November 21, 2024

The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI can now create a replica of your personality Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your…

October 2022

As Iran throttles its internet, activists fight to get online

October 5, 2022

As protesters flooded the streets of Iran in September after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini — a 22-year-old woman who was arrested for not wearing her hijab in accordance with the country’s strict dress code for women — videos and images of the protests spread online inside the country. Previously unheard-of acts, such […]

As Iran throttles its internet, activists fight to get online by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Peacock grows its paid subscriber base to 15 million after pulling back shows from Hulu

October 5, 2022

NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell revealed in a CNBC interview that Peacock added more than 2 million paid subscribers in the third quarter, bringing the total to over 15 million. The recent growth shows the streaming service is recovering from its slowdown at the end of the second quarter when Peacock stalled at 13 million paid […]

Peacock grows its paid subscriber base to 15 million after pulling back shows from Hulu by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Waiting for Raspberry Pi: Eben Upton talks supply constraints and demand shock

October 5, 2022

Hardware hobbyists wanting to get their hands on some juicy single-board Raspberry Pi kit to power low cost electronics projects have been having a frustrating time for more than a year now, as pandemic-triggered global supply chain disruption continues squeezing reseller inventory. Go try and buy Pi and you can’t miss how official reseller websites […]

Waiting for Raspberry Pi: Eben Upton talks supply constraints and demand shock by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Loop raises $60M to send EV charging infrastructure for a Loop

October 3, 2022

Electric cars are great and all, but internal combustion engines (ICE) have one thing going for them: comprehensive, well-oiled infrastructure that means you can add 300 miles of range to your car, in 5 minutes, at any of 65,000 or so gas stations. Compare that with the one-hour stop at only about 6,000 high-speed charging […]

Loop raises $60M to send EV charging infrastructure for a Loop by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Kim Kardashian charged by SEC for pushing crypto, reaches $1.26M settlement

October 3, 2022

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging Kim Kardashian for “unlawfully touting” a “crypto security,” the agency announced on Monday morning. The SEC says that Kardashian was in violation of its rules when she promoted a “crypto asset security offered and sold by EthereumMax” without the necessary disclosure that she was paid to […]

Kim Kardashian charged by SEC for pushing crypto, reaches $1.26M settlement by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch

Deliveroo tweaks ‘dark store’ model to let grocery shoppers in the door

October 3, 2022

In the latest quick commerce headspinner, Deliveroo is experimenting with expanding its rapid grocery business by opening a new type of ‘dark store’ in Central London. As well as functioning as a mini warehouse where Deliveroo staff pick orders for couriers operating on its platform to collect and deliver locally to app users, the new […]

Deliveroo tweaks ‘dark store’ model to let grocery shoppers in the door by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

With $17M in funding, Immerok launches cloud service for real-time streaming data

October 3, 2022

In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types. A decade later, a startup called Immerok — founded by David Moravek, Holger Temme, Johannes Moser, Konstantin Knauf, Piotr Nowojski and Timo Walther — has developed an Apache Flink cloud service called Immerok Cloud, which is serverless — […]

With $17M in funding, Immerok launches cloud service for real-time streaming data by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch