This is the most exciting humanoid robot yet.
Meet the redesigned Atlas from Boston Dynamics, an all-electric upgrade to the famous robot that was retired ... Show more
Quick Glance: Boston Dynamics' New Fully Electric Atlas Robot
- Boston Dynamics has retired its hydraulic Atlas robots after 11 years and introduced a new fully electric version, marking a significant evolution in the company's product lineup.
- The electric Atlas offers enhanced strength, range of motion, and versatile applications across various industries, starting with automotive manufacturing for parent company Hyundai.
- Boston Dynamics has had a tumultuous history, from its founding as a promising research-focused startup to multiple acquisitions, but now seems to be focusing more on commercial applications.
- The launch of the electric Atlas not only signifies a milestone in robotics but also provides a glimpse into the future where humanoid robots are poised to play an increasingly integral role in the industry.
Don't blame the messenger when a product gets a brutal review.
Here's the breakdown of the backlash facing MKBHD's Humane Ai Pin review ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/mkbhd-humane-ai-review-fisker/
Quick Glance: MKBHD's Impact on Humane AI and Fisker
- Humane AI raised over $230 million before launching a disappointing product, the Ai Pin. The backlash from tech reviewers was significant.
- Marques Brownlee, known as MKBHD, faced criticism for his review that could impact the fate of Humane AI. The scrutiny shifted towards how he presented his critique of the product.
- Critics view Humane AI as an underdog, despite its substantial funding and backing from notable investors. The scrutiny of MKBHD's review also highlighted issues of bias and criticism in the tech community.
- The critique of MKBHD's review was analyzed through a racial lens by some Black techies, shedding light on disparities in expectations and treatment of prominent figures in the tech industry.
Your iPhone is now a Gameboy. And a N64, and SNES...
Apple has opened up the App Store to emulators, reversing a long-held policy against the software and ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/how-to-play-pokemon-and-other-game-boy-games-on-your-iphone/
Brace yourself for way more AI from Meta.
The company revealed its Llama 3 AI model, which it boasts is the most powerful open source option available ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/meta-releases-llama-3-claims-its-among-the-best-open-models-available/
Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over controversial Project Nimbus contract with Israel
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Quick Glance: Google terminates 28 employees after office occupation due to anti-Israel protests
- Google terminated 28 employees on Thursday who had occupied its offices to protest against contracts with the Israeli government, as confirmed by a Google spokesperson.
- The protesters were arrested and after refusing to leave the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in Sunnyvale or the workspace in New York City for nearly 10 hours, they were transferred to administrative positions to urge Google to terminate the Project Nimbus contract and cease business with the Israeli government.
- No Tech For Apartheid, a project by Jewish Voice for Peace and Linda Sarsour’s MPower Change, described the terminations as an "indiscriminate act of mass retaliation."
- The office occupations at Google were accompanied by demonstrations on-site and in Seattle, aiming to compel Google to withdraw from the project to establish cloud-based data centers and transition a significant portion of the Israeli government's IT infrastructure to cloud-based servers.
NASA needs help getting to Mars.
After canceling its $11 billion, 15-year mission to Mars, the agency is now going back to the drawing board and opening the ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/techcrunch-minute-nasa-needs-your-help-to-bring-rocks-back-from-mars/
Tesla Semi charging corridor project is still alive despite Biden admin funding snub
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Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources
techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/wiz-is-in-talks-to-buy-lacework-for-150-200m-security-firm-was-last-valued-at-8-3b/
A huge list of records that are used to check if customers have links to financial crimes or sanctions could be made public by hackers ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/world-check-database-leaked-sanctions-financial-crimes-watchlist/
These 74 robotics companies are hiring: It’s tough out there — and yet, doing my semi-regular jobs post always gives me hope. Seems every time I post one of ...
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Meta adds its AI chatbot, powered by Llama 3, to the search bar across its apps: Meta’s making several big moves today to promote its AI services across its ...
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NASA is seeking outside help to get samples back from Mars, and startups could net billions with the right pitches.
TikTok starts testing its Instagram competitor TikTok Notes in Canada and Australia
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Quick Glance: ByteDance Given 24 Hours to Provide DSA Risk Assessment for TikTok Lite
- The EU demands TikTok owner ByteDance to submit a risk assessment for TikTok Lite within 24 hours to address compliance questions related to the Digital Services Act.
- EU's concerns focus on the launch of TikTok Lite, especially on a reward-linked engagement feature that could have a negative impact on young people's mental health.
