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El Camino, a startup founded by a Colombian-American, raises $1.1M Pre-Seed to be the travel industry’s first experiential marketplace for women
While the fashion, beauty, and health industries have been quick to cater to the diverse needs and priorities of women, the travel industry has fallen behind. Despite the fact that women travelers are the fastest-growing segment in the industry, they
While the fashion, beauty, and health industries have been quick to cater to the diverse needs and priorities of women, the travel industry has fallen behind. Despite the fact that women travelers are the fastest-growing segment in the industry, they […]
Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson arrested for fraud scheme
Mr Watson “directed a scheme to defraud investors” of millions of dollars, federal prosecutors claim.
Mr Watson “directed a scheme to defraud investors” of millions of dollars, federal prosecutors claim.
Daily Crunch: YouTube rolls out support for dubbing videos in more than 40 languages
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Daily Crunch: YouTube rolls out support for dubbing videos in more than 40 languages by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
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Happy Thursday, landlubbers and salty sea dogs!
We’ve got some fun updates from the events team — Lauren S announced the TechCrunch Early Stage Audience Choice winners. And if you get all starry-eyed and bushy-tailed at the possibility of being on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage for our annual Battlefield, you’re hella in luck — Neesha just announced that applications are open for the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200! — Christine and Haje
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Giving videos a voice: MrBeast was among the first YouTubers to test out a new multilanguage audio feature that is now being rolled out for creators so that they can upload just one video and dub it in dozens of languages. Sarah has more.
Hear that?: Samsung wants you to have that crystal-clear smartphone communication in places where there is no cellular network connectivity, so it developed its own satellite-based solution, Ivan writes.
“Towns” hall crier: Taylor writes about Houseparty founder Ben Rubin’s new open source group chat app called Towns. Built as a decentralized app, it enables people to “build better hometowns on the internet” to “truly own their town squares.”
Startups and VC
While most VCs will tell you they had no problem raising their newest fund, Volition co-founder Larry Cheng — an alum of Bessemer Venture Partners, Battery Partners and Fidelity Ventures — says that wasn’t his experience when trying to raise the firm’s latest vehicle. “All of the LPs felt more constrained; we could feel it,” reports Connie.
The cloud is growing expensive. More than half of companies say that their spending on public cloud apps will increase in 2023 while 56% expect their public cloud infrastructure services spending will go up this year. ProsperOps raises $72 million to help, Kyle reports.
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Continuously, cheaper: Earthly wants to reinvent continuous integration to make it faster and cheaper, Ron reports.
What private jet?: Logistics startup Slync raises $24 million, attempts to distance itself from disgraced founder, Kyle reports.
The final account-down: Mary Ann reports that Trust & Will secures $15 million after doubling revenue.
We can barely contain ourselves: BlueCargo reduces logistics late fees by tracking containers in port terminals, reports Romain.
Raising? More like r-AI-sing, amirite: Source.ag raises $23 million to raise the bar on raising crops with AI, Haje reports.
Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in
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Seafaring industries like fishing and oil exploration are inherently extractive, but technological advances and increased environmental awareness have ushered in a new era.
“Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them,” reports Tim De Chant.
He interviewed seven investors to examine some of the parallels between climate tech and ocean conservation tech and learn more about the opportunities they’re diving for:
Tim Agnew, general partner, Bold Ocean Ventures
Peter Bryant, program director (oceans), Builders Initiative
Kate Danaher, managing director (oceans and seafood), S2G Ventures
Daniela V. Fernandez, founder and CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance (Seabird Ventures)
Rita Sousa, partner, Faber Ventures
Christian Lim, managing director, SWEN Blue Ocean Partners
Reece Pacheco, partner, Propeller
Three more from the TC+ team:
Alex is back! Alex is back!: Unity’s earnings show just how hard it is to earn a 10x software multiple today, by Alex.
Cutting with kindness: Leslie Crowe discusses how you can make layoffs suck less, including how to announce job cuts and retain top performers.
Goin’ retro, with a 15-year-old pitch deck: Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008, by Haje.
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Big Tech Inc.
