The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
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We certainly don’t need a repeat of last year by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch
Waste and batteries were the theme this week in climate tech. Dive in to see what happened.
Climate tech roundup: Food waste, wastewater, and the UK’s troubled battery industry by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch
AltspaceVR has had a few close calls over the years, but the company that built virtual social spaces well before “metaverse” was a household word is shuttering for good this time. After announcing that it would close up shop in 2017, Microsoft intervened and the company came under the tech giant’s wing. Now, Microsoft is […]
Microsoft is sunsetting social VR pioneer AltspaceVR by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch
Detailed tactical plans for imminent police raids, confidential police reports with descriptions of alleged crimes and suspects, and a forensic extraction report detailing the contents of a suspect’s phone. These are some of the files in a huge cache of data taken from the internal servers of ODIN Intelligence, a tech company that provides apps […]
A hack at ODIN Intelligence exposes a huge trove of police raid files by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch
Howdy, folks! Happy Friday. While our fearless Week in Review leader Greg enjoys parental leave, I’m filling in, curating the latest on the tech news front. It was a roller coaster of a week once again as economic headwinds took a brutal, demoralizing toll, and as chaos reigned at Elon Musk’s Twitter. Somewhere in the […]
Alphabet makes cuts, Twitter bans third-party clients, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings steps down by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. It kind of feels like tech forgot its umbrella. Like, it remembered to pack its water bottle, wear the right shoes and layer up, but […]
Tech forgot its umbrella by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to the latest “State […]
This Week in Apps: Twitter kills third-party apps, Instagram adds Quiet Mode, Google’s antitrust trial gets a date by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Elon Musk continues to change things at a breakneck pace at Twitter, and on Saturday the still-CEO (I guess he hasn’t found anyone willing to take over yet?) seemed to address user complaints that ads are getting worse on the platform. Musk said that the social network would be “taking steps” to address what he […]
Elon Musk admits Twitter has too many ads, says fix is coming by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch
Buy now, pay later is an alluring option for consumers. But with rising debt and inflation, perhaps the focus should be on companies that help protect borrowers from digging themselves into a hole.
Protect me from what I want by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch
TikTok goes a little overboard when it comes to categorizing every last aesthetic into its own microtrend. You notice it when Spotify Wrapped calls your music taste goblincore, or when you strangely end up at a charity gala in San Francisco and a tech exec asks you if he should be concerned that his teen […]
TikTok’s ‘corecore’ is the latest iteration of absurdist meme art by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch