Running a startup can be expensive, requiring a multitude of different subscriptions. Cap table management software, which helps founders organize their funding, can cost thousands of dollars a year. San Francisco-based Carta is the market leader in this industry. But some startup founders say Carta is making it too hard to cancel their subscriptions. The issue first surfaced on X after founder Sudarshan Sridharan of Pipeline posted about his struggles trying to cancel, writing that “I’m speechless at how anti-founder @cartainc is. They make it impossible to cancel your subscription or speak to a human support agent.” Carta required a…
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Late-stage deals in space have been on the decline this year, but one notable exception is Fleet Space Technologies’ $100 million Series D. The Adelaide, Australia-based startup raised the new funding to accelerate the development of ExoSphere, a platform to enable real-time mineral prospecting from space. The company currently has two satellites in low Earth orbit that connect to ground sensors; using artificial intelligence, the sensors and satellite data can generate predictive insights and drill targeting for prospectors. Fleet is also sending a payload to the moon onboard Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander in 2026. That sensor will capture seismic data…
Nearly half of teens in the U.S. are online almost constantly, and the platform they’re using the most is YouTube, a new study from the Pew Research Center has found. The center reports that 46% of teens say they’re online “almost constantly,” and 90% of teens it surveyed said they use the Google-owned video platform, while 73% of them said they use the platform daily. TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat round out the list of the top platforms for teens, as 60% of teens reported that they use TikTok and Instagram, while 55% said the same for Snapchat. While it’s no…
Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson told the crowd at The Tech Spot Disrupt 2024 that he didn’t think Tesla would launch a robotaxi ride-hailing service in California (or anywhere else) next year, despite what Elon Musk had claimed. The “fundamental issue is they don’t have technology that works,” he said at the time. But it seems that Zoox is interested in some of Tesla’s top talent, however. Amazon-owned Zoox posted earlier this week on LinkedIn that it had hired Zheng Gao as director of hardware engineering. We’re thrilled to welcome Zheng Gao, Director, Hardware Engineering. Zheng spent the past eight…
Today is the last day of Lenovo’s 4-Day Sale, which means there are plenty of great laptop deals happening, but you have to act fast. We’ve picked out one of our very favorites: the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 4 is down to $1,080. According to Lenovo, that’s reduced from $2,399, but as experienced folk know, Lenovo tends to be a little optimistic with its estimated value system. What we do know though is that $1,080 is a great price for the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 4. Here’s a deeper look at what it has to offer, but remember: the sale…
Per Deadline, Joseph Quinn is the top choice to play George Harrison in Sam Mendes’ Beatles movies. Quinn has reportedly been spotted carrying a guitar case while filming Fantastic Four. Quinn is no stranger to the guitar, having memorably played Metallica’s Master of Puppets in Stranger Things season 4. Since breaking out on Stranger Things, Quinn has parlayed that into several high-profile roles. In 2024, Quinn played Eric in A Quiet Place: Day One and Emperor Geta in Gladiator II. Next summer, Quinn will star as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch in Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Besides Quinn, who…
AMD is readying its Strix Point Halo and Krackan Point APUs, with a potential launch in January at CES 2025. Ahead of launch, details about an Acer Swift Go 16 laptop with an upcoming AMD laptop chip have been spotted on Geekbench. According to the leaked listing, the laptop is powered by a Krackan Point engineering sample with an OPN Code of “100-000000713-40_Y,” which is most likely the Ryzen AI 7 350. It features eight cores, divided into two clusters of four cores each, utilizing Zen 5 and Zen 5c architectures. It has a base frequency of 2GHz, which can…
As Microsoft mentions in a December 12 blog post, Windows 11 users will soon no longer receive future updates for the suggested actions menu. The helpful feature would offer you related actions when you copy items like dates or phone numbers with actions to create an event or make a call. Microsoft first introduced the feature in a Windows 11 2022 update. It made the suggested actions menu appear and gave contextual information based on the copied data. Microsoft describes the feature as follows: “Suggested actions that appear when you copy a phone number or future date in Windows 11 are…
Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team—known as The Paranoids—over the last year, The Tech Spot has learned. Overall, the company has laid off or lost through attrition 40 to 50 people from a total of 200 employees in the cybersecurity team since the start of 2024, according to multiple current and former Yahoo employees who spoke to The Tech Spot on condition of anonymity. (Yahoo is The Tech Spot’s parent company.) On the condition of anonymity. This significant reduction in workforce raises concerns about the company’s ability to effectively safeguard its digital assets and maintain robust security…
Meta’s Threads is rolling out its own take on Bluesky’s “Starter Packs,” which are curated lists of suggested accounts that help new users find people to follow. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday that the social network is testing a way for users to find and easily follow collections of profiles that post about certain popular topics on Threads. The suggested collection of profiles will be shown to new users when they sign up for Threads, and they will also be displayed within the app’s For You feed. The collections will focus on a variety of different topics, such…
