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“Well it looks like you had some fun recently,” a friend said as he joined me for coffee. There, in the middle of my dining room table, is a device that does, now that he mentions it, look an awful lot like a sex toy. Moonbird‘s raison d’etre isn’t to raise your pulse and get […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Should artists whose work was used to train generative AI like ChatGPT be compensated for their contributions? Peter Deng, VP of consumer product at OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT — was loath to give an answer when asked on SXSW’s main stage this afternoon. “That’s a great question,” he said when SignalFire venture partner […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Lucid Motors is at risk of losing the trademark for the name of its Gravity SUV, just months before the company is supposed to start production. Google Ventures-backed EV charging company Gravity Inc. filed a “petition for cancellation” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in December asking for Lucid’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

After frenzied speculation that a recent photo of Kate Middleton and her children was AI-generated, the Duchess of Cambridge herself had to address the controversy. “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” Middleton wrote in a statement. “I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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If investors agree to pay its high-end range, Reddit's valuation should hit around $5.4 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Block Party, a startup developed by software engineer and tech diversity advocate Tracy Chou, was among the victims of Twitter’s (now X’s) API changes earlier this year, forcing it to pivot its business. At the SXSW conference in Austin this weekend, Chou presented a glimpse of what Block Party is now up to with its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Earlier this year, Readyverse Studios – co-founded by blockchain tech company Futureverse and Ernest Cline, the mind behind the sci-fi franchise Ready Player One – announced “The Readyverse,” an interactive platform for metaverse games and experiences. Readyverse Studios partnered with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to help bring the popular novel to the metaverse across web3. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Controversial eyeball scanning startup Worldcoin has failed to get an injunction against a temporary suspension ordered Wednesday by Spain’s data protection authority, the AEPD. The authority used emergency powers contained in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to make the local order, which can apply for up to three months. It said it […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The crypto scene continues to remain so hot that bitcoin is hitting one new high after another. It surpassed $72,700 on Monday. This was initially driven by the approval of spot bitcoin ETFs, but is now being pushed higher ahead of a “halving” event, which will limit the amount of new supply put into circulation […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The scrap over who should run OpenAI, and how it should be managed is still the hottest topic in tech. Most recently, former co-founder and backer Elon Musk sued the AI company best known for ChatGPT and its work with Microsoft for what he considers to be an abandonment of its founding principals. That suit […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

TechCrunch Disrupt, the premier early-stage startup conference, takes place on October 28–30 in San Francisco. Sure, that’s months from now. But if you want the best price, you gotta take action before prices go up in five days. That’s right, it’s now o’clock. The biggest savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Do not miss our super […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Airbnb is banning the use of indoor security cameras in all of its listings, the company announced on Monday. Previously, Airbnb has allowed hosts to have indoor security cameras in common areas, such as hallways and living rooms, as long as they disclosed them on their listing page and did not place them in bathrooms […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Would-be Twitter/X rival Bluesky is looking to more directly invest in its developer community in order to foster growth. The company last week announced “AT Protocol Grants,” a new program that will dole out small grants to developers building on its new social networking protocol. Initially, Bluesky said it would release $10,000 in grants of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth announced today that he is joining Match Group, the parent company of several popular dating apps, including Tinder and Hinge. Yoel, who shared the move on LinkedIn, is now the company’s Vice President of Trust and Safety. “As they say… some personal news! I swiped right […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

“Hard tech” is the latest buzz in venture capital, but all hard tech industries still rely on software infrastructure to ensure machines run properly, parts are shipped on time, and that they are built to very exact requirements. Stell, a two-year-old software startup, is focused on this latter part of the engineering ecosystem. The company […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners — the Alphabet spinout that focuses on building and backing new approaches to complicated infrastructure problems in areas like power, broadband and waste management — has launched its latest project, a new concept for more flexible data center energy management called Verrus. Verrus incorporates “microgrids” based on advanced, high-power batteries with software […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Google’s got some big updates rolling out, and already, webmasters are seeing noticeable impacts on their sites, both positive and negative. Since it could take up to a month for the dust to settle, you don’t necessarily need to panic quite yet, but you do need to take a hard look at what these updates […] The post Google’s March 2024 Updates: What’s to Blame for Your Rankings Drop? appeared first on Internet Marketing Ninjas Blog.... →