Technology

  • BusinessTechCrunch

    Skyflow raises $30M more as AI spikes demand for its privacy business

    This morning, Skyflow announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B extension led by Khosla Ventures. The deal is interesting on a number of fronts, including the round's structure and how Skyflow has been impacted by the growth of AI. The new capital comes after Skyflow expanded its data privacy business to support new AI technologies last year.

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  • BusinessBloomberg

    Apple Plans New iPad Pro for May as Production Ramps Up Overseas

    (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc.’s overseas suppliers have ramped up production of the company’s long-anticipated new iPads and a launch is planned for early May, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Most Read from BloombergTesla’s $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old Assembly LineBankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX CollapseDubai Is Losing Its Allure for Wealthy RussiansLondon Insurers Face Baltimore Bridge Payouts Worth BillionsUBS Banker’s Frustration Expo

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  • WorldTechCrunch

    US offers $10M to help catch Change Healthcare hackers

    The U.S. government said it is extending its reward seeking information on key leadership of the ALPHV/BlackCat cybercrime gang to its affiliate members, one of which last month took credit for a massive ransomware attack on a U.S. health tech giant. In a statement Wednesday, the U.S. State Department said it will offer a reward of up to $10 million for information that identifies or locates any person associated with ALPHV/BlackCat, including "their affiliates, activities, or links to a foreig

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  • BusinessAssociated Press

    A timeline of the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried and the colossal failure of FTX

    Sam Bankman-Fried went from cryptocurrency golden boy to the face of the industry's collapse. The founder and former CEO of the massive cryptocurrency exchange FTX was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday after being convicted of fraud for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors. Nov. 2: Coindesk reports Alameda Reseach, Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency trading firm, holds a large amount of FTT, a token issued by FTX, suggesting the finances of the two are intertwined and

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  • TechnologyGizmodo

    The Greatest App of All Time Day 28: Google Earth vs. Calculator

    Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Duolingo’s surprise performancein the bracket was cut short in yesterday’s tournament and the unstoppable Flashlight advances to the Final Four. Today we have Google Earth taking on Calculator.

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    Ibotta's expansion into enterprise should set it up for a successful IPO

    Ibotta confidently submitted an S-1 filing with the SEC on March 22 with the intent to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The 13-year-old cash-back startup looks to make its public debut after turning profitable and recording impressive revenue growth in 2023. The company reported $320 million in revenue in 2023, up 52% from 2022 when it produced $210 million in revenue.

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  • EntertainmentEngadget

    Vizio just announced a $999 86-inch 4K TV

    Vizio just announced a new 86-inch 4K smart TV that costs under $999. It goes on sale April 29.

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  • TechnologyBloomberg

    Microsoft Creates Tools to Stop Users From Tricking Chatbots

    (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. is trying to make it harder for people to trick artificial intelligence chatbots into doing weird things. Most Read from BloombergTesla’s $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old Assembly LineBankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX CollapseDubai Is Losing Its Allure for Wealthy RussiansLondon Insurers Face Baltimore Bridge Payouts Worth BillionsUBS Banker’s Frustration Exposes Cracks in World of Climate FinanceNew safety features are being b

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison for fraud and money-laundering at FTX

    Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Southern District of New York (SDNY) Judge Lewis Kaplan, about five months after he was found guilty on all seven counts related to fraud and money laundering during his trial. "When not lying, he was evasive, hair splitting, trying to get the prosecutors to rephrase questions for him," Kaplan said on Thursday, according to Inner City Press.

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  • BusinessBloomberg

    Xiaomi Enters Cutthroat EV Race With $29,900 SU7 Series

    (Bloomberg) -- Xiaomi Corp. is kicking off sales of its first electric vehicles with aggressive pricing, betting the Chinese smartphone maker can succeed in a cutthroat market where Apple Inc. faltered.Most Read from BloombergTesla’s $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old Assembly LineBankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX CollapseDubai Is Losing Its Allure for Wealthy RussiansLondon Insurers Face Baltimore Bridge Payouts Worth BillionsUBS Banker’s Frustration Exposes

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  • TechnologyEngadget

    Google reverses course and brings its Gemini AI to the regular Pixel 8

    Google is releasing the Nano version of its Gemini AI for the Pixel 8 smartphone. This follows a roll out last year to the Pixel 8 Pro.

