Humanz brings its influencer marketing platform to the US
Humanz, a marketing platform for content creators and brands, has entered the U.S. market, the company announced on Thursday.
Having launched in Israel in 2017, Humanz has gained strong traction in global markets, including Europe, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East. Currently,
iFixit marks iPhone 16 arrival with battery-powered soldering iron launch
iFixit, everyone's favorite gadget repair gadfly, is launching a portable soldering iron. The gadget is designed to make component repair more accessible for home users.
The timing of the announcement isn't lost on anyone, dropping the same week as Apple's “It's Glowtime” event
Irish Big Tech watchdog digs into platforms’ content reporting mechanisms after DSA complaints
Ireland's media regulator, which oversees the compliance of a raft of tech giants with the EU's Digital Services Act’s (DSA) general rules, said it is reviewing how major platforms let users report illegal content, following a high number of complaints.
On Thursday, the Coimisi
Novatus nabs $40M to help financial institutions quell their regtech nightmares
Banks, investment firms, and financial services providers are not known to be bastions of transparency. At least, not to the general public. And, as the last financial crisis laid bare, sometimes not even to the people who operate within them.
Andrew Hedley understands this well. Assessing risk at
OffDeal wants to help small businesses find big exits with AI agents
Small businesses are the unsung heroes of the American economy, employing nearly half of America’s workforce and making up 44% of the country’s GDP. But when it’s time for small business owners to sell their companies, their options are limited.
Some go to small business brokers
Consumer group sues to ban purchases inside games like Fortnite and Minecraft in Europe
Video games are some of the most lucrative apps in the world, in part because of how they lure people into spending money on credits to buy digital goodies, to the tune of more than $50 billion annually worldwide. But a powerful consumer group in Europe believes game publishers are “purposefully
WhatsApp brings Meta Verified, customized messages to small businesses in India
WhatsApp is now letting small businesses in India sign up for a Meta Verified badge and giving them the ability to send customized messages to customers.
India is home to more than 65 million small and medium-sized businesses, but only about 5 million of them sell online, according to a joint repo
LineLeap lets users pay to skip the line at bars
No one likes standing in line. I was reminded of just how awful the experience can be last Saturday, while being herded like cattle through a two-hour queue for a nightclub in unseasonably cold weather.
I’d not soon repeat the experience. Fortunately, there’s a startup for that.
These sub-1mm robots morph and crawl with an electric zap
Cornell University researchers this week unveiled tiny “metasheet” robots capable of transforming into pre-determined shapes and crawling around when electricity is applied. Along with biological organisms, the robots were inspired by kirigami, a variation of origami wherein objects are cut in
YouTube Shorts’ collaborative Add Yours sticker is now available to all users
YouTube confirmed on Wednesday that its collaborative “Add Yours” sticker for YouTube Shorts is now fully rolled out. The Google-owned company first announced the feature back in July.
The sticker works just like Instagram’s feature of the same name, as it prompts users to share
Taylor Swift cites ‘fears around AI’ as she endorses the Democratic ticket
After a historic presidential debate replete with discourse about eating pets, Taylor Swift ended the evening with a bang. Arguably the most powerful figure in American pop culture, the singer-songwriter chose debate night to announce on Instagram that she plans to vote for Kamala Harris in the pre
Mark Zuckerberg says he’s done apologizing
The home of the Golden State Warriors was packed on Tuesday evening this week, but it wasn’t to watch Steph Curry. Thousands of fans gathered at the Chase Center in downtown San Francisco to watch one of Silicon Valley’s biggest ballers, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, sit down for a conversa
This Week in AI: OpenAI’s new Strawberry model may be smart, yet sluggish
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This week in AI, OpenAI’s next major product announcement is imminent, if a piece in The Information is to be believed.
The Information reported
Media talent app HUSSLUP shuts down as workers in Hollywood continue to face job slowdown
HUSSLUP founder and CEO H Schuster notified users on Wednesday that it would be taking an “indefinite hiatus” starting Friday, according to an email seen by technewss. The job search and networking app for the entertainment industry was launched to the public in January after being in an invit