Category : Technology

How to submit a guest column to TechCrunch

Sharing hot takes, conventional wisdom and infographics won’t help you gain media traction. Online audiences want expertise and opinions that are supported by facts and relevant experience. No one builds credibility by being the loudest or first...

Google’s new Transparency Center outlines its product policies, reporting tools and more

Google is launching a new Transparency Center to make it easier for users to learn more about its product policies. The central hub collects existing resources and policies to inform users on how Google creates and enforces them. With the new hu...

Agility Robotics’ Damion Shelton and Melonee Wise will discuss the future of warehouse automation at TC Disrupt 2023

Agility Robotics is on a steady march toward commercialization, thanks to the continued growth of robotics in warehouse fulfillment and logistics and the expanding feature set of its bipedal robot. We’re excited to announce that Digit — escorted...

WhatsApp adds support for HD photos, says HD video coming ‘soon’

WhatsApp is getting an upgrade that will allow users to share HD photos through the messaging app, according to an announcement shared by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his Instagram broadcast channel and via a Facebook post. The feature, which all...

Most VCs have no clue what a CTO does

Technical blind spots mean investors are guiding founders in the wrong direction Haje Jan Kamps 10 hours Venture capitalists look at businesses from many angles. Is the market big...

Arthur releases open source tool to help companies find the best LLM for a job

Arthur, a machine learning monitoring startup, has benefited from the interest in generative AI this year, and it has been developing tools to help companies work with LLMs more effectively. Today it is releasing Arthur Bench, an open source too...

Soil can store gigatons of carbon, and Yard Stick wants to measure it all

When it comes to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, one of the first questions is often: What should we do with it? Making new things is an obvious answer, though it’s still an expensive proposition. Stashing it underground is another,...

CISA says hackers are exploiting a new file transfer bug in Citrix ShareFile

Hackers are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in yet another enterprise file transfer software, the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency has warned. CISA on Wednesday added a vulnerability in Citrix ShareFile, tracked as CVE-2023-244...

'Sexist' Amazon Alexa didn't answer Lionesses question

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'Sexist' Amazon Alexa can't answer Lionesses question

Dr Rodda, a senior lecturer in psychiatry at Kent and Medway Medical School - with an interest in artificial intelligence (AI), said she had only been able to get an answer from Alexa when she specified it was women's football she was interested in,.

Hozier would consider strike over AI threat to music

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Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point

How do you critique functional art? Do you base your assessment on its capability or the resolution at which it solves a problem? Is it more important that it succeeds as art? Or is it the overall statement of purpose that matters, balance betwe...

Armed with new execs, dLocal rebounds from a short seller attack in a big way

Uruguayan fintech company dLocal saw its stock surge by over 30% on Wednesday on the news that the payments outfit had tapped former Mercado Libre CFO Pedro Arnt as its new co-CEO. Shares closed up nearly 32% at $20.45, after climbing as high as...

BNPL vendor Splitit moves to go private in exchange for fresh funds

As the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market continues on its slow decline, one of the major players, Splitit, is embarking on an effort to reorganize and pivot. Splitit today announced that it has a $60 million “capital commitment” from strategic in...

Researchers are helping robots teach themselves to open dishwashers and doors

You’ve surely seen all of those videos of robots opening and walking through doors. The dirty little secret is that most or all of them involved a good bit of human hand holding. That can come in the form of manual remote guidance wherein a user...