Month: March 2023

/ The Information published a report Wednesday that including allegations from a former Google AI researcher that the company used a rival’s responses to train its own chatbot. Google denies it. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s Bard hasn’t exactly had an impressive debut — and The Information is reporting that the company
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/ For Fi users, updating to iOS 16.4 could literally make your cell service faster. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re one of the people brave enough to use Google Fi with an iPhone, your experience is about to get a lot better, as Google announced on Wednesday that you can
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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, and welcome to Wednesday Crunch! On everyone’s mind today is the power of AI and whether we’re all doomed. Connie reports that 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking
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If you’ve ever gotten a stomachache before a big date or an important day at work, you aren’t alone. The anxiousness you’re feeling can affect how your stomach behaves, because your whole body works together in ways you probably never thought about. Below, we’ll discuss the gut-brain connection and how you can take care of
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s guidance on battery sourcing requirements for the electric vehicle tax credits will result in fewer vehicles being eligible for full or partial credits, reports Reuters, citing an unnamed U.S. official. The proposed EV credit guidance as included in the Inflation Reduction Act says that in order for vehicles to qualify for
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Apple will kick off its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 5, the iPhone maker said Wednesday. The annual developer confab will showcase Apple’s latest software, including advancements to its iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, WatchOS and TVOS operating systems.  At WWDC 2023, Apple is expected to unveil iOS 17, the next version of its software for iPhones, which
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It turns out that if you have an active customer audience invested in the long-term viability and success of your platform, you can crowdfund a venture-sized extension round. Substack, a venture-backed subscription media platform popular with writers and known for its email service, has collected more than $5 million in pledges for an extension to
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Six or seven days a week, MinerHoboJo fires up his PlayStation 5 and signs into Twitch or YouTube to stream a five-year-old game—Blackout, the first Call of Duty battle royale. By his own estimation, and community consensus, Miner is the game’s global leader in solo wins and kills. (There are no public stats for Blackout.)
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/ How happy is the blameless vestal’s inbox! The recipient forgetting, by the sender forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each newslett’r rejected, and each mailing list unsubscrib’d. Memory-erasing technology but for your inbox.Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Have you looked at your email inbox lately? Here’s a suggestion: don’t. I can tell
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/ The company says it will start rolling out the alerts this year, adding to similar warning systems it has designed for wildfires and floods. London Underground advising people not to travel in record breaking heat on the 19th of July 2022, Picadilly Station, Central London, United Kingdom. photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images
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A consortium led by Lifelong Group has acquired the distressed firm GoMechanic months after the Sequoia India-backed startup admitted “grave errors” in financial reporting. Lifelong Group, which serves several major players in the automotive industry including Hero and General Motors, said it won the bidding to acquire GoMechanic, whose investors scrambled for a sale earlier
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Yesterday, the ride-sharing company Lyft said its two co-founders, John Zimmer and Logan Green, are stepping down from managing the company’s day-to-day operations, though they are retaining their board seats. According to a related regulatory filing, they actually need to hang around as “service providers” to receive their original equity award agreements. (If Lyft is sold
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