Thursday, May 14, 2026

Geothermal startup Quaise is raising $25M as it gears up for drilling

Geothermal startup Quaise Energy is raising a new funding round, TechCrunch+ has exclusively learned. The company filed new paperwork yesterday with the SEC, stating that it had...

Bitcoin ATM company Coin Cloud got hacked. Even its new owners don’t know how

In November, the cybersecurity collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers were claiming to have breached Coin Cloud, a bankrupt Bitcoin ATM company. According...

Google Classroom now lets teachers add interactive questions to YouTube videos

Google launched today a new feature for Classroom that allows teachers to turn any YouTube video into an interactive assignment by inserting questions for their students...

How GenAI can turn an autobiography into an interactive Black history lesson

We talk a lot about the negative side of AI, but what about the positive aspects like being able to interact with authors or historical figures...

Snapchat+ subscribers can now create and send AI-generated images

Snapchat is releasing a few new AI powered features for Snapchat+ subscribers, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, subscribers can now create and send AI...

E3 has entertained its last electronic expo

E3’s decades-long history has been peppered with ups and downs. The annual Los Angeles-based gaming expo saw a decade of steady growth after it was founded...

Machine learning is set to speed up the detection of contamination in food factories

The factories that process our food and beverages (newsflash: no, it doesn’t come straight from a farm) have to be kept very clean, or we’d all...

Durable cements $14M to build bots and other AI tools for small businesses in...

Builders, bakers and body conditioners might not be the first trades that come to mind when you think about how AI is transforming how we work....

CES 2024: TechCrunch wants to meet your startup

The temperature is plummeting, the stockings are hung by the fireplace with care, the sixth candle is soon to be lit and Santa Con is now,...

Comun channels local banking approach to serve Latino immigrants

Identification requirements, high fees and a language gap have long been barriers to preventing some Latino immigrants from opening a banking account in the United States....