Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s most outspoken critics aren’t thrilled with the company’s recent App Store changes. In a statement to The Verge, Spotify spokesperson Jeanne Moran says that the new 27 percent tax on alternative payment methods shows that Apple “will […]
Day: January 18, 2024
Your Google News feed is likely filled with AI-generated articles
AI-generated content can be found everywhere online, including your Google News feed. A report from 404 Media revealed that Google is boosting websites filled with AI-generated articles ripped from other outlets. While this isn’t a total surprise, the revelation is disappointing. Google News used to […]
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is coming to Xbox and PC ‘later this year’
As promised, Xbox offered the first details on MachineGames’ Indiana Jones project during its Developer Direct stream on Thursday. It also confirmed the game’s title — Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — and revealed that it’s coming to Xbox Series X/S, PC and Xbox […]
Welcome back to the Unicorn Club, 10 years later
Aileen Lee is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. She partners at the earliest stages with enterprise and consumer-oriented startup teams to build products customers love, and to help teams build aspirational companies. She has over two decades of experience starting at seed stage and staying involved […]
Consumer tech is bound for a comeback among unicorns, but maybe not just yet
Cowboy Ventures predicts that “given the hard shift to enterprise,” we can “hope and expect more exciting consumer unicorns will be born in coming years.” © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Spotify’s astrology-like Daylists go viral, but its micro-genre mastermind was let go last month
Is it a “fearful vocaloid wednesday morning,” a “yearning cottagecore thursday afternoon,” or perhaps a “heartbroken karaoke friday evening”? That’s up to your Spotify Daylist, an algorithmically-generated playlist inspired by your listening habits, which changes several times per day. Yeah, you may not think it’s […]
Scientists extract the sharpest image of a black hole yet
Black holes are one of the most powerful forces in the universe, but we had never seen one until the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team released the first image back in 2019. Now, the EHT Collaboration has released the most detailed image yet of the […]
Ayaneo’s latest mini PC looks just like an old-school NES
Back in November, Ayaneo officially unveiled the AM01 mini PC. This thing was built to look like a retro Macintosh computer, but the inclusion of older AMD APUs wasn’t exactly going to win any power awards. Now, the AM02 is here, with a revamped NES-inspired […]
YC’s Tom Blomfield will speak at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 about raising money with no regrets
What does it take to raise your first round of funding? That’s just one of the many topics that will be featured at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 on April 25 in Boston. At this daylong event, experienced founders, VCs and startup experts will lead sessions […]
Amazon Prime Video is discontinuing support for local originals in Africa and Middle East
Amazon Prime Video is said to be downsizing its Africa and Middle East operations in a move that will affect teams in the two regions, according to a Variety report that said the company will instead focus on European originals. Following the changes, Prime Video […]