- The EU has requested TikTok to provide more information on the risk assessment of the new program and the measures to mitigate systemic risks.
- The company has until April 26 to provide additional information before the EU decides on potential further steps, such as a formal investigation.
6 Waymo robotaxis block traffic to San Francisco freeway on-ramp: Waymo can operate on San Francisco freeways without a human driver, but the company is still ...
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Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB: The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published new guidance which has major ...
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Reddit CPO talks new features — better translations, moderation and dev tools: It’s a big year for Reddit. After its IPO, the platform is planning a slew of ...
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LinkedIn testing Premium Company Page subscription with AI-assisted content creation
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New X accounts will soon have to pay up before they can post, as it’s “the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots,” according to Elon Musk ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/elon-musk-plans-to-charge-new-x-users-to-enable-posting/
Quick Glance: Musk Plans Fee for New X Users
- Elon Musk intends to charge new users of X in the initial months to curb the activity of automated bot accounts.
- The fee is set to be waived after three months to allow free posting.
- Tests in New Zealand and the Philippines raised skepticism about the effectiveness of the fee as a countermeasure against bots.
- Declining revenues at X post-rebranding and Twitter acquisition, along with a negative brand perception by companies, are impacting the service's business.
Tesla's discounts have ended in the U.S.
In the wake of Tuesday's layoffs that impacted at least 14,000 employees, CEO Elon Musk announced the company would ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/16/tesla-ditches-ev-inventory-discounts-to-streamline-sales-and-delivery/
Exclusive reporting on today's Tesla layoffs reveals some departments were cut by as much 20%, and high performers weren't excluded from the cuts as the ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/tesla-layoffs-hit-high-performers-slashes-some-departments-sources-say/
Tesla's rough 2024 is getting worse.
Two weeks ago, Tesla announced its first year-over-year sales drop in three years and has warned investors sales growth ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/tesla-layoffs-workers-sales-cybertruck-cuts/
Substack now allows podcasters to sync and distribute their episodes to Spotify: Substack announced on Thursday it’s introducing a few new features for ...
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Tesla’s layoffs are happening alongside a significant bet on robotaxis, but the implications of their workforce shakeup are much, much bigger.
OpenAI makes ChatGPT ‘more direct, less verbose’: ChatGPT, OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, just got a big upgrade. OpenAI announced today that premium ChatGPT ...
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Meta thinks it’s a good idea for students to wear Quest headsets in class: Meta continues to field criticism over how it handles younger consumers using its ...
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Investors are growing increasingly wary of AI: A new report from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) found that global ...
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Tesla drops FSD price to $99 per month in US: The price cut comes a couple of weeks after Tesla launched a free one-month trial of FSD for every customer in the ...
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Dyson’s new AR feature shows where you have (and haven’t) vacuumed: If this had been announced exactly a week prior, it would have been easy to mistake for some ...
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YouTube is switching to read-only comments for kids in supervised experiences: YouTube’s comments section, historically, has had a bad reputation ...
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Humane's Ai Pin aspires to be the device of the future, and this week, the public will begin testing that ambition.
Get the inside story on the Pin's origins ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/humanes-ai-pin-considers-life-beyond-the-smartphone/
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Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident: Roku said it discovered malicious hackers compromised more than half a million user ...
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Quick Glance: Roku Discovers New Hacking Incident Affecting 576,000 Users
- Roku has uncovered a wider hacking effort using logins exposed in unrelated breaches. The company has now turned on two-factor authentication for all user accounts.
- A second hacking incident ensnared 'approximately 576,000 additional accounts,' as the company wrote in a blog post on Friday.
- The hackers are using stolen email addresses and password combinations from other sites to access Roku's login page and check if users are reusing the same login credentials across multiple services.
- Roku has reset the passwords for affected users and activated two-factor authentication for all user accounts, regardless of whether they were impacted or not.
US government urges Sisense customers to reset credentials after hack: The U.S. cybersecurity agency said it was responding to a "recent compromise" at ...
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Spotify is developing tools that would let users remix songs, screenshots show: Spotify is working on mixing tools that would allow users to remix songs on the ...
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Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok, despite platform’s ongoing UMG dispute: After 10 weeks of being absent from the platform, Taylor Swift’s music has ...
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Internal pre-Starlink SpaceX financials show big spending on moonshot bets: While the comprehensive balance sheets are five years old, they provide an intimate ...
