Google is making its ChatGPT rival Bard available to a wider audience today, launching the generative AI chatbot in more than 40 languages and finally bringing it to the European Union (EU) after an initial delay due to data privacy concer…
Apple just published the first public beta of iOS 17. Unlike developer betas, that’s the beta version that should be stable enough to be used by regular people.
The company still plans to release the final version of iOS 17 this fall. B…
Google released the Android 14 Beta 4 on Tuesday as the company prepares for the final release of the operating system update. The new version mostly includes bug fixes but also introduces a nifty feature to make unlocking easier.
The B…
On Tuesday, Google released new scheduling-related features for Gmail with Google Calendar integration including quick event creation and easy availability sharing. Gmail will now have a calendar icon at the bottom of the conversation view…
Acquiring Linode allowed Akamai to fast-track its broader cloud computing ambitions. Today, the company is taking another step in this direction. It’s announcing the expansion of its cloud computing services to five new locations: Paris, W…
Nothing was founded on a simple premise: phones are boring. This wasn’t always the case, of course. There was a time before the smartphone became a commodity when the tech world waited with bated breath for the latest device from Apple and…
Recently hired Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is pushing back at reports that Twitter traffic is tanking as a result of the July 5 launch of a new competitor, Instagram Threads. But the company does seem to be concerned about the potential th…
Over the past 30 years, cellular communications have brought unprecedented benefits to humankind. 2G and 3G unleashed the potential of human mobility and connectivity. 4G gave us greater access to information and social engagement. 5…
Snap announced today that it is rolling out an integration with the link-in-bio tool Linktree to let people show off their work and other profiles on Snapchat. The social network is late to allow links in the profiles of creators. Until no…
Twitch is finally rolling out a Discovery Feed, after years of complaints from its creators about the lack of growth opportunities for smaller streamers.
The company announced the Discovery Feed, along with a slew of other new features,…
Amazon is looking to debut a TV show in India that will look to identify promising startups in the South Asian market, people familiar with the matter said.
The Prime Video show, to be unveiled as early as Wednesday, has been in the wor…
Apple has launched an online store on China’s WeChat app, the Tencent-owned platform said on Tuesday. The Cupertino-based company has launched the store to the app via WeChat’s mini-programs — small-sized apps hosted on WeChat that feature…
Starlink satellites are making thousands of avoidance maneuvers as low Earth orbit becomes more crowded, feeding worries that a catastrophic impact is inevitable.
SpaceX’s orbital communication satellites performed maneuvers just over…
5G in Standalone (SA) mode will enable Ooredoo Qatar to introduce new use cases quickly and leverage network slicing to ensure differentiated services to the enterprise segment.
In another country-first, Nokia 5G Standalone Core has …
Tech companies have banded together to push for policy changes and to market the country as a top outsourcing destination, looking to replicate South Asia’s success in using digital skills to transform the economy.
More than 10 …
Roberta Doyle was unnerved when she found herself on the receiving end of a football manager's rant.
Despite just being a member of the audience, the play's delivery - through a virtual reality (VR) headset - made the rant f…
In the latest sign that Meta’s new Twitter lookalike Threads is unlikely to capture the essence of its predecessor, the company is apparently actively disinterested in cultivating its new app into a useful hub of breaking news and world ev…
Harry Styles was struck in the face by an unknown object during his concert in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday (July 8).
As seen in a fan-captured video, the 29-year-old British pop star struts down the stage at Vienna’s Ernst Happel …
Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI tool designed to answer questions about medical information, has been in testing at the Mayo Clinic research hospital, among others, since April, The Wall Street Journal reported this morning. Med-PaLM 2 is a var…
Instagram’s text-based app Threads has achieved the mark of 100 million signups in just five days. The Twitter rival was launched on June 6 (or June 5 in the Americas), according to a tracker.
Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s head, also confir…
FrontRow, a hobby-learning and community platform featuring celebrities in India, has shut down, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed.
The three-year-old startup sought to build a community where well-known artists and athletes taught…
YouTube is currently testing a new feature that allows users to lock their screens to avoid accidentally tapping a button and disrupting the video. The company announced the experiment on its YouTube Experiments page.
“Lock Screen” disa…
Google’s venture capital arm Gradient Ventures has made another foray into Europe, investing as part of a $3.2 million seed round in two-year-old German startup Weflow.
Weflow is the latest in a line of ecosystem startups to emerge from…
OpenAI today announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its API.
Starting this afternoon, all existing OpenAI API developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4. The compa…
TikTok has already dominated the short-video and social media market, and is now looking to take on Spotify and Apple Music with its latest offering.
