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Twitter rolls out the ability for anyone to host a Space
After steadily expanding access over the course of the year, Twitter announced today its audio chatroom feature known as Twitter Spaces is now open to anyone who wants to host a Space across iOS and A
Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market
In a bull market, it's especially hard to understand people and their value systems. The pandemic does not help us engage, understand culture nor help build a human connection.
Amazon rolls out in-store pickup for products ordered from local retailers
Amazon is rolling out ‘Local Selling,’ a set of services that allow local and regional retailers to offer both in-store pickup and fast delivery to nearby customers. With this new option, sellers
Surface Duo 2 review: Getting better
If challenging the status quo was easy, we’d see a lot more of it. In the world of smartphones, this means daring to think outside the rectangle, a form factor that has been the default for more tha
The climate policies tucked into Congress’ budget package are signals to investors
The climate measures in the budget reconciliation package now before the U.S. Congress could unlock an investment boom that would allow us to take action to protect our future.
Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands
Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday in response to the company’s handling of a Dave Chappelle special that premiered on October 5. At the same time, Los Angeles-based trans activist Ash
Google launches a bug bounty program for Android Enterprise
Android 12 is now officially available for Google’s Pixel phones and will slowly roll out to others in the coming months. Chances are, you think of Android as a consumer product, but over the co
Inside a European push to outlaw creepy ads
European Union lawmakers are mobilizing support for a ban on tracking-based advertising to be added to a new set of Internet rules for the bloc — which were proposed at the back end of last yea
Find out what it takes to make smart early bets in the space industry at TC Sessions: Space 2021
The space industry is bustling with commercial and private industry activity, and new startups are entering the fray all the time. But which are the ones to back, and how can you tell? There’s n
FIN7 hackers set up a fake company to recruit for cyberattacks
FIN7, a financially motivated Russian hacking group, has set up a fake company to lure unwitting IT specialists into supporting its continued expansion into ransomware, security researchers have found
Google lowers Play Store fees to 15% on subscription apps, as low as 10% for media apps
Google is lowering commissions on all subscription-based businesses on the Google Play Store, the company announced today. Previously, the company had followed Apple’s move by reducing commissio
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NFT sci-fi card game Parallel raises at $500M valuation from Paradigm
It’s no secret that NFTs have been a hot space for crypto speculators in the Ethereum ecosystem to diversify their holdings, and while some see a golden opportunity to shill bad art to suckers,
AirGarage, a full-stack parking operator, raises $12.5M in round led by a16z
Parking can often feel almost laughably old-fashioned, with some lots still hiring an attendant to collect fees and check for valid tickets. Even when parking lot owners try to modernize — using
Roku warns customers contract negotiations with YouTube have failed
Roku shared a progress update today on its ongoing contract dispute with Google related to its attempt to renew the carriage agreement for YouTube TV, Google’s live TV streaming service. In Apri
What do people want in a co-founder? YC has some answers
If I went to Stanford and worked with some YC-backed startups, chances are that I’ll find it relatively easy to find one or two co-founders, get millions in funding and build a billion-dollar compan
NVIDIA’s new ‘GeForce Now RTX 3080’ streams games at 1440p and 120 fps
NVIDIA has unveiled its next-generation cloud gaming platform called GeForce Now RTX 3080 with "desktop-class latency" and 1440p gaming at up to 120 fps on PC or Mac.
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto
As investors race to capitalize on surging interest in cryptocurrencies, startups are getting creative in how they onboard a generation of crypto users to their first wallets. Worldcoin is perhaps one
Socratic nabs $3M seed to build data-driven task management system for developers
Socratic, an early-stage startup that wants to bring data to bear on a developer-focused task management system, announced a $3 million seed investment today from Unusual Ventures, Overtime.vc and a c
More talk about attaching sniper rifles to robots
The whole gun on a robot thing was a question we’ve been barreling toward since the first practical quadrupedal robots arrived. Last week, that came to an inevitable head when a Ghost Robotics syste