SurveyMonkey parent Momentive Global lays off 11% of workforce

Momentive Global, the parent of the web-survey portal SurveyMonkey, laid off 11% of its workforce this week. Multiple people across divisions — including those handling the business development, customer support, recruitment and sales at the San Mateo, California-headquartered company — have been impacted, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. “In an 8-K filed on October 13,…

Coroner’s report into UK schoolgirl’s suicide urges social media regulation

A ‘Prevention of Future Deaths’ report following a UK coroner’s inquest into the suicide of British schoolgirl, Molly Russell, who killed herself almost five years ago after viewing content on social media websites that promoted self harm, has recommended the government looks at requiring age verification on sign-up to social platforms to ensure the separation…

Peacock experiments with interactive scenes to give fans a ‘Real Housewives’ deep dive

NBCUniversal’s Peacock is unveiling a new interactive video feature that will let Peacock Premium subscribers delve into extended clips, including extra footage and interviews, from within an episode of “The Real Housewives.” From October 14-16, BravoCon attendees will be able to preview the upcoming feature by watching an episode from season 2 of “The Real…

Touchlab to begin piloting its robotic skin sensors in a hospital setting

Manipulation and sensing have long been considered two key pillars for unlocking robotics’ potential. There’s a fair bit of overlap between the two, of course. As grippers have become a fundamental element of industrial robotics, these systems require the proper mechanisms for interacting with the world around them. Vision has long been a key to…

Intel Arc GPUs just can’t compete with NVIDIA GeForce for content creation

Intel Arc – the company’s “doomed” and controversial new graphics cards – has taken a battering in Puget System’s latest benchmark tests.  Trying out the new Intel Arc A750 8GB and the Arc A770 16GB graphic cards, which released on October 12, the custom PC builder discovered that performance was less than spectacular compared to…

Mark Zuckerberg’s big reveal of his legs in the metaverse was actually ‘animations created from motion capture,’ Meta says

Mark Zuckerberg showed off his avatar’s legs by jumping in the Horizon Worlds metaverse at the 2022 Connect conference. Meta Meta revealed legs for its avatars in its metaverse, Horizon World, at the annual Connect event. A Meta spokesperson clarified the legs were a preview made of “animations created from motion capture.” It’s not clear…

Roger Stone said he would ‘eject’ Jared Kushner from Miami while ranting about not getting a second pardon. ‘You want to fight? Let’s fight’

Roger Stone, a former adviser and confidante to former U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives to the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Federal Building for a deposition before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol on December 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Roger Stone wanted a second…

I asked a business coach how to be a better entrepreneur. Here’s how I fixed my 3 most common mistakes.

Daphne Youree Jen Glantz is an entrepreneur and the founder of Bridesmaid for Hire. She sat down with a success coach to identify the mistakes she’s making as a small business owner.  Mistakes include saying yes to everything and not having a clearly defined business strategy. I’ve been an entrepreneur for the last seven years. There…