Did you know that the average household subscribes to five streaming services per month? No doubt this can quickly add up. Netflix has read the writing on the wall and lowered its prices in over 100 territories across Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific in efforts to keep subscribers…subscribing, Lauren writes.
Developers of decentralized apps have a new friend in Coinbase, which launched Base, an Ethereum-focused layer to aid in development of the apps on the blockchain. Jacquelyn has more.
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What happens when a tech company does something cool?: You want more! Everyone was all excited about yesterday’s news about the Spotify DJ feature, and today, Spotify is bringing news that it is testing playlists that could be unlocked by NFT holders. Ivan explains more.
What happens when it’s not a match?: A Mozilla study found that some popular Android apps’ Play Store privacy labels don’t match up to their claims of the data they collect, Ivan reports.
What happens when you see a better opportunity?: Walmart sold Moosejaw to Dick’s Sporting Goods after acquiring the e-commerce outdoor retailer in 2017, Aisha reports.
What happens in the pursuit of interoperability?: Linux Foundation Europe launches the OpenWallet Foundation to power interoperable digital wallets, Paul writes.
What happens when you accidentally hit the wrong button?: Pornhub’s banned Instagram account is reinstated by accident. Amanda has more.
Daily Crunch: YouTube rolls out support for dubbing videos in more than 40 languages by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Cómo funcionan los chatbots y más dudas de inteligencia artificial
Los softwares que simulan conversaciones no tienen conciencia. Te explicamos cómo funciona la tecnología que hay detrás.
Los softwares que simulan conversaciones no tienen conciencia. Te explicamos cómo funciona la tecnología que hay detrás.
81% of international flights into NYC had SARS-CoV-2 in waste, small trial finds
The study demonstrated feasibility as COVID surveillance nose-dives worldwide.
Enlarge / Passengers on an Air France flight on April 20, 2021. (credit: Getty | Francois LOCHON)
In a small trial, aircraft wastewater proved easy and useful for monitoring the SARS-CoV-2 variants touching down in the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
The study found that the testing could be done cheaply and easily; it only added about three extra minutes to aircraft maintenance times at airports and didn’t require hassling passengers with nose swabs or other sampling methods. Moreover, the testing could be easily scaled up as needed as the world largely abandons other SARS-CoV-2 testing and monitoring strategies, the CDC authors concluded.
“This investigation demonstrated the feasibility of aircraft wastewater surveillance as a low-resource approach compared with individual testing to monitor SARS-CoV-2 variants without direct traveler involvement or disruption to airport operations,” the authors concluded.
Experience the Best With the EMPORIA EV CHARGER
The Emporía EV Charging Station is a Level 2 Electric vehicle charger that charges any EV — up to 40 amps. It comes with a 24-foot cable with an SAE J1772 connector. 22″ NEMA 14-50P or up to 48 amps with hardwired installation. Whether you want a charger now or you want to guarantee you
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The Emporía EV Charging Station is a Level 2 Electric vehicle charger that charges any EV — up to 40 amps. It comes with a 24-foot cable with an SAE J1772 connector. 22″ NEMA 14-50P or up to 48 amps with hardwired installation. Whether you want a charger now or you want to guarantee you have a charge for your next vehicle purchase — consider the Emporia.
The government is “charging” ahead with its plans to have federal vehicle purchases be zero-emission by 2035 — this means about 380,000 federal vehicles will have to be replaced. California had moved to accelerate to 100% new zero-emission within the same timeframe. If you already have your EV, you will be ahead of the game.
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Here are the Features and Benefits
Features and Benefits of EMPORÍA EV CHARGER
Especially inviting are the incentives that come with a new EV vehicle, which include a Federal alternative Fuel tax credit for 30% of the cost of the charger and installation up to $1000. Every bit helps. Here are a few other technical specs for your charger.
You will love the color and the clean lines of the EMPORÍA EV CHARGER.
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EU seeks input on making tech companies pay for ISPs’ network upgrades
EU opens proceeding that could mandate direct payments from content providers.
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The European Union government is seeking public input on a controversial proposal to make online platforms pay for telecom companies’ broadband network upgrades and expansions. If it goes forward, tech companies like Google and Netflix and possibly many others could have to make payments toward the financing of broadband network deployment.
