Freda D. Cuevas
- Computer & Technology
- May 19, 2023
- 165 views
With Kite’s demise, can generative AI for code succeed? • TechCrunch
Kite, a startup developing an AI-powered coding assistant, abruptly shut down last month. Despite securing tens of millions of dollars in VC backing, Kite struggled to pay the bills, founder…
- Software
- April 28, 2023
- 165 views
Is ChatGPT a ‘virus that has been released into the wild’? • TechCrunch
More than three years ago, this editor sat down with Sam Altman for a small event in San Francisco soon after he’d left his role as the president of Y…
- Computer & Technology
- April 25, 2023
- 222 views
Nigerian startup Taeillo raises funding to scale its online furniture e-commerce platform • TechCrunch
Individuals or businesses buying furniture in Africa can purchase from local furniture stores or global furniture retailers like IKEA. But both options have pros and cons; for the latter, local…
- Technology
- March 15, 2023
- 182 views
Tesla Powerwall customers in Texas can now sell their electricity back to the grid • TechCrunch
Elon Musk’s plan to “operate as a giant distributed utility” is creeping toward reality. Tesla first piloted a “virtual power plant” in California, inviting Powerwall home battery owners to sell…
- Computer & Technology
- March 11, 2023
- 159 views
Hybrid pricing can help app developers better monetize their apps • TechCrunch
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign…
- Computer & Technology
- March 2, 2023
- 167 views
Robco links up with $14M led by Sequoia to bring modular robotics to industrial SMBs • TechCrunch
After years of outsourcing and offshoring manufacturing to countries with cheaper labour and bigger production ecosystems, the U.S. and Europe are on a mission to bring some of that industrial…
- Software
- February 15, 2023
- 193 views
Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it • TechCrunch
AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach that produces weird and compelling music using not audio but…
- Software
- February 6, 2023
- 206 views
Twitter just banned prominent journalists who cover Elon Musk with no warning • TechCrunch
On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended a number of prominent journalists on the platform without warning or explanation. The situation followed the company’s decision to suspend the Twitter account of Mastodon,…
- Technology
- January 8, 2023
- 146 views
Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account and bans links to Mastodon servers • TechCrunch
A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet, the fallout continues. Twitter apparently suspended its open…
- Technology
- December 20, 2022
- 159 views
Major tech firms partner with Linux Foundation to support open map data development • TechCrunch
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. The TC crew are a bunch of…
