Why use Facebook Messenger ads? These days, more people are using private messaging on social media than ever before. And since Facebook combined its messaging backend with Instagram, Messenger ads have never been more relevant. Facebook Messenger has 1 billion active users – the same as TikTok. Messenger is an ultra-personal way to connect directly…
Konami officially revealed three new game in the Silent Hill series in a special event today: Silent Hill: Ascension, Silent Hill: Townfall and Silent Hill: F. This is in addition to the remake of Silent Hill 2 it also announced, as well as a new movie. We don’t yet know the release dates of any…
Data protection startup Anonos announces it has raised $50 million in funding for a solution to anonymize PII.Read MoreRead More
Bill Gates’ climate venture-capital fund is expanding its mission, adding adaptation to its investment categories and establishing a later-stage fund to help clean tech startups begin building plants and scaling up their technologies. The announcement came at the end of the firm’s Breakthrough Energy Summit in Seattle on Wednesday. To date, Breakthrough has been focused…
Image: Konami After rumors and leaks, including an early morning flub that revealed today’s entire showcase lineup, Konami has finally officially shared its plans for the Silent Hill franchise. During today’s showcase, which was presented as a livestream but ended up being a 48-minute-long video, we saw news of a remake, a new movie, an…
Customization, even if your phone has limited hardware. | Image: Google Google has announced that over a quarter of a billion devices that people use each month are running Android Go edition, which is designed for phones with limited storage and memory. However, the new version that Google announced on Wednesday, Android 13 Go, will…
Rivian has hired former Waymo executive James Philbin to lead autonomy and AI at the automaker, a new role that signals the company’s interest in automated driving technology. Philbin was director of software engineering for two years at Waymo. Before that, Philbin worked for five years at Amazon’s self-driving subsidiary Zoox, where he lead computer…
Plastics are great for so many things, but they stay around for an awfully long time. Intropic leaps to the rescue with a set of enzymes that can be added to plastics at the very beginning of their life cycle, before it is even turned into products. The additives the company makes have been proof-of-concept…
Tesla reported Wednesday reported revenue of $21.45 billion in the third quarter, another record-setting period that still missed analysts expectations. Shares fell 3.5% in after-hours trading following the earnings release. Tesla’s net income for the third quarter was $3.3 billion nearly double the $1.62 billion it earned in the same period last year. The company…
As the global data privacy regulatory landscape gets more convoluted and constrictive, engineering teams looking to use structured data to improve their products and AI models are being pushed to jump through plenty of hoops to stay compliant. BetterData, which is launching onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield startup competition, is aiming to help…