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| CES 2025: Where have all the US automakers gone? | 09 Jan 2025 | 00:04:50 | |
The old chestnut passed around by industry watchers for the past decade was that CES — one of the world’s largest consumer tech trade events — had turned into an auto show. Maybe even the most important auto show of the year. And there was ample evidence of that.
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| CES 2025: Halliday's Smart Glasses | 09 Jan 2025 | 00:05:48 | |
Walk up to someone wearing a pair of Halliday’s smart glasses, and you might not notice they’re looking at smartphone notifications, live language translations, or advice from an AI assistant.
The only giveaway is the tiny green dot of light on their eyeball.
Wearables startup Halliday launched a pair of smart glasses at CES 2025 that projects a 3.5-inch round display into your line of sight. The device creating the display is called the DigiWindow, and it’s a tiny round module — smaller than your pinky nail — that sits on the inside of the Halliday’s frames just above your right eye.
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| Volkswagen leak exposed, Free Apple TV+, Samsung now largest shareholder of Rainbow Robotics, and | 02 Jan 2025 | 00:06:16 | |
The data was found exposed on an Amazon cloud server, and contained precise location data on thousands of vehicles. Also, the Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog, has opened an investigation into whether IBM’s planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp would affect competition. The CMA said Monday it was inviting comment on the merger from interested parties by January 16; Apple is allowing anyone to access its Apple TV+ streaming service for free this weekend, from January 3 to 5. The company made the announcement on Monday alongside a short video featuring its most popular TV shows, including “Severance,” “Slow Horses,” “Shrinking,” and more; Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has become the largest shareholder of South Korea-based robotics maker Rainbow Robotics, increasing its stake from 14.7% to 35% for KRW 267 billion (about $181 billion). The electronics giant, which paid KRW 86.8 billion for the 14.7% stake in 2023.
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| Anthropic’s new AI model can control your PC | 24 Oct 2024 | 00:10:20 | |
Anthropic has released an updated version of its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model with a new Computer Use feature that can interact with apps on a PC.
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| Uber, Bolt drivers hope for increased earnings foiled as Tanzania reinstates 25% commission | 18 Jan 2023 | 00:04:03 | |
Barely a year after Tanzania capped the commissions that e-hailing firms like Uber and Bolt charge their partners at 15%, the authority in charge has backtracked on the order, taking away drivers’ prospects of increased earnings.
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| Wristcheck wants to make used luxury watches more affordable | 18 Jan 2023 | 00:05:48 | |
In an age when almost everything can be bought online, watch resale is done in a surprisingly archaic way, namely, face-to-face with little price transparency.
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| The Edit LDN raises seed round to serve sneakerheads around the world | 17 Jan 2023 | 00:05:42 | |
Before founding The Edit LDN, Moses Rashid frequented sneaker festivals and exhibitions to buy limited edition shoes.
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| Twitter’s third-party client issue is seemingly a deliberate suspension | 17 Jan 2023 | 00:05:08 | |
Last Friday, a ton of popular Twitter clients including Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and Echofon were down. Users couldn’t log into their accounts or look at their timelines.
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| Paris to hold vote on shared scooters | 16 Jan 2023 | 00:04:33 | |
This weekend, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo told Le Parisien that Parisians will get to vote whether they want to ban free-floating electric scooters or not.
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| Crypto.com cuts 20% jobs amid ‘unforeseeable’ industry events | 16 Jan 2023 | 00:03:23 | |
Crypto exchange Crypto.com is cutting its global workforce by 20%, it said on Friday, as it navigates ongoing economic headwinds and “unforeseeable” industry events.
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| Third-party Twitter apps are facing issues, users say | 13 Jan 2023 | 00:03:12 | |
People using third-party Twitter clients are facing a number of issues including unable to log in and access Twitter feeds. Tweetbot, Echofon, and Twitterrific, three popular third-party Twitter apps, confirmed the issues and noted that they are not sure what has triggered the glitch.
