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2024-10-23 20:36:27
After losing access to Twitter's API, Block Party is shifting its focus to privacy.
Block Party, a startup founded by software engineer and tech diversity advocate Tracy Chou, was among those casualties of the Twitter (now X) API change that nudged it to pivot its entire business earlier this year.
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2024-10-23 20:32:26
Airbnb is prohibiting indoor security cameras in its property listings.
Airbnb is prohibiting indoor security cameras in all of its listings, the company announced today.
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2024-10-23 20:28:14
DoorDash has launched a new AI-driven tool called 'SafeChat+' that automatically identifies verbal abuse.
A new feature by DoorDash, AI-pushed, "SafeChat+," will automatically detect offensive language to limit verbally abusive and inappropriate interaction between consumers and delivery people.
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2024-10-23 20:25:39
Instagram is developing a feature that would enable users to allow others to add a "Spin" to their Reels.
Instagram has confirmed to TechCrunch that it's working on a "Spins" feature for Reels, its short-form video TikTok clone.
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2024-10-23 20:23:00
Reddit has unveiled a new ad format that resembles posts created by users.
The company said on Thursday that Reddit is rolling out a new ad format that looks like posts from the site's users.
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2024-10-23 20:20:42
Google is modifying the way Chrome identifies and alerts users about unsafe websites.
Today, Google announced an important change to its Safe Browsing feature in Chrome so the service will work in real time by checking against a server-side list — all without sharing your browsing habits with Google.
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2024-10-23 20:13:34
Canva has introduced a new paid subscription plan specifically for universities and colleges.
Canva, a graphic design company that offers online design, announced today Canva for Campus, a new paid subscription for universities and colleges.
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2024-10-23 19:57:28
This Week in AI: Major tech companies are adopting synthetic data.
OpenAI rolled out Canvas on Thursday, offering a new way to interact with its AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT.
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2024-10-23 19:52:27
Fixify combines automation with human analysts to address IT challenges.
Matt Peters spent more than a decade working for cybersecurity vendors. He was team lead at Check Point
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2024-10-23 19:49:27
The desktop AI assistant app Highlight has spun out from Medal, securing $10 million in funding.
Medal, a cross-platform AI assistant released just a few months ago as its flagship product from earlier this year
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2024-10-23 19:45:38
Socket has secured a new $40 million funding round to scan software for security vulnerabilities.
The software supply chain-the components and practices that make up a software product-is rapidly becoming fraught.
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2024-10-23 19:42:38
Turnover Labs is assisting chemical plants in finding ways to recycle their waste CO2.
This once dreamed-of set of solutions, pursued by petrochemical plants and other emitters as they look to cut emissions, suddenly looks a lot more costly.
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2024-10-23 19:39:09
WhatsApp has launched a feature for storing contacts directly within the app and has hinted at the introduction of usernames.
WhatsApp announced a new feature on Tuesday that will allow users to save contacts within the application.
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2024-10-23 19:35:14
iPad Mini 2024: Staying competitive with the market.
The iPad has had a thin couple of years. This last tablet to fall out of favor for Apple is one whose focus has shifted to mobile, content, wearables, and mixed reality.
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2024-10-23 19:26:31
As Ozlo's Sleepbuds become available for purchase, the company has raised funds to support tinnitus treatment.
Bose gave up on Sleepbuds after two generations. It was a tragic, early demise for a product that showed such tremendous promise.
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2024-10-23 19:21:39
Marc Andreessen has stated that AI model creators are in "a race to the bottom," which he believes is detrimental to business.
Marc Andreessen, general partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, took the stage earlier this month at the Ray Summit to discuss AI. CFO.com plucked out some of the best quotes so you don't have to sit through the full interview.
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2024-10-23 19:19:40
Spotify now allows users to design custom cover art for their playlists.
Spotify announced today it would be allowing users to create and customize their own playlist art. For a while now, users have been able to upload custom images to any given playlist but can now design them on their own right within the app.
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2024-10-23 19:17:31
Interface.ai has raised $30 million to assist banks in managing customer requests.
Interface.ai, an automaton platform for customers of banks and other financial institutions, announced today that it has closed a $30 million funding round led by Avataar Venture Partners.
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2024-10-23 19:13:36
Stability asserts that its latest Stable Diffusion models produce more "diverse" images.
After a series of controversies caused by technical hiccups and licensing changes, AI startup Stability AI announced its latest family of image-generation models.
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2024-10-23 19:09:14
Anthropic has introduced a new AI model that can manage your PC.
Building with metal 3D printing is a well-established technique, but it's by and large too clumsy, expensive, or imprecise to compete with other traditional methods on scale.
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2024-10-23 19:02:17
The US AI Safety Institute is facing uncertain stability.
One of just a few U.S. government offices dedicated to analyzing the safety of AI could be zeroed out, unless Congress decides to fund it.
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2024-10-23 18:58:56
Artiphon's new Orba instrument is capable of sampling sounds in real time.
Almost exactly two years after the release of the Orba 2, Artiphon is finishing off the trilogy. The newly announced Orba 3 finds the Nashville-based startup baking live sampling into its clever handheld instrument.
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2024-10-23 18:56:10
Kevin Bacon, Thom Yorke, Julianne Moore, and thousands of other creatives have signed a petition opposing AI data scraping.
Some of the 11,500 people signing a petition against the unlicensed use of creative works for AI training are Kevin Bacon, Kazuo Ishiguro, Robert Smith, and Sidney Blumenthal.
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2024-10-23 18:52:14
Researchers have connected the Polyfill supply chain attack to a vast network of copycat gambling websites.
One of the largest digital supply chain attacks this year was made by a relatively unknown company that directed large crowds of internet users to a network of copycat gambling sites, according to security researchers.
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2024-10-23 18:46:56
The SEC has imposed a $7 million fine on four companies for providing "misleading cyber disclosures" related to the SolarWinds hack.
The SEC said Tuesday that it had charged and settled with four companies for deceptive disclosure related to the 2019 SolarWinds data breach.
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2024-10-23 18:44:56
Foursquare is saying goodbye to its app.
"I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news," says Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, speaking about the decision to shutter the Foursquare City Guide mobile app later this year
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2024-10-23 18:40:21
OpenAI has appointed its first chief economist.
OpenAI adds its first chief economist: Aaron Chatterji, formerly chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Joe Biden and a senior economist in President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
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2024-10-23 18:35:46
LinkedIn has confirmed that the recent "follower purge" was caused by a bug, which has now been resolved.
Users on the LinkedIn platform this Tuesday began noticing a problem with their follower counts: They were dropping rapidly, and sometimes by many hundreds of users at once.
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2024-10-23 18:33:34
Cement startup Furno has secured a $20 million grant to develop low-carbon micro-kilns in Chicago.
The startup cement Furno will get grants worth $20 million from the Department of Energy funds that will help the company build up to eight micro-kilns at a Chicago concrete plant.
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2024-10-23 18:30:48
Federal authorities have given the green light for eVTOL startups to introduce flying vehicles into U.S. airspace.
Federal regulators opened the way for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to share U.S.
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