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Carta’s ill-fated secondaries business finally found a buyer

Stock-trading startup Public has acquired the brokerage accounts of Carta’s secondaries business, TechCrunch has confirmed.

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News Image A Judge Has Banned Elon Musk's X in Brazil

An ongoing legal row over accounts allegedly spreading disinformation has escalated between Elon Musk and Brazil’s top court.

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Redfin is already trying to defend against a new flat-fee real estate startup

Redfin is responding to a new startup that is hoping to upend the way people search for and buy homes by offering a flat-fee service. On August 29, TechCrunch reported that a startup called Landian had emerged from stealth to offer homebuyers a way to tour and make offers on homes through a flat-fee service, […]

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Apple stands by decision to terminate account belonging to WWDC student winner

Apple moved to terminate the Appstun developer account after multiple rejections of its app that Apple says violates its App Store guidelines.

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Airbnb and fashion app By Rotation partner for free destination wedding outfits

By Rotation has a partnership with Airbnb to let those who’ve booked an Airbnb receive a complimentary outfit rental.

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News Image NASA shuffles Crew-9 team that will bring Starliner crew home

SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission will launch to the International Space Station with only NASA’s Nick Hague and Roscosmos’ Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard, according to an update on Friday. Crew-9 will launch “no earlier” than September 24th, with plans to bring delayed Starliner astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams back to Earth next February. Wilmore and Williams arrived at the ISS in June and were only supposed to stay for about a week while conducting tests. However, helium leaks and valve issues on Boeing’s Starliner delayed their return, and NASA gave up on sending them back on the spacecraft altogether. The agency decided to bring Wilmore and Williams home on SpaceX’s Dragon capsule with the Crew-9 mission instead. NASA says the other...

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The org behind the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion claims it has removed CSAM

LAION, the German research org that created the data used to train Stable Diffusion, among other generative AI models, has released a new dataset that it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned of known links to suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM).” The new dataset, Re-LAION-5B, is actually a re-release of an old dataset, LAION-5B — […]

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News Image Tips for Cargo Biking With Your Kids (2024): Gear and Tips to Ride Safely

You’ve decided to join the ebiking boom, and so have your kids. Congrats! Here’s the gear and advice you need to ride safely.

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North Korean hackers exploited Chrome zero-day to steal crypto

The North Korean hackers’ attack started by tricking a victim into visiting a web domain under the hackers' control.

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Fundraising is a lot easier when you have traction

Some stories emerge and die in a matter of days. Others require us to stay tuned for more, and this week brought us several of these.

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News Image Greenworks 60V Lawn Mower Review: It Just Cuts, Baby

A battery-powered electric mower for people who don’t want to think too much about their lawn.

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News Image The 39 Best Deals From REI’s 2024 Labor Day Sale

Shop these end-of-summer deals on REI, Nemo, MSR, Coleman, and other outdoor brands.

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News Image Turn Your Old iPhone or iPad Into a Retro Game Machine

Free emulator software can give an old device new life as a classic video game system. For bonus points, hook up a controller and stream games to your TV.

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News Image The Best Cold Plunge Pools in 2024—I Spent Months Testing to Find the Best

Keen to try the latest wellness trend, I dipped out of my comfort zone. These are my favorite cold-water plunge pools for any budget.

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News Image Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP

In a letter to Congress, the Meta CEO echoed what many right-wingers have claimed for years: that some of the company’s content decisions amounted to censorship.

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News Image The Best OTC Hearing Aids (2024): Tested and Reviewed

These WIRED-tested hearing aids are affordable, audiologist-approved alternatives to prescription devices. No doctor’s appointment necessary.

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News Image The Best Meat Subscription Boxes, Tested and Reviewed (2024)

Get grass-fed beef, pastured pork, and free-range chicken delivered to your door no matter where you live.

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News Image Qi2 Wireless Charging: Everything You Need to Know (2024)

Borrowing from Apple’s MagSafe, Qi2 enables faster, more efficient magnetic wireless charging.

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News Image The Trademark Tug-of-War Over ‘Demure’ Shows a Massive Meme Power Shift

Going back to the days of “on fleek,” creators have had a hard time benefiting from their memes. TikTokker Jools Lebron is poised to change that.

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News Image John McFall, the Astronaut Flag Bearer at the Paris Paralympics, Is Ready to Fly

A few hours before the opening ceremony, we spoke with the former sprinter, who today is the European Space Agency’s first para-astronaut.

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News Image How to Fold (and Store!) Your Sheets

I’ve folded an alarming number of sheets. Here’s my favorite folding method, with no complicated steps required.

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News Image Gantri Now Lets You Customize Your Lamp’s Colors—and Everything Else

The 3D-printed lighting company has a new color customization system—with up to 4,000 combinations—that it hopes will light the way for other industries.

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News Image Can Meta clean up its data centers with geothermal energy?

Meta announced a new partnership this week in the hopes that geothermal energy can help it reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Meta and startup Sage Geosystems struck up a deal to develop new geothermal power plants. If they make it to the finish line, the plants would provide carbon pollution-free energy that Meta needs for new data centers in the US. The company has struggled to keep its carbon pollution down since it pledged in 2020 to reach net zero emissions by the end of the decade, its latest sustainability report published yesterday shows. The race to develop more powerful AI tools has raised the stakes, triggering the development of new energy-hungry data centers. So, Meta is putting its faith in next-generation geothermal...

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News Image The Best Compact Cameras, Tested and Reviewed (2024)

Forget your phone. These compact, pocketable point-and-shoot cameras are more fun and take better pictures.

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