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Quick Glance: SpaceX Spending on Moonshot Bets
- Confidential SpaceX financial reports for 2018 and 2019 reveal the company's reliance on Starlink for profitability.
- The pivotal years of 2018 and 2019 saw significant events like the Falcon Heavy rocket launch and Crew Dragon capsule test.
- The company reported revenues of $1.98 billion in 2018 and $1.45 billion in 2019, but also faced losses due to high costs.
- The financials indicated NASA contracts played a significant role in SpaceX's revenue, while the introduction of the Starship rocket may change the game.
It’s not just you: social media sites like TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook are all starting to look and feel the same.
TikTok has been developing a photo ... Show more
Ford’s hands-free BlueCruise system was active before fatal Texas crash: It's the first known fatality resulting from a crash involving the use of ...
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Megan Thee Stallion’s favorite app is Pinterest, obviously: It actually makes sense that in an era of oversaturation, people would escape to a more quiet and ...
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Hundreds of creators sign letter slamming Meta’s limit on political content: If you haven’t been seeing much political content on Instagram lately ...
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Will AI-powered devices usher in a new era of hardware? Humane's $699 Ai Pin will be an early test as orders start arriving this week.
Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free
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Checkr, the background-screening platform last valued at $5B, cuts 32% of workforce
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Google this week announced Gemini Code Assist, an AI-powered tool to help developers write code.
While the tool is expected to be a direct competitor to ... Show more
Writing emails is about to get a little easier 📧
At #GoogleCloudNext , Google announced a new AI-powered Gmail feature that can instantly turn rough drafts into more ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/google-workspace-users-will-soon-get-voice-prompting-in-gmail-and-tabs-in-docs/
Cruise robotaxis are back – sort of: Cruise is redeploying robotaxis in Phoenix after nearly five months of paused operations, the company said in a blog post ...
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Quick Glance: Cruise announces steps for resuming its robotaxi fleet
- Cruise plans to resume manual driving operations in Phoenix to create maps and gather road information in select cities.
- Following an incident where a pedestrian in San Francisco was dragged by a Cruise robotaxi and trapped under the vehicle, the officials of the autonomous vehicle company announced on Tuesday the initiation of what they envision as their comeback to driverless operations.
- The California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise approximately three weeks after the October 3 accident in San Francisco, citing that the company failed to provide footage of the incident.
Meta confirms that its Llama 3 open source LLM is coming in the next month: Meta's Llama families, built as open-source products, represent a different ...
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New: Two internal whistleblowers at Faraday Future claim the troubled EV company has been lying about some of the few sales it has announced to date ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/faraday-lawsuit-fake-sales-whistleblowers-retaliation/
GitHub’s Copilot has taken off as a coding assistant, and Google’s looking to catch up with the launch of Code Assist at #GoogleCloudNext ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/google-launches-code-assist-its-latest-challenger-to-githubs-copilot/
|~0~| owner Automattic is acquiring Beeper.
The iMessage-on-Android solution app was referenced by the Department of Justice in its antitrust lawsuit against ... Show more texts.com/ techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/wordpress-com-owner-automattic-acquires-multi-service-messaging-app-beeper-for-125m/ #TechCrunch #technews #beeper #appleantitrust #wordpress #automattic #whatsapp #imessage
Greylock McKinnon Associates disclosed a data breach in which hackers stole as many as 341,650 Social Security numbers.
In its data breach notice sent by mail ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/08/hackers-stole-340000-social-security-numbers-from-government-consulting-firm/ #TechCrunch #technews #databreach #greylockmckinnon #cyberattack
Google’s AI image-generating tool Imagen 2 just got a big upgrade.
At #GoogleCloudNext , the company announced that Imagen 2 is now able to create short ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/google-releases-imagen-2-a-video-clip-generator/
Happy eclipse day to all who celebrate 🌞
A well-designed app designed to optimize your viewing of the total solar eclipse has surged to the top of the App ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/08/now-at-the-top-of-the-app-store-the-eclipse-app-is-a-great-companion-for-mondays-solar-eclipse/ #TechCrunch #technews #solareclipse #eclipse #eclipseapp #appstore
Quick Glance: Airplane Observes Solar Eclipse in Bloomington
- An airplane flies near the total solar eclipse in Bloomington, Indiana.
- People watch the partial solar eclipse on the observation deck of Edge at Hudson Yards in New York City.
