Who Will Put On the Clothes of Metaverse?
Metaverse. It’s a concept being bandied about to depict a future in which our physical and digital lives intersect. So let’s think about it for a minute. The metaverse is a term used to describe the
Early Stage 2023: IRL is B-A-C-K
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week we recorded at Early Stage, TechCrunch’s event for founders who are
Everything you need to know about cloud outage insurance
Companies collectively spent $61 billion on cloud infrastructure in Q4 2022, and there’s more growth to come. Yet, businesses are poorly protected from losses caused by cloud downtime. “Cloud service providers
Linux Foundation launches new organization to maintain TLA+
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit tech consortium that manages various open source efforts, today announced the launch of the TLA+ Foundation to promote the adoption and development of the TLA+ programming
The IRS is sending four investigators across the world to fight cybercrime
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to send four agents who specialize in investigating cybercrime to Australia, Singapore, Colombia, and Germany starting this summer. These four new positions represent a
Is there a future in light-powered AI chips?
The growing compute power necessary to train sophisticated AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT might eventually run up against a wall with mainstream chip technologies. In a 2019 analysis, OpenAI found that from 1959
It’s your last day to apply to speak at TC Disrupt
Startup experts! Today’s the last day that you can apply to lead a session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in September. The time has come to stop procrastinating and Get. It. Done! Today’s your last chance to apply to
Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark
As Twitter’s legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network’s new paid-for verification system is causing more than a little chaos, with CEO Elon Musk himself stepping in to pay for some
12 Things Highly Productive People Do Not Do
Despite everyone’s busy schedule, some people seem to manage it effortlessly. How do they do it? They are happier for one thing. According to research, happiness makes people 12% more productive. However, highly
Home energy assessment startup Enter raises €19.4M Series A to expand in Germany and beyond
Largely because of their age, houses in Europe can be notoriously hard to heat. Most were built for an era when the knowledge about energy consumption just wasn’t available in the way it is today. With energy