The European Commission’s exploratory consultation released today said there “seems to be a paradox between increasing volumes of data on the infrastructures and alleged decreasing returns and appetite to invest in network infrastructure.” Large telecom companies have been seeking payments from web companies, the consultation notes:
Some electronic communications operators, notably the incumbents, call for the need to establish rules to oblige those content and application providers (“CAPs”) or digital players in general who generate enormous volumes of traffic to contribute to the electronic communications network deployment costs. In their view, such contribution would be “fair” as those CAPs and digital players would take advantage of the high-quality networks but would not bear the cost of their roll-out.
The tech companies that would have to start paying “argue that any payments for accessing networks to deliver content or for the amount of traffic transmitted would not only be unjustified, as the traffic is requested by end-users and costs are not necessarily traffic-sensitive (notably in fixed networks), but would also endanger the way the Internet works and likely breach net neutrality rules,” the document notes.
Hear how to find a co-founder on TechCrunch Live
Successful startups need a solid founding team of like-minded people. But how do you find and hire others to help build, sell, and manage your product? Tanis Jorge and David Blumberg are speaking about the importance of co-founders at a very special TechCrunch Live event, on March 1 at 11:30 a.m. PST / 2:30 p.m.
Hear how to find a co-founder on TechCrunch Live by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch
Successful startups need a solid founding team of like-minded people. But how do you find and hire others to help build, sell, and manage your product? Tanis Jorge and David Blumberg are speaking about the importance of co-founders at a very special TechCrunch Live event, on March 1 at 11:30 a.m. PST / 2:30 p.m. EST.
They know this topic well. Tanis Jorge co-founded Trulioo, and now runs The Cofounder’s Hub, a service dedicated to helping founders identify their needs and find a co-founder who works best in that situation. David Blumberg, of Blumberg Capital, was one of Trulioo’s first investors and put money in at every round, including Trulioo’s $394 million Series D.
I’m excited to host this conversation around internal partnerships. The importance of the co-founder is often understated. A good co-founder should offer complementary skills — maybe you’re good at coding but need help with business management. Or perhaps a good co-founder fit is someone who can help manage the emotional baggage that comes with starting a venture. And there’s no better accountability partner than someone who helped found the company.
David brings a unique perspective to the conversation too. As a prolific investor, he can speak to the VC’s point of view of having multiple founding partners in a startup. VCs often view companies with complementary co-founders as being less risky and more likely to succeed. I also want to ask him about his role as a VC in helping promising entrepreneurs find a co-founder.
I hope you can join this event on March 1. It will be great, and I’m looking to the audience to help ask some of the questions through Hopin’s Q&A function.
Hear how to find a co-founder on TechCrunch Live by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch
A National Treasure on the Rise Is Hit With a Doping Allegation
A star Olympic runner from Australia was suspended over a positive drug test of a kind that critics have called alarmingly open to human error.
A star Olympic runner from Australia was suspended over a positive drug test of a kind that critics have called alarmingly open to human error.
A world of hurt for Fortinet and Zoho after users fail to install patches
Attackers are capitalizing on organizations’ failure to patch critical vulnerabilities.
Organizations around the world are once again learning the risks of not installing security updates as multiple threat actors race to exploit two recently patched vulnerabilities that allow them to infect some of the most critical parts of a protected network.
The vulnerabilities both carry severity ratings of 9.8 out of a possible 10 and reside in two unrelated products crucial in securing large networks. The first, tracked as CVE-2022-47966, is a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in 24 separate products from software-maker Zoho that use the company’s ManageEngine. It was patched in waves from last October through November. The second vulnerability, CVE-2022-39952, affects a product called FortiNAC, made by cybersecurity company Fortinet, and was patched last week.
Both ManageEngine and FortiNAC are billed as zero-trust products, meaning they operate under the assumption a network has been breached and constantly monitor devices to ensure they’re not infected or acting maliciously. Zero-trust products don’t trust any network devices or nodes on a network and instead actively work to verify they’re safe.