The ZoraSafe app wants to protect older people online and will present at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
ZoraSafe is designed to protect some of the least protected internet users out there: your parents and grandparents.
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Elon Musk vs. the regulators
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.”
Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 100 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor’s largest investments.
Amazon awkwardly edited the guns out of James Bond art
Last week, for James Bond Day, Amazon revealed updated poster art for the movies. But fans immediately noticed that the super spy’s signature Walther PPK was conspicuously missing from every image. In some cases it had clearly and rather clumsily been Photoshopped out. Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan were left awkwardly holding thin air, in […]
Dating app Cerca will show how Gen Z really dates at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Cerca is a dating app that sets users up with mutual friends.
Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank
We’ve been so worried about deepfaked politicians, AI musicians, virtual actresses, and phony satellite imagery that we didn’t even consider the dangers posed by precocious teenagers. Kids are using AI to create images of a disheveled, seemingly unhoused person in their home and sending them to their parents. Understandably, they’re not thrilled and in some […]
How BlackBerry Messenger set texting free
It’s important to remember that two decades ago, text messages cost 10 cents. Each. Back when we measured our cell phone plans in minutes, and when even 3G connections felt fast, text messages were a huge business for wireless carriers and a huge expense for anyone whose kids learned to T9-type just a little too […]
ChatGPT is becoming an everything app
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 101, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like silly accessories, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Intel factories and Nobel Prize winners and ATM […]
Welcome to the ‘papers, please’ internet
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the downward spiral of the internet, follow Adi Robertson. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Back in 2018, two years after the UK […]
Apple ends support for Clips video-editing app
Apple’s Clips video editing app is no more. It debuted in 2017 as a way to stitch together videos with music, text, and filters with a clear focus on sharing to social media. Over the years Apple added AR features and more advanced video editing tools. But recently updates had slowed to a trickle. Apple […]