Cast your mind back to 2019, when many people were captivated by the idea of terrorizing a quaint English village as a loud, annoying goose. Untitled Goose Game was an absolute delight, but it was fairly short and left me wanting more. In another universe, […]
Day: September 21, 2024
Twitch introduces new depreciating strike program
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch is changing the way it enforces its community guidelines. In an announcement posted on its website, Twitch said that it will introduce a new enforcement strategy in which strikes for certain offenses will depreciate over time, users […]
Tumblr reports ~350% user growth following X’s ban in Brazil
According to Tumblr, in the days since the X ban in Brazil, the site saw 222.99% growth in communities and 349.55% growth in users. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Internet surveillance firm Sandvine says it’s leaving 56 “non-democratic” countries
Sandvine sold its internet surveillance products to authoritarian regimes, including Belarus, Egypt, Eritrea, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
You’re cute no matter what phone you have
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge The iPhone 16 is great. But it’s great in pretty much exactly the ways you’d expect it to be great — gone, it seems, are the days of big new ideas about these slabs of glass we all use […]
Elon Musk threatened with SEC sanctions for failing to appear in court
Elon Musk, the CEO of X and various other companies with the letter “X” in their names, is in regulators’ crosshairs after skipping testimony this month in an investigation related to Musk’s takeover of Twitter. In a filing today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission […]
Black Forest Labs, the company that powers Grok’s image generation, is raising another $100M on a $1B valuation, say sources
Black Forest Labs, an image GenAI startup that only came out of stealth two months ago, has closed a a monster new round, sources say. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Adam Neumann’s startup Flow opens co-living community in Saudi Arabia
Flow, Adam Neumann’s co-living startup, opened a compound with 238 apartments in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, and Forbes has some details. The opening included an Aztec-themed hot chocolate ceremony and tote bags with the words “holy s— I’m alive” on them. The rent for the […]
Musk dodged Brazil’s X ban by ‘coincidence,’ says Cloudflare CEO
X went back online in Brazil earlier this week, three weeks after Elon Musk’s platform was blocked under orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court. That prompted Brazil’s top court to fine X Corp. nearly $1 million for every day the platform remained accessible in the country. […]