Friday, September 6, 2024

NFL season kicks off in Brazil, but reporters and fans can’t post on X due to nationwide ban

The Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers will face off tonight their first game of the NFL season. But this season opener is a bit different. As the league seeks to expand into international markets, the two football teams have traveled to Brazil to make history by playing the first ever regular season NFL […]

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Public EV startup with an indicted CEO is looking to raise an additional $100 million

It’s tempting to think the trend of EV startups merging with special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) to go public has ended, seeing how many of them are struggling or defunct. But that’s not quite true. A startup called Thunder Power Holdings went public on the Nasdaq exchange in June through a SPAC, and is now […]

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TechCrunch Minute: Canva faces backlash over price hikes

Some Canva customers are experiencing serious sticker shock, while the company is pointing to new AI features to justify the price hike. The company has established itself as a simpler, more affordable alternative to legacy design software, but the “more affordable” part of the equation is becoming a little less true, with some Canva Teams […]

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Google faces provisional antitrust charges in UK for ‘self-preferencing’ its ad exchange

More antitrust woes for Google. The U.K’.s competition watchdog said on Friday that it suspects the company of adtech antitrust abuses. The tech giant will now have a chance to respond to the provisional findings before the regulator reaches a final decision. Confirmed violations of U.K. competition law can lead to corrective orders and fines […]

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Karo is a to-do app that lets you assign tasks to your friends and family

You can build a reminder and task management system for yourself, and use a service that works for your team. But it might not be easy to get your family members or friends to use the same task management app. iOS app Karo (which means “do it” in Hindi) aims to solve the problem even […]

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Elon Musk’s X could still face sanctions for training Grok on Europeans’ data

Earlier this week, the EU’s lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data to train its Grok AI chatbot, but the saga isn’t over yet for the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s received […]

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Thursday, September 5, 2024

Telegram quietly enables users to report private chats to moderators after founder’s arrest

Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov in France over “crimes committed by third parties” on the platform.  The messaging app, which serves nearly 1 billion monthly active users, has long maintained a reputation for minimal supervision of user […]

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‘Stop harassing Starlink,’ SpaceX President tells Brazilian judge

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell made a public plea to one of Brazil’s top judicial figures on Thursday, asking him to “please stop harassing Starlink” amid the ongoing battle in the country against Elon Musk’s social media business X.  Musk has been engaged in a months-long dispute with the Brazilian courts, who have been waging a […]

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TechCrunch Minute: This robotic wheelchair can climb stairs

Korea’s Institute for Machinery and Materials unveiled a pretty cool robotic wheelchair this week. By creating a compliant wheel that conforms to the terrain around it, these engineers have created an early version of a wheelchair that can climb stairs and traverse rocky terrain. The wheel uses a “smart chain” structure, which means that a […]

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