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Revolut to launch mortgages, smart ATMs and business credit products
Revolut, the London-based fintech unicorn, shared a few items on the company’s 2025 roadmap at a corporate event in London on Friday. One of its main focuses for next year will be the introduction o...
View the articlePeering Inside AI: How DeepMind’s Gemma Scope Unlocks the Mysteries of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making its way into critical industries like healthcare, law, and employment, where its decisions have significant impacts. However, the complexity of advanced AI model...
View the articleItalian food delivery app Foodinho eats another privacy fine
Not for the first time, food delivery firm Foodinho has been spanked by Italy’s privacy watchdog. Per Reuters, the Glovo-owned on-demand delivery app has been fined €5 million ($5.20 million) afte...
View the articleJohn Brooks, Founder & CEO of Mass Virtual – Interview Series
John Brooks is the founder and CEO of Mass Virtual, a visionary technology leader with over 20 years of experience driving product and solution innovation across Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (M...
View the articleAI in Product Management: Leveraging Cutting-Edge Tools Throughout the Product Management Process
Product management stands at a very interesting threshold because of advances happening in the area of Artificial Intelligence. As the capabilities of AI evolve unceasingly, the traditional role of th...
View the articleEU closes antitrust probe into Apple’s e-book and audiobook rules after complaint withdrawn
The European Commission (EC) has quietly closed a longstanding antitrust investigation into Apple over rules it enforces against third-party e-book and audiobook app developers. The EC opened the prob...
View the articleTesla Superchargers: GM, Ford, Rivian, and other EV brands with access
EV owners of GM vehicles like the Chevrolet Silverado EV and Cadillac Lyriq will now officially have access to Tesla’s Superchargers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articleBattery unicorn Northvolt files for bankruptcy, co-founder and CEO resigns
The company chose Chapter 11 in an effort to right its listing finances. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articlePlex redesigns its app to look more like a streaming service
Streaming service and media software maker Plex on Friday introduced a redesign of its software that puts more emphasis on discovery, easily accessing your watchlist, and other personalization feature...
View the articleTaking a cue from X, Threads tests AI-powered summaries of trending topics
As the Twitter-like social network Bluesky sees a significant surge in users this month, Meta’s own X competitor Threads has been rapidly building out its platform. On Friday, Instagram head Adam Mo...
View the articleStoreCash’s new app lets you instantly earn cash back at stores
Daricus Releford always wanted to be a founder. In high school, he ran a hot dog station and in college launched a chocolate-covered strawberry business, making millions in sales before moving to Si...
View the articleA vision for U.S. science success
In a talk at MIT, White House science advisor Arati Prabhakar outlined challenges in medicine, climate, and AI, while expressing resolve to tackle hard problems.
View the articleAnthropic raises another $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its ‘primary’ training partner
Anthropic has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to train its flagship generative AI models primarily on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division. The Op...
View the articleApple’s mobile browser policies and Google pact are ‘holding back innovation,’ UK regulator says
An inquiry group setup by the U.K.’s antitrust authority has provisionally found that Apple’s policies are “holding back innovation in the browsers we use to access the web on mobile phones.” ...
View the articleFlipkart co-founder Binny Bansal leaves PhonePe board
Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal has stepped down from PhonePe’s board of directors, three quarters after making a similar move at the e-commerce giant. Bengaluru-headquartered PhonePe said it had a...
View the articleNew UK crypto regulations will include stablecoins and staking services
The U.K. is set to create an all-encompassing regulatory framework to govern the crypto sector in early 2025. Speaking on Thursday at the Tokenisation Summit in London, economic secretary to the treas...
View the articleMIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents
The technique could make AI systems better at complex tasks that involve variability.
View the articleA company is now developing human washing machines
Forget cold plunge pools. The new flex could soon be human washing machines. According to one of Japan’s oldest newspapers, an Osaka-based shower head maker called Science has developed a contraptio...
View the articleTexas AG opens investigation into advertising group that Elon Musk sued for ‘boycotting’ X
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday he is opening an investigation into the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) to determine whether the trade group’s members conspired to boyc...
View the articleAmerican Airlines is deploying new tech to shame boarding line cutters
American Airlines has a new tactic for shaming boarding line cutters: A loud beeper. CNBC reports that the airline is rolling out a system that emits two loud beeps when a traveler tries to get on an ...
View the articleHackers break into Andrew Tate’s online ‘university,’ steal user data and flood chats with emojis
Hackers have breached an online course founded by ostensible influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate, leaking data on close to 800,000 users, including thousands of email addresses and pr...
View the articleApple is reportedly building a more conversational Siri powered by LLMs
Apple is developing a new version of its voice assistant, Siri, powered by advanced large language models (LLMs), according to sources cited by Bloomberg. This more conversational Siri is part of Appl...
View the articleFuture Google supplier Kairos gets approval to build two small nuclear reactors
The reactors are scaled down versions of what Kairos hopes to ultimately build to supply Google with electricity. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articleAdvancing urban tree monitoring with AI-powered digital twins
The Tree-D Fusion system integrates generative AI and genus-conditioned algorithms to create precise simulation-ready models of 600,000 existing urban trees across North America.
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