December 2022

Amazon adds free music videos, viral videos and more ad-supported content to Fire TV

December 20, 2022

Amazon has announced that Fire TV users in the U.S. can now watch tens of thousands of music videos from major and independent labels for free. No downloads, fees or subscriptions are required to watch the music videos. The ad-supported music videos will be available from artists on the Billboard Hot 100, including Taylor Swift, […]

Amazon adds free music videos, viral videos and more ad-supported content to Fire TV by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect

December 20, 2022

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca caught up with Alice Albrecht about her early-stage AI startup re:collect. Alice talked about why she founded the company that uses machine learning algorithms to help creatives brainstorm and recall information without breaking focus. She also talked about […]

Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

Vercel makes it easier to collaborate on preview deployments

December 20, 2022

Vercel, the popular front-end development platform, now allows you to comment directly on preview deployments, using a highly visual commenting system that is similar to Figma’s. The company had been testing this feature since September and it’s now generally available to all users. As Vercel co-founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch told me, the idea here […]

Vercel makes it easier to collaborate on preview deployments by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Humans at the center of effective digital defense

December 20, 2022
Digital information has become so ubiquitous that some scientists now refer to it as the fifth state of matter. User-generated content (UGC) is particularly prolific: in April 2022, people shared around 1.7 million pieces of content on Facebook, uploaded 500 hours’ worth of video to YouTube, and posted 347,000 tweets every minute. Much of this…

Apple fixes bug that let malicious apps skirt macOS’ security protections

December 20, 2022

Microsoft says a vulnerability it discovered in a core macOS security feature, Gatekeeper, could have allowed attackers to compromise vulnerable Macs with malware. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-42821, was first uncovered by Microsoft principal security researcher Jonathan Bar Or, and dubbed the “Achilles” vulnerability. Bar Or said the bug could allow malware to skirt Gatekeeper’s […]

Apple fixes bug that let malicious apps skirt macOS’ security protections by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Is there a limit to human life?

December 20, 2022
People have always been fascinated with the question of human longevity. In this 1954 piece for Technology Review, James A. Tobey, author of more than a dozen books on public health, including Your Diet for Longer Life (1948), noted that despite a few frauds claiming to be older than 150, “the consensus of scientific opinion is that…