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The US has had solo VC fund managers for many years but the trend is only just starting to catch on in Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After messing up the first launch of Twitter’s “power to the people” verification system, Elon Musk said that the social network will tentatively roll out a new multicolored verification system next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two weeks after Apple warned of production delays in China amid heightened COVID-19 restrictions, the giant is facing more challenges as worker protests broke out at its largest manufacturing partner Foxconn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fans of Apple TV+’s popular sci-fi workplace drama, “Severance,” can have their very own Lumon music-dance experience—maracas not included. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk taking over Twitter has sent some people to look for alternatives such as Mastodon and Hive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Decentralized identity startups are having a moment as investors seek the next generation of killer applications in web3, even in times of market volatility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The online custom jewelry company is injecting technology into the engagement and wedding ring buying experience. Custom jeweler Wove bags $3.85M to make engagement ring purchases less stressful by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Secure communications provider Wickr has announced that it will shutter its free encrypted messaging app, Wickr Me, next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

India’s space agency has successfully launched the Vikram-S after much anticipation and years-long work in a boost to the private sector of the nation’s space industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twitter has published a policy change saying that newly-created Twitter accounts will have to wait 90 days before being allowed to subscribe to the new Twitter Blue plan and get verified.subscription by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Composing a thread on Twitter can be challenging as you need to separate the whole text into 280-character chunks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple has finally launched a redesigned iCloud website with apps appearing as widget-styled tiles instead of icons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re at the point in the Elon Musk/Twitter debacle where the fact that it’s a shit show is our new normal, and anything that resembles a normal functioning tech company or leadership is more newsworthy than the inverse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Under Elon Musk, Twitter may be reviving a project that would bring end-to-end encryption to its Direct Messaging system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fulfillment has arguably been the hottest robotics category over the past two years, as companies have looked to stay competitive with Amazon, even amid ongoing labor shortages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. Impacked is a B2B company that’s bringing green tech to the forefront for everything from jars, tubes and pouches to bottles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Klarna is expanding into the competitive world of price comparisons, with the launch of a new tool that compares prices across thousands of retailers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Echo business has always looked like Amazon playing the long game from the outside. Above all, the company’s home consumer hardware is a convenient vessel for getting Alexa into millions of homes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Australian Federal Police claims to have identified the cybercriminals behind the Medibank ransomware attack, which compromised the personal data of 9.7 million customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A few days ago, new Twitter owner Elon Musk said that the company will try a lot of dumb things in the coming days. And that seems to be the product strategy of the company — even if it causes utter chaos all around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The vulnerability in the door entry security system, used in government buildings and apartment complexes, cannot be fixed. Aiphone door entry systems can be ‘easily’ bypassed thanks to NFC bug by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The motto over at Twitter is clearly a throwback ‘move fast and break things’ at the moment under new ruler Elon Musk, and the latest thing to break is the just-introduced $8 monthly Twitter Blue tier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ping users create a free account in U.S. dollars to receive bank transfers in either their local currency or cryptocurrency. Ping wants to simplify global payments while helping Latin Americans embrace crypto by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meta’s body blow layoff announcement will see the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp making its first-ever major layoffs as a company, cutting 11,000 employees, 13% of its total; predictably investors are responding favorably, bumping the stock up by over 5% in pre-market trading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Speedoc, a health tech platform that brings hospital care to homes, has raised $28 million in pre-Series B funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices