Nedbank Launches New Time-Saving Digital Solutions Campaign
In an era where every minute is precious, Nedbank’s new ‘Bank Your Time’ advertising campaign aims to revolutionize the connection between banking and happiness. Informed by the groundbreaking Happiness Survey conducted by Nedbank and GIBS, the campaign urges South Africans to utilize digital tools to save time, subsequently channeling it
Read moreA US Trustee wants troubled fintech Synapse to be liquidated via Chapter 7 bankruptcy, cites ‘gross mismanagement’
The prospects for troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse have gone from bad to worse this week after a United States Trustee filed an emergency motion on Wednesday. The trustee is asking to convert the company’s debt reorganization Chapter 11 bankruptcy into a liquidation Chapter 7, according to court documents. The trustee
Read moreSeraphim’s latest space accelerator welcomes nine companies
U.K.-based Seraphim Space is spinning up its 13th accelerator program, with nine participating companies working on a range of tech from propulsion to in-space manufacturing and space situational awareness. The intense 12-week program is designed to get seed and Series A companies “investment ready,” the firm says, by providing specialist
Read moreOpenAI inks deal to train AI on Reddit data
OpenAI has reached a deal with Reddit to use the social news site’s data for training AI models. In a blog post on OpenAI’s press relations site, the company said that the Reddit partnership will provide it access to “real-time, structured and unique content” — e.g. posts and replies —
Read moreTwo brothers accused of stealing $25 million worth of crypto
Nick Barclay / The Verge Two brothers were taken into federal custody Tuesday for allegedly stealing about $25 million worth of cryptocurrency in just a few seconds in a “first-of-its-kind manipulation” of the Ethereum blockchain. The brothers — Anton Peraire-Bueno and James Peraire-Bueno — studied math and computer science at
Read moreX pushes more users to Communities
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Read moreMark Zuckerberg’s makeover: midlife crisis or carefully crafted rebrand?
For Mark Zuckerberg’s fortieth birthday, his wife got him a photoshoot. Zuckerberg gives the camera a sly smile as he sits amid a carefully crafted recreation of his childhood bedroom. It’s appropriately childish – a lava lamp, a participation trophy, a white stuffed dog – yet the surroundings foreshadow the
Read moreStrava taps AI to weed out leaderboard cheats; unveils ‘family’ plan, dark mode and more
Strava announced a slew of features, including AI to weed out leaderboard cheats, a new 'family' subscription plan, dark mode and more. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreAstronauts fall over. Robotic limbs can help them back up.
We all fall down sometimes. Astronauts are no exception. You need to be in peak physical condition for space travel, but bulky space suits and lower gravity levels can be a recipe for disaster, causing them to trip over themselves. The answer to this very specific issue may well be
Read moreMicrosoft’s custom Cobalt chips will come to Azure next week
Microsoft will launch its custom Cobalt 100 chips to customers as a public preview at its Build conference next week, TechCrunch has learned. In an analyst briefing ahead of Build, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive VP of the Microsoft Cloud and AI group, directly compared Cobalt to AWS’s Graviton chips, which
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