Monthly Archives: August 2022

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate banned from Facebook and Instagram

Andrew Tate, the controversial social media influencer and self-help guru has been banned on all Meta platforms as of Friday as confirmed by The Guardian. At the time of his ban from Meta’s platforms, Tate had amassed over 4.7 million followers on Instagram. Bans from Facebook and Instagram mean the former kickboxer turned multimillionaire influencer…

14th-gen Intel chips could support ray tracing – and truly bring it to the masses

Intel Meteor Lake processors, the next-next-generation CPU from Intel due out in 2023, are expected to feature ray tracing support on a tiled-GPU architecture, marking a major step forward for the technology. Ray tracing is a rendering process that lights up a rendered scene by mimicking the way we actually see light. This sounds almost…

These 3 Canadian banks offer the most in-demand emerging mobile feature

This is a preview of Insider Intelligence’s 2021 Canada Mobile Banking Emerging Features Benchmark, available exclusively to subscribers. In addition to mobile banking coverage, Insider Intelligence publishes thousands of pieces of content, including research reports, charts, and forecasts on the financial services industry. You can learn more about becoming a client here. The Canadian banks…

Anti-abortion activists in Massachusetts are trying to ‘modernize’ the pro-life movement: ‘We think men should be responsible’

Pro-life demonstrators carry signs as they march January 23, 2006 in downtown Los Altos, California. Dozens of pro-life supporters from St. Nicholas Church marched to mark the 33rd anniversary of the supreme court decision to legalize abortion. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Pro-life activists in Massachusetts argue abortion should be banned so men can be…

YouTube removes video that tests Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta against real kids

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge YouTube has removed a video that shows Tesla drivers carrying out their own safety tests to determine whether the EV’s (electric vehicle) Full Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities would make it automatically stop for children walking across or standing in the road, as first reported by CNBC. The video, titled…

From SEPs to Discovery, Colombia is Getting More Patent Friendly

Latin American countries are not usually seen as a first line option when building a strategy to deploy global litigation campaigns to enforce patent rights. However, in 2022, developments in Colombian law highlighted it as a country with administrative and judicial systems that favor patent rights and provide for effective assertion of local patent assets.Read…

German startups could use more venture capital, but Germany’s government has a plan

Welcome 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 up here. Reading recently about Germany’s €30 billion plan for its startups, I was intrigued. Did the country start to envy La French Tech? Is it…