TikTok. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. TikTok has begun laying off staff as part of a company-wide restructuring, Wired reported Monday. Before these cuts, execs at TikTok had projected strength despite a broader downturn in the tech and ads sectors. It comes as the app faces new political pressure in the US. TikTok has…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Sometimes companies can get in their own way of delivering great customer experience (CX).Many companies organized in a product- or channel-centric way, hampering their ability to foster good CX.Do you work in the Marketing, Media & Advertising industry? Get business insights on the latest tech innovations, market trends, and your competitors with data-driven research.The following…
Today Instagram is out with a new update, and this one lets you buy stuff straight from your chats. This works for purchases from “qualified small businesses”, which will confirm your orders, create payment requests, and collect payment all within the chat interface. Everything thus stays in the same place – your questions, the business’…
Enlarge (credit: Andriy Onufriyenko | Moment) This is not the summer that Americans want to deal with an unknown number of cryptocurrency firms unexpectedly flooding the power grid. More Americans are already expecting to experience rolling blackouts as the nation’s power grid strains against record heat and drought conditions currently spiking energy usage from coast…
The TE-1. Triumph Triumph is a motorcycle brand best known for its old-world flair and vintage-inspired rides, like the Bonneville or the Thruxton. There’s good reason for that, because the company’s heyday occurred sometime around the 1960s, when Steve McQueen slung a leg over one in the 1963 epic The Great Escape. However, with the…
Hello and welcome back to Max Q. In this issue: The first images from James Webb Space Telescope are here Lunar Outpost eyes up moon markets News from ABL Space Systems, Skyrora and more By the way…we’re right around the corner from TC Sessions: Robotics, a full-day digital gathering of some of the world’s leading…
Slack, the chat platform that serves as an online watercooler for oh-so-many teams, is bumping up its monthly price and changing the way its free plan works. The company announced the changes via blog post this afternoon. Here’s what’s changing: If you pay for the “Pro” plan by the month, the price will increase from…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is opening yet another special investigation into a Tesla vehicle crash, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch. This time it involves the crash of a 2021 Tesla Model Y that killed a motorcyclist in California earlier this month. Reuters was the first to report the special investigation. This is…
Robotic learning has quickly become of automation’s most vibrant categories — and understandably so. Programming a robot has traditionally required a lot of technical know-how, but what if there was a simpler way for non-programmers/roboticists to teach these systems to do what we want? Imitation and reinforcement learning are two of the most popular methods…
Gbike, a South Korea-based micromobility Gcooter operator, is acquiring Hyundai Motor’s shared micromobility sharing platform ZET as it wants to increase its market share and create technological synergies via ZET’s fleet management system. Gbike CEO Walter Yoon told TechCrunch that the deal, which is its first acquisition, will be completed in early August. The financial terms of…