TechCrunch City Spotlight: Pittsburgh is getting closer, with impressive featured speakers including Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian and Mayor Bill Peduto. However, we’ve saved the best for last: Our last speaker is Karin Tsai, […]
A look inside Google’s first store, opening in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood tomorrow
There have been plenty of pop-ups over the years, but tomorrow Google’s first store opens in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood. The brick and mortar model finds the company joining peers like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and even […]
VTech Video Baby Monitor
You are going to love your new VTech Video Baby Monitor — the “papalook” BM1 FHD 1080P. This is the Remote Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera. This little camera has temperature and sound detection, playback recording, long-range, night […]
The Delta Variant and Low Vaccine Rates Could Spell Trouble
Vaccines are effective against the variant, but experts worry about states where fewer people are inoculated.
Cybereason: 80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again
The aftermath of a ransomware attack is costly, with 65% of organizations hit by an attack reporting revenue loss, Cybereason said.Read More
Co-living startup Habyt closes $24M Series B, merges with Homefully
When WeWork appeared, other entrepreneurs looked at the model and thought that if you could apple co-working to property, then why not apply co-living. Thus, in the US, Common appeared, as did Hmlet in Asia. […]
Kenyan foodtech startup Kune raises $1M pre-seed for its ready-to-eat meals service
While there has been a wave of innovation in food tech worldwide, it’s still in early days for Africa. There are only a handful of African food-tech startups, and a year and a half’s worth […]
Insurtech AI startup Akur8 closes $30M Series B
Automating insurance claims is a big business, and the world of AI is coming at it ‘full pelt’. The latest is Akur8, an insurtech automating insurance platform whose ‘Transparent AI’ product is trying to eat […]
Airspeeder wants to make electric flying racing cars a reality in 2021
While much of the eVTOL industry has its sights set on urban air taxis or cargo transportation, entrepreneur Matthew Pearson had another idea: electric flying race cars. So in 2019, he founded two companies, Alauda […]
Bias isn’t the only problem with credit scores—and no, AI can’t help
We already knew that biased data and biased algorithms skew automated decision-making in a way that disadvantages low-income and minority groups. For example, software used by banks to predict whether or not someone will pay […]