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If you've ever had trouble finding a scene from your favorite Netflix series or movie online and trying to explain it to your friends, the streamer has come up with a solution. Netflix on Monday introduced a new clipping feature called “Moments” to its iOS app, allowing you to instantly save your favorite scenes. Now you can easily rewatch these scenes or share them on social media platforms with just one tap. When followers click on a post, they are directed to that scene in their Netflix app. To save your scene, select Moment at the bottom of the screen.…

Former Disney Channel star and singer Brigitte Mendler took to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Monday to detail how her startup, Northwood Space, is investing in a forgotten part of the space industry: ground infrastructure. Explained. Ground stations are important communication points for satellites to communicate with Earth. Northwood aims to mass produce ground stations, as the number and capacity of ground stations is a pressing bottleneck in the space industry. “To actually realize the benefits for the world's people, we need to invest in less attractive problems, such as building terrestrial networks,” Mendler said. “Personally, I think it's…

Nearly five years have passed since the world came to a standstill due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), but global supply chains have yet to fully recover. Specialty industries such as space travel were particularly hard hit because it was impossible to go to the street corner to pick up spare parts for rockets. The industry has begun to look long and hard at 3D printing as a solution to these problems. What additive manufacturing lacks in scale, it makes up for in both the creation of specialized parts and the decentralization of manufacturing, which is highly concentrated in…

Ula Rustamova and Irene Jia, co-founders of Level Zero Health, advocate that position. They are inventing previously unrealized technology that can help millions of people. If they are successful, and there are some positive early indicators, medical devices that continuously monitor hormones will be developed. Such devices could have the same benefits for hormonal health that continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) have had for diabetic health. Hormones control nearly every aspect of your body, from reproductive health to aging, and influence everything from your energy levels to your mood. “All of this is controlled by hormones,” CEO Rustamova told TechCrunch. “We…

It was a sad day when Nintendo announced that the free mobile game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp would be ending soon. This app will be discontinued on November 28th. But that too is making a comeback. However, this time it will be a paid game. Nintendo will release a paid version of the app “Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete'' on December 3rd. For $10, users can get a new version of the game with nearly the same gameplay mechanics and some new ones. The launch of the new Animal Crossing game follows several other attempts by Nintendo to bring its…

If there's one thing that's come from the worlds promised to us in Back to the Future, The Jetsons, or countless other sci-fi series, it's Spiralwave co-founder and CEO. Abed Buhari showed me this in a video. phone. Waves of purplish-white plasma rose and fell rhythmically within the metal-shielded column, igniting to the metronome-like clicks emanating from elsewhere in the chemistry kit. This is not a space propulsion system, but a device that can capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or smoke stacks and convert it into something useful. “You can see the plasma being generated here in very fast…

Assaf Rapaport, co-founder and CEO of cloud security startup Wiz, said turning down Google's $23 billion offer was “the hardest decision I've ever made.” But he justified his decision by saying that the cloud could make the company even bigger, potentially reaching $100 billion. Security is the future. “I think we made the right choice,” Rappaport said Monday at the annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference. “We believe it's bigger than the endpoint, bigger than the network, definitely bigger. So there's an opportunity there to be a $100 billion-plus company. We believe the company that owns it will be a $100 billion-plus…

Many startups have targeted the problem of early detection and prevention of wildfires, but Turkey-based ForestGuard's space-based system could give it an edge over its competitors. ForestGuard, which took to the stage today as part of TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield, is a trained architect who witnessed the devastating effects of wildfires across Turkey in 2021 and saw firsthand the need for early detection. It was founded by Muhamed Ali Ornek and Suat Batuhan Esilgar. They say more can be done to detect wildfires in their early stages, and many of the currently available systems, which use thermal sensors and satellites,…

Even cybersecurity companies are not safe from deepfake attacks. Speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Wiz CEO and co-founder Assaf Rappaport, who recently turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google, said just two weeks ago that his company's employees He said he was the target of a fake attack. “Dozens of employees received voice messages from me,” he explained. “The attack attempted to obtain their credentials.” But the team knew something was wrong as hackers were tracking audio of the CEO's voice from the conference to create a deepfake. Because he has anxiety about public…

Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, has lived the experience that every founder dreams of. He invented a new technology that fundamentally changed the way computer networks were built, and just barely escaped stealth before selling his startup for $1.26 billion (the second startup he sold). .Since then, he has had an influential career as a VC at a16z, leading its infrastructure investment practice. He now warns of the need for AI regulation, especially for start-ups.Watch Casado discuss the importance of AI regulation with TechCrunch Editorial Director Julie Bort at Disrupt 2024.Subscribe for more on YouTube: https://tcrn.ch/youtube Follow TechCrunch…