Chris Corner: The Tao of Demos¹
CodePen is a place where you can make demos. A Pen can be anything (a painting, a game, a landing page), but by and large, Pens today are demos. Why would you make a demo? Fam, why wouldn’t you make a demo? Demos are one of the most powerful tools
Read MoreDevelopers are now using AI for text-to-music apps
With the rise in popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI tools like ChatGPT Developers have found use cases to mold text in different ways for use cases ranging from writing emails to summarizing articles. Now, they are looking to help you generate bits of music by just
Read MoreTesla points to ‘insider wrongdoing’ as cause of massive employee data leak
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla has determined that two of its former workers are responsible for a massive data leak that includes personally identifiable information on over 75,000 employees, TechCrunch reports. According to a filing with the state of Maine’s attorney general office, Tesla’s data privacy officer,
Read MoreEveryone’s talking about tech IPOs again
Now past the halfway mark of the third quarter, we are quickly chewing through 2023. Soon it will be Disrupt season, and then we’ll head straight into the fourth quarter. For tech companies, that means the window to file for an IPO this year is beginning to close. Happily, some
Read MoreCustomer engagement platform Beamer raises $20M
Beamer, a no-code platform to build tools for measuring and monitoring product engagement, last week announced that it received a $20 million investment from Camber Partners, Beamer’s first outside round of funding. Newly appointed CEO Satya Ganni says that the proceeds will be put toward building additional product lines targeted
Read MoreFive, count ’em, five reasons you need to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
Why should you go to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco on September 19–21? Let us count the reasons. We could hit double digits, but we’ll stop at five because you’re busy people with unicorns to chase. Besides, these five should be tempting enough for anyone interested in building a
Read MoreApple Podcasts gain new creator tools, including Subscription Analytics and Linkfire integration
Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition of Subscription Analytics within Apple Podcasts Connect — the dashboard where podcasters track how their listeners engage with their shows. In addition, Apple says it’s expanding its Delegated Delivery offering, which allows creators to
Read MoreHow any SaaS company can monetize generative AI
Puneet Gupta Contributor Share on Twitter Puneet Gupta is the CEO and co-founder of Amberflo.io. He was formerly a general manager at AWS. More posts by this contributor How your company can adopt a usage-based business model like AWS If you work in SaaS, you’ve likely already been part of
Read MorePinterest rolls out new teen safety features, including wiping followers from users 15 and under
Pinterest today introduced a series of new safety features aimed at better protecting teens using its service. The features — which include things like private profiles, more control over followers, and message safety controls — are similar to those introduced on other popular social media platforms with teens, like Instagram.
Read MoreCharles Martinet, the voice of Mario, is stepping down
Charles Martinet, the voice actor who has portrayed Mario since 1991, is stepping down, Nintendo announced Monday morning. Besides voicing the world’s most famous plumber, the 67-year-old Martinet also portrayed Luigi, Wario, Waluigi and the baby versions of these characters in more than one hundred titles across the Mario video
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