TechCrunch Industry News

3:19

bluShift Aerospace launches its first rocket powered...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2021/02/01

New space startup bluShift wants to bring a new kind of propellant to the small satellite launching market, with rockets powered by bio-derived rocket fuels. These differ from traditional fuels in that they offer safety advantages during handling, and ecological advantages during production and use. The startup has been working on its solid rocket biofuel […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:25

Charlie launches a mobile app that ‘gamifies’ getting...

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2021/02/01

Charlie, a personal finance app that began as a chatbot, is relaunching today with a revamped experience focused on the larger goal of helping everyday Americans get out of debt. To do so, Charlie presents users with a full picture of their current debt and how long it will take them to pay it off. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:00

Pivoting to home fitness, Aviron offers gamified...

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2021/01/29

Few tech sectors had more to gain from the events of 2020 than home fitness. Interest in the category was swift, as gyms were declared one of the bigger problem areas amid the worldwide spread of Covid-19. Suddenly home workouts were more than just luxury. For YC-backed Aviron, it was the ideal time to pivot. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:11

Google open sources Tilt Brush VR software as it...

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2021/01/29

As Facebook and Apple begin to fire up more projects in the AR/VR world, Google has spent the last year shutting down most of their existing projects in that space. Today, the folks at Google announced they had ended active development of Tilt Brush, a VR painting app that was one of virtual reality’s early […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:48

Sony’s tempts professionals with the top-shelf,...

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2021/01/28

Sony is making a play for the top end of the professional digital camera world, where videographers and sports photographers demand immaculate image quality at high resolutions in short order. The new Alpha 1 beats pretty much everything on the market on paper, but it’ll set you back a cool $6,500. This is, of course, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:00

Ring’s new video doorbell is $60

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2021/01/28

The top-line feature for Ring’s latest is no doubt its price. No way around that. At $60, it’s $40 cheaper than the standard Video Doorbell – and prices from there go up significantly, with the “Elite” running $350. Perhaps the company is feeling some pressure from the race the bottom for smart home hardware pricing. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:11

GitLab reshuffles its paid subscription plans, drops...

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2021/01/27

GitLab, the increasingly popular DevOps platform, today announced a major update to its subscription model. The company is doing away with its $4/month Bronze/Starter package. Current users will be able to renew one more time at the existing price or move to a higher tier (and receive a significant discount for the first three years […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:15

Tweetbot 6 released with new subscription pricing

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2021/01/27

Tapbots, the company behind Tweetbot, has released a major update for the iPhone and iPad. Tweetbot 6 is now available in the App store. While there aren’t a lot of visual changes, there are a couple of important things happening under the hood. First, Tweetbot 6 is using Twitter’s API v2. An API is an […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:18

Twitter acquires newsletter platform Revue

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2021/01/26

Twitter is getting into the newsletter business. The social media company is announcing that it has acquired Revue, a Dutch startup that allows users to publish and monetize email newsletters. While Revue hasn’t driven the same wave of “is this the future of media?” think pieces as Substack, it counts major publishers like Vox Media […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:30

Calling Swedish VCs: Be featured in The Great...

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2021/01/26

TechCrunch is embarking on a major project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our survey of VCs in Stockholm, and Sweden generally, will capture how the country is faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors by the coronavirus pandemic. The deadline is the end of this week. We’d […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:38

Google refreshes its mobile search experience

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2021/01/25

Google today announced a subtle but welcome refresh of its mobile search experience. The idea here is to provide easier to read search results and a more modern look with a simpler, edge-to-edge design. From what we’ve seen so far, this is not a radically different look, but the rounded and slightly shaded boxes around […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:07

Xbox Live Gold is getting a big price hike

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2021/01/25

In what feels like an attempt at kicking some bad news under the rug on a Friday, Microsoft announced this morning that the price of Xbox Live Gold is going up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:32

YouTube launches hashtag landing pages to all users

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2021/01/22

YouTube is embracing the hashtag. The company has been quietly working on a new feature that allows users to better discover content using hashtags — either by clicking on a hashtag on YouTube or by typing in a hashtag link directly. Before, these actions would return a mix of content related to the hashtag, but […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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13:11

Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra review: Camera refinements...

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2021/01/22

The Galaxy S21 is a tank. It’s a big, heavy (8.04 ounces versus its predecessor’s 7.7), blunt instrument of a phone. It’s quintessential Samsung, really — the handset you purchase when too much isn’t quite enough. In fact, it even goes so far as adopting S-Pen functionality — perhaps the largest distinguishing factor between the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:06

Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller...

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2021/01/21

Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico, a tiny little microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects with some code running on the microcontroller. Even more interesting, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is using its own RP2040 chip, which means that the foundation is now making its own silicon. If you’re not familiar with microcontrollers, those devices let […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:09

Facebook and Instagram’s AI-generated image captions...

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2021/01/21

Every picture posted to Facebook and Instagram gets a caption generated by an image analysis AI, and that AI just got a lot smarter. The improved system should be a treat for visually impaired users, and may help you find your photos faster in the future. Alt text is a field in an image’s metadata […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:26

Landbot closes $8M Series A for its ‘no code’ chatbot...

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2021/01/20

Barcelona-based Landbot, a ‘no-code’ chatbot builder, has bagged a $8M Series A led by the Spanish-Israeli VC firm Swanlaab, alongside support from Spain’s innovation-focused public agency, CDTI. Previous investors Nauta Capital, Encomenda and Bankinter also participated in the round. We last chatted to Landbot back in 2018 when it raised a $2.2M seed and had […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:30

Netflix’s ‘Shuffle Play’ feature will roll out to all...

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2021/01/20

Netflix is always in search of a better way to instantly connect users to something to watch, instead of having them waste time unsuccessfully scrolling through all the available programming options. Now, the company says a recent test focused on solving this problem, Shuffle Play, has proven popular enough to roll out to all users […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:16

India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy,...

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2021/01/19

India has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy, posing a new headache to Facebook-owned service that identifies the South Asian nation as its biggest market by users. In an email to WhatsApp head Will Cathcart, the nation’s IT ministry said WhatsApp’s planned update to its data-sharing policy raised “grave concerns […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:26

Calling Bucharest VCs: Be featured in The Great...

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2021/01/19

TechCrunch is embarking on a major project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our survey of VCs in Bucharest and Romania will capture how the country is faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors by the coronavirus pandemic. We’d like to know how Romania’s startup scene is […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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