December 23, 2024

4 Ways Content Can Make or Break Your Customer Experience

When efforts to modernize customer experience focus too much on technology and not enough on content, your company risks wasting resources, falling behind the competition and losing customers.

May 2023

Stripe, a longtime partner of Lyft, signs a big deal with Uber

May 3, 2023

Growth at $50 billion fintech Stripe has been slowing this year, but one of its key strategies to reverse that course got a decent push today: Stripe is announcing that it has inked a “strategic payments partnership” with Uber. The pair will work together initially on selected services in eight of Uber’s biggest markets, including […]

Stripe, a longtime partner of Lyft, signs a big deal with Uber by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Google now lets you access your account with passkeys rather than passwords

May 3, 2023

Google announced today that passkeys are now rolling out to Google Account users globally. The news comes nearly a year to the day after Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the FIDO Alliance announced a partnership to make frictionless passwordless logins a reality across devices, operating systems, and browsers. While multi-factor authentication mechanisms and password managers offer […]

Google now lets you access your account with passkeys rather than passwords by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

The FinOps Foundation launches FOCUS, a new spec for sharing cloud cost data

May 3, 2023

The FinOps Foundation, a foundation under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, today announced the launch of FOCUS, the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification, a new project that aims to build and maintain a common spec for cloud cost, usage and billing data. This spec, the group argues, will provide a consistent structure for […]

The FinOps Foundation launches FOCUS, a new spec for sharing cloud cost data by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Spawning lays out plans for letting creators opt out of generative AI training

May 3, 2023

The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. Within the span of a few months, several lawsuits have emerged over generative AI tech from companies including OpenAI and Stability AI, brought by plaintiffs who allege that copyrighted data — mostly art — was used without […]

Spawning lays out plans for letting creators opt out of generative AI training by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: recycling wind turbine blades, and safeguarding AI

May 3, 2023
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. How chemists could give new life to old wind turbine blades The news: Wind turbines are crucial for addressing climate change, but when they’ve reached the end of their lives, turbine blades could…