Prometeo raises $13M from PayPal, Samsung and more to bring open banking to Latin America
Open banking — where traditional banks can share data, and build new services, by way of APIs that bring their ageing systems into the 21st century — has seen its biggest traction to date in mature economies, where the vast majority of consumers and businesses already have bank accounts; are
Read moreThreads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details
Threads’ roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been revealed. A new blog post by Tom Coates, the co-founder of an older decentralized app called Planetary, details the events of a December meeting at Meta’s offices where
Read moreWill 2024 (finally) be the year of the autonomous vehicle?
Safety remains the paramount metric for autonomous vehicle deployment, yet there has to be industry consensus on how to adequately measure a robotic or human driver's safety. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreCES, Circle-ing back to IPOs and why we’re over the moon about Overmoon
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Read moreHyundai Motor India fixes bug that exposed customers’ personal data
Hyundai’s India subsidiary has fixed a bug that exposed its customers’ personal information in the South Asian market. TechCrunch reviewed a portion of the exposed data that included the registered owner name, mailing address, email address, and phone number of Hyundai Motor India customers who have serviced their vehicles at
Read moreGoogle will allow more real-money games on the Play Store
Google announced today that the company plans to support more real-money games (RMG) on the Play Store this year by allowing more types of games in the category following local laws. The search giant said that the program with extended support for real-money gaming will start in India, Brazil, and
Read moreSmart pepper spray startup 444 is back at CES with a major partnership deal
A year ago, at CES, I broke out the snark-hammer at 444, a startup that was trying to make a ‘smart’ pepper spray device. I came across the same company again at CES this year. To my surprise, it had landed a significant partnership, co-development, and co-branding deal with Mace,
Read moreWhy “a caret, euro, trademark” ’ in a file?
Why might you see †in the middle of an otherwise intelligible file? The reason is very similar to the reason you might see �, which I explained in the previous post. You might want to read that post first if you’re not familiar with Unicode and character encodings. It
Read moreA valid character to represent an invalid character
You may have seen a web page with the symbol � scattered throughout the text, especially in older web pages. What is this symbol and why does it appear unexpected? The symbol we’re discussing is a bit of a paradox. It’s the (valid) Unicode character to represent an invalid Unicode
Read moreDextrous Robotics closes up shop
Memphis-based Dextrous Robotics is calling it a day. The news, noted by the Robot Report, was confirmed by the warehouse robotics firm’s CEO, Evan Drumwright, on LinkedIn. The executive spells out the company’s fate at the top of the post, noting, “Put simply, we adopted an aggressive trajectory 18 months
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