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TechCrunch Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic

Sonic Fire Tech raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitche...

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TechCrunch YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

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TechCrunch Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints a...

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TechCrunch Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

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TechCabal Nigerians are returning to ATMs as PoS transactions fall 20%

After years of losing ground to Point-of-Sale (PoS) agents, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) are making a comeback as transaction...

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TechCabal Africa is building a single payments market but its currencies remain divided

Africa is building regional payment systems that could make cross-border money transfers faster and cheaper, but its fragmented cu...

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TechCabal Oui Capital’s Olu Oyinsan on why African VC remains in an existential crisis

Oui Capital would have returned twice the size of its first fund even without Moniepoint, but its general partner still thinks Afr...

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TechCrunch Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

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TechCrunch Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South

African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 milli...

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TechCrunch WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan

WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plug-in support, and professional website-building tools.

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TechCrunch Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network

Uber is also making investing in Zipline a part of the tie-up.

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TechCrunch Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

The funds will allow Wispr to increase its footprint as it ventures into new areas, such as meetings, with its newly released note...

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TechCrunch Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts

The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk of real-world attacks.

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TechCabal Nigeria is not trying to stop crypto. It wants to know where the money goes.

If it plays its cards right, Nigeria could still become West Africa’s most important regulated digital asset market, attracting of...

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TechCabal Defence-tech startup Terra Industries closes seed round at $52 million

Terra Industries has raised an additional $18 million, closing Africa’s largest seed round at $52 million.

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TechCabal Next Wave: The next media business will be a strange one

The Internet may finally be forcing publishers to answer a question they have been able to avoid for years: what, exactly, are peo...

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TechCabal Phones running Android 17 right now (2026)

Android 17 has been available since June 2026, but only a small group of phones actually have it installed today.

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TechCabal Android 17 QPR2 features confirmed so far

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 3 was launched on August 14, 2026, and it is the biggest build in this update cycle so far.

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TechCabal What’s new with Samsung One UI 9 Beta 5 update

On August 12, Samsung released One UI 9 Beta 5 for the Galaxy S26 series, which includes bug fixes and the August security patch f...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – ICASA rolls over

In today's edition: ‘A shared understanding with Netflix’ || ICASA takes back collusion accusation || Kenyan exporters could get t...

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TechCrunch Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

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TechCrunch Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.

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TechCrunch Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’

Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.

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TechCrunch TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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