Ripcord, the Steve Wozniak-backed file scanning startup, is elevating new money

Ripcord, a startup developing robots that can automatically digitize paper records, is hoping to raise between $20 million to $25 million in a...

Women in AI: Claire Leibowicz, AI and media integrity expert at PAI

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of...

X Communities begin to look extra like Facebook Groups with new member vetting function

X is adopting a feature that’s currently used across many Facebook Groups to vet members before joining: required questions. The company formerly known...

Building a startup is like building a house

Imagine, if you will, a contractor who approaches you with a gleam in their eye and a plan so vague it might as...

AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a ‘vibe coder’ to write his own damn...

As businesses race to replace humans with AI “agents,” coding assistant Cursor may have given us a peek at the attitude bots could...

Black Friday Apple Watch deals: Save on Series 9, Ultra, and more

If you like Amazon line of Fire products, here's one of the Black Friday tablet deals that you should consider shopping -- the...

Tofu automates content creation for massive omnichannel B2B marketing campaigns

Creating the many types of content needed for large-scale B2B campaigns often result in marketers juggling dozens of tools. This makes it difficult...

Overwatch 2 had a messy first year, but I’m still loving it

Overwatch 2’s launch year didn’t exactly go as planned. In the lead-up to its October 2022 launch, the excitement for the hero shooter sequel...

CPU owners are suing Intel. Here’s the surprising reason why

Five unhappy owners of Intel CPUs have just started a class action lawsuit against the company following the discovery that, allegedly, Intel knowingly...

Yet another former Silicon Valley darling is convicted of investor fraud

Mike Rothenberg, a former VC known for hosting lavish parties, was convicted today on 21 counts for defrauding investors Connie Loizos @Cookie / 8 hours This...