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Fisker loses customers’ money, Robinhood releases a credit card, and Google generates travel plans

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Hey, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), on 360Wise Media with TechCrunches most recent newsletter summarizing the large events in tech over the past few days.

This week, TC automotive reporter Sean O’Kane revealed how electric vehicle startup Fisker temporarily lost track of multimillion-dollar customer payments because it ramped up deliveries, resulting in an internal audit that began in December and lasted months.

Elsewhere, Lorenzo reported how Facebook was spying on users’ Snapchat traffic as a part of a secret project known internally at Meta as “Project Ghostbusters.” Court documents show that the goal was to intercept and decrypt network traffic between people using the Snapchat app and its servers.

Late last week, Manish wrote in regards to the resignation of Stability AI founder and CEO Emad Mostaque. Mostaque’s departure from Stability AI – a startup known for its popular Stable Diffusion image generation tool – comes amid an ongoing struggle for stability (pun intended) at a company that was reportedly spending ~$8 million per thirty days as of October 2023 with little revenue on thing show it.

Many other things happened. We sum all of it up on this issue of WiR – but first, let’s remind you to enroll in the WiR newsletter every Saturday.

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Fisker suspended: Fisker’s bad week continued with the startup’s stock trading halting. The New York Stock Exchange decided to delist Fisker, citing “abnormally low” inventory levels.

AI-based routes: As a part of an update to its search generation feature, Google has added the flexibility to ask users to plan a travel route in Google Search. Using artificial intelligence, the search engine will pull ideas from web sites together with reviews, photos and other details.

New Robinhood card: Nine months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95 million, Robinhood on Wednesday announced the launch of its recent Gold Card, powered by X1 technology, with a list of features that would make Apple Card users envious.

At AT&T, the word mom is most vital: This week, the private information of roughly 73 million AT&T customers was leaked online. However, AT&T won’t say how – despite the fact that the hack accountable for this occurred greater than three years ago.

Financing

Boom Co-pilot: Budgeting app Copilot raised $6 million in a Series A round led by Adjacent Nico Wittenborn. The app is partly benefiting from the death of Mint, Intuit’s financial management product.

Liquid assets: In an article taking a look at the broader VC-backed beverage industry, Rebecca and Christine note the recent $67 million fundraising of canned water startup Liquid Death, bringing the corporate’s total to over $267 million. Talk about liquidity.

HVAC project: Dan Laufer, a former Nextdoor executive, raised $25 million from Canvas Ventures and others for PipeDreams, a startup that takes popular HVAC and plumbing corporations and scales them with software that helps with planning and marketing.

Analysis

Is Nvidia the subsequent AWS?: Ron writes about many similarities in the event trajectories of Nvidia and AWS.

Podcasts

This week continues Right, the crew delved into Robinhood’s recent credit card, Fisker’s latest misadventures, and even Databricks’ recent artificial intelligence model, which it spent $10 million developing. They also highlighted two corporations creating startups focused on children and concluded with a have a look at a recent $100 million fund geared toward supporting progressive climate technologies.

Meanwhile, proceed FoundAllison Wolff, co-founder and CEO of Vibrant Planet, a cloud-based planning and monitoring tool for adaptive land management, discussed why the wildfires we see today are hotter and spreading faster than we are able to contain, and ensure proper land management management will help spark smaller and slower-burning fires.

And next Chain response, Jacquelyn interviewed Scott Dykstra, CTO and co-founder of Space and Time. Space and Time goals to be a verifiable computation layer for Web3 that scales zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic motion used to prove something about a piece of information without revealing the provenance data itself.

Bonus round

Spotify is testing online learning: As a part of its ongoing effort to get its greater than 600 million users to spend more time and money on its platform, Spotify is introducing a recent line of content: e-learning. The streaming (traditionally audio) platform is starting out with a UK launch and is testing the waters for its online education offering with freemium video courses.

