Monthly Archives: August 2024

TechCrunch Minute: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is returning home empty

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are stuck aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after their test flight on Boeing’s Starliner went awry. This weekend, NASA announced that these astronauts will remain aboard the ISS until February, when SpaceX’s Dragon … Continue reading

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Buy now, pay later firm Klarna swings to first-half profit ahead of IPO

Klarna said it made an adjusted operating profit in the first half of 2024, swinging into the black as the firm nears a hotly anticipated IPO.

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The Crypto Industry Loudly Defends Telegram’s Pavel Durov

When the messaging app’s founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested, he received a flood of support from a multitrillion-dollar industry that relies on it.

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Slack Rolls Out New Automation Features

The new capabilities are designed to let users more easily build workflows and link them to third-party apps.

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Creators are angered by Meta’s Spark AR shutdown, saying they’ll be out of work with little notice

Meta will be shutting down Spark AR, its platform of third-party AR tools and content, effective January 14, 2025. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Waymo expands its curbside robotaxi service to Phoenix airport

Waymo said Tuesday it will start offering riders 24/7 access to curbside pickups and dropoffs at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport terminals 3 and 4 — yet another example of the Alphabet-owned company’s push to expand its robotaxi services.  Waymo … Continue reading

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13 years later, Snapchat finally rolls out native support for iPads

Snapchat is officially rolling out native support for iPad, the company announced in the app’s latest release notes. Since Snapchat’s launch in 2011, the social networking app has only been available on iPads as an iPhone app with large black … Continue reading

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Chinese government hackers targeted U.S. internet providers with zero-day exploit, researchers say

A group of hackers linked to the Chinese government used a previously unknown vulnerability in software to target U.S. internet service providers, security researchers have found.  The group known as Volt Typhoon was exploiting the zero-day flaw — meaning the … Continue reading

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X is testing a video conferencing tool

Elon Musk’s X has already declared it aims to compete with LinkedIn for job listings and PayPal for payments. Now, it wants to take on the likes of Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams with a video conferencing tool. One … Continue reading

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Airtel teams with Apple for streaming deals in India, closes Wynk Music app

Airtel, India’s second-biggest telecom operator, said it has struck a “strategic” partnership with Apple to provide special Apple TV+ and Apple Music offers to its high-tier customers. As part of the move, Airtel said it will be discontinuing its own … Continue reading

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