by News Feed Editor | May 4, 2026 | Technology
A new project called Acorn has launched a way for organizations and creators to build their own online communities as an alternative to centralized social media platforms like Instagram, X, and Threads. It uses the same underlying technology that powers the...
by News Feed Editor | May 4, 2026 | Technology
Almost all of the 20 U.S. state government-run health insurance marketplaces shared residents’ application information with advertising and tech giants, including Google, LinkedIn, Meta, and Snap, according to a new investigation by Bloomberg. The report drives home...
by News Feed Editor | May 4, 2026 | Technology
This is it. The BOGO offer is live. For a limited time, buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. This is a short window to bring someone with you — and get more out of being there. Bring a colleague. A co-founder. A...
by News Feed Editor | May 4, 2026 | Technology
DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create websites based on their app listings. The onboarding tool works similarly to the one Amazon launched in 2024. Merchants can point...
by News Feed Editor | May 4, 2026 | Technology
Refrigerators today run on the same basic technology as they did more than 100 years ago. You’d think we could have come up with something better by now. And we have, but nothing has been able to dethrone cheap, reliable vapor compression — the process that’s keeping...
by News Feed Editor | May 4, 2026 | Technology
The tech industry has spent the last decade asking whether self-driving cars need lidar sensors, cameras, or all of the above. Lidar company Ouster says it has a new answer: put them both in the same sensor. On Monday, the San Francisco-based company announced a new...
