eStreamly blends physical, digital shopping with the video as the star
eStreamly offers business-to-business video commerce software to enable livestreams and videos to be shoppable across platforms.
Read moreSalesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents
Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform that helps e-commerce companies build AI-powered customer service agents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2017, Redwood City, California-based Airkit was created by Adam Evans and Stephen Ehikian, who sold a previous big data startup called RelateIQ
Read moreAvantGuard wants to turn chlorine into the best antiseptic you’ve ever seen
AvantGuard, a Battlefield 200 company, is making a polymer version of chlorine-based disinfectants.
Read moreMeredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill
Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit Signal messaging app, reaffirmed that Signal would leave the U.K. if the country’s recently passed Online Safety Bill forced Signal to build “backdoors” into its end-to-end encryption. “We would leave the U.K. or
Read moreOnePlus confirms its first foldable is officially ‘coming soon’
OnePlus is officially gearing up to launch its first foldable phone “soon,” the company told TechCrunch on Thursday. The company previously revealed that the device, tentatively called the OnePlus Open, was going to launch in the second half of this year, and it now looks like we’re nearing a launch
Read moreLenovo introduces new solutions for edge AI workloads
Lenovo has announced Lenovo TruScale for Edge and AI services, and a new server, the ThinkEdge SE455 V3, to support intensive remote AI workloads. Lenovo TruScale for Edge and AI kicks TruScale’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions up a notch to enable customers to deploy powerful edge computing and
Read moreNintendo now supports passwordless sign-ins
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nintendo has added support for passkeys, a passwordless sign-in method that uses your fingerprint, face scan, or other methods to give you access to your online accounts. As spotted earlier by NintendoSoup (via 9to5Mac), Nintendo now lets you register and use a passkey
Read moreHere’s the crypto news you missed at Disrupt 2023
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. This week I’ve been in San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. It's been a three-day journey jam-packed with panels, booths and conversations.
Read moreAnthropic’s Dario Amodei on AI’s limits: ‘I’m not sure there are any’
As Anthropic takes on OpenAI and other challengers in the growing artificial intelligence industry, there is also an existential question looming: can large language models and the systems they enable continue growing in size and capability? CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei has a simple answer: yes. Speaking on stage at
Read moreGitHub launches passkey support into general availability
GitHub is formally launching its passkeys security feature into general availability, two months after first debuting it in beta. Passkeys offer cloud-synced authentication using cryptographic key pairs, allowing users to sign-in to websites and apps with the same screen-lock PIN or biometrics they use for their devices, or a physical
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