Source: TechCrunch

Bridgit Mendler will talk about building the data highway between Earth and space at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Earlier this year, Bridgit Mendler surprised her fans when she announced that she was heading a new space data startup called Northwood Space. With Northwood, the former Disney star and…
Aria Alamalhodaei
Aug. 15, 2024, 3:03 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch

Lockheed Martin to buy satellite maker Terran Orbital in $450M deal

Lockheed, which holds a 28.3% stake in Terran Orbital, will take the satellite maker private in a deal that’s expected to close before the end of 2024.
Aria Alamalhodaei
Aug. 15, 2024, 2:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

X begins rolling out support for passkeys on Android

X, formerly known as Twitter, has announced that it’s rolling out support for passkeys on Android. The launch comes as the social network rolled out support for passkeys to all…
Aisha Malik
Aug. 15, 2024, 2:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

CodeRabbit raises $16M to bring AI to code reviews

Code reviews — peer reviews of code that help devs improve code quality — are time-consuming. According to one source, 50% of companies spend two to five hours a week…
Kyle Wiggers
Aug. 15, 2024, 2:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

AI social media vetting startup Ferretly secures $2.5M, launches election personnel screening tool

An AI social media vetting startup Ferretly has raised $2.5 million in seed funding and is launching a new platform designed to screen election personnel. Founded in 2019, Ferretly leverages…
Aisha Malik
Aug. 15, 2024, 2:03 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Waymo to double down on winter testing its robotaxis

Waymo regularly takes its autonomous vehicles on winter road trips to test the cars in snowy environments. In 2017, it was Michigan. Last year, it was Buffalo.  This year, Waymo…
Rebecca Bellan
Aug. 15, 2024, 2:03 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

TipRanks, an AI-based stock tip evaluator created after its founder got burned by bad advice, sells for $200M to Prytek

Prytek had already been a big investor in TipRanks since 2017, most recently leading a $77 million round in the company in 2021.
Ingrid Lunden
Aug. 15, 2024, 1:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Meta axed CrowdTangle, a tool for tracking disinformation. Critics claim its replacement has just ‘1% of the features’

Journalists, researchers, and politicians are mourning Meta’s shutdown of CrowdTangle, which they used to track the spread of disinformation on Facebook and Instagram. In CrowdTangle’s place, Meta is offering its…
Rebecca Bellan
Aug. 15, 2024, 1:03 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Klarna takes on banking with new savings, cash-back offerings

Swedish fintech giant Klarna is rolling out two new products on Wednesday that could make its buy now, pay later offerings more enticing to use.  The company is offering consumers…
Mary Ann Azevedo
Aug. 15, 2024, 12:03 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay

Cockroach Labs, the business and core developer behind the eponymous distributed SQL database known as CockroachDB, is changing its licensing once again — five years after it moved on from an open source model. The company revealed today that its consolidating its self-hosted product under a single enterprise license, a…
Paul Sawers
Aug. 15, 2024, 12:03 p.m.
5 min read
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