THE COMUNICANO for Tuesday April 6th 2021

From the earliest days of Clubhouse, a guiding principle has been to build a platform that puts the creator first. Our aim is to help creators build community, audience, and impact. And as Clubhouse continues to scale, it’s important to us to align our business model with that of the creators—helping them make money and thrive on the platform.

Messaging is the medium these days, and today a startup that has built an API to help others build text and video interactivity into their services is announcing a big round to continue scaling its business.

In the age of expensive data, missed calls became more than just a cheap way to communicate. But in India, technology moves faster than you’d think.

TikTok creators will soon be able to add automatically generated captions to their videos. The option will appear in a video’s editing page and will be available in American English and Japanese to start.

It isn’t about tracking, but about giving you a choice.

The lobbyist representing Big Tech was adamant: lawmakers should pass the controversial Washington Privacy Act, a state-level attempt to deal with the perpetual failure of the US federal government to issue digital privacy rules that would protect American consumers from having their personal information collected, sold, and shared against their will by tech companies.

The Android 2021 update for the Google Pixel 5 improves its gaming performance substantially. Google Pixel 4a 5G may also see similar gains.

Bartesian, which makes a pod-based countertop cocktail appliance, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series A round of funding. The Bartesian device has canisters that you fill up with liquor such as tequila, vodka or rum, which it then mixes with a variety pods that contain different flavorings, juices and bitters. Place a glass underneath and push a button and Bartesian dispenses a perfectly mixed cocktail.

From plant equivalents to cultured cells, Israeli startups are winning the race to cruelty-free meat. But no one knows whether 3D-printed steaks are kosher

The pandemic’s almost over, and remote work has never been more popular.

This tech CEO took over in the middle of the pandemic and has yet to physically meet a single coworker or board member of the hiring platform she leads.

It can be harder to detect the warning signs that an employee is considering leaving when everyone is working from home.

More and more women are reporting instances of workplace bullying by managers as a direct result of ongoing WFH mandates due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Amazon Web Services Inc. is integrating its AWS Outposts edge computing hardware with 5G networking technology from Verizon Communications Inc. to support customers that are pursuing initiatives such as warehouse robot implementations.