $10.7 billion post-money valuation at which Swiggy secured funding in the latter part of 2021. New York-based Baron Capital disclosed in new fillings that it has […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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13:18 08.03.2024

X allows Premium+ users and organizations to publish articles

X announced a new long-form post format called Articles today. The feature, which is only available to Premium+ subscribers and verified organizations, lets users publish posts with text formatting, other X posts, and embedded videos and images — akin to a post on a WordPress-like content management system or an article on Medium. https://t.co/dlJ6rIEONa — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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08:28 08.03.2024

Apple launches VisionOS 1.1. with improved personas

Apple released VisionOS 1.1 on Thursday with the most notable feature being improved personas of users. Specifically, the new update improves hair and makeup appearance, neck and mouth representation, and rendering of the eyes for EyeSight, which lets others see your eyes when you’re wearing the headset. Additionally, users can also now set up their […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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07:33 08.03.2024

Sea’s Free Fire India relaunch in limbo six months on

Sea is “still making changes” and has yet to launch its popular mobile game Free Fire in India, more than six months after announcing plans to do so. Yanjun Wang, Group Chief Corporate Officer at Sea, said during the earnings call this week that the Singapore-headquartered giant is still making changes to the game to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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06:30 08.03.2024

India’s smartwatch market in flux as unknown brands challenge heavyweights

India’s smartwatch market has transformed, seemingly overnight. For years, it has been dominated by its homegrown players, while global giants like Apple and Samsung have struggled for presence, amid the hundreds of millions of annual shipments. Suddenly, however, the category has been flooded with unknown brands, which have no prior and significant existence. These have […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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05:40 08.03.2024

India’s Election Commission fixes privacy flaws that exposed citizens’ information-seeking data

India’s federal election commission has fixed flaws on its website that exposed data related to citizens’ requests for information related to their voting eligibility status, local political candidates and parties, and technical details about electronic voting machines. India is heading for its next general elections, expected between April and May, to elect the members of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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02:00 08.03.2024

Inside the weird and quirky world of building a startup behind a wall of tariffs

Think quick — how much does a top-of-the-line iPhone 15 Pro Max cost? If you said around $1,600, you’d be right, but only if you’re based in the U.S. In Turkey, the same phone will set you back almost $3,000. That gap introduces a fantastic opportunity for arbitrage — and a lively second-hand and refurbished […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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01:14 08.03.2024

AALTO seeks to democratize high-speed internet access through solar-powered drones

In the beginning of 2021, Alphabet shuttered Loon. It was a familiar story within the annals of Google X history: an ambitious moonshot with tremendous upside that sputtered out prior to gaining any sort of meaningful traction after nearly a decade. “Despite Loon’s extraordinary technical progress,” X explains with a tinge of melancholy on the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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00:10 08.03.2024

Here’s why most AI benchmarks tell us so little

On Tuesday, startup Anthropic released a family of generative AI models that it claims achieve best-in-class performance. Just a few days later, rival Inflection AI unveiled a model that it asserts comes close to matching some of the most capable models out there, including OpenAI’s GPT-4, in quality. Anthropic and Inflection are by no means […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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00:04 08.03.2024

Astra is the space industry’s first SPAC bust of 2024

Astra Space, the launch company that went public in 2021 at a $2.1 billion valuation, is going private again after months of burning cash and failing to secure alternate investment. The company announced Thursday that its board had accepted an offer from its CEO, Chris Kemp, and its CTO, Adam London, to purchase the remaining […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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00:03 08.03.2024

NFT platform Zora is offering a novel way for AI model makers to earn money

Zora, a NFT-based social network platform is continuing its expansion beyond the crypto-sphere into the hot artificial intelligence market, Dee Goens, the startups’ co-founder said on Chain Reaction. Not to be confused with Sora, the text-to-video tool offered by OpenA, Zora aims to help creators, brands and artists better monetize their content through NFTs. Last […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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00:00 08.03.2024

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 7, 2024

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

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23:11 07.03.2024

Lensrentals acquires BorrowLenses

Lensrentals, a titan in the online rental service for photo, video, audio and lighting equipment, has announced its acquisition of BorrowLenses, a key competitor in the space of photographic and video equipment rentals. It’s a competitive space in a commodity market, where neither brand has an obvious edge over the other. Neither company is willing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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23:00 07.03.2024

Bitcoin highs and dog-focused memecoins spike, while Binance launches a crypto perfume and Coachella partners with OpenSea

Welcome back to TechCrunch Crypto. It was an eventful week: bitcoin’s price hit a new high, Spain’s data protection authority banned Worldcoin and Binance raised eyebrows after making perfume. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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22:33 07.03.2024

Apple will make it easier to move to Android by fall 2025

Apple says it plans to make it easier for customers to switch to Android as a result of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which went into force today. Alongside support for alternative app stores, new business terms for EU app developers, and mobile browser choice screens, among other things, the iPhone maker said it […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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22:30 07.03.2024

AI2 Incubator scores $200M in compute to feed needy AI startups

The AI2 Incubator, spun out of the Allen Institute for AI in 2022, has secured a windfall $200M in compute that startups going through its program can take advantage of to accelerate early development. “Our community of hundreds of AI practitioners are desperate for compute,” said managing director Jacob Colker. “A lot of these startups […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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21:59 07.03.2024

Rivian takes the wraps off $45,000 R2 SUV, its biggest bet yet

As customers, VIP guests and media milled into the Rivian South Coast Theater in Laguna Beach on Thursday — the Pacific Ocean crashing on the beach just a few hundred feet away — a mix of hope and excitement rippled through the arena. The occasion was the unveiling of the Rivian R2, a smaller and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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21:57 07.03.2024

TikTok hijacks the For You page with call to action on ban

When some American users opened TikTok on Thursday morning, they were met with a full-screen message encouraging them to call Congress and say no to a TikTok ban. “Speak up now — before your government strips 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression,” the screen says. “Let Congress know what TikTok means […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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21:49 07.03.2024

Rivian surprise announces the R3 hatchback, and it’s cute as hell

Rivian just surprise-announced an all-electric hatchback called the R3 — giving the company a big Apple-esque “one more thing” announcement at the event that was ostensibly supposed to be all about its new R2 SUV. The hatch has a lot of design similarities to the Honda E, another electric hatchback that captured the minds of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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