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“Discover New Workout Companions with Liveliness: The Ultimate Sports Community App”

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Finding people who share your active passion — to go hiking, biking, running, whatever — is a pretty enduring problem. Step forward Liveliness, a Spanish startup building a community app around shared sporting passions. There’s a chat function and the ability for users to set up events other users can sign up to join. In the last three months people really started to use the app, making plans, creating events.”Users range in age from young to middle aged. “We just tried to make the app as simple as possible so people understand and know how to use it,” he added.

“Join the Cause: Contribute to TechCrunch Early Stage in Boston as a Volunteer”

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Our founder-focused summit, TechCrunch Early Stage, is back in Boston on April 25! If you are interested in finding out what goes into building tech events, apply to volunteer. Whether you dream of becoming a startup founder, marketer or event coordinator, this is a great way to see what it takes to produce a world-renowned startup event. We expect around 1,500 people at TC Early Stage, and volunteers will handle a variety of tasks to help make this startup event a worthwhile experience for everyone. Lend us a helping hand and gain valuable event experience and still have plenty of time to take in all the startup goodness TC Early Stage has to offer.

Startup run by Instagram co-founders, Artifact, set to close operations

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On Friday, the startup announced via a blog post it had made the decision to “wind down operations” of the app launched over a year ago, saying that the market opportunity wasn’t big enough to warrant continued investment. It also employed several AI tools to summarize news, rewrite clickbait headlines, and surface the best content. Existing posts will remain visible for the time being, and Artifact will continue to operate its “core news capability” through the end of February. In part, the way users are finding news and information is changing with the arrival of AI. The co-founder had spoken about AI’s role at Artifact at this past fall’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.