 

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US medical device giant Artivion says hackers stole files during a cybersecurity incident

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Artivion, a medical device company that produces implantable tissue for heart and vascular transplants, says its services have been “disrupted” resulting from a cybersecurity incident.

In 8-K filing In an interview with the SEC on Monday, Georgia-based Artivion, formerly CryoLife, said it became aware of a “cybersecurity incident” that involved the “compromise and encryption” of information on November 21. This suggests that the corporate was attacked by ransomware, but Artivion has not yet confirmed the character of the incident and didn’t immediately reply to TechCrunch’s questions. No major ransomware group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Artivion said it took some systems offline in response to the cyberattack, which the corporate said caused “disruptions to certain ordering and shipping processes.”

Artivion, which reported third-quarter revenue of $95.8 million, said it didn’t expect the incident to have a material impact on the corporate’s funds.

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It’s a Raspberry Pi 5 in a keyboard and it’s called Raspberry Pi 500

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Manufacturer of single-board computers Raspberry Pi is updating its cute little computer keyboard device with higher specs. Named Raspberry Pi500This successor to the Raspberry Pi 400 is just as powerful as the present Raspberry Pi flagship, the Raspberry Pi 5. It is on the market for purchase now from Raspberry Pi resellers.

The Raspberry Pi 500 is the simplest method to start with the Raspberry Pi because it’s not as intimidating because the Raspberry Pi 5. When you take a look at the Raspberry Pi 500, you do not see any chipsets or PCBs (printed circuit boards). The Raspberry Pi is totally hidden in the familiar housing, the keyboard.

The idea with the Raspberry Pi 500 is you could connect a mouse and a display and you are able to go. If, for instance, you’ve got a relative who uses a very outdated computer with an outdated version of Windows, the Raspberry Pi 500 can easily replace the old PC tower for many computing tasks.

More importantly, this device brings us back to the roots of the Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi computers were originally intended for educational applications. Over time, technology enthusiasts and industrial customers began using single-board computers all over the place. (For example, when you’ve ever been to London Heathrow Airport, all of the departures and arrivals boards are there powered by Raspberry Pi.)

Raspberry Pi 500 draws inspiration from the roots of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a non-profit organization. It’s the right first computer for college. In some ways, it’s a lot better than a Chromebook or iPad because it’s low cost and highly customizable, which inspires creative pondering.

The Raspberry Pi 500 comes with a 32GB SD card that comes pre-installed with Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian-based Linux distribution. It costs $90, which is a slight ($20) price increase over the Raspberry Pi 400.

Only UK and US keyboard variants will probably be available at launch. But versions with French, German, Italian, Japanese, Nordic and Spanish keyboard layouts will probably be available soon. And when you’re in search of a bundle that features all the things you would like, Raspberry Pi also offers a $120 desktop kit that features the Raspberry Pi 500, a mouse, a 27W USB-C power adapter, and a micro-HDMI to HDMI cable.

In other news, Raspberry Pi has announced one other recent thing: the Raspberry Pi monitor. It is a 15.6-inch 1080p monitor that’s priced at $100. Since there are quite a few 1080p portable monitors available on the market, this launch is not as noteworthy because the Pi 500. However, for die-hard Pi fans, there’s now also a Raspberry Pi-branded monitor option available.

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Apple Vision Pro may add support for PlayStation VR controllers

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According to Apple, Apple desires to make its Vision Pro mixed reality device more attractive for gamers and game developers latest report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

The Vision Pro was presented more as a productivity and media consumption device than a tool geared toward gamers, due partly to its reliance on visual and hand controls moderately than a separate controller.

However, Apple may need gamers if it desires to expand the Vision Pro’s audience, especially since Gurman reports that lower than half one million units have been sold to this point. As such, the corporate has reportedly been in talks with Sony about adding support for PlayStation VR2 handheld controllers, and has also talked to developers about whether they may support the controllers of their games.

Offering more precise control, Apple may also make other forms of software available in Vision Pro, reminiscent of Final Cut Pro or Adobe Photoshop.

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