Enlarge / Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer, who negotiated the new deal, talk earlier in the year. (credit: Chip Somodevilla ) At the end of June, the Supreme Court sent a message to the Biden administration: Any significant actions on the climate couldn’t come through existing environmental laws. Instead, a clear congressional mandate for emissions…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden signs the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on August 9, 2022 in Washington, DC. Getty Images President Biden signed the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act into law earlier today, paving the way for the US to take a bigger…
Frederik Mijnhardt Contributor Share on Twitter Frederik Mijnhardt is the CEO of Secfi, an equity planning platform for startup executives and employees. More posts by this contributor Late-stage tech companies must do right by their employees: Reassess your 409A valuations Inside Secfi’s 2021 state of stock options equity report Last year was a record 12…
Twitter has confirmed that an “internal systems change” was to blame for its partial outage today. Earlier today, the social network confirmed that some were having problems accessing the social network and that it was working to fix the issue. Twitter has since rolled back the internal systems change. Reports from third-party web monitoring service…
Product managers for software have a pretty thankless job — figuring out which features to put into a development sprint, how to prioritize what the developers work on and collecting requirements from internal teams, external customers and figuring out what the company can use in its marketing materials — it’s an endless game of balance…
TechCrunch spends time each quarter covering the startup markets of the world. We look at aggregate numbers and dig in more closely to areas like Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa and more. But sometimes key data points are lost in even those more specific venture capital data dives. For example, while it’s good to consider Europe’s venture…
Walmart’s membership program Walmart+ may bundle with a streaming service. The report comes from the New York Times and sparks conversation about the strange idea of the retail giant entering the streaming world. Sources told the outlet that Walmart was in talks with major media companies such as Paramount (Paramount+), Disney (Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu), and…
It’s been just a few weeks since OpenAI began allowing customers to commercially use images created by DALL-E 2, its remarkably powerful AI text-to-image system. But in spite of the current technical limitations and lack of volume licensing, not to mention API, some pioneers say they’re already testing the system for various business use cases…
TL;DR: As of August 9, you can get the Freewrite Traveler Portable Writing Tool for just $429 with code FREEWRITE20 — that’s a 10% discount. Whether it’s for school, work, or fun, where do you do your writing? Do you have some favorite writing software, or are you more the pen-and-paper type? If you write…
TL;DR: As of August 9, you can get the NEWYES Smart Pen & LCD Pad Bundle Set for just $151.05 instead of $159 — that’s a 5% discount. Hand-writing notes for yourself can be great. It’s fast and convenient, and most people tend to remember what they wrote better if they write it by hand….