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| Our obsession with pets means startups aimed at Vets are booming, as Digitail shows | 13 Jan 2023 | 00:03:41 | |
With our mysterious, unsustainable, and psychological attachment to pets, combined with a boom in pet ownership since those lonely pandemic times, means veterinary practices have come under increasing pressure.
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| Google is finally rolling out emoji reactions for Meet video calls | 12 Jan 2023 | 00:02:38 | |
Google is finally rolling out emoji reactions to people using Google Meet for video calls starting today. The company said that this feature will be first available on iOS and the web with Android support coming soon.
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| Inflow, a platform for managing ADHD through cognitive behavioral therapy, raises $11M | 12 Jan 2023 | 00:04:12 | |
Inflow, a company developing a platform to manage ADHD using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques, has raised $11 million in a Series A round of funding. ADHD, or “attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,” is a condition impacting as much as 10% of the global population.
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| Passionfroot is a marketplace for business-focused content creators looking for brand partnerships — and vice versa | 24 Oct 2024 | 00:06:06 | |
As the creator economy is growing rapidly, brand partnerships remain one of the prime ways creators can earn money. Other services like link-in-bio apps with affiliate links or Pateron-like subscriptions become secondary ways to increase creators’ income. For platforms and startup, the biggest challenge remains to match brands and creators for collaboration
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| Twitter makes algorithmic timeline default on iOS | 11 Jan 2023 | 00:03:18 | |
Twitter is making the algorithmic timeline named “For You” the default feed on iOS. If you are getting a sense of déjà vu, you are not dreaming.
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| How companies at CES are taking on climate change (or pretending to) | 11 Jan 2023 | 00:06:05 | |
I can’t get it out of my head: A honkingly big Caterpillar sign that read, “JOIN US AS WE BUILD A BETTER WORLD.”
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| FCC moves to form Space Bureau as its role in regulating orbit intensifies | 10 Jan 2023 | 00:04:29 | |
The Federal Communications Commission regulate lots of industries and practices relating to telecommunications and the internet, but it is now cementing its role as a space regulator by voting to create a brand new bureau specializing in the topic.
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| Urine luck: these CES startups want to take a closer look at your waste | 10 Jan 2023 | 00:03:49 | |
You wait for years for a urine analysis company, then all of them hit their flow all at once.
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| US tech giants say Indian panel’s recommended competition act ‘absolutist and regressive’ | 09 Jan 2023 | 00:04:31 | |
An influential industry group that represents Google, Meta and Amazon among other tech firms has expressed concerns about the digital competition law recommended by an Indian parliamentary panel that seeks to regulate their alleged anticompetitive practices, calling the proposal “absolutist and regressive” in nature.
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| Tesla slashes Model 3, Model Y prices in China for the second time in three months | 09 Jan 2023 | 00:03:52 | |
Tesla quietly announced new pricing for the China market.
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| Snap is shutting down its desktop camera app that allows users to apply filters during video calls | 06 Jan 2023 | 00:02:57 | |
Snap is shutting down its camera app for the desktop that allows users to apply filters like cat ears and pirate hats on video calls.
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| Ring brings back the Peephole Cam, now starting at $129 | 06 Jan 2023 | 00:03:25 | |
In 2019, Ring launched the Peephole Cam, a camera that fits over existing door peepholes to record goings on outdoors, in apartment building hallways and so on
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| Alexa, find me an EV charging station | 05 Jan 2023 | 00:03:16 | |
Amazon’s conversational voice assistant, Alexa, has made its way into many electric vehicles in recent years.
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| Bird Buddy’s new smart hummingbird feeder can photograph and identify 350 different bird species | 05 Jan 2023 | 00:04:37 | |
Bird Buddy, the maker of a smart bird feeder that snaps photos of your bird visitors which are collected in a companion mobile app, is out today with another product for its nature enthusiast and birdwatching community.
