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by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 2:15 PM ET, Tue December 30, 2025 As Broward County gears up to celebrate 50 years of public art in 2026, cruise passengers can admire a gorgeous new masterpiece at Port Everglades.The new mural, called “Plumage Passage,” was created by Miami-based Cuban-American artist Ernesto Maranje. The piece, which adorns the 12-story Harbormaster Tower, depicts a great blue heron and a roseate spoonbill in celebration of Greater Fort Lauderdale’s native birds. In 2019, Maranje painted a mural called “Avian Odyssey” at the same location, but was recently invited to reimagine the space.”Plumage Passage” by Ernesto Maranje…
Concerns about how AI will affect workers continue to rise in lockstep with the pace of advancements and new products promising automation and efficiency. Evidence suggests that fear is warranted. A November MIT study found an estimated 11.7% of jobs could already be automated using AI. Surveys have shown employers are already eliminating entry-level jobs because of the technology. Companies are also already pointing to AI as the reason for layoffs. As enterprises more meaningfully adopt AI, some may take a closer look at how many employees they really need. In a recent TechCrunch survey, multiple enterprise VCs said AI…
Some cruisegoers aren’t interested in river cruising because of its laidback onboard atmosphere, relaxed pace and the absence of certain crowd-pleasing venues often found on ocean ships, like casinos, waterparks, kids clubs, Broadway-style entertainment, etc. But, for the right kind of guest, the absence of those things, and the streamlined, intimate nature of the river cruise experience is precisely its appeal. A longtime operator in this market, Viking has every aspect of river cruising down pat. I couldn’t think of a more apt description for its style of travel than its tagline, “For the Thinking Person”. Those who with a…
Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of life that doesn’t make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued to Instagram and TikTok, the app’s hybrid anonymous model and hyperlocal focus has made it what Solomon calls “the biggest college social app since Facebook.” Today we’re bringing you a conversation that Dominic Madori Davis had with Fizz’s co-founder and CEO Teddy Solomon from this year’s Disrupt, digging into why…
This week on StrictlyVC Download, we’re sharing a conversation from our event in Palo Alto, where TechCrunch reporter Marina Temkin spoke with Mina Fahmi, the founder and CEO of Sandbar, and Toni Schneider of True Ventures. Mina Fahmi is the CEO and co-founder of Sandbar, a startup building the Stream ring—an AI wearable designed to capture your whispered thoughts. Toni Schneider is a partner at True Ventures who backed Fitbit, Peloton, and Ring, and was initially skeptical of AI wearables until he saw Sandbar’s demo – and to be clear, Schneider says he’d seen a whole lot of demos. In this conversation, they unpack what it takes to build hardware that people actually want to wear, why “self-extension”…
NEW YORK (AP) — Incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani will take his oath of office on a centuries-old Quran, marking the first time a mayor of New York City has used Islam’s holy text to be sworn in and underscoring a series of historic firsts for the city.When the 34-year-old Democrat becomes mayor shortly after midnight in a long-closed subway station beneath City Hall, he’ll be the first Muslim, first South Asian and first African-born person to hold that position. These milestones — as well as the historical Qurans he will use for the ceremony — reflect the longstanding and vibrant…
Central Holidays has announced the launch of its new “South Africa & Beyond” Travel Brochure along with an early booking savings on select itineraries.The new brochure features curated programs throughout South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. “Our new South Africa & Beyond brochure reflects Central Holidays’ commitment to presenting this enchanting destination in a way that is authentic, immersive, and expertly planned,” said Adam Greis, General Manager of Central Holidays, in a statement.He added, “From thrilling safari experiences and natural wonders to cultural encounters and luxury accommodations, these programs are designed to go far beyond the expected. With our…
by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 1:55 PM ET, Tue December 30, 2025 Atlas Ocean Voyages is finishing out 2025 on a high note. The brand is celebrating record sales performance in 2025, with a 22 percent year-over-year increase in sales revenue and its strongest booked position to date. Much of the company’s success was driven by strong results in the third quarter, and leaders are confident they’ll be able to carry the momentum through to 2026.“2025 was a milestone year for Atlas Ocean Voyages,” says James A. Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer of Atlas Ocean Voyages. “From record performance in…
Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew us away as well in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition. Here is the full list of the government and legal Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition. Aparti What it does: Uses AI to automate…
Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction that powers the sun to generate nearly limitless energy here on Earth. If startups are able to complete commercially viable fusion power plants, then they have the potential to upend trillion-dollar markets. The bullish wave buoying the fusion industry has been driven by three advances: more…