Researchers at Apple have developed an AI-powered animation tool called Keyframer that allows anyone to animate static images using natural language prompts, opening up animation design to broader audiences.
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Games VC funding reaches new plateau after 72% YoY decline | PitchBook
Gaming startups raised $4.1B in 2023, a 72% decline YoY following pandemic era highs according to PitchBook’s Q4 2023 Gaming Report.
Spacegoods shakes up functional beverage industry with mushroom-based powders
The London-based wellness brand is tapping into functional mushrooms and nootropics to create a line of powder blends that it touts enhances energy, relaxation, mood and general well-being. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Andrej Karpathy confirms departure (again) from OpenAI
Andrej Karpathy, a former leading researcher and member of the founding team at OpenAI and before that, Tesla, has posted on X that he has left the former company once more. This marks Andrej’s second stint at the company. He first worked at OpenAI in […]
Sony predicts it’ll sell fewer PS5s than first thought
Sony has lowered its PlayStation 5 sales forecast for fiscal 2023 significantly and now expects to sell 21 million units, down from a previous forecast of 25 million. That’s despite posting record quarterly revenue and selling 8.2 million PS5s over the holiday season. So far […]
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo
After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product strategy, TechCrunch has learned. Specifically, Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in a number of products, including its VPN, Relay […]
Airbnb is making progress to get rid of those hated cleaning fees
Airbnb is slowly killing the cleaning fee as it aims for more transparent pricing. Since early last year, when the company started showing guests all-inclusive pricing when booking a property, almost 300,000 listings have removed or lowered cleaning fees, Airbnb said in its earnings report […]
United Airlines grounds Airbus A321neo fleet over antiquated no smoking sign law
United Airlines briefly grounded its fleet of brand-new Airbus A321neo planes, according to a report by Gizmodo. This had nothing to do with safety, as was the case with that recent Boeing controversy. Rather, it was due to the aircraft running afoul of a 1990 […]
Foundry Group is shutting down and won’t raise another fund
Foundry Group, an 18-year-old venture firm with nearly $3.5 billion in assets under management, has quietly decided to shut down and not raise any more funds. The move was unexpected considering that the firm announced a $500 million fund last year. Boulder, Colorado-based Foundry first […]
Memorizer is a movie and book tracking app that also helps you find inspiration
There are quite a few apps that let you log the movies, TV shows and books that you have watched and read. Some of them are indie apps that take advantage of various online databases. Some of them, like Letterboxd, Goodreads and Trakt, are full-fledge […]