Category : Technology

Meet Meta Quest 3, Our Mixed Reality Headset Starting at $499.99

Big news from the Connect stage: Meta Quest 3 hits shelves October 10, and pre-orders are open now! The world’s first mass-market mixed reality headset starts at $499.99 USD for the 128GB version and $649.99 USD for those who want a larger stor...

TC Startup Battlefield master class with Canvas Ventures: Creating strategic defensibility as an early-stage startup

Each year, TechCrunch selects the top 200 early-stage founders from across the globe to feature at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. And as part of our programming, we host master classes with industry experts and venture capitalists to provi...

Meta’s $500 Quest 3 targets consumer mixed reality

Meta’s Quest Pro arrived to a mixed reaction when it launched late last year. The consensus – if one can be found – was that the headset presented some impressive technological leaps over its consumer predecessor (the Quest 2), but the $1,500 pr...

Meta Connect 2023: How to watch the Quest 3 reveal now at 10:30AM PT

Update: Meta’s moved the start time by 30 minutes to 10:30AM PT/1:30 PM ET. No explanation why, but the sun’s blazing on the presentation area, and crowds are milling about. If you’re virtual, you have a few options for watching. The most access...

Workday unveils new HR-focused generative AI features

Just because generative AI is trendy right now, doesn’t mean it has to be applied to every application. But try telling that to Workday. The enterprise management platform vendor today announced a suite of new generative AI features aimed at “in...

US lawmakers push Ford to hand over documents on battery deal with China’s CATL

Ford may have paused its plans to build a $3.5 billion EV battery factory with CATL, but it hasn’t relieved pressure from Republican U.S. lawmakers who are investigating the automaker’s agreement with the Chinese company. The probe, which was la...

Ask Sophie: How would a government shutdown affect the H-1B visa process?

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Servic...

Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl says AI to impact the music industry within the next year

Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl believes AI will be significantly impacting the music industry within the next year. Speaking at the Code Conference this week, the industry exec said the industry should soon expect the increasing quality of music...

Don’t forget to jargon-check your AI

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we sit down with a guest, talk about their work and dive deep into the...

Sam Altman backs Slope’s $30M round to digitize, scale B2B payments

Slope, a business-to-business payments platform for enterprise companies, closed on a venture round of $30 million to expand its business. The company intends on using the new funds on product development as it continues to take on bigger client...

Was tech’s ‘bull run’ simply a temporary surge?

For a few months this summer, it seemed that the trend of falling tech valuations was nearing an end. The U.S. pausing interest rate hikes, falling inflation in key markets, and software companies’ slowly rebounding revenue multiples led to a tr...

Russian zero-day seller offers $20M for hacking Android and iPhones

A company that acquires and sells zero-day exploits — flaws in software that are unknown to the affected developer — is now offering to pay researchers $20 million for hacking tools that would allow its customers to hack iPhones and Android devi...

OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Jony Ive about a hardware project

OpenAI, not content with building large language models and art-generating AI, wants to get into hardware. That’s according The Information, which reported this week that storied former Apple product designer Jony Ive is in talks with OpenAI CEO...

The Dungeons & Dragons DLC for Minecraft includes dice rolls, magic missiles and more

Minecraft just dropped its newest DLC for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) players to enjoy. In partnership with D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast and Everbloom Games, the DLC takes players on an adventure into the Forgotten Realms, letting...

Industry Ventures, with stakes in more than 600 venture firms, just raised $1.7B to snap up more stakes — and companies

Industry Ventures prides itself on trying to zig when others zag. When the outfit was first founded in San Francisco in 2000, the startup market was red hot, and its first product — a secondary fund — was a curiosity more than anything. The ide...