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OpenSea takes the long view by focusing on its UX even as NFT sales remain low
OpenSea takes the long view by focusing on its UX even as NFT sales remain low
The NFT space has lost a lot of its sparkle over the past few years, but that hasn’t stopped some founders, investors and projects from trucking along in hopes of another surge. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
EU’s draft election security guidelines for tech giants take aim at political deepfakes
EU’s draft election security guidelines for tech giants take aim at political deepfakes
The European Union has launched a consultation on draft election security mitigations aimed at larger online platforms, such as Facebook, Google, TikTok and X (Twitter), that includes a set of recommendations it hopes will shrink democratic risks from…
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February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Google saves your conversations with Gemini for years by default
Google saves your conversations with Gemini for years by default
Don’t type anything into Gemini, Google’s family of GenAI apps, that’s incriminating — or that you wouldn’t want someone else to see. That’s the PSA (of sorts) today from Google, which in a new support document outlines the ways in which it collects data…
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February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Cowboy owners in Europe can now book on-demand e-bike repairs and tune-ups
Cowboy owners in Europe can now book on-demand e-bike repairs and tune-ups
Cowboy is rolling out a new repairs and service program designed to give its e-bike riders more ways to keep their wheels on the road. The company just announced that it will begin offering a new on-demand service program for basic maintenance,…
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February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
AI is going to save software companies’ dreams of growth
AI is going to save software companies’ dreams of growth
It appears emerging price points for AI-powered software products will boost the total addressable market for technology products and help reaccelerate growth at tech companies big and small. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
PayPal suggests it will be ready to offer ‘offline’ payments when DMA goes into effect
PayPal suggests it will be ready to offer ‘offline’ payments when DMA goes into effect
PayPal is working on a new consumer app for its mobile customers, and suggested that it will be “ready” to take advantage of the new EU regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), when it goes into effect next month for tech “gatekeepers,” like Apple. For…
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February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Upstash’s serverless data platform hits ARR of $1M just two years after seed funding
Upstash’s serverless data platform hits ARR of $1M just two years after seed funding
Upstash announced a $1.9 million seed round almost exactly two years ago, and an idea for building a serverless data platform for data-intensive applications built with Redis and Kafka. That doesn’t feel like that long ago, but a lot has changed in the…
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February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Podcasters can now upload their RSS feed to YouTube
Podcasters can now upload their RSS feed to YouTube
Podcast creators can now submit their RSS feed to YouTube and YouTube Music, the company revealed in a video uploaded to its Creator Insider channel. It was previously announced in August that support was coming for RSS feeds. The functionality was…
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February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations
Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations
Your phone’s camera is as much software as it is hardware, and Glass is hoping to improve both. But while its wild anamorphic lens creeps to market, the company (running on $9.3 million in new money) has released an AI-powered camera upgrade that it says…
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February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the app trying to replace Twitter
What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the app trying to replace Twitter
Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (which has…
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February 8, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Plaid’s new president hails from Cloudflare, has IPO experience
Plaid’s new president hails from Cloudflare, has IPO experience
Plaid has named Jennifer (Jen) Taylor, who most recently served as Cloudflare’s Chief Product Officer, as its first president. The move is notable in that it comes just months after the fintech startup hired former Expedia CFO Eric Hart to serve as its…
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February 8, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Security flaw in a popular smart helmet allowed silent location tracking
Security flaw in a popular smart helmet allowed silent location tracking
The maker of a popular smart ski and bike helmet has fixed a security flaw that allowed the easy real-time location tracking of anyone wearing its helmets. Livall makes internet-connected helmets that allow groups of skiers or bike riders to talk with…
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February 8, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Plaid’s new president hails from Cloudflare, has IPO experience
Plaid’s new president hails from Cloudflare, has IPO experience
Plaid has named Jennifer (Jen) Taylor, who most recently served as Cloudflare’s Chief Product Officer, as its first president. The move is notable in that it comes just months after the fintech startup hired former Expedia CFO Eric Hart to serve as its…
