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Astronauts fall over. Robotic limbs can help them back up.

​[[{“value”:” We all fall down sometimes. Astronauts are no exception. You need to be in peak physical condition for space travel, but bulky space suits and lower gravity levels can be a recipe for disaster, causing them to trip over themselves. The answer to this very specific issue may well be robotic limbs. They won’t prevent […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Microsoft’s custom Cobalt chips will come to Azure next week

​[[{“value”:” Microsoft will launch its custom Cobalt 100 chips to customers as a public preview at its Build conference next week, TechCrunch has learned. In an analyst briefing ahead of Build, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive VP of the Microsoft Cloud and AI group, directly compared Cobalt to AWS’s Graviton chips, which have been available to developers […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI

​[[{“value”:” Sony Music Group has sent letters to more than 700 tech companies and music streaming services to warn them not to use its music to train AI without explicit permission. The letter, which was obtained by TechCrunch, says Sony Music has “reason to believe” that the recipients of the letter “may already have made unauthorized […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Google expands hands-free and eyes-free interfaces on Android

​[[{“value”:” As part of 2024’s Accessibility Awareness Day, Google is showing off some updates to Android that should be useful to folks with mobility or vision impairments. Project Gameface allows gamers to use their faces to move the cursor and perform common click-like actions on desktop, and now it’s coming to Android. The project lets people […] © 2024 TechCrunch….