Google Play Books adds new practice feature to help kids learn how to read

Google Play Book is getting a new feature that is designed to help new readers independently improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills. Google announced today that the new feature,... Read more »

Many startups are built off research, so why don’t more scientists become founders?

Many founders start their companies because they’re looking to build a career around finding a solution to a problem or pain point. Scientists are no different, and yet, you... Read more »

8Flow.ai raises $6.6M to automate customer support workflows

Working in customer support often means navigating disjointed tools to find data and solve issues. However, many of these actions are routine and repeatable, making them ideal candidates for... Read more »

A quarter million people want Telly’s free smart TV, says founder

Telly, the new hardware startup that is providing U.S. consumers with free smart TVs that are completely supported by advertising, claimed that 250,000 people registered within the first two... Read more »

Startups may have room to innovate as enterprise providers puzzle out how to price AI tools

Nearly every tech company seems to be working on AI tooling, and everyone is at least talking about using it. But how the heck are companies going to charge... Read more »

Developers of third-party Reddit apps fear shutdown because of API pricing changes

Christian Selig, the developer of the popular iOS Reddit client Apollo, posted on the social network on Wednesday saying that the social network’s new API pricing might put him... Read more »

Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer tool comes to Teams

Designer, Microsoft’s AI-powered art-generating tool, is coming to the free version of Teams. Starting today in preview on Windows 11, Microsoft Teams users can tap Designer, a Canva-like app,... Read more »

Google’s Parisa Tabriz to discuss keeping a billion users safe and more on Disrupt’s Security Stage

We can’t say with scientific certainty, but security could be a leading cause of early-stage startup founder insomnia. Locking down your company, product and customer security against constantly evolving... Read more »

Meta’s $499 Quest 3 headset arrives this fall

Say hello to the second worst kept secret in VR. Meta today gave the world the first (official) glimpse of its latest headset, the Quest 3. The mixed reality... Read more »

Walmart to drop plastic mailers, let customers bring their own bags to order pickup

Walmart announced this morning it will be reducing plastic across its e-commerce operations in a number of ways, including shifting from plastic mailers to recyclable paper bag mailers and... Read more »
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