- Sophia Moccia, 4, from Queens views the eclipse with a homemade mask in New York City.
- A solar eclipse is visible in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Elon Musk says he’ll unveil a Tesla robotaxi on August 8: Just hours after Elon Musk claimed Reuters was “lying” about plans to ditch its $25 ...
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Quick Glance: Elon Musk to Unveil Tesla 'Robotaxi' on August 8
- Elon Musk announced that Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on August 8, despite past promises and delays with self-driving cars.
- Musk plans to develop a car without controls for human use and gradually enhance Tesla vehicles with Full Self-Driving capability.
- Currently, buyers can add the Full Self-Driving feature for an additional cost, but experts note that the system is not fully autonomous yet.
- Other companies like Waymo and Cruise are also working on autonomous ride-sharing services, despite safety concerns and incidents.
Google launches its upgraded Find My Device network in the US and Canada: With the Find My Device network, users will be able to locate their Android phones and ...
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Uber Eats is testing a new video feed.
The company is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed to boost discovery and help restaurants showcase their ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/08/uber-eats-launches-tiktok-like-video-feed/ #TechCrunch #technews #ubereats #uber #tiktok #fooddelivery
US to award TSMC $6.6B in grants, $5B in loans to step up chip manufacturing in Arizona
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Quick Glance: Billion-Dollar Deal Strengthens US Semiconductor Production and National Security
- The world's largest chipmaker is planning cutting-edge facilities in Arizona with substantial subsidies.
- From 2028, TSMC will produce its most advanced products in Arizona to boost US semiconductor production.
- The $65 billion investment in the US drives 2nm chip production and enhances national security.
- This move supports the goal of relocating 20% of global advanced semiconductor manufacturing onshore by 2030.
Google rolls out Gemini in Android Studio for coding assistance: Google continues rolling out Gemini to different products as today the company announced that ...
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Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts: AI playlists will initially become available to users on Android and iOS devices in ...
techcrunch.com/2024/04/07/spotify-launches-personalized-ai-playlists-you-can-build-using-prompts/
Indian audio giant BoAt says it’s investigating suspected customer data breach: India's largest audio and wearables brand confirmed an investigation after ...
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Ready to join Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2024?: Hey, early-stage founders, listen up! TechCrunch is searching for 200 trailblazing startups to feature in ...
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Could Congress actually pass a data privacy law?: Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and ...
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Soon, you'll be able to create new Spotify playlists using text prompts.
Get the full rundown here: techcrunch.com/2024/04/07/spotify-launches-personalized-ai-playlists-you-can-build-using-prompts/
Quick Glance: Spotify Introduces Personalized AI Playlists with Prompts
- Spotify introduces AI in playlist creation based on written prompts.
- Users in the UK and Australia can test the feature on Android and iOS.
- The AI accommodates various requests like 'songs for my cat' or 'beats for a zombie apocalypse'.
- Spotify customizes playlists based on user preferences and allows adjustments after creation.
Tesla reportedly drops plan to build $25K EV | TechCrunch: The company is instead supposedly focusing on its robotaxi project. Musk said Reuters is "lying" but ...
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TechCrunch Mobility: Apple layoffs, an EV price reckoning and another Tesla robotaxi promise
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Working from home isn’t going away, even if some CEOs wish it would: During the pandemic, many workers discovered they liked working from home ...
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Magnets are switching up the keyboard game: The next big thing in mechanical keyboards is magnetic switches. Mechanical keyboards quickly went from a niche ...
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How do you get an AI chatbot to answer a question it’s not supposed to?
AI companies have attempted to keep chatbots from sharing dangerous information with a ... Show more tcrn.ch/4akvTLA #TechCrunch #technews #ai #anthropic #anthropicai #aichatbots #LLMs
Fintech representation in YC’s Demo Days is definitely shrinking: Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at just how many fintech companies made ...
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Mahbod Moghadam, who rose to fame as the co-founder of Genius, has died: Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia ...
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A group of 200 musicians — including Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish and the Bob Marley estate — signed an open letter calling on tech companies and developers to ... Show more techcrunch.com/2024/04/02/nicki-minaj-billie-eilish-katy-perry-and-other-musicians-sign-letter-against-irresponsible-ai/
Beyoncé’s new album ‘Cowboy Carter’ is a statement against AI music: Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” has been out for only a few days, yet it’s already obvious that ...
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Canoo reveals it paid for CEO’s jet, AT&T leaks records and X announces NSFW plans
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