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February 8, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Security flaw in a popular smart helmet allowed silent location tracking
Security flaw in a popular smart helmet allowed silent location tracking
The maker of a popular smart ski and bike helmet has fixed a security flaw that allowed the easy real-time location tracking of anyone wearing its helmets. Livall makes internet-connected helmets that allow groups of skiers or bike riders to talk with…
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February 8, 2024 at 3:56 PM
GM hires ex-Tesla battery guru Kurt Kelty to beef up its battery efforts
GM hires ex-Tesla battery guru Kurt Kelty to beef up its battery efforts
General Motors has hired battery expert and ex-Tesla executive Kurt Kelty to be the automaker’s new vice president of batteries — a brand new role for the company. His first day will be February 19. Kelty will join GM at a time when the company has…
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February 8, 2024 at 3:56 PM
AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon Go creator
AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon Go creator
In the week when gadget lovers around the world are enchanted by Vision Pro, a young, brave startup is trying to carve out a space for its augmented reality device that features a form factor starkly different from Apple’s device. Today, Singapore-based…
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February 8, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Crux is building GenAI-powered business intelligence tools
Crux is building GenAI-powered business intelligence tools
GenAI might be one of the most exciting technologies today. But it’s also one of the fastest-moving — posing a challenge for enterprises keen to deploy it. With each new GenAI innovation, companies have to worry not only about staying on top of trends but…
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February 8, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Closinglock, now with $12M, wants to prevent the 1 in 10 real estate transactions targeted for fraud
Closinglock, now with $12M, wants to prevent the 1 in 10 real estate transactions targeted for fraud
Users log into Closinglock's portal where real estate transaction wiring instructions are accessed instead of provided via email. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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February 8, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Google goes all in on its Gemini model, launches $20 paid tier for Gemini Ultra
Google goes all in on its Gemini model, launches $20 paid tier for Gemini Ultra
Google Bard is no more. Almost exactly a year after first introducing its (rushed) efforts to challenge OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the company is retiring the name and rebranding Bard as Gemini, the name of its family of foundation models. More importantly,…
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February 8, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Google Assistant is now powered by Gemini — sort of
Google Assistant is now powered by Gemini — sort of
Google Assistant as we knew it is on the way out. Well, at least its guts. Late last year, Google added AI capabilities from its chatbot Bard to Google Assistant, allowing the virtual helper to make sense of images and draw on data in emails, documents…
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February 8, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Google goes all in on its Gemini model, launches $20 paid tier for Gemini Ultra
Google goes all in on its Gemini model, launches $20 paid tier for Gemini Ultra
Google Bard is no more. Almost exactly a year after first introducing its (rushed) efforts to challenge OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the company is retiring the name and rebranding Bard as Gemini, the name of its family of foundation models. More importantly,…
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February 8, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Google Assistant is now powered by Gemini — sort of
Google Assistant is now powered by Gemini — sort of
Google Assistant as we knew it is on the way out. Well, at least its guts. Late last year, Google added AI capabilities from its chatbot Bard to Google Assistant, allowing the virtual helper to make sense of images and draw on data in emails, documents…
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February 8, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Thea Energy raises $20M Series A for pixel-inspired fusion power plants
Thea Energy raises $20M Series A for pixel-inspired fusion power plants
The startup is betting that software can supplant manufacturing precision in its quest to deliver reliable, inexpensive fusion power. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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February 8, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Apple launches a redesigned iCloud app for Windows
Apple launches a redesigned iCloud app for Windows
Apple has launched a redesigned iCloud app for Windows to offer a better onboarding and content syncing experience for iPhone or iPad users who don’t own a Mac. The new app, available for Windows 10 and 11, has a new setup experience for easier…
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February 8, 2024 at 1:02 PM
CodeSignal launches a learning platform with an AI-powered guide
CodeSignal launches a learning platform with an AI-powered guide
Technical assessment company CodeSignal, which counts Index Ventures and Menlo Ventures as backers, is launching a learning platform called CodeSignal Learn. The new platform, aimed at audiences wanting to learn technical subjects, also has an AI-powred…
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February 8, 2024 at 1:02 PM