Anthony Ha

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Anthony Ha is TechCrunch’s weekend editor. Previously, he worked as a tech writer at Adweek, a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, a local government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, and vice president of content at a venture capital firm. He lives in New York City.

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The journal Nature recently published a package of 44 papers about aerospace medicine and space biology. Beyond the specific findings of each paper, what was…

TechCrunch Minute: What does space tourism do to our bodies?

YouTube continues its efforts to circumvent ad blockers. Earlier this week, ad blocker SponsorBlock posted that the Google-owned video service is testing out server-side ad injection with a limited number…

YouTube is testing another way to combat ad blockers

Care/of, a company offering personalized subscription vitamin packs, says it will be canceling all subscriptions as of Monday, June 17 and will no longer be accepting new orders. The news…

Subscription vitamin company Care/of is shutting down

Every big social network and internet platform has been hyping new AI features, so it’s probably no surprise that LinkedIn is moving in that direction,…

TechCrunch Minute: LinkedIn offers AI-written cover letters

I learned a new word today — “sherlocking,” which is how some folks refer to Apple releasing a new feature that does the same thing…

TechCrunch Minute: Apple sherlocks third-party apps at WWDC 2024

One of the many new features that Apple announced earlier this week under the broad umbrella of Apple Intelligence is something it calls Genmoji, which…

TechCrunch Minute: Apple’s Genmoji will let you generate infinitely customizable emojis

Apple announced at WWDC 2024 that it’s making its big move into AI with a new technology it calls Apple Intelligence. Apple CEO Tim Cook…

TechCrunch Minute: Apple unveils Apple Intelligence, its new generative AI offering

A recent study conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, the University of Amsterdam and the AI startup Hugging Face looked at different text-analyzing AI models…

TechCrunch Minute: A new study looks at AI’s political leanings

William A. Anders, the astronaut behind perhaps the single most iconic photo of our planet, has died at the age of 90. On Friday morning, Anders was piloting a small…

William Anders, astronaut who took the famous ‘Earthrise’ photo, dies at 90

New York’s state legislature has passed a bill that would prohibit social media companies from showing “addictive feeds” to children under 18, unless they obtain parental consent. The Stop Addictive…

New York moves to limit kids’ access to ‘addictive feeds’

Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms…

TechCrunch Minute: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms

Elon Musk has said that Tesla has ambitious plans for AI, which will require it to more than double its usage of Nvidia’s flagship AI…

TechCrunch Minute: Is Elon Musk putting Tesla’s AI ambitions in the slow lane?

Back in 2022, Spotify announced an in-car streaming gadget that was actually called the Car Thing — and then it discontinued the Car Thing just…

TechCrunch Minute: Spotify kills the Car Thing, leading customers to demand refunds
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Trump takes off on TikTok

9:07 am PDT • June 2, 2024

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump now has an account on the short-form video app that he once tried to ban. Trump’s TikTok account, which launched on Saturday night, features…

Trump takes off on TikTok

President Joe Biden has vetoed H.J.Res. 109, a congressional resolution that would have overturned the Securities and Exchange Commission’s current approach to banks and crypto. Specifically, the resolution targeted the…

President Biden vetoes crypto custody bill

Meme Depot, which launched earlier this week, is a startup aiming to create a new category called “meme tech.” More specifically, founder Alex Taub said…

TechCrunch Minute: Is meme tech the next big startup category?

You probably remember that back in November, OpenAI’s board fired the company’s co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. What followed was this incredibly complicated power struggle…

TechCrunch Minute: What Sam Altman’s firing and rehiring reveals about OpenAI

The families of victims of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas are suing Activision and Meta, as well as gun manufacturer Daniel Defense. The families bringing the…

Families of Uvalde shooting victims sue Activision and Meta

Google has been taking heat for some of the inaccurate, funny and downright weird answers that it’s been providing via AI Overviews in search. AI Overviews are the AI-generated search…

What are Google’s AI Overviews good for?

Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more) announced a new AI advisory council that’s supposed to help guide the company’s decision-making around AI…

TechCrunch Minute: Meet Meta’s all white, all male AI advisory council

Just a month after launching its much-hyped Ai Pin, a report in Bloomberg says Humane is looking to get acquired. Specifically, the company is looking…

TechCrunch Minute: Humane might be up for sale

Blue Origin has successfully completed its NS-25 mission, resuming crewed flights for the first time in nearly two years. The mission brought six tourist crew members to the edge of…

Blue Origin successfully launches its first crewed mission since 2022

Expedia says Rathi Murthy and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, respectively its CTO and senior vice president of core services product & engineering, are no longer employed at the travel booking company. In…

Expedia says two execs dismissed after ‘violation of company policy’

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day — perfect timing for Apple to announce new features that should make iPhones and iPads more accessible for people…

TechCrunch Minute: Apple uses AI to make iPhones and iPads more accessible

Google kicked off its annual Google I/O developer conference with a big dose of AI. The company’s core AI model Gemini is getting multiple upgrades,…

TechCrunch Minute: Google I/O becomes Google AI

If you’ve been following the news around OpenAI, you’ve probably seen reports that the company is working on a search product that was going to…

TechCrunch Minute: Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model

The company is describing the event as “a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.”

OpenAI’s ChatGPT announcement: Watch the GPT-4o reveal and demo here

The streaming world continues its transformation into the new cable bundle. Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery recently announced that they’ll be launching a bundle this…

TechCrunch Minute: Streaming services are basically just cable now

It’s been a busy weekend for union organizing efforts at U.S. Apple stores, with the union at one store voting to authorize a strike, while workers at another store voted…

Workers at a Maryland Apple store authorize strike
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Go on, let bots date other bots

7:39 am PDT • May 12, 2024

Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an onstage interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang…

Go on, let bots date other bots