Lora DiCarlo, a sex tech startup that made headlines in 2019 after being blacklisted from the Consumer Electronics Show, seems to have shut down. The company’s website is offline and reportedly orders have gone unfulfilled for months. TechCrunch has reached out to the eponymous founder for confirmation, but it sure looks like the end of…
When a non-fungible token or NFT is sold on the aftermarket, there are a few different parties that make money. The seller of the NFT gets paid, the original creator of the NFT piece receives a royalty, and the NFT platform charges a transaction fee. Now, there’s one more party that would like to get…
Former FTX President Brett Harrison Kelly Sullivan / Stringer Brett Harrison, FTX US’s former president, is reportedly raising money for a new crypto startup. Harrison left FTX just weeks before it slid into bankruptcy amid allegations of misused customer funds. Harrison’s attempt to raise money comes when many investors are weary of wading deeper into…
Enlarge / Horizontal boring equipment installing fiber in Los Altos Hills, California. (credit: Los Altos Hills Community Fiber) Our recent article about Silicon Valley residents who formed a co-op Internet service provider might have people wondering what it would take to get the same thing in their hometowns. The most obvious obstacle is price—in Los…
(credit: Dsimic) A developer’s cryptographic signing key is one of the major linchpins of Android security. Any time Android updates an app, the signing key of the old app on your phone needs to match the key of the update you’re installing. The matching keys ensure the update actually comes from the company that originally…
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The Chief Twit’s favorite Twitter feature might now be the site’s Achilles’ heel. Since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, he has frequently promoted the platform’s Community Notes feature. Formerly known as Birdwatch and first launched in Jan. 2021, Community Notes allow users without policy violations who are accepted into the program to embed context…
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The exterior of Trump Tower in Manhattan, where the Trump Organization headquarters occupies the 25th and 26th floors, left. Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Nov. 7, 2022, right. David Dee Delgado/Reuters, left; Gaelen Morse/Reuters, right. Closings in the Trump Org. tax-fraud trial concluded Friday in Manhattan; deliberations are Monday. In…
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, and Kanye West. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images A Twitter account for Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee deleted a pro-Kanye West tweet. A committee spokesperson cited West’s “repulsive comments” praising Hitler on Alex Jones’ show. But the tweet wasn’t taken…