​[[{“value”:” Discord on Monday announced the launch of its Discord Social SDK, a free toolkit that allows developers to leverage the platform’s social infrastructure to enhance their games’ social and multiplayer experiences. The toolkit allows developers to improve their in-game experiences, whether players have a Discord account or not. Social integrations include a unified friends list […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” As duties under the U.K.’s Online Safety Act (OSA) related to tackling illegal content came into force Monday, the internet watchdog, Ofcom, said it has launched a new enforcement program focused on online storage and file-sharing services. The regulator said its evidence shows that file-sharing and file-storage services are “particularly susceptible” to being used for […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” A lot of the focus in generative AI up to now has been on text-based interfaces used to generate text, images and more. The next wave appears to be voice, and it’s rolling in fast. In the latest development, Google today announced that it would be adding Chirp 3 — its HD voice interface — […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” Google is doubling down on building out its AI business in the U.K., and on Monday morning in London, the CEO of Google DeepMind Demis Hassabis and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian appeared alongside customers BT and WPP to spell out some of its plans. The company said it will be expanding UK data residency […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe’s tech industry is calling for “radical action” from European Union lawmakers to shrink reliance on foreign-owned digital infrastructure and services to bolster the bloc’s economic prospects, resilience, and security in increasingly fraught geopolitical times. In an open letter to European Commission president, Ursula von der […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” After reporting in January that Apple is adding an “Air” option to its iPhone lineup, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is offering more details about the upcoming slimmer iPhone. The iPhone 17 Air will launch this fall, Gurman says — and like the MacBook Air, it will be thinner than standard models, while combining high-end and low-end […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” Meta won a legal victory this week against Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee who recently published a memoir of her time at the company titled “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.” An arbitrator ruled that Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook (now Meta) from 2011 to 2017, may have violated the […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” Users on social media have discovered a controversial use case for Google’s new Gemini AI model: removing watermarks from images, including from images published by Getty Images and other well-known stock media outfits. Last week, Google expanded access to its Gemini 2.0 Flash model’s image generation feature, which lets the model natively generate and edit […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​ Each spring, Northeastern Splash offers students in grades 8-12 the opportunity to take engaging classes taught by Northeastern undergraduate students on a wide array of topics including stand up comedy, medicine, filmmaking, and robotics. This year, the free one-day event will take place at Northeastern University’s Ryder Hall on Saturday, March 29, from 9AM-5:10PM. A free lunch will be…

​[[{“value”:” The InvenTeam Grants Initiative, created by the Lemelson-MIT Program, offers teams of high school students, educators, and mentors grants of $7500 to develop technological solutions to real-world issues the students care about. Applications are now open for teams seeking grants. Up to ten schools are awarded grants each year, with Newton included among past successful teams. Apply here by…