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Eazy Digital helps Southeast Asia’s small insurers digitize their operations
Founded by two insurance industry veterans, Eazy Digital wants to give small insurance companies in Southeast Asia the same advantage as their larger competitors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NASA’s ‘Mega Moon Rocket’ aced first flight and is ready for crewed Artemis II launch
The enormous Space Launch System passed its first test with flying colors, NASA’s preliminary analysis concludes, and the rocket and Orion capsule are good to go for their next mission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hands on with Walmart’s new (but buggy) ‘Text to Shop’ feature
Walmart recently introduced a new way to shop: via text. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chrome for Android now lets you lock your incognito session
Chrome is rolling out an update for Android users that lets them lock their incognito sessions with a password code or biometric info when they exit the app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hawk AI, an anti-money laundering and fraud prevention platform for banks, raises $17M
Hawk AI, a German company developing anti-money laundering (AML) and tangential fraud prevention smarts for financial institutions, has raised $17 million in a Series B round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
GitHub says it now has 100M active users
Code-hosting platform GitHub has announced that 100 million developers are now using the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts
When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed the algorithm, the stock photo and media giant also hinted that it would soon be bringing its own generative AI tools to users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter won’t force you to the ‘For You’ timeline on web anymore
In another flip-flop move, Twitter says that it will now remember the feed — the algorithmic “For You” or chronological “Following” — its users have chosen on the web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zillow introduces Calendly-like instant booking for rental property tours
Real estate marketplace Zillow has introduced an instant tour booking feature for renters on its platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Forward Networks raises $50M for digital twin technology to help model, manage and secure complex enterprise networks
Digital twins — virtual representations of actual systems — have become an important component in how engineers and analysts build, visualize and operate AI projects, network security, and other complicated architectures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zenfi takes in new funding to bring Mexicans some financial peace
Luis Rubén Chávez, founder and CEO of Zenfi: "If Credit Karma, SoFi, Marcus and Copilot Money had a kid, it would be us.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Spotify cuts 6% of its workforce, impacting 600 people
Music streaming service Spotify has announced that it will be conducting a round of layoffs that will impact around 6% of its global workforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
GM, please build the baby EV pickup of my dreams
In an industry obsessed with making everything huge (at least here in the U.S.), you may not’ve expected GM to show interest in an electric baby pickup, but here we are. GM is considering a pickup design that’s “smaller than the Ford Maverick and the Hyundai Santa Cruz,” with a “low roofline” and a 4 […]GM, please build the baby EV pickup of my dreams by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smores is a music discovery app with a TikTok-like feed
Music streaming platforms all claim to use both artificial intelligence and manual curation to find new songs from emerging artists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zitti soaks up some funding sauce so restaurants can manage their food supply chain
Zitti's payment software platform streamlines the transaction between restaurants and food suppliers through payment, price comparison and vendor discoverability tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cumul.io, a low-code embedded analytics platform for SaaS companies, raises $10.8M
Cumul.io, the company behind a low-code business intelligence (BI) analytics platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, has raised €10 million ($10.8 million) in a Series A round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Uber, Bolt drivers hope for increased earnings foiled as Tanzania reinstates 25% commission
Barely a year after Tanzania capped the commissions that e-hailing firms like Uber and Bolt charge their partners at 15%, the authority in charge has backtracked on the order, taking away drivers’ prospects of increased earnings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wristcheck wants to make used luxury watches more affordable
In an age when almost everything can be bought online, watch resale is done in a surprisingly archaic way, namely, face-to-face with little price transparency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Edit LDN raises seed round to serve sneakerheads around the world
Before founding The Edit LDN, Moses Rashid frequented sneaker festivals and exhibitions to buy limited edition shoes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter’s third-party client issue is seemingly a deliberate suspension
Last Friday, a ton of popular Twitter clients including Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and Echofon were down. Users couldn’t log into their accounts or look at their timelines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Paris to hold vote on shared scooters
This weekend, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo told Le Parisien that Parisians will get to vote whether they want to ban free-floating electric scooters or not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Crypto.com cuts 20% jobs amid ‘unforeseeable’ industry events
Crypto exchange Crypto.com is cutting its global workforce by 20%, it said on Friday, as it navigates ongoing economic headwinds and “unforeseeable” industry events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Third-party Twitter apps are facing issues, users say
People using third-party Twitter clients are facing a number of issues including unable to log in and access Twitter feeds. Tweetbot, Echofon, and Twitterrific, three popular third-party Twitter apps, confirmed the issues and noted that they are not sure what has triggered the glitch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Our obsession with pets means startups aimed at Vets are booming, as Digitail shows
With our mysterious, unsustainable, and psychological attachment to pets, combined with a boom in pet ownership since those lonely pandemic times, means veterinary practices have come under increasing pressure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google is finally rolling out emoji reactions for Meet video calls
Google is finally rolling out emoji reactions to people using Google Meet for video calls starting today. The company said that this feature will be first available on iOS and the web with Android support coming soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Inflow, a platform for managing ADHD through cognitive behavioral therapy, raises $11M
