Role’s video role-playing platform makes a $2.75M charm attempt on the burgeoning tabletop world
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Tabletop gaming is in the middle of a historic boom, despite recent restrictions imposed on in-person gatherings by COVID. The tools adopted by game masters and casual players to play remotely are powerful but not always the easiest to use or adopt. Role hope
Twitter is testing a feature that puts users’ Revue newsletters on their profiles
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This January, Twitter acquired the newsletter platform Revue, but until now its integration into Twitter has been minimal; sometimes when you write Twitter threads, you’ll be greeted with a “Hello, wordsmiths” message that tells you about itAmple raises $160M to scale its battery swapping service
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Instead of an EV battery being something that needs to be recharged, like an iPhone, Ample wants to turn them into things that can be swapped out, like batteries in a digital camera.When VCs turned to Zoom, Chicago startups were ready for their close-up
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Chicago is an outlying benefactor from accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing.4 common mistakes startups make when setting pay for hybrid workers
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Regardless of your startup’s stance on the topic, having a consistent compensation philosophy that you apply to your evolving workplace has a unicorn-sized influence on important growth metrics.Indian fintech CRED launches peer-to-peer lending feature Mint
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India’s CRED, which rewards users for paying their credit-card bills on time, is broadening its offerings to help its 7.5 million members gain more from the service. The Bangalore-based startup said on Thursday that CRED users can now lend to one another aIn growing battle with TikTok, Facebook to test ‘Facebook Reels’ in the U.S.
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Reels are coming to Facebook in the U.S. The company this morning announced it will begin testing a new feature, Facebook Reels, which will give Facebook users the ability to create and share short-form video content directly within the News Feed or within FaActuator: Stop making sense
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First of all, we’ve got a fancy new name. While “Robotics Roundup” was nothing if not very technically accurate, it lacked the kind of panache one ought to strive for when rounding up robotics. Actuator, on the other hand — that’s a mover and shPaladin publicly launches Knighthawk, a first response drone for cities
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Emergency response is a time-sensitive business. When fires burn or a driver crashes their car, seconds can mean the difference between saving lives and watching a situation spiral rapidly out of control. For fire and police departments, getting teams on sitDiamond Age raises $8M to speed up home construction with 3D printing and robot arms
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Bay Area-based Diamond Age this week announced that it has raised $8 million. The seed round is led by Prime Movers Lab and Alpaca VC and features a slew of additional firms, including Dolby Family Ventures, Calm Ventures, Gaingels, Towerview Ventures, GFA VeRegology snares $8M Series A to help navigate maze of global regulations
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Every country has its own bundle of laws, rules and regulations, and they change on a regular basis making it an enormous challenge to keep up with it all. That usually requires large staffs filling in spreadsheets and unwieldy processes, but Regology, an earSenators challenge TikTok’s ‘alarming’ plan to collect users’ voice and face biometrics
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TikTok’s plans to collect biometric identifiers from its users has prompted concern among U.S. lawmakers, who are demanding the company reveal exactly what information it collects and what it plans to do with that data. In a letter sent earlier this month aEaze to become America’s largest cannabis delivery service after buying Green Dragon
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Eaze this week announced significant plans to expand into one the U.S.’s largest cannabis delivery services. One of the original on-demand cannabis delivery services, the Bay Area-based company is set to acquire cannabis retailer and cultivator GreenSpatial audio is coming to Netflix on iPhone and iPad
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If you use AirPods Pro or AirPods Max, your mobile Netflix-watching is about to get a bit more immersive. Yesterday, Netflix confirmed that it has begun rolling out spatial audio support on iPhone and iPad on iOS 14 after the feature was spotted by a Reddit uAileen Lee and Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson will share how to get to yes on Extra Crunch Live
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Aileen Lee is one of the most prestigious and successful venture capitalists of the past decade. Before starting her own firm in Cowboy Ventures, Lee was a partner at KPCB for more than 12 years. Her portfolio includes DocSend, Ironclad, Philz Coffee, StyleSeInsight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools
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Metabase spun out of venture studio Expa as an easy way for people to interact with datasets.Shared micromobility company Bird launches a consumer electric bike for $2,299
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Shared micromobility company Bird has unveiled a new consumer e-bike. This is the first time the company is selling private vehicles rather than relying on the shared model. It’s calling the bike the “Bird Bike,” which is the same name itTiger Global backs Nacelle with $50M for its e-commerce infrastructure
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Consumer shift to buying online during the global pandemic — and keeping that habit — continues to boost revenue for makers of e-commerce developer tools.Bedrock modernizes seafloor mapping with autonomous sub and cloud-based data
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The push for renewable energy has brought offshore wind power to the forefront of many an energy company’s agenda, and that means taking a very close look at the ocean floor where the installations are to go. Fortunately Bedrock is here to drag that mapGeneral Motors and AT&T will offer 5G connectivity in certain vehicles from model year 2024
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General Motors and AT&T will be rolling out 5G connectivity in select Chevy, Cadillac and GMC vehicles from model year 2024, in a boost that the two companies say will bring more reliable software updates, faster navigation and downloads, and better coverFacebook finally made a good virtual reality app
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Facebook’s journey toward making virtual reality a thing has been long and circuitous, but despite mixed success in finding a wide audience for VR, they have managed to build some very nice hardware along the way. What’s fairly ironic is that whilLaunch House raises millions to launch houses (and the next big startups)
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In May 2020, a trio of friends rented a home in Tulum, Mexico and invited their internet friends. The project was dubbed The Launch House, and the 18 entrepreneurs who came to live there had to do the following: pay rent, launch projects, and build their compMedical supply marketplace startup bttn. sews up additional $5M seed
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Founders JT Garwood and Jack Miller started Bttn after seeing the challenges medical organizations had during the global pandemic to not only find supplies, but also get fair prices for them.RepairSmith raises $42M Series B to bring auto repair to customers’ doorsteps
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Needing to get your car fixed is like having a toothache: It’s painful, hard to ignore and likely means someone messing around under the hood. RepairSmith, launched in 2019, wants to make that process a little smoother through its mobile auto repair servicAmazon rolls out India’s first celebrity voice on Alexa with Amitabh Bachchan
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Amazon has rolled out India’s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with the nation’s biggest movie star Amitabh Bachchan as the company makes a push to lure more users in the world’s second-most populated nation. The company, which rolled out the voicApple is changing Mail Privacy Protection and email marketers must prepare
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Effectively leveraging email analytics and data to inform future emails and multichannel campaigns requires marketers to start preparing now.Facebook releases a glimpse of its most popular posts, but we don’t learn much
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Facebook is out with a new report collecting the most popular posts on the platform, responding to critics who believe the company is deliberately opaque about its top-performing content. Facebook’s new “widely viewed content reports” will cThe hottest fintech market you aren’t paying attention to
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For our Wednesday show this week, Natasha and Alex and Danny had colleague Tage Kene-Okafor on the show to chat about the bDaily Crunch: T-Mobile confirms ‘highly sophisticated cyberattack’ affecting 47M customer accounts
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Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.Two senators urge the FTC to investigate Tesla over “Full Self-Driving” statements
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Two Democratic senators have asked the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Tesla’s statements about the autonomous capabilities of its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems. The senators, Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumentha
