The Scene’s new app helps New Yorkers find dining and nightlife spots
Choosing between New York City’s nearly 25,000 restaurants can be overwhelming. The pressure is especially high when you’re trying to impress a first date (or investor) or entertain family from out of town. A new app launched over the weekend to address precisely that. The Scene, an iOS-only “pocket concierge
Read moreGoogle’s Jigsaw open sources Altitude to help online platforms weed out extremist content
Nine months on, and Jigsaw is now formally handing Altitude over to Tech Against Terrorism, which will continue its development and maintenance. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: What caused last week’s major tech outage?
Late last week, there was a worldwide tech outage that affected everything from airports to banks to healthcare. Flights were grounded across the United States. So, what actually happened? The source of all those problems seems to be a popular cybersecurity company called CrowdStrike and its flagship software product Falcon
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Read moreCohere raises $500M to beat back generative AI rivals
Cohere, a generative AI startup co-founded by ex-Google researchers, has raised $500 million in new cash from investors including Cisco, AMD and Fujitsu. Bloomberg says that the round, which also had participation from Canadian pension investment manager PSP Investments and Canada’s export credit agency EDC, values Toronto-based Cohere at $5.5
Read moreWin with GenAI: How to Surpass Productivity Drivers and Energize Digital Transformation
Remember the excitement when robotic process automation (RPA) became mainstream? Enthusiasts were excited to band-aid integrations over legacy systems and automate complex data entry forms to improve productivity and quality. Many organizations realized these benefits and saw an ROI from RPA, but only a few translated them into true digital
Read moreWhy do medical tests always have error rates?
Most people implicitly assume medical tests are infallible. If they test positive for X, they assume they have X. Or if they test negative for X, they’re confident they don’t have X. Neither is necessarily true. Someone recently asked me why medical tests always have an error rate. It’s a
Read moreSwiggy turns Minis into a link-in-bio platform
Indian food delivery and quick commerce startup Swiggy is pivoting one of its smaller businesses, Swiggy Minis, into a link-in-bio service. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreFintech Fragment eases bank account reconciliation, nabs $9M from Stripe, Jack Altmam, others
Fragment's digital ledger API applies real-time, double entry accounting to find where things aren’t adding up. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreLinx emerges from stealth with $33M to lock down the new security perimeter: Identity
Identity management is one of the most common fulcrums around which security breaches have pivoted in the last several years, and one of the main reasons it’s the gift that keeps on giving to malicious hackers is that it’s a nightmare for organizations to track. A security startup founded in
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