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Spotify Taste Profile
Media & Entertainment

Spotify is giving you the keys to its recommendation algorithm with US launch of ‘Taste Profile’ | TechCrunch

Spotify is giving listeners a new tool to shape the recommendations it delivers to their app’s Home feed....

Gaming

Epic Games is launching webshops to allow developers to circumvent app store fees after new ruling | TechCrunch

Epic Games is taking a victory lap. After notching a big win against Apple in a years-long legal...

Venture

Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit Week in Boston | TechCrunch

Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for...

The June founding team: Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, Efrat Rapoport, and Idan Tsitiat.
AI

A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem | TechCrunch

It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed...

Startups

The robotics revolution won’t be humanoid | TechCrunch

Loading the player…Robotics is having an AI boom, but don’t expect it to have a ChatGPT moment.In this...

mapquest lake ontario
Apps

MapQuest is now the No. 1 US app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming | TechCrunch

MapQuest’s unlikely comeback just got even bigger. On Tuesday, the “OG” mapping application (and one that many thought...

Apple iPad mini 7th gen
In Brief

Apple is reportedly planning new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro releases early next year | TechCrunch

Apple reportedly has plans to release several new iPad Pros and a new MacBook Pro in the first...

Security

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you | TechCrunch

Bill Swearingen has spent the past year running largely the same test, over and over again. The goal...

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AI

Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services | TechCrunch

Ema, a startup that uses teams of AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance,...

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Gaming

Xbox consoles, controllers, and games are getting more expensive | TechCrunch

Microsoft announced price increases on Thursday for its Xbox consoles, controllers, and some games.The affected consoles, which include...