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The growing backlash against surveillance companies like Flock may have reached a tipping point. A new survey has found that more Americans oppose these surveillance cameras than support it.

Mark your calendars: on Thursday night, September 10, StrictlyVC — TechCrunch’s boutique evening series — is heading to New York’s West Village (the real one — brownstones, cobblestones, and all — not the Mission Bay stretch of San Francisco that’s earned the nickname “Vest Village” for all the Patagonia-clad VCs roaming around).

Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company doesn’t know about what’s buried underground.

Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer.

GA4 has been Google’s standard analytics platform for a few years now. The move from Universal Analytics (UA) was a major shift, but Google has continued updating GA4 itself along the way. One of the biggest changes came in 2024, when Google replaced “Conversions” with “Key Events” in 2024. 

Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more lucrative idea: indexing the spoken conversations buried in podcasts and making them discoverable. On Wednesday, the company introduced Radar, a podcast search engine that not only transcribes podcast audio but also understands what it means, enabling it to…

More than 76% of consumers in India prefer talking to businesses over a phone call, according to a recent study from Truecaller. Since voice is still consumers’ preferred way to communicate, that leaves a big opportunity to automate support and outreach calls using voice AI in the country. Voice AI startup Ringg, which already processes…

Pacific Fusion is one step closer to commercializing fusion power after breaking ground Tuesday on a facility in New Mexico designed to generate as much energy as it consumes. 

Airbound, an Indian startup building autonomous drones, has raised $37 million in fresh capital as it pushes to make moving goods through the air as cheap as trucking them by road.

Learning how to start a franchise can be a great way to become a business owner. To launch a business, you need to perform market research, file for a license, create a marketing plan, and build your brand. Buying a franchise location within a corporation that’s already taken all those steps is one way to…