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  • TechnologyGizmodo

    How to Reset Your MacBook

    You’ll sometimes need to commit the dirty deed and reset your Mac when unfortunate circumstances arise. Thankfully, you’ll need to follow a few simple steps to reset your Mac or MacBook to factory settings. Don’t worry, if everything goes well you should be able to keep your most important documents and pictures.

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  • TechnologyGizmodo

    First Look: Samsung Music Frame

    It’s a picture frame! It’s a speaker! No, it’s… a speaker frame. Since Samsung first showed off its new Music Frame at CES, we’ve been jonesing to spend time in front of it to see whether it will knock our socks off or offer a gentle kiss of sound on the cheek. After checking out Samsung’s latest TVs, we were granted a short audience in front of two of these square 13-inch frames sporting surprisingly strong speaker systems in the back. While we were certainly impressed by its sound volume and q

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  • SciencePopular Mechanics

    Scientists Reconstructed the Real Face of an Ancient Chinese Emperor

    The haunting gaze of a bygone ruler emerges after 1,500 years.

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  • TechnologyGizmodo

    How to Get Google's Circle to Search on Your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone

    Google’s Circle to Search is arguably one of the best new features for Android devices in a long time. It’s also one of the first to roll out with a major Samsung flagship launch.

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  • LifestylePopular Mechanics

    You Can Save Up to 42% Off Portable Power Stations From Brands Like Jackery, Anker, and More

    Save up to 42% off portable power stations that can be used for camping or in an emergency. Read on for the best portable power station deals in March 2024.

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  • BusinessBloomberg

    Tesla’s $350 Billion Stock Slump Shreds Investor Expectations

    (Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. shares have shown signs of life in recent days after this year’s extreme slide, but investors lack the clarity needed to bet on any lasting recovery. Most Read from BloombergTesla’s $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old Assembly LineBankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX CollapseDubai Is Losing Its Allure for Wealthy RussiansLondon Insurers Face Baltimore Bridge Payouts Worth BillionsUBS Banker’s Frustration Exposes Cracks in World of Climate

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  • TechnologyTechCrunch

    Google.org launches $20M generative AI accelerator program

    Google.org, Google's charitable wing, is launching a new program to help fund nonprofits developing tech that leverages generative AI. Called Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI, the program is to be funded by $20 million in grants and include 21 nonprofits to start, including Quill.org, a company creating AI-powered tools for student writing feedback, and World Bank, which is building a generative AI app to make development research more accessible. In addition to funding, nonprofits in the

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  • TechnologyTechCrunch

    AI21 Labs' new AI model can handle more context than most

    Increasingly, the AI industry is moving toward generative AI models with longer contexts. Or Dagan, product lead at AI startup AI21 Labs, asserts that this doesn't have to be the case -- and his company is releasing a generative model to prove it. AI21 Labs' Jamba, a new text-generating and -analyzing model, can perform many of the same tasks that models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini can.

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    Amazon One launches new app to scan your palm for checkout

    Amazon announced Thursday the launch of its new app for Amazon One, its contactless palm recognition service that allows customers to hover their palm over a device in order to purchase from select places, including more than 500 Whole Foods Market stores, Amazon stores and more than 150 third-party locations. Instead of signing up for Amazon One at a physical retail location, users can now download the Amazon One app (available for iOS or Android devices) and take a photo of their palm right a

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  • USGizmodo

    Police Robot Dog Shot Three Times by Barricaded Suspect, Police Claim

    The Massachusetts State Police claim one of the members of its bomb squad has gone above and beyond in the line of duty and taken bullets for the team. However, the officer in question is not a human or even a canine, but rather “Roscoe,” the police’s specialized robot dog created by Boston Dynamics.

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  • BusinessEngadget

    Meta and Google face claims of restricting reproductive health ads and fueling misinformation

    A new report claims Meta and Google have banned educational reproductive health ads, allowed misinformation to fester and hosted conspiracies.

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  • TechnologyEngadget

    Microsoft Copilot AI will soon run locally on PCs

    Microsoft's Copilot AI service is set to run locally on PCs, according to Intel.

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  • WorldPopular Mechanics

    Divers Unraveled an Amazing Mystery From the Deep: A Sunken 18th-Century Warship

    Underwater sleuths have pieced together the past, bringing to life a ship that once patrolled the high seas.

