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Apple Podcasts is rolling out new features to incentivize podcasters to offer paid subscriptions to listeners on the app. One of those features will — for better or for worse — reveal to podcasters in their private analytics dashboard how many people follow them on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lasting, which is owned by mobile therapy company Talkspace, has launched a new app aimed at parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For self-driving cars and other applications developed using AI, you need what’s known as ‘deep learning’, the core concepts of which emerged in the ‘50s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meet Lune, a new startup that wants to expose CO2 emissions calculations so that customers are better informed when they purchase something online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sleek is developing a browser extension enabling one-click checkout and cash-back savings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Porsche 718, a mid-engine roadster that injects the automaker’s motorsports’ history into a modern-day package, is going all electric by 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Instant delivery startup Getir has announced that it has closed a new $768 million Series E founding round. Following this deal, the company has reached a valuation of $11.8 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company is making real honey with precision fermentation and plant science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meta announced a new set of tools designed to protect young users on Wednesday, an overdue response to widespread criticism that the company doesn’t do enough to protect its most vulnerable users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liveblocks has raised a $5 million seed round. The startup lets you turn a regular web app into a multiplayer product with high-level hosted APIs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meta is facing prosecution in South Africa, after the country’s competition regulator, the Competition Commission, found as uncompetitive its intention to block the government’s startup GovChat and #LetsTalk from using its WhatsApp Business API. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twelve years after it was first announced, NASA’s massive Space Launch System will finally make its public debut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ford is accelerating plans to sell more electric vehicles in Europe on its way toward reaching carbon neutrality in the region by 2035. The automaker announced Monday that it will launch three new electric passenger vehicles and four new electric commercial vehicles in Europe over the next two years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Blue Origin has announced its next roster for a flight of New Shepard to suborbital space, and it includes Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sorenson Ventures may not be a household name, but the Lehi, Utah-based firm has quietly backed 30 enterprise startups since 2017 when it launched its initial $100 million fund, some exiting via acquisition and some sporting flashy valuations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gaming giant Ubisoft has confirmed a cybersecurity incident that led to the mass-reset of company passwords, but has declined to say what the incident actually was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google, working with historians from West Africa, has been working to digitize contemporary art, cultural and historic sites about Mali, and the digital library went live on Google Art & Culture (GAC) today, making these items available for exploration by the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week staying up late to figure out how ads worked on Facebook and Amazon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After raising nearly $20 million a few months ago, Berlin-based startup Dance is expanding its electric bike subscription service to a handful of new cities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Selling commercial products has become pretty complex, and the pandemic has not helped. Sales teams are often hampered by the difficulties of building trust in their product, especially in a hybrid world where much of the interactions are virtual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amazon’s Clubhouse competitor has arrived. The retail giant on Tuesday launched a new mobile app called Amp, which allows people to create live “radio shows” where they can act as a DJ, by taking callers and playing tracks from Amazon Music’s tens of millions of licensed songs, ranging from classic titles to today’s music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric Company are launching a pilot that will let EV owners use their vehicles as a backup power source for their homes during an outage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

China- and U.S.-based Pony.ai said Monday its valuation has surged to $8.5 billion after the first close of its Series D funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

British luxury carmaker Aston Martin has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with lithium-ion battery cell technologies company Britishvolt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Disco used to be Co-op Commerce, and leadership says the new name better reflects the company's focus on consumer discovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices