Valve surprised us all with a handheld console. The $ 399 Steam Deck will arrive in December, with availability expanding to additional regions later. The hardware looks like an unholy alliance between Sega’s Game Gear and the Nintendo Switch and contains a 7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1,280 x 800 and a refresh rate … Read more
Kelly Breslin Wright. (Gong photo) – Former Tableau executive Kelly Breslin Wright has been named President and COO of Gong, an AI sales startup based in Palo Alto, California. Wright joined Gong’s board of directors in March. A former Tableau employee, Wright spent 12 years with the Seattle-based company leading sales. Before leaving in 2016, … Read more
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 15, 2021. Good news from the TechCrunch front: The agenda for our big disrupt conference in September is set. It’s going to be incredible, … Read more
On May 5, 1961, Commander Alan Shepard steered his Mercury Freedom 7 spacecraft 116 miles above the surface of the planet to become the first American to enter Earth orbit. Last Sunday, Sir Richard Branson was escorted aboard the SpaceShipTwo Unity by Virgin Galactic to an altitude of 80 kilometers. Somehow these men are both … Read more
(GeekWire file photo) The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) sued Amazon Wednesday for forcing the retailer to take legal responsibility for the recall of faulty products sold on its third-party marketplace. The complaint alleges that Amazon sold children’s sleepwear, carbon monoxide detectors, and hairdryers that put consumers at risk of serious injury or death. … Read more
Easy Eat AI, a Singapore-based startup seeking to “turn restaurants into technology companies,” announced today that it has raised $ 5 million in funding. Easy Eat AI provides an operating system for restaurants to digitize all parts of their business, from inventory to customer orders to delivery, and get AI-based data analytics to drive sales. … Read more
Ten years after its first release, Teenage Engineering is still finding ways to surprise and delight with the OP-1. On Wednesday the company released a software update for the popular synthesizer that supports USB audio streaming. In short, it means it’s much easier to plug the OP-1 into your favorite digital audio workstation and start … Read more
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, looks at some of the postcards submitted for space travel as part of his nonprofit Club for the Future campaign. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter / 2019) There are only a limited number of postcards you can send to space and back, even if you have $ 28 … Read more
Many consumers use their credit cards to collect rewards for travel. But what if you’re a sports fan and using your credit card could lead to a virtual conversation with a player on your favorite team? Thanks to San Francisco cardless, this opportunity may be less far than you think. The startup, which aims to … Read more
Last year, Twitter introduced a few changes that made it easier to choose how to reply to Tweets and manage who can reply to your Tweets. Now a new feature is added that can help you make sure your answer area is clean and friendly. Using the social network, you can now change who can … Read more