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Google is conducting a “test” that will omit results from EU-based news publishers. The company says the time-limited trial will only affect a small portion of users in nine EU countries and will help “assess how results from EU news publishers impact the search experience for our users and traffic to publishers.” But given the fragile state of the news media — and the company’s history of threatening to pull its...
Xiaomi apparently wants to ship AI specs in 2025 to rival the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
Article URL: https://pikuma.com/blog/jungle-music-video-game-drum-bass Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42128717 Points: 73 # Comments: 20
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Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2024/graph-based-ai-model-maps-future-innovation-1112 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42128691 Points: 26 # Comments: 8
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A startup is training an AI system that it claims will enable creators to generate cinematic worlds, with complete control over the scenery, characters, lighting, and motion. How? By having humans strap cameras to their backs and hike around the world. Odyssey, founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke (Cameron was previously the […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Cooler Master just released the smallest variant in its Hyper line of air coolers.
Threads could start getting ads much sooner than Meta has let on. The company is now planning to bring ads to its newest app “early next year” with the first ads arriving in January of 2025, according to a new report in The Information. That suggests Meta is looking to start making money on the rapidly growing service far sooner than Meta executives have previously suggested. In August, when the app reached 200 million...
Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon or in the foreseeable future.
The app's new update seeks to boost transparency in the market by exposing token ownership patterns that may indicate centralization or manipulation.
Right now you can get 15 bottles of wine for just $80.
Apple's M4 Max chip purportedly encodes audio in half the time as Nvidia's previous-gen discrete GPUs while consuming eight times less power.
If you're tired of hearing the same old, over-driven, bass-enhanced EQ of most earbuds, the Soundpeats Air 5 delivers an almost studio-quality sound without breaking the bank.
AMD has confirmed it’s laying off roughly four percent of its global workforce, according to reports by TechCrunch and others. It’s not entirely clear how many people will be impacted by this move, or which divisions the laid off employees will be pulled from. We can, however, do some math. The company had around 26,000 employees last year, according to an annual filing by AMD. Four percent of 26,000 comes out to just...
Bitwise Asset Management has acquired Attestant Limited, an institutional-grade Ethereum (ETH) staking provider, in a deal that boosts the firm’s total assets under management (AUM) to over $10 billion, according to a Nov. 13 press release. The acquisition allows Bitwise to add Ethereum staking to its lineup of exchange-traded products, private funds, and hedge fund […] The post Bitwise acquires Ethereum staking...
Apple Arcade subscribers can play these games and more.
Decrypt’s AI agent analyzed a huge amount of boxing data and thinks Mike Tyson has a shot against the much younger Jake Paul. Here's why.
Carl Madi spent a chunk of the last decade working for Uber and Handy, an online marketplace for cleaners. “I spent a lot of time convincing drivers, handyman and cleaners, to join the gig economy,” he told TechCrunch. But when the pandemic struck, he saw many people lose their jobs overnight. He noticed that there […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Experience crisp-clear audio, IPX4 defense, and easy Apple device integrations with the Apple AirPods 3, now on sale at Walmart for $94.
Porsche is perhaps the most recognizable name in luxury vehicles, but you'd be surprised to learn just how complicated the storied company's ownership can get.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has once again teased the company’s long-delayed HiFi or “super premium” tier, a higher-qualify subscription offering the streaming service first announced in 2021 and then failed to roll out. In the company’s third-quarter earnings call with investors on Wednesday, the exec suggested that such a product was still on the way, […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Alright, let’s make some predictions. Aside from the iPhone, Services is Apple’s most successful product category. The company’s approach to modern artificial intelligence, combined with its acquisition history, hints at how Apple could unlock new revenue streams in 2025. Apple Intelligence has the potential to be the next major driver of Services revenue. more…
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that an FTC complaint alleging that Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp were anticompetitive should proceed to a jury trial.
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Google Gemini Live may let you talk to it about your uploaded files
Article URL: https://www.lakera.ai/blog/visual-prompt-injections Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42128438 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Bitcoin ossification is ultimately the result of incentives and the size of the network making improving it impossible to coordinate. That happening too soon is not a good thing.
November is in full swing, which means Black Friday is right around the corner. But the days in which you had to wait for Black Friday proper to get good deals have long been behind us. The holiday shopping season is effectively the entire month of November now, with early Black Friday deals already popping up across the web (and in some stores). We’re starting to see deep discounts on a bunch of your favorite tech we’...
Here's who Elon Musk is considering for a Donald Trump administration that benefits him and his companies like Tesla and SpaceX.
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign uphere. On Monday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sat in for a five-hour podcast interview with AI influencer Lex Fridman. The two covered a range of topics, from timelines for superintelligence to progress on Anthropic’s next flagship tech. […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google is rolling out another new Android Auto update and this one further prepares for a new form of media control, including a bunch of different radio stations. more…
If you've been eyeing a new Samsung TV, large appliance or smartphone, these generous deals are for you.
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta must face the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit that accuses the company of dominating the social media industry through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, a DC District Court Judge ruled on Wednesday. The FTC filed a lawsuit against Meta in 2020, alleging the company bought up rivals — Instagram and WhatsApp — in an attempt to stifle competition. Judge...
As mortgage rates fall, more homeowners will be benefit from refinancing their home loans.