The company announced today that it’s launching a new subscription-only music streamin…
In the last few months, Twitter alternatives — new and old — have found an audience willing to try out a new text-based social network. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill and T2 are some of the social media platforms people are trying out. Now, Meta…
Threads, Meta’s new social networking platform, is quickly gaining ground in China, where Western social apps from Instagram to Facebook are banned.
As of Thursday morning Pacific Time, the Twitter clone introduced by Instagram ranked f…
Apple is rolling out a new update to Shazam, the company’s app that helps users identify songs. In addition to recognizing songs using the microphone, Shazam can now identify songs on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. This can be really handy…
As Instagram’s new Twitter rival Threads soars into the double-digit millions after launching on Wednesday, another Twitter alternative, Bluesky, has hit a milestone of its own. According to new analysis from app store intelligence provide…
A Bangladeshi government website leaked the personal information of citizens, including full names, phone numbers, email addresses and national ID numbers.
Viktor Markopoulos, a researcher who works for Bitcrack Cyber Security, said he …
Whenever I spend time in the European startup world, a lot of the conversation is focused on how it can differentiate itself. One of the recurring questions is: How do we build a startup ecosystem? That’s an excellent question.
The begi…
Apple removed several predatory lending apps from the App Store in India this week, days after users and media questioned the legitimacy of those services.
Pocket Kash, White Kash, Golden Kash and OK Rupee are among the apps that Apple …
Existing Spotify subscribers who have been paying for the service through Apple’s App Store can no longer pay using this method. The users paying through that mechanism will be moved to a free account at the end of their current billing cy…
Hours before Meta launches its anticipated Instagram competitor, Threads, another Twitter rival — Bluesky — is announcing additional funding and its first paid service. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company shared that it raised seed fu…
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over its new Threads app less than 24 hours after it launched, as first reported by Semafor. The Elon Musk-owned company is accusing Meta of poaching former Twitter employees to create the new platform.
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Brinc, the Hong Kong–based accelerator backed by investors like Animoca Brands, is launching a new program for fledgling climate tech startups. The three-month program is tailored for founders who are focused on carbon dioxide removal (CDR…
Samsung announced today that it is holding its next Galaxy Unpacked event on July 26, where the company will likely unveil the Galaxy Fold 5 and the Galaxy Flip 5 foldable phones.
The company is hosting the event — termed “On the Flip S…
Poor Google doesn’t have much luck with keeping its unreleased Pixel devices under wraps, and the Pixel 8 Pro is no exception. Two leaked photos of Google’s upcoming Pixel flagship were posted to Reddit on Monday, giving us our first look …
After swathes of users were unable to access parts of TweetDeck over the last few days, Twitter started rolling out a new version of the web app to users Monday. The company also added that in 30 days, users will have to be verified to acc…
Reddit has had a tumultuous month after announcing changes to its data API. In the last month, Reddit’s CEO gave interviews defending the company’s decision, the social network had fights with developers and moderators, and the platform sa…
Amazon has begun rolling out its custom electric delivery vans from Rivian in Europe, the e-commerce giant said Monday. This will be Rivian’s first commercial shipment of vans outside the United States.
The first tranche of 300 vans wil…
Sweden’s data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users’ data via Google Analytics which it found breach the bloc’s privacy rulebook owing to risks posed by U.S. government surveillance. It h…
Twitter was even messier than usual this weekend. On Saturday, owner Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter would combat “extreme levels of data scraping,” by limiting accounts that don’t subscribe to Twitter Blue so that they could see only 600 p…
Flipkart has begun lending to customers, expanding its financing offerings in a move that could potentially boost sales even as its chief rival Amazon has signalled a slowdown in India.
The Walmart-owned Bengaluru-headquartered firm, in…
What would success look like for the Vision Pro? It’s still an open question — or, perhaps, a series of interrelated questions. First is how many Apple expects to sell, and what industry analysts are forecasting. Second is who, precisely, …
Instagram’s rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the U.S. The app will be called Threads, and according to App Store data, it’s expected to launch on July 6.
It’s a good time for Instagram to enter the fray — …
Some AirPods will be gaining a new hearing health feature, supported by iOS 17, that can check yourself for potential hearing issues and may be able to determine your body temperature via your ear canal, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurma…
It’s that time of week again, folks. Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular digest of the past week in tech. New here? Not to worry — sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday, then read on for the week’s recap.
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Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping. While this measure has affected all Twitter users, TweetDeck users in particular are today reporting major proble…
It was a very busy week in the world of fintech, which certainly kept us on our toes. We covered a couple of notable M&A deals (including one of the biggest of the year so far), a different kind of financial services startup aimed at undoc…
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