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• South Korean e-scooter company Gbike acquires Hyundai Motor’s micromobility platform ZET [1162d]
• Teaching home robots to learn by watching people [1162d]
• NHTSA investigates another Tesla crash involving death of motorcyclist [1162d]
• Slack is increasing prices and changing the way its free plan works [1162d]
• Max Q: Jaw-dropping Wondrous Spectacular Telescope [1162d]
• Daily Crunch: US government is tracking our phones more than we thought, new docs show [1162d]
• Yat founder Naveen Jain talks ’emoji identity’ and lasting web3 trends [1162d]
• United Arab Emirates launches $820M fund to boost domestic space economy [1162d]
• Netflix to test a new ‘add a home’ option to charge for password sharing [1162d]
• ForSight sees a world without cataracts with its surgery robot [1162d]
• Uber to pay millions for overcharging people with disabilities [1162d]
• HireArt lands $26.25M to help manage and recruit W2 contractors for clients [1162d]
• Digital health unicorns need a checkup [1162d]
• Record VC fundraising isn’t necessarily good news for first-time fund managers [1162d]
• Amazon refreshes Prime Video design with icon-based navigation and a dedicated sports tab [1162d]
• Crypto exchange Gemini executes second round of layoffs less than two months after axing 10% of staff [1162d]
• Look out Putin — Ukrainian woman invents ‘solar for balconies’ to wean Europe off Russian gas [1162d]
• Africa’s startup market is bucking the global slowdown [1162d]
• Better.com is still trying to proceed with its SPAC deal [1162d]
• Mark-to-market to arrive at a realistic valuation and improve your fundraising odds [1162d]
• ESPN+ is getting a big price hike [1162d]
• Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks [1162d]
• Can everdrop scale it’s plastic-bottle-free cleaning products, as well as build a global brand? [1162d]
• X1’s income-based credit card is finally available to the public [1162d]
• As fundraising gets harder, founders should ask investors for a flat round [1162d]
• Instagram’s new payments feature lets users buy products via DMs [1162d]
• Smartphone shipments dropped 9% in Q2 [1162d]
• Five reasons to attend TC Sessions: Robotics this Thursday [1162d]
• When will India make up its mind about crypto? [1162d]
• Get ready for TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto in November [1162d]
• Discover the many ways to network at TechCrunch Disrupt [1162d]
• Meta’s Giphy deal lives to fight another day: Competition appeals tribunal blocks forced sale on disclosure grounds [1162d]
• Intrinsic CEO Wendy Tan White discusses robotics software and acquiring Vicarious [1162d]
• New documents reveal ‘huge’ scale of US government’s cell phone location data tracking [1162d]
• The Station: Restructuring ripples and the next investor darling of the EV era [1162d]
• You may need more than one pitch deck [1162d]
• Flipkart’s Cleartrip confirms data breach after hackers put data for sale [1162d]
• SupplyPike’s supply chain software helps CPG brands get products to stores on time [1162d]
• This niche cryptographic technique could transform privacy in web3 [1162d]
• Snap launches Snapchat for Web to bring the app’s core features to desktop [1162d]
• Real estate investing giant Fundrise breaks into venture capital [1162d]
• Tesla’s solar roofs have stayed mostly in the dark and other TC news [1162d]