Monday, August 14, 2023

Disrupt is around the corner — Here are the fintech players taking the stage

In this week’s edition of The Interchange, we touch on the resilience of BaaS in a sometimes messy fintech space, earnings highlights, and much more. If you want to receive this in your inbox every Sunday, sign up here. It’s hard to believe it but TechCrunch Disrupt — only one of the most engaging, fun, […]
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India, the world’s largest smartwatch market, is getting new smart rings

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The world’s largest smartwatch market is about to get two new smart rings. While wrist-worn wearables are still wildly popular in India, a pair of domestic manufacturers are banking on consumers who are meticulous about health and sleep tracking but are less interested in the form factor. BoAt and Noise are entering the smart ring […]

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The space industry is starting a green revolution

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Five to ten years ago, you would have struggled to find anyone, anywhere connecting the words 'sustainability' and 'space.'

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Student opportunities abound at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

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Here’s a reminder for students or recent grads. You’re the startup world’s future generation, and we’re investing in you. How? By offering passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 (September 19–21 in San Francisco) at a super-sweet discount. A student pass costs $195 compared to full general admission of $850. What are you waiting for? Buy your […]

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Bugs in transportation app Moovit gave hackers free rides

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Hackers could have hijacked the user accounts of a popular transportation app and used them to get free rides and access people’s personal information, according to a security researcher. Omer Attias, a security researcher at SafeBreach, said he found three vulnerabilities in the Moovit app, which allowed him to collect new Moovit user’s registration information […]

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Cruise and Waymo score a win and a surprising deal between electric aircraft rivals

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Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. All eyes were on San Francisco this week as critics and supporters of deploying self-driving cars on public roads awaited a vote from the California Public Utilities Commission. Tl;dr: […]

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Sure AI is hot, but is it an actual market or a platform piece?

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AI has been has hot as it comes since the start of the year, but the question remains whether it's a product category or a platform piece.

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Disrupt is around the corner — Here are the fintech players taking the stage

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Deal Dive: This AI startup is racking up government customers

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For most startups it is hard to land a government contract but IVIX has landed multiple inside the U.S. and beyond.
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How the FBI goes after DDoS cyberattackers

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In 2016, hackers using a network of compromised internet-connected devices — vulnerable security cameras and routers — knocked some of the then biggest websites on the internet offline for several hours. Twitter, Reddit, GitHub and Spotify all went down intermittently that day, victims of what was at the time one of the largest distributed denial-of-service […]
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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla, the FCC fines robocallers and WeWork finds itself in trouble (again)

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Welcome, friends, to TechCrunch’s Week in Review (WiR), the newsletter where we recap the week that was in tech. For those new to WiR, think of it as a digest of stories and pieces that topped the charts over the past five days or so. In this week’s edition of WiR, we cover researchers figuring […]

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