Bluesky announces its $8M seed round & first paid service, custom domains

Hours before Meta launches its anticipated Instagram competitor, Threads, another Twitter rival — Bluesky — is announcing additional funding and its first paid service. In a blog post on... Read more »

Fiat says its cutest EV will tote accessories like, I kid you not, a ‘little shower’

Fiat is slowly trickling out new details on its upcoming Topolino EV, and it turns out the teeny-tiny quadricycle will do some trickling of its own. Designed for short... Read more »

Crypto funding drops for fifth straight quarter as investors continue to pull back

Funding for crypto startups continues to grow scarcer. Venture capital flowing into the industry dropped for the fifth consecutive quarter since Q1 2022 to $2.34 billion globally as investors... Read more »

OpenAI is forming a new team to bring ‘superintelligent’ AI under control

OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, to develop ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems.... Read more »

Astra establishes subsidiary for spacecraft engine business

Astra is carving out its spacecraft engine business as a wholly-owned subsidiary, a corporate restructuring that will provide greater flexibility in hiring and financing, according to documents viewed by... Read more »

Judge silences White House social media talks in lawsuit that departs from reality

Over the July 4 holiday, it emerged that a judge in Louisiana had issued an injunction preventing the White House from speaking to social media companies in certain ways.... Read more »

Gfycat, the Snap-owned GIF hub, shuts down on September 1

Gfycat, the Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform, announced that it’s shutting down on September 1, pulling its full archive of GIFs offline. Users have two months to save content before it... Read more »

Announcing the SaaS Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has become something akin to the default model for software distribution. But it’s more than a business model. It’s also a way of developing and managing software... Read more »

Fairphone’s repairable smartphone goes on sale in US for the first time — in a ‘deGoogled’ Murena e/OS variant

European sustainable smartphone brand Fairphone is dipping a toe in the US market by making its flagship repairable handset available to buy there for the first time via another... Read more »

Blue Origin eyes international expansion

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is looking to expand into international markets, with the company in the early stages of eyeing up a launch site outside of the... Read more »
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