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Ticktock! 48 hours left to nab your early-bird tickets for Disrupt 2024

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30 May 2024

Don’t miss out: TechCrunch Disrupt early-bird pricing ends in 48 hours! The countdown is on! With only 48 hours left, the early-bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 will end on…

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Former Priceline execs debut Plannin, a booking platform that uses travel influencers to help plan trips

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30 May 2024

Andrew Loewen and Randy Schartner, co-founders of Hotelsbycity.com and former Priceline executives, just announced their latest project: Plannin, a global travel booking platform that empowers creators to monetize their hotel…

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Instagram now lets teens limit interactions to their ‘Close Friends’ group to combat harassment

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30 May 2024

In a bid to combat harassment on its platform, Instagram said on Thursday it is expanding the scope of its “Limits” tool specifically for teenagers that would let them restrict…

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Paul Graham claims Sam Altman wasn’t fired from Y Combinator

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30 May 2024

In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Paul Graham, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator, brushed off claims that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was pressured to resign…

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Former teen model co-created app Frich to help Gen Z be more realistic about finances

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30 May 2024

As a teen model, Katrin Kaurov became financially independent at a young age. Aleksandra Medina, whom she met at NYU Abu Dhabi, also learned to manage money early on. The…

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Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform

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30 May 2024

Redpanda, the well-funded Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that competes with the likes of Confluent, on Thursday announced that it has acquired open-source stream-processing platform Benthos. The two companies did not…

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Valar Labs debuts AI-powered cancer care prediction tool and secures $22M

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30 May 2024

Putting AI to work in the healthcare industry is a tricky business; it’s even more so in oncology, where the stakes are especially high. Biotech startup Valar Labs is aiming…

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Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get

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30 May 2024

Compliance YouTube’s Content ID system—which automatically detects content registered by rightsholders—is “completely fucking broken,” a YouTuber called “Albino” declared in a rant on X (formerly Twitter) viewed more than 950,000…

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Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens

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30 May 2024

Regulatory sprucing up — Framework Laptop 13 gets its fourth major round of upgraded, modular parts. Andrew Cunningham – May 30, 2024 5:11 pm UTC Enlarge / The Framework Laptop…

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Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account

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30 May 2024

Regulatory Flubbing the input — UniSuper’s 647,000 users faced two weeks of downtime because of a Google Cloud bug. Ron Amadeo – May 30, 2024 5:10 pm UTC Earlier this…

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Month: May 2024

Ticktock! 48 hours left to nab your early-bird tickets for Disrupt 2024

Former Priceline execs debut Plannin, a booking platform that uses travel influencers to help plan trips

Instagram now lets teens limit interactions to their ‘Close Friends’ group to combat harassment

Paul Graham claims Sam Altman wasn’t fired from Y Combinator

Former teen model co-created app Frich to help Gen Z be more realistic about finances

Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform

Valar Labs debuts AI-powered cancer care prediction tool and secures $22M

Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get

Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens

Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account

AI creation platform Arcade expands from jewelry to home goods

Fair-code pioneer n8n raises $60M for AI-powered workflow automation

US lifts sanctions on Tornado Cash, a crypto mixer linked to North Korean money laundering

Apple is bringing lossless audio and low-latency audio to AirPods Max

Cyberattack disrupts train ticket sales in Ukraine

The Cadillac Optiq EV and Cadillac Escalade IQ go big on tech, luxury, and price

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AI creation platform Arcade expands from jewelry to home goods

Fair-code pioneer n8n raises $60M for AI-powered workflow automation

US lifts sanctions on Tornado Cash, a crypto mixer linked to North Korean money laundering

Apple is bringing lossless audio and low-latency audio to AirPods Max