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Less than one year after its iOS launch, French startup ten ten has gone viral with a walkie-talkie app that allows teens to send voice messages to their close friends — even when their phone is locked. Whether you think that's a recipe for disaster or the coolest thing you've heard may depend on your age group, and teens clearly heard of that one long before we did; although walkie talkies are clearly not a new concept, even in app form. "We’re ephemeral by design," ten ten co-founder and CEO, Jule Comar said in a written interview with TechCrunch.
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Boeing’s Starliner has two more chances this week to make its first crewed flight
While NASA and partners discussed possibly flying today following their assessment of the issue, they ultimately decided to hold off until the next opportunities, either on June 5 or 6.
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Unity co-founder David Helgason's next act: Gaming the climate crisis
Having stepped out as CEO in 2014, Helgason still sits on the board of the now-listed company he co-founded in Copenhagen in 2004; but most of his time is dedicated to Transition Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm he launched in 2021 to focus on the climate. It's a tell that the fund is called "transition" and not, say, "apocalypse." In an interview at his home near Reykjavík, the entrepreneur-turned-VC shared thoughts on his ventures and the journey that led him from Unity to climate tech, a homecoming of sorts.
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Fisker collapsed under the weight of its founder's promises
Over the past eight years, famed vehicle designer Henrik Fisker suggested his EV startup would deliver on a lot of promises, but none came true. As Fisker looks for an unlikely rescue, employees told TechCrunch that the blame rests largely on the shoulders of the husband-and-wife team who steer the company. The AI startup raised $6 billion at an $18 billion pre-money valuation as it aims to compete with OpenAI, Microsoft and Alphabet.
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This Week in AI: Can we (and could we ever) trust OpenAI?
This week in AI, OpenAI launched discounted plans for nonprofits and education customers and drew back the curtains on its most recent efforts to stop bad actors from abusing its AI tools. OpenAI removed one of the voices used by its AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT after users pointed out that it sounded eerily similar to Johansson's. Johansson later released a statement saying that she hired legal counsel to inquire about the voice and get exact details about how it was developed -- and that she'd refused repeated entreaties from OpenAI to license her voice for ChatGPT. Now, a piece in The Washington Post implies that OpenAI didn't in fact seek to clone Johansson's voice and that any similarities were accidental.
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This tool unlocks Windows' AI-powered Recall feature for unsupported PCs
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Report: Pelicans to defer Lakers' first-round pick in Anthony Davis trade until 2025
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A $400,000 delivery of Playdates were (briefly) stolen
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Top quarterbacks for 2024 fantasy football, according to our experts
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The IRS is making its free Turbo Tax alternative permanent
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Acer launches a compact SpatialLabs camera for 3D photos and videos
Users can not only use it to capture 3D content, but also to livestream in 3D on YouTube and other platforms, as well as to make 3D video calls on Teams, Zoom and Google Meet.
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Costco's car-buying program: Here's how it works
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Ambani's Reliance fires opening salvo in fintech battle, launches JioFinance app
Indian conglomerate Reliance Group is making its boldest consumer-facing move yet into financial services with the launch of JioFinance, an app that aims to be a one-stop shop for UPI digital payments, loans and insurance. Jio Financial Services, part of Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani's $232 billion Reliance, is muscling into India's crowded fintech market with an app that offers a range of services, from bill payments to digital banking and insurance advisory -- putting the conglomerate on a collision course with hundreds of startups as well as Google and Walmart's PhonePe vying for a piece of the action. The launch of JioFinance app follows Reliance, which leads the nation's retail and telecom markets, spending years getting its house in order to make a serious play for India's competitive financial services market.
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Valar Labs debuts AI-powered cancer care prediction tool and secures $22M
Biotech startup Valar Labs is aiming high but starting small with a tool that accurately predicts certain treatment outcomes, potentially saving precious time for patients. Every cancer is different, but many have established best practices honed over years of testing. Bladder cancer is one of these, Valar's co-founders explained to TechCrunch.
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Martha Stewart's youthful glow hails from this $14 L'Oreal multitasker
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Fintech startup Forward grabs $16M to take on Stripe, lead future of integrated payments
After Brandon Lloyd sold his second company, Bypass, a payments and point-of-sale software company for sports and entertainment, to Fiserv in 2020, he dove more into the payments industry and realized something: Software companies were getting a raw deal from the payments provider industry. “Companies like Stripe originally built that platform for an online merchant to be able to take credit cards easily,” Lloyd told TechCrunch.