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| Tim Cook's safe choice, Meta's Ray Bans hot sellers, Meta suspends accounts tracking celebs, Zoom partners with Suki, and Highlight spins out of Medal | 23 Oct 2024 | 00:09:30 | |
This week’s cover of WSJ Magazine is extremely minimalistic. That’s not surprising given that the main story is an in-depth interview with Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple and the king of minimalistic design; Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities – including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Kylie Jenner – were suspended on Monday, according to the owner of many such accounts, Florida college student, Jack Sweeney. Links to Instagram/Threads accounts tracking the flights of the former President; Zoom is partnering with Suki, an AI medical note-taking app, to let doctors use an AI scribe that will take notes of their consultations with patients; Earlier this year, Medal, a startup known for its video game clipping features, launched a cross-platform AI assistant called Highlight. Now, the company is spinning off Highlight into a new entity, which has raised $10 million in a funding round. General Catalyst led the funding round with Valor, SV Angel, and Conviction Embed
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| Nowatch is a health-focused smartwatch without the watch part | 04 Jan 2023 | 00:05:12 | |
Your health is all you’ve got, and you can’t change what you can’t measure, so it’s little wonder that health trackers are everywhere.
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| Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices | 04 Jan 2023 | 00:03:10 | |
Apple is increasing service charges for battery replacement of out-of-warranty iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks starting March 2023.
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| Tesla delivers 405,278 vehicles in Q4, missing Wall Street expectations | 03 Jan 2023 | 00:03:45 | |
Tesla reported Sunday 405,278 vehicles delivered in the fourth quarter of 2022.
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| There’s now an open source alternative to ChatGPT, but good luck running it | 03 Jan 2023 | 00:05:58 | |
The first open-source equivalent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has arrived, but good luck running it on your laptop — or at all.
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| Fidelity slashes the value of its Twitter stake by over half | 02 Jan 2023 | 00:04:19 | |
Fidelity, which was among the group of outside investors that helped Elon Musk finance his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, has slashed the value of its stake in Twitter by 56%.
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| India to explore prohibition of unbacked crypto in its G20 presidency | 02 Jan 2023 | 00:04:51 | |
India said on Thursday that under its G20 presidency, it will prioritize the development of a framework for global regulation of unbacked crypto assets, stablecoins and decentralized finance and will possibly explore their “prohibition” in a potentially large setback for the nascent industry. The Reserve Bank of India, the Indian central bank, said that crypto […]India to explore prohibition of unbacked crypto in its G20 presidency by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
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| Spotify wants to help you ring in 2023 with its New Year’s Hub | 30 Dec 2022 | 00:03:07 | |
Spotify has launched a New Year’s Hub to help its users ring in 2023, the streaming service announced on Thursday. The company says the one-stop destination gives users access to classic party playlists and special takeovers from artists like Charli XCX, Rita Ora, N-Dubz and Céline Dion. “We’ve got plenty of music to kickstart your celebration, and it’s […]Spotify wants to help you ring in 2023 with its New Year’s Hub by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
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| Alibaba CEO to oversee cloud arm following major server outage | 30 Dec 2022 | 00:05:05 | |
When Alibaba’s former CEO Jack Ma passed the torch to Daniel Zhang, he established a system that regularly rotates executives to ensure the company always stays agile in the fast-changing internet space.
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| Twitter suffers another outage | 29 Dec 2022 | 00:03:22 | |
If Twitter isn’t loading fine for you, you’re not alone. Tens of thousands of users are complaining that they are unable to access the Elon Musk-owned social network, seeing scores of strange error-messages instead.
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| Movano’s new smart ring is focused on women’s health | 29 Dec 2022 | 00:04:02 | |
Movano’s getting a week’s jump on what might well prove a banner CES for the smart ring. Today the Bay Area-based firm debuted Evie, a smart ring focused on women’s health set to hit the market later next year.