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    YC-backed Pelago, a virtual clinic for addiction treatment, raises $58M Series C

    Pelago Health,  Y Combinator-backed telehealth company that uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help treat people with tobacco, alcohol and opioid addictions, said Thursday it had raised a $58 million Series C round. The recent funding, which brings its total raised to $151 million since being founded in 2017, comes two and a half years after Pelago, formerly known as Quit Genius, closed a Series B of $64 million amid the COVID pandemic. Yusuf Sherwani, co-founder and CEO of Pelago, tol

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  • BusinessAssociated Press

    4 Canadian school boards sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for disrupting students' education

    Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario said Thursday they launched lawsuits against TikTok, Meta and SnapChat alleging the social media platforms are disrupting student learning. The lawsuits claim platforms like Facebook and Instagram are “designed for compulsive use, have rewired the way children think, behave, and learn" and teachers have been left to manage the fallout. Meta Platforms Inc. owns Facebook and Instagram, while Snap Inc. owns SnapChat and ByteDan

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  • SciencePopular Mechanics

    Archaeologists Discovered New Dinosaur Footprints—and Mysterious Symbols Next to Them

    What could the strange markings mean?

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    Metaview's tool records interview notes so that hiring managers don't have to

    Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh were working at Uber and Palantir, respectively, when they both came to the realization that hiring — particularly the process of interviewing — was becoming unwieldy for many corporate HR departments. "It was clear to us that the most important part of the hiring process is the interviews, but also the most opaque and unreliable part," Magos told TechCrunch. "On top of this, there's a bunch of toil associated with taking notes and writing up feedback that

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    Boutique startup studio super{set} gets another $90 million to co-found data and AI companies

    Startup studio super{set} has a fresh exit under its belt with the sale of marketing company Habu to LiveRamp for $200 million in January. Now, super{set} is adding another $90 million to its coffers as it doubles down on its strategy of building enterprise startups. Building "admittedly boring but bountiful products," as TechCrunch reported at the time, turned out to be a solid enough bet for super{set} to now double down.

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  • SciencePopular Mechanics

    A Rare and Nightmarish Phenomenon Morphs Other People’s Faces Into Demons

    The extraordinary condition warps friendly smiles into visions of horror.

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  • BusinessBloomberg

    Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom

    (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend almost $150 billion in the coming 15 years on data centers, giving the cloud-computing giant the firepower to handle an expected explosion in demand for artificial intelligence applications and other digital services. Most Read from BloombergTesla’s $25,000 Car Means Tossing Out the 100-Year-Old Assembly LineBankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX CollapseDubai Is Losing Its Allure for Wealthy RussiansLondon Insurers Face Baltimore

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    French deep tech spinout Diamfab crystallizes hopes for diamond semiconductors to support green transition

    Its co-founders, CEO Gauthier Chicot and CTO Khaled Driche, both PhDs in nanoelectronics and recognized researchers in the field of semiconducting diamond, left Institut Néel, a laboratory of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), with two licensed patents under their belt. Since then, Chicot and Driche have registered more patents and brought on a third co-founder, Ivan Llaurado, as their chief revenue officer and partnership director. "Diamonds are no longer a laboratory

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  • TechnologyEngadget

    Microsoft may be working on a cheaper, disc-free Xbox Series X

    Microsoft may be working on a white version of its current all-digital Xbox Series X console.

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  • BusinessYahoo Finance

    Apple's services pivot has summoned the lawyers

    With flagging iPhone sales, Apple has been pivoting to its burgeoning and successful services business. But that pivot has brought further attention to possible problems with the company's "Walled Garden" ecosystem.

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    Coro, building cybersecurity for SMBs, locks down $100M at a $750M valuation

    Enterprises and other large organizations have long been a lucrative and obvious target for cybercriminals, but in recent years -- thanks to more sophisticated breach techniques and the rise of AI -- small and medium businesses are now also very much on the map. Now Coro -- one of the startups building tools specifically for smaller businesses -- is announcing a big round of funding after seeing its recurring revenues shoot up 300% in the last year. Up to now, the New York–based Coro has focus

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  • USAssociated Press

    VP Harris says US agencies must show their AI tools aren't harming people's safety or rights

    U.S. federal agencies must show that their artificial intelligence tools aren't harming the public, or stop using them, under new rules unveiled by the White House on Thursday. “When government agencies use AI tools, we will now require them to verify that those tools do not endanger the rights and safety of the American people,” Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters ahead of the announcement. Each agency by December must have a set of concrete safeguards that guide everything from facia

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  • TechnologyEngadget

    The White House lays out extensive AI guidelines for the federal government

    The White House has issued a new policy to regulate federal agencies use of AI. The systems that they use must not "endanger the rights and safety of the American people," Vice President Kamala Harris said.

