[[{“value”:” Finbourne, founded out of London’s financial center, has built a platform to help financial companies organize and use more of their data in AI and other models. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Can quick commerce leapfrog e-commerce in India?
[[{“value”:” Even as quick commerce startups are retreating, consolidating or shutting down in many parts of the world, the model is showing encouraging signs in India. Consumers in urban cities are embracing the convenience of having groceries delivered to their doorstep in just 10 minutes. The companies making those deliveries — Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy’s Instamart […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
TechCrunch Space: A new era for human spaceflight research
[[{“value”:” Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. We’ll have to wait a little longer for the return of Boeing’s Starliner capsule from the International Space Station — the capsule and its two astronauts will stay at the station for twice as much time as originally planned, to give mission operators additional time to conduct tests […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
After 20 months of trying to raise funds, insurance startup Loop cuts staff
[[{“value”:” Loop, the car insurance company co-founded by Harlem Capital co-founder John Henry, has laid off staff as the company struggles with fundraising. Henry took to Instagram to post the email his co-founder Carey Nadeau sent to impacted staff on June 16th. Nadeu also posted the letter to LinkedIn. It stated that this was the “absolute […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Apple kills Pay Later feature ahead of Affirm integration
[[{“value”:” Apple announced at last week’s WWDC 2024 that users would be able to access loans through third-party app Affirm through Apple Pay. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Astroscale’s space junk inspection satellite snaps a close-up photo of a discarded rocket stage
[[{“value”:” Astroscale’s space junk observation satellite has moved within striking distance to a discarded rocket upper stage that’s been floating around Earth for nearly 20 years, taking close-up pictures — preliminary to actually deorbiting the object in a future mission. The company released an image captured by its satellite from a distance of just 50 meters […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
DeepMind’s new AI generates soundtracks and dialogue for videos
[[{“value”:” DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, says it’s developing AI tech to generate soundtracks for videos. In a post on its official blog, DeepMind says that it sees the tech, V2A (short for “video-to-audio”), as an essential piece of the AI-generated media puzzle. While plenty of orgs including DeepMind have developed video-generating AI models, these models […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions
[[{“value”:” In the complaint filed on Monday, the DOJ wrote that “Adobe has harmed consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing important plan terms.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Perplexity now displays results for temperature, currency conversion and simple math, so you don’t have to use Google
[[{“value”:” Perplexity could already fetch this data from the web and display results in a descriptive way, but the company is adding some visual flair to these results to make them more prominent and quick. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
From sperm freezing to accounting tools: Finaloop’s founder scores $35M to solve e-commerce retailers’ bookkeeping headaches
[[{“value”:” Finaloop’s solution is a platform that uses automation in the background to track transactions covering three different functions in one. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]