Stop me if you’ve heard this before. After a hard-fought election in which a candidate supported by the far right lost, right-wing legislators took to social media to proclaim that the race…
Tech Crunch – Google Chrome becomes a ‘picture-in-picture’ app
Instead of opening the user’s actual browser or a WebView, Custom Tabs let users remain in their app while browsing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read more:…
Tech Crunch – Creator fintech Slingshot raises $2.2 million
Sanil Chawla remembers the meetings he had with countless artists in college. Those creatives were looking for one thing: sustainable economic infrastructure that could help them scale rather than drown them in…
KTSM News – Las Cruces PD issues silver alert for missing elderly man
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Las Cruces Police Department issued a Silver Alert for a 69-year-old man who was last seen Tuesday evening, May 28, and could be in danger if…
Tech Crunch – After co-founder’s murder at the hands of Hamas, cloud startup Firefly raises $23M
A startup called Firefly tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding on the heels of strong demand…
Tech Crunch – Mistral releases its first generative AI model for code
Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and reportedly valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral. Codestral — which is designed to help…
Tech Crunch – Pinterest expands its Creator Fund to allow founders
Pinterest announced today that it is evolving its Creator Inclusion Fund. Pinterest teamed up with Shopify’s Build Black & Narrative program to allow small business owners from or who serve underrepresented backgrounds…
Tech Crunch – The Cadillac Optiq is an entry-level luxury EV designed to hook young buyers
Cadillac may seem a bit too traditional to hang its driving cap on EVs. And yet, that hasn’t stopped the GM brand from rolling out — or at least showing off —…
Tech Crunch – This founder says memetech is the next big thing
Alex Taub, a longtime founder with multiple exits under his belt, believes it’s time to disrupt the meme industry. “I have this big thesis that memetech is going to be the next…
Tech Crunch – Harness snags Split.io, as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
DevOps startup Harness has shown itself to be an ambitious company, building a broad platform of services while also dabbling in M&A when it made sense to fill in functionality. On Wednesday,…