[[{“value”:” For Mark Zuckerberg’s 40th birthday, his wife got him a photoshoot. Zuckerberg gives the camera a sly smile as he sits amid a carefully crafted re-creation of his childhood bedroom. It’s appropriately childish — a lava lamp, a participation trophy, a white stuffed dog — yet the surroundings foreshadow the culture-shifting, technological force Zuckerberg would […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Strava taps AI to weed out leaderboard cheats, unveils ‘family’ plan, dark mode and more
[[{“value”:” Strava announced a slew of features, including AI to weed out leaderboard cheats, a new ‘family’ subscription plan, dark mode and more. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
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….
Tesla keeps cutting jobs and the feds probe Waymo
[[{“value”:” What a wild week for transportation news! It was a smorgasbord of news that seemed to touch every sector and theme in transportation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
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….
GrubMarket buys Butter to give its food distribution tech an AI boost
[[{“value”:” Winston Chi, Butter’s founder and CEO, told TechCrunch that “most parties, including our investors and us, are making money” from the exit. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Bolt founder Ryan Breslow wants to settle an investor lawsuit by returning $37 million worth of shares
[[{“value”:” The investor lawsuit is related to Bolt securing a $30 million personal loan to Ryan Breslow, which was later defaulted on. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
With the end of Workplace, it’s fair to wonder if Meta was ever serious about the enterprise
[[{“value”:” Meta, the parent company of Facebook, launched an enterprise version of the prominent social network in 2015. It always seemed like a stretch for a company built on a consumer product that made most of its money from ads making a go of it in the enterprise. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that it lasted […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Meta Threads is testing pinned columns on the web, similar to the old TweetDeck
[[{“value”:” X, formerly Twitter, turned TweetDeck into X Pro and pushed it behind a paywall. But there is a new column-based social media tool in town, and it’s from Instagram Threads. Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the social network is testing pinned columns on the web. While the Meta CEO didn’t mention what you can pin […] © 2024 TechCrunch….