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Should You Collect Data or Purchase a Large Database?
Data has quickly become the most critical resource in the modern world. According to a 2017 article published by The Economist, it has surpassed oil as the most valuable commodity Collecting data allows us to learn more information, which leads to more opportunities...
Surviving in the Social Media Jungle
We know that social media is huge, but it can be difficult to imagine just how massive it really is. There are so many platforms and billions of users across the world all updating their feeds, and as a result social media can be something of a lawless land sometimes....
What tech will come to supplement CBD oil?
CBD is a cannabinoid found in the cannabis plant that has many health and therapeutic benefits. CBD does not cause psychoactive effects. CBD is widely used by many people throughout the United States. CBD oil can be combined into different products such as drops, CBD...
How to Watch Live TV on Your Computer
Given how advanced the world of the Internet is, it goes without saying that there must be a way for people to watch live TV on their computers. After all, there wouldn’t be so many cord-cutters out there! It’s true. You can, in fact, watch live TV without a satellite...
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Final 2 days to save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
Ticket discounts of up to $500 will end tomorrow, April 10, at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 go up again. Miss this, and you’ll be paying more for the same access to one of the most anticipated tech epicenters of the year. Register...
Spotify now lets everyone turn off videos in its app
Spotify is introducing new controls that allow users to disable all videos in the app, the company announced on Thursday. The controls can be used to choose an audio-first experience on the app or a video-enhanced one, Spotify says. Starting today, Family Plan...
Instagram expands its movie inspired content restrictions for teens internationally
Instagram announced that it plans to restrict content for teen accounts based on 13+ movie ratings last October in countries including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The social network giant said Thursday that it is now applying these...
Radify’s sci-fi plasma reactors could break China’s dominance of rare earth elements
Rare earth elements might represent small slivers of the global metals market, but they’re big sticks on the geopolitical stage, where China wields its considerable heft as a bargaining chip during trade disputes. Countries like the U.S. have started taking steps to...
Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced Thursday the close of a $95 million Fund II. The firm, founded in 2021, backs early-stage companies in fintech, supply chain, and the future of work. It’s backed 75 companies to date after closing...
This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit’
Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea set aside by NASA and turning into high-powered propulsion for the...
WireGuard VPN developer can’t ship software updates after Microsoft locks account
WireGuard, the major software project and VPN that underpins popular security software including Mullvad and others, has found itself locked out of a key part of its Microsoft developer’s account and unable to ship software updates to Windows users. Jason Donenfeld,...
A self-driving car in Texas hit and killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage
The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about autonomous vehicles and whether they belong there. While humans are responsible for killing animals with their cars all the time, this incident has brought negative...
Canva doubles down on AI and marketing automation with Simtheory, Ortto acquisitions
Canva announced on Wednesday the dual acquisition of Simtheory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation company. The financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Canva says the acquisitions are part of...
Goodbye, Llama? Meta launches new proprietary AI model Muse Spark — first since Superintelligence Labs’ formation
Meta has been one of the most interesting companies of the generative AI era — initially gaining a loyal and huge following of users for the release of its mostly open source Llama family of large language models (LLMs) beginning in early 2023 but coming to screeching...
AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict
AWS CEO Matt Garman said Amazon’s recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI, after its long partnership including $8 billion of investment in Anthropic, is the type of conflict of interest the cloud giant is used to handling. Garman has worked at Amazon since he was a...
Amazon to end support for older Kindle devices
Amazon is preparing to end support for Kindle devices released before 2012 — cutting them off from the Kindle Store and making them virtually unable to load any new content. The company set a cutoff date for May 20, 2026. Amazon sent an email to customers this week...