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| Meta tests facial recognition for spotting ‘celeb-bait’ ads scams and easier account recovery | 23 Oct 2024 | 00:07:16 | |
Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the Facebook owner announced Monday. Monika Bickert, Meta’s VP of content policy, wrote in a blog post that some of the tests aim to bolster its existing anti-scam measures
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| This tool helps you trim your follow list on Twitter | 28 Dec 2022 | 00:03:43 | |
Twitter is a mess, but it’s still addictive. While some folks might have headed to Mastadon, those who stick around might still want to get the best out of the bird site.
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| Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis in China | 28 Dec 2022 | 00:03:56 | |
Baidu, the Chinese internet giant that became known for its search engines, is making some big strides in autonomous driving.
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| Balance is a Mac timekeeper app that requires you to manually clock in your hours | 27 Dec 2022 | 00:04:14 | |
There are plenty of time-tracking apps for Mac that automatically log the hours you’ve spent signed-in. Some even offer granular data, telling you how much time you spent on a particular app.
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| This year in tech felt like a simulation | 27 Dec 2022 | 00:06:15 | |
This year in tech, too much happened and very little of it made sense.
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| Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit for $725M | 26 Dec 2022 | 00:05:02 | |
Facebook’s parent company Meta has agreed a $725 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit related to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.
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| Persistent Jack Sweeney brings back @ElonJet (but delayed) to Twitter | 23 Dec 2022 | 00:04:49 | |
More than a week after being banned from Twitter, Jack Sweeney, the University of Central Florida sophomore who has been a pain in the side of Elon Musk for at least the past year, has a new account on the platform.
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| Twitter now displays stock and cryptocurrency prices directly in search results | 23 Dec 2022 | 00:03:40 | |
Amid all the chaos, Twitter rolled out a useful feature that lets you search for listed company stocks and cryptocurrency prices.
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| FTX co-founder Gary Wang and Alameda’s Caroline Ellison plead guilty to criminal charges | 22 Dec 2022 | 00:02:40 | |
The FTX/Alameda saga continues, with news late Wednesday that two key Sam Bankman-Fried associates were charged and have been charged with federal criminal offences in the U.S.
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| This autonomous ornithopter lands and perches on a single claw | 22 Dec 2022 | 00:04:46 | |
Isn’t it wonderful that there are researchers out there whose job is quite simply to make a robotic bird?
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| Google Play now lets children send purchase requests to guardians | 21 Dec 2022 | 00:02:22 | |
Google already offers parents and guardians tools to restrict purchases their children make on Play Store using the family payment method. The company is now introducing an additional feature that will allow children to send a purchase request for the manager of the family account to approve when there is no present payment method. Children […]Google Play now lets children send purchase requests to guardians by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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| Perplexity looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation, Lyft is working on a ‘service animal opt-in feature’, DJI sues Department of Defense, and Can AI sandbag safety checks? | 22 Oct 2024 | 00:07:40 | |
AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity’s valuation from its $3 billion valuation when it raised from SoftBank over the summer; Uber and Lyft need to do more to support disabled passengers, especially those who are blind or visually impaired, according to protesters who gathered outside the companies’ headquarters on October 15; Drone-maker DJI filed a lawsuit Friday against the US Department of Defense over its inclusion on a DoD list of “Chinese military companies.” A DJI spokesperson said the company filed the suit after “attempting to engage with the DoD for more than sixteen months” and deciding “it had no alternative other than to seek relief; AI companies claim to have robust safety checks in place that ensure that models don’t say or do weird, illegal, or unsafe stuff. But what if the models were capable of evading those checks and, for some reason, trying to sabotage or mislead users? Turns out they can do this, according to Anthropic researchers.
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| Kredito banks $6M as the LatAm business lender eyes international expansion | 21 Dec 2022 | 00:03:58 | |
Kredito created products with few requirements so that customers could more easily access financial products.
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| Twitter Blue for Business now allows companies to identify their employees | 20 Dec 2022 | 00:03:27 | |
Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue. At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses.
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