[[{“value”:” Archer Aviation is partnering with ride-hailing and parking company Kakao Mobility to bring electric air taxi flights to South Korea starting in 2026, if the company can get its aircraft developed in time. The move to South Korea is part of an international strategy that will also see Archer commercially launch in the United Arab […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Basalt plans to ‘hack’ a defunct satellite to install its space-specific OS
[[{“value”:” Space startup Basalt Technologies started in a shed behind a Los Angeles dentist’s office, but things have escalated quickly: Soon it will try to “hack” a derelict satellite and install its space-specific OS. (With the owner’s permission, of course). The startup’s co-founder, Alex Choi, found himself living in said shed after suddenly getting kicked out […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Former teen model co-created app Frich to help Gen Z be more realistic about finances
[[{“value”:” 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 pair bonded as students over what they viewed as a lack of a space for open conversations for people their age to have around financial […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Autobiographer’s app uses AI to help you tell your life story
[[{“value”:” Can AI help you tell your story? That’s the idea behind a startup called Autobiographer, which leverages AI technology to engage users in meaningful conversations about the events in their lives and how they felt about them, and then turns those into prose, effectively creating your own autobiography. The startup is dabbling in an area […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
[[{“value”:” AI-powered summaries of web pages are a feature that you will find in many AI-centric tools these days. The next step for some of these tools is to prepare detailed and well-formatted web pages for your search queries. The Arc browser is doing this to some extent through its Arc Search app. Apple is rumored […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Cylib wants to own EV battery recycling in Europe
[[{“value”:” Battery recycling startups have emerged in Europe in a bid to tap into the next big opportunity in the EV market: battery waste. Among them is Cylib, a German-based startup with a pitch automakers may find financially compelling. The company says it can extract pure forms of all materials in a battery using a fraction […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Amazon gets FAA approval to expand US drone deliveries
[[{“value”:” Amazon has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly its delivery drones longer distances, the company announced on Thursday. Amazon says it can now expand its Prime Air service, which uses delivery drones to fly individual packages, to more customers. The FAA requires that operators maintain a line of sight to […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Separating fact from fiction in agricultural misinformation
[[{“value”:” Separating fact from fiction in agricultural misinformation Published: Social media is a hotbed of fake news and false claims about a huge range of topics. At the University of Guelph in Canada, Dr Ataharul Chowdhury is investigating the effects of food- and agriculture-related misinformation. He is training agri-food professionals to identify and combat this misinformation in the hope of…
Former Priceline execs debut Plannin, a booking platform that uses travel influencers to help plan trips
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Fintech startup Forward grabs $16M to take on Stripe, lead future of integrated payments
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