TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch StoriesNowThe coolest startup in the Bay Area is a baseball team called the Oakland Ballersverified_publisherTechCrunch - Amanda SilberlingThe most cliche advice for startup founders is to identify a problem in your life and find a way to solve it. A founder with multiple exits under his belt, Paul Freedman, has a big problem: His beloved Oakland A’s are moving to Las Vegas by way of Sacramento. “It’s interesting how much a sports team …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories1 hour agoElectro-hydraulic muscles help these robot legs stand straight on uneven terrainverified_publisherTechCrunch - Brian HeaterResearchers at ETH Zürich are very good at keeping robots standing upright. Back in 2022, the school’s robotics team taught the quadrupedal ANYmal robot how to hike up mountains without falling over. New research from the school, published in collaboration with the Stuttgart-based Max Planck …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories16 hours agoTelegram reportedly ‘inundated’ with illegal and extremist activityverified_publisherTechCrunch - Anthony HaA New York Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages from 16,000 channels found that the messaging platform has been “inundated” with illegal and extremist activity. Specifically, The Times found 1,500 channels operated by white supremacists, two dozen channels selling weapons, and …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories17 hours agoBluesky grows to 9M+ usersverified_publisherTechCrunch - Anthony HaBluesky keeps growing: The company announced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new users, bringing its total user count to more than 9 million. In other words, the social platform’s user base has grown by around 50 percent in the week or so since a Brazilian court banned X (formerly …
TechCrunchflipped into News about startups from TechCrunch18 hours agoPayroll startup Warp disavows ‘affiliate’ who posted about white superiorityverified_publisherTechCrunch - Anthony HaWarp, a young payroll startup in New York, is in the spotlight following controversial posts from an account tied to the company. On Thursday, an account posting under the name Vittorio wrote on X, “i like White people more, they do more, they are better for the roles i need to climb the kardashev …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories20 hours agoCanva wants you to pay a lot more for its AI featuresverified_publisherTechCrunch - Cody CorrallCanva is dramatically increasing prices for some customers. Canva Teams subscribers on older pricing plans will see a 300% increase for a five-person plan, jumping from $119.99 per year to $500 per year. Users will get a 40% discount for the first 12 months before the switch takes effect. The …
