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Meta starts accepting sign-ups for Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
February 20, 2025

Meta starts accepting sign-ups for Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

​[[{“value”:” Meta announced on Thursday that it’s now accepting sign-ups for its Community Notes program on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The announcement follows Meta news last month that it’s going to end its third-party fact-checking program and is instead moving to a Community Notes model similar to the one at X. In a blog post, Meta […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

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Tesla to test virtual queues at Supercharging locations
February 20, 2025

Tesla to test virtual queues at Supercharging locations

​[[{“value”:” Road rage has been around for a while. A newer phenomenon that’s cropping up is EV charging rage — the feeling when a fellow EV owner cuts the line to grab one of the only working charge ports. It’s common enough that people posted altercations between EV drivers on social media and forums. In at […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

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Beta Technologies’ bet on electric flight and Hyundai’s new Tesla charging port comes up short
February 20, 2025

Beta Technologies’ bet on electric flight and Hyundai’s new Tesla charging port comes up short

​[[{“value”:” Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Fifteen years ago, I started writing about a little EV startup that was trying to survive even as others failed in the clean tech boom-and-bust cycle. Back […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

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February 20, 2025

Electric aircraft founder Kyle Clark threw out the Silicon Valley playbook

​[[{“value”:” On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Technologies’ first electric aircraft to be built on its new scaled production line. Kyle Clark, Beta’s enigmatic founder and CEO, piloted the Alia CX300 — one of the startup’s two aircraft models […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

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February 20, 2025

Trump’s FTC is looking into censorship on tech platforms

​[[{“value”:” The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it will launch a public inquiry into “censorship by tech platforms,” soliciting comments from people who feel they have been demonetized, banned, or otherwise censored due to their speech or affiliations. “Tech firms should not be bullying their users,” said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson in a statement. […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

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February 20, 2025

Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative

​[[{“value”:” Amazon Chime, the tech giant’s underwhelming alternative to Zoom and Google Meet, is shutting down for good. The company on Wednesday confirmed it will end support for Chime, including its Business Calling features, on February 20, 2026. As part of this transition, Amazon stopped accepting new Chime accounts as of February 19, 2025. From now […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

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February 20, 2025

Pre-seed firm Afore Capital has a fresh $185M fund and a new program to help founders discover ideas

​[[{“value”:” Afore Capital, a firm that claims to be the largest dedicated pre-seed investor, was founded on the idea that the first check into a new startup should be larger than what most accelerators and early-stage investors were offering. When Afore raised its third $150 million fund in 2022, the firm wrote checks ranging from $1 […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

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