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YouTube celebrates the YouTube Music app for 10 years on Thursday, launching new features that will bring you closer to Rival Spotify and more. The app now includes the Taste Match playlist, a playlist that combines the overlapping interests of multiple users, similar to Spotify Blend. The app will also launch notifications to users of upcoming releases, marches and concerts, and partner with Bandsintown to help fans discover concerts when they watch videos and shorts on YouTube itself. This addition will help YouTube keep up with Spotify in some areas, but other areas, such as adding badges and supporting comments,…
StrictlyVc returned to TechCrunch's chaos in October, bringing together insiders that shape the venture capital landscape. This time, we will focus on liquidity, the biggest challenge in the market. In an era of extended exit timelines, slower distribution, and increasingly selective LPS, conversations behind closed doors are more important than ever. Working with Cendana Capital, which has supported over 80 funds in its 15-year history, we are launching a new recording LP track that offers an unfiltered look, where capital flows, how LP priorities change, and that you need to know your GPS to survive and thrive in this environment.…
Silicon Valley has a commonly accepted script. Identify startup ideas. Sell company chunks to source venture capital. We will sell. We will raise more venture capital and sell more. Repeat until the company is publicly available or acquired. But what if you didn't take part in the fundraising treadmill after getting your first round? What if, like many VC-backed companies, you can form your company through slower, sustainable growth rather than the other way around? This is a question that SecurityPal AI founder and CEO Pukar Hamal asked himself after raising a $21 million Series A round in 2021, and…
Google is starting to expand its AI mode globally. It announces that users can dig deeper into topics directly within searches for complex questions and follow-ups. Tech Giant brings new agents and personalized features to the feature. As part of the expansion, Google is bringing AI modes to 180 new countries in English. Until now, it has been available only to users in the US, UK and India. Google will soon be offering this feature to more languages and regions. Regarding the new agent feature, users can use AI mode to find restaurant reservations and in the future find local…
Earlier this year, two hackers broke into a computer and quickly realized the importance of what this machine is. After all, they landed on the computers of hackers who are allegedly working for the North Korean government. The two hackers decided to continue digging and found evidence that they linked the hackers to the cyberspion operations carried out by North Korea, exploits and hacking tools, and the infrastructure used in their operations. Saber, one of the hackers involved, told TechCrunch that he could access the computers of North Korean workers for about four months, but as soon as he understood…
Rockets and satellites will not be the only era of the space economy. It concerns entirely new models for infrastructure, autonomy, and off-earth assets construction and defense. TechCrunch will be destroyed in 2025 in Western Moscon, San Francisco from October 27th to 29th this year. Space Stage is where this shift becomes a reality. If you're ready to explore how the next generation of technology will meet the Cosmos, grab your tickets and save seats on the Space Stage before prices rise on September 1st. Build a new backbone of space In this positive panel, even Rogers, co-founder and CEO…
According to New Government Statistics, US border agents searched more electronic devices in three months than ever before. The data shows that the U.S. Border Protection, the agency tasked with immigration screening at the US border, searched 14,899 international traveller devices between April and June, up 17% at previous record highs recorded in early 2022. Most of these searches are “basic” when an agent on the US border asks for a password from a traveler's device and looks into it without using the device. Citizens cannot refuse entry to the US, but they can seize their devices indefinitely to reject…
Google has launched a new journaling app called the Pixel Journal at the Pixel 10 Launch event. This has been coming in nearly two years since Apple introduced the Journal app with the arrival of iOS 17 in 2023. According to Google, Pixel Journal uses an on-device AI model to encourage users to fill out journal entries. This app can create or suggest prompts based on memory, past entries, or goals. Additionally, apart from recording your mood, you can add photos, locations and activities to your journal entries. Image credit: Google The company said that journal apps will learn about…
Created at Google event Wednesday, the company announced a personal health coach that drives a new AI built with Gemini coming to Fitbit. The tech giant says the new personal health coach is one fitness trainer, sleep coach and wellness advisor. Google is set to roll out a preview of Personal Health Coach as part of Fitbit Premium in October with a redesigned app available on the latest Fitbit trackers, Fitbit smartwatches and Pixel Watches. Personal Health Coach will learn your preferences when you share them and also take into account your real-time metrics from your Fitbit or Pixel Watch.…
Created on Wednesday by Google Events, the company announced a new feature in Google Photos that allows users to ask the app to edit photos. This feature will first launch on a Pixel 10 device in the US and will allow you to explain the edits you want to edit into a photo with either a photo or text. Google has also added support for Google Photos C2PA content credentials. The Pixel 10 phone will be the first mobile phone from Google to adopt this standard. It is designed to improve transparency in how images are created and whether AI…