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    This startup believes mobile apps for businesses should work more like consumer apps

    Have you noticed the massive gap between consumer and business apps on your phone? While consumer apps are both beautifully designed and easy to use, business apps are simply painful to use. Too many companies that offer B2B tools treat mobile apps as companion apps and second-class citizens.

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  • BusinessEngadget

    Oregon's Right to Repair bill is now a law

    Oregon's law is the first to prohibit "parts pairing," which prevents third-party repair services from using unauthorized components for replacement.

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    StealthMole raises $7M Series A for its AI-powered dark web intelligence platform 

    StealthMole, an AI-powered dark web intelligence startup that specializes in monitoring cyber threats and detecting cybercrime, announced Thursday that it has raised a $7 million Series A funding round. The Singapore-headquartered startup with an R&D office in South Korea will use the fresh capital to establish additional R&D centers and support more commercial uses of its technology in the B2B sector and geographical expansion. "Having an R&D office in South Korea allows us to gain critical i

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  • TechnologyTechCrunch

    Understanding humanoid robots

    More than half-a-century before the world caught its first glimpse of George Lucas’ droids, a small army of silvery humanoids took to the stages of the First Czechoslovak Republic. For many, the humanoid form is still the platonic robot ideal -- it’s just that the state of technology hasn’t caught up to that vision. Earlier this week, Nvidia held its own on-stage robot parade at its GTC developer conference, as CEO Jensen Huang was flanked by images of a half-dozen humanoids.

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  • PoliticsTechCrunch

    Oregon signs right to repair into law

    Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 1596 into law, joining California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts and Minnesota in a growing list of states embracing a right to repair for citizens. The bill’s coauthors Janeen Sollman and Representative Courtney Neron took inspiration from California’s Senate Bill 244, which passed toward the tail end of 2023. Apple, in particular, has taken issue with its aggressive approach to outlawing parts pairing, a practice that requires the use

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  • TechnologyGizmodo

    Apple Users Are Getting Bombarded With ‘Reset Password’ Requests

    Apple users are being targeted by an elaborate and annoying phishing scam that aims to change their password and lock them out of their devices, according to a new report from Krebs on Security. In some cases, the scammers have even called individuals and pretended to be Apple Support.

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  • USAssociated Press

    West Virginia animal shelter pleads for help fostering dogs after truck crashes into building

    A West Virginia animal shelter put out an urgent plea for people to foster its dogs after a vehicle plowed into its building Wednesday, shelter officials said. The Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association said on Facebook that a rental truck struck the building as workers were cleaning. The truck “is the only thing holding this side of the building up — which creates a very serious safety hazard for the dogs in our kennels,” the shelter said.

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  • WorldEngadget

    Israel’s military reportedly used Google Photos to identify civilians in Gaza

    The New York Times reports that Israel’s military intelligence has been using an experimental facial recognition program in Gaza that’s misidentified civilians as having ties to Hamas.

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  • TechnologyGizmodo

    10 Things AI Chatbots Can Do Besides Yap

    ChatGPT has quickly become a household name, but many of us are struggling to figure out what to do with it. We all know that ChatGPT can yap quite a bit, but generative AI chatbots have some practical applications that have nothing to do with text generation. The bots continue to get better at data analysis, coding, image generation, and more tools that offer practical applications.

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  • WorldTechCrunch

    The UK threw a splashy event in New York this week to woo more American VCs

    A 3D hologram, dubbed the Ever-Changing Statue, will be on display at the Rise by Barclays workspace in New York until April 4. Sipping wine and nibbling burrata, a group of government officials, reporters and founders gathered at its unveiling, watching as the hologram flickered a display that alternated through images of some of the U.K.’s top unicorn founders like Tessa Clarke, the co-founder of food waste startup Olio, and Alexander and Oliver Kent-Braham, founders of insurance startup Mars

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  • TechnologyGizmodo

    Everything We Know About the Google Pixel 9

    This guide was updated on March 27, 2024, at 3:20 P.M. ET to reflect the latest leaks at 91Mobiles.

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  • BusinessTechCrunch

    Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months

    Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries, leading to an internal audit that started in December and took months to complete, TechCrunch has learned. Fisker struggled to keep tabs on these transactions, which included down payments and in some cases, the full price of the vehicles, because of lax internal procedures for keeping track of them, according to the people.

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  • BusinessGizmodo

    How to Restart an iPad

    Just as screenshotting on an iPad works, restarting an iPad works differently on devices with and without a home button.

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