Inflow, a company developing a platform to manage ADHD using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques, has raised $11 million in a Series A round of funding. ADHD, or “attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,” is a condition impacting as much as 10% of the global population. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter makes algorithmic timeline default on iOS
Twitter is making the algorithmic timeline named “For You” the default feed on iOS. If you are getting a sense of déjà vu, you are not dreaming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How companies at CES are taking on climate change (or pretending to)
I can’t get it out of my head: A honkingly big Caterpillar sign that read, “JOIN US AS WE BUILD A BETTER WORLD.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
FCC moves to form Space Bureau as its role in regulating orbit intensifies
The Federal Communications Commission regulate lots of industries and practices relating to telecommunications and the internet, but it is now cementing its role as a space regulator by voting to create a brand new bureau specializing in the topic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Urine luck: these CES startups want to take a closer look at your waste
You wait for years for a urine analysis company, then all of them hit their flow all at once. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
US tech giants say Indian panel’s recommended competition act ‘absolutist and regressive’
An influential industry group that represents Google, Meta and Amazon among other tech firms has expressed concerns about the digital competition law recommended by an Indian parliamentary panel that seeks to regulate their alleged anticompetitive practices, calling the proposal “absolutist and regressive” in nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tesla slashes Model 3, Model Y prices in China for the second time in three months
Tesla quietly announced new pricing for the China market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Snap is shutting down its desktop camera app that allows users to apply filters during video calls
Snap is shutting down its camera app for the desktop that allows users to apply filters like cat ears and pirate hats on video calls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ring brings back the Peephole Cam, now starting at $129
In 2019, Ring launched the Peephole Cam, a camera that fits over existing door peepholes to record goings on outdoors, in apartment building hallways and so on Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Alexa, find me an EV charging station
Amazon’s conversational voice assistant, Alexa, has made its way into many electric vehicles in recent years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bird Buddy’s new smart hummingbird feeder can photograph and identify 350 different bird species
Bird Buddy, the maker of a smart bird feeder that snaps photos of your bird visitors which are collected in a companion mobile app, is out today with another product for its nature enthusiast and birdwatching community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nowatch is a health-focused smartwatch without the watch part
Your health is all you’ve got, and you can’t change what you can’t measure, so it’s little wonder that health trackers are everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices
Apple is increasing service charges for battery replacement of out-of-warranty iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks starting March 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tesla delivers 405,278 vehicles in Q4, missing Wall Street expectations
Tesla reported Sunday 405,278 vehicles delivered in the fourth quarter of 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
There’s now an open source alternative to ChatGPT, but good luck running it
The first open-source equivalent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has arrived, but good luck running it on your laptop — or at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Fidelity slashes the value of its Twitter stake by over half
Fidelity, which was among the group of outside investors that helped Elon Musk finance his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, has slashed the value of its stake in Twitter by 56%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
India to explore prohibition of unbacked crypto in its G20 presidency
India said on Thursday that under its G20 presidency, it will prioritize the development of a framework for global regulation of unbacked crypto assets, stablecoins and decentralized finance and will possibly explore their “prohibition” in a potentially large setback for the nascent industry. The Reserve Bank of India, the Indian central bank, said that crypto […]India to explore prohibition of unbacked crypto in its G20 presidency by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Spotify wants to help you ring in 2023 with its New Year’s Hub
Spotify has launched a New Year’s Hub to help its users ring in 2023, the streaming service announced on Thursday. The company says the one-stop destination gives users access to classic party playlists and special takeovers from artists like Charli XCX, Rita Ora, N-Dubz and Céline Dion. “We’ve got plenty of music to kickstart your celebration, and it’s […]Spotify wants to help you ring in 2023 with its New Year’s Hub by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Alibaba CEO to oversee cloud arm following major server outage
When Alibaba’s former CEO Jack Ma passed the torch to Daniel Zhang, he established a system that regularly rotates executives to ensure the company always stays agile in the fast-changing internet space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter suffers another outage
If Twitter isn’t loading fine for you, you’re not alone. Tens of thousands of users are complaining that they are unable to access the Elon Musk-owned social network, seeing scores of strange error-messages instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Movano’s new smart ring is focused on women’s health
Movano’s getting a week’s jump on what might well prove a banner CES for the smart ring. Today the Bay Area-based firm debuted Evie, a smart ring focused on women’s health set to hit the market later next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This tool helps you trim your follow list on Twitter
Twitter is a mess, but it’s still addictive. While some folks might have headed to Mastadon, those who stick around might still want to get the best out of the bird site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis in China
Baidu, the Chinese internet giant that became known for its search engines, is making some big strides in autonomous driving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Balance is a Mac timekeeper app that requires you to manually clock in your hours
There are plenty of time-tracking apps for Mac that automatically log the hours you’ve spent signed-in. Some even offer granular data, telling you how much time you spent on a particular app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This year in tech felt like a simulation
This year in tech, too much happened and very little of it made sense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices