YouTube is launching new playback and creator-focused features

YouTube is rolling out a new set of features for better mobile-based playback, song search, and creator-friendly tools The company is making it easier...

Amazon quietly rolls out support for passkeys, with a catch

Amazon has quietly rolled out support for passkeys as it becomes the latest tech giant to join the passwordless future. But you still...

ScyllaDB raises $43M to scale its NoSQL database platform

Investors have an appetite for databases, it seems. Today, ScyllaDB, a startup developing database tech for high-throughput, low-latency workloads, announced that it raised $43...

Stack Overflow cuts 28% of its staff

Developer community site Stack Overflow has laid off 28% of its staff, the Prosus-owned company announced Monday. In a blog post, Stack Overflow’s CEO,...

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses have ‘influencer’ written all over them

This is a review-in-progress. More soon! Somewhere between the Ray-Ban Meta and Meta Quest 3 sits an ideal mixed-reality headset. It’s slim, light, offers...

Snapchat is now allowing websites to embed content

Snapchat has relied on people consuming content on its own app. But now, the social network is allowing websites to embed public content...

Max Q: Psyche(d) | TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: SpaceX launches NASA asteroid mission News from Relativity Space and more Godspeed, Psyche. The large NASA spacecraft is...

Bandcamp’s new owner lays off half the company

Bandcamp has officially changed hands from its old new owner, Epic, to its new new owner, Songtradr, and lost half its employees in...

Google lobbies against legally mandated age verification for minors

Google is challenging proposed laws that would require online services to implement age checks in a new framework that theorizes how technology companies should...

Archer Aviation to launch air taxis in Abu Dhabi in 2026

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle company Archer Aviation plans to start air taxi operations in Abu Dhabi in 2026, making the...