Apple to release AI-focused macOS Sequoia September 16 in record time
The swift macOS Sequoia release deviates from Apple's usual late September or October timeline for desktop OS updates. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreApple’s Voice Memos app will soon let you layer vocals on top of music
When the upgraded Voice Memos app rolls out, you'll be able to sing over a track you recorded earlier — a guitar track, say — by tapping on a new "layer" button before you hit record. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreChris’ Corner: Open Sniped
Recently Heikki Lotvonen cooked up a very cool idea: what if the colorization of code output on the web could be handled by the font itself. Syntax highlighting, as it were. So rather than accomplish this with a heaping pile of <span>s with classes to colorize the text, the font
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: Another blow to the Internet Archive’s lending library
The Internet Archive’s online lending library recently suffered a big defeat in court. The organization is best known for operating the Wayback Machine, which stores old versions of web pages, a task that’s felt increasingly important as more of the web disappears. But the Archive also operated a digital lending
Read moreAlpha Partners raises $153M third fund for pro-rata investments
Steve Brotman started Alpha Partners in 2014 with a novel idea at the time: investing alongside early-stage VCs to help preserve their ownership in promising companies as they transition to later funding rounds. Alpha’s first fund was a mere $10 million. But as startups started staying private for longer, the
Read moreYC alum Odigos aims to help enterprises find errors and stamp out latency in their systems
Companies’ data architecture today looks nothing like it did 20 years ago, but monitoring and tracing tools haven’t followed suit, making it difficult for engineering teams to identify the root cause of errors and latency issues. Israeli developer Eden Federman thinks the solution is distributed tracing, a more advanced observability
Read moreIt’s not Skill Gaps Holding Back Digital Transformation and Innovation
I have one question for CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs as they head into the close of 2024 and budgeting for 2025. What are your plans for investing in and developing your leadership high potentials and digital transformation leaders – people I call StarCIO Digital Trailblazers? Are you looking to develop
Read moreMiami-based AI bookkeeping startup finally has raised another big round: $200M in equity and debt
The SMB-focused bookkeeping, accounting and finance startup finally has raised $50 million in a Series B round of funding and secured a $150 million credit line, TechCrunch is the first to report. The financing comes just seven months after the fintech company announced it had raised $10 million in funding,
Read moreThousands of Avis car rental customers had personal data stolen in cyberattack
The car rental giant says personal information, credit card information, and driver's license numbers were stolen in the August cyberattack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreSonos delays set-top box after flawed app update
It’s been an infamous year for software updates gone wrong. But what’s the worst-case scenario for a buggy update? Sonos may be trying to find the answer as its mobile app update continues to derail its best laid plans. In its most recent earnings call, the company announced that it
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