Chrome on iOS now lets you search using images and text at the same time
Google is rolling out a few new features for Chrome on iOS, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, Google Chrome on iOS now lets you search using images and text at the same time.
While you could already do this using the Google Lens iOS app, you can now do so directly within the Chrome
FTC alleges neobank Dave misled customers
Welcome to technewss Fintech! This week, we're looking at neobank Dave's “misleading marketing” according to a new FTC complaint, Affirm's launch in the U.K. amid regulatory overhaul, and how Equal aims to combat India's growing cyberfraud problem.
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Firefly Aerospace readies for a big year in orbit with $175M D round
Firefly Aerospace has raised a massive late-stage funding round as it prepares for the launch of its lunar lander later this year and the first mission of its Elytra spacecraft next year.
The $175 million Series D, which set Firefly's valuation at over $2 billion, apparently closed in less t
Dapr graduates to become a CNCF top-level project
Dapr, the Microsoft-incubated open source runtime for helping developers build secure and resilient distributed applications, has graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) pool of incubating projects to become a top-level project at the same level of projects like Kubernet
Snowflake hackers identified and charged with stealing 50 billion AT&T records
The U.S. government has accused Connor Moucka and John Binns of being the hackers who broke into the systems of AT&T, stealing around 50 billion customer call and text records.
In July, AT&T said hackers stole the phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline custome
Altos Ventures, an early backer of Coupang and Roblox, raises $500M fund
Altos Ventures, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has backed the likes of Roblox, Coupang, PandaDoc, and Quizlet, has secured $500 million for its latest fund, according to SEC filings. The firm has been around for almost three decades and this is its largest fund to date.
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Now anyone in LA can hail a Waymo robotaxi
Waymo has opened its robotaxi service to everyone in Los Angeles, sunsetting a waitlist that had grown to 300,000 people. The Alphabet-backed company said starting Tuesday anyone can download the Waymo One app to hail a ride in its service area, which is now about 80 square miles in Los Angeles Cou
Particle launches an AI news app to help publishers, instead of just stealing their work
The media industry today may not have a very favorable view of AI — a technology that’s already been used to replace reporters with AI-written copy, while other AI companies have scooped up journalists’ work to feed their chatbots’ data demands, but without returning traffic
TikTok launches integration with Lemon8, as US ban looms
Users will be able to directly access Lemon8, ByteDance’s newer social media app, with their TikTok account, the company announced Tuesday. ByteDance says the integration will make photo sharing more feasible, and give creators the ability to cross-share photo content between the apps.
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This USB-C mouthpiece turns your phone into a musical instrument
Artinoise, the Italian startup behind re.corder — a smart device reimagining the traditional plastic recorder we all played in school — has introduced its latest product: Zefiro.
The portable device, shaped like the mouthpiece of a recorder, can be plugged into any smartphone, tablet,
SUSE launches a cloud observability service
Luxembourg-based SUSE has long offered various services around its various Linux- and cloud-centric infrastructure and security tools. Yet what the company didn’t really offer before was a more traditional SaaS product. That’s changing now with the early access launch of SUSE Cloud Obse
Bounce bags $19M to expand its traveler convenience network
Luggage storage as a vector for piling into convenience-based revenue opportunities in the business of global travel continues to put a spring in San Francisco-based Bounce‘s step. The startup has just tucked $19 million in Series B funding into its suitcase, with a plan to keep rolling reven
LocalStack raises $25M to help developers emulate and test cloud apps locally
Knowing how your cloud application will behave in production usually requires significant development and testing in the environment in which it will be deployed, be that AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or wherever. But this can be a resource-intensive endeavor, particularly with issues relating to laten
Europe’s DMA forces Meta toward ‘less personalized ads’
Meta, under legal pressure in the European Union over a binary “pay us or consent to ad tracking” choice it currently offers regional users of its social networks Facebook and Instagram, is changing how its regional ad business works again. Little wonder when compliance failure in this