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Immunefi’s Crypto Losses 2022 report found over $3.9 billion was 'lost' last year down 51.2% from 2021, when over $8 billion was stolen. Crypto losses in 2022 dropped 51% year on year to $4B by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch... →

Riding the generative AI wave, Picsart, the developer behind various photo and video editing apps for the web and mobile devices, is introducing a new iOS app that transforms photos and drawings into digital art. Called SketchAI, the app lets users sketch a picture or upload an existing image and apply different artistic styles to […] Picsart’s AI-powered SketchAI app turns images and outlines into digital art by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

In 2019, Ring launched the Peephole Cam, a camera that fits over existing door peepholes to record goings on outdoors, in apartment building hallways and so on. Priced at $199, the Peephole Cam failed to catch on, leading Ring to discontinue it in 2021. But now, Ring’s giving it another go — the Peephole Cam […] Ring brings back the Peephole Cam, now starting at $129 by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Amazon’s conversational voice assistant, Alexa, has made its way into many electric vehicles in recent years. Now, along with ordering Alexa to ‘play Despacito’ or ‘call Mom,’ EV drivers in the U.S. with Alexa-enabled cars will be able to ask Alexa to find the nearest public charging spot. Charging network EVgo will be the first […] Alexa, find me an EV charging station by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch... →

I first met with the team at Labrador Systems in a hotel suite several CESes ago. What immediately stood out about the firm is its focus on the long-standing promise of eldercare robotics. Various systems have existed in Japan for decades now, aimed at that nation’s aging population. But for the most part, it’s a […] Labrador taps the Echo Show to expand functionality for its eldercare robot by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

At CES, Amazon today announced that a number of new devices from four manufactureres will soon join its Sidewalk network. Sidewalk, Amazon’s long-range, low-bandwidth IoT mesh network that is powered by sharing a small portion of a user’s bandwidth from devices like the company’s Echo speakers and Ring cameras, currently supports the Tile tracker, Amazon’s […] Amazon Sidewalk adds new partners, plans to open to developers soon by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

This year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — the celebration of all things tech and then some — brought what it usually brings to the Vegas Strip: AI-powered gadgets. Of course, AI comes in many forms, and not all that’s advertised as AI is in fact true AI. But there’s always diamonds in the rough, […] Here’s a roundup of the top AI-powered products we saw at CES 2023 by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

In the past year, OneRoof has transformed from a chat room app into a platform offering in-person events, a neighbor directory and a “grow” feature to help people create their own communities. OneRoof grabs funding to help apartment dwellers cozy up to their neighbors by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Data science is perhaps the most exciting area in all of enterprise technology right now, and it’s evolving at a lightning pace. 4 data science predictions for 2023 by Annie Saunders originally published on TechCrunch... →

Not everyone believes that the metaverse — social, VR-centric worlds — has staying power. But MeetKai is among the steadfast optimists. Founded in 2018, the startup initially focused on conversational AI, aiming to build cutting-edge, top-of-the-line voice recognition and speech synthesis tech. It soon broadened its focus, introducing products to help developers build components of […] MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

A Google research paper named Generative Models are Unsupervised Predictors of Page Quality paints a negative connotation of SEO practices. It has a section named "attempts at search engine optimization (SEO)" which says, "documents that attempt to perform SEO tend to be flagged as very low quality."... →

Google has added a new section to the crawl budget management help document. The new section is for the If-Modified-Since request header.... →

Google seems to be sending out surveys about Google Search Console and potential future development and features around that tool. The survey takes several minutes to complete.... →

CircleCI, a company whose development products are popular with software engineers, has urged users to rotate their secrets following a breach of the company’s systems. The San Francisco-headquartered DevOps company said in an advisory published late Wednesday it is currently investigating the security incident — its most recent in recent years. “We wanted to make you aware […] CircleCI warns customers to rotate ‘any and all secrets’ after hack by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch... →

The Information reported the other day that Microsoft plans to add OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot feature within the next few months. Bing Search already has a chatbot but ChatGPT is way more advanced, and since Microsoft already invested $1 billion in the organization, why not use them?... →

Google has sent out email notifications to some Google Ads advertisers about changes happening to the remove redundant keywords recommendations. In short, Google is expanding this recommendation to work across match types.... →

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At a time when there is a lot of debate going on around ChatGPT and generative AI potentially eating up jobs, Apple has launched AI-powered audio narration for select titles on Apple Books. On its website for authors, the company says that this feature will help independent authors who might not be able to convert […] Apple launches AI-powered book narrations by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →

A rare privacy penalty for Apple: France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has announced it imposed a sanction of €8 million (~$8.5M) on the iPhone maker for not obtaining local mobile users’ consent prior to placing (and/or reading) ad identifiers on their devices in breach of local data protection law. The sanction decision was issued on […] France fines Apple over App Store ad targeting ePrivacy breach by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →