June 2023

WhatsApp has introduced a new feature to automatically silence calls from unknown numbers. This comes after multiple customers in India, the chat app’s biggest market with more than 500 million users, have complained about an increase in spam calls in the last few months. On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg announced the call silencing feature along with […]

WhatsApp introduces feature to automatically silence call from unknown numbers by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Meet Gladia, a French AI startup that wants to change how companies interact with audio data. The company develops an audio transcription application programming interface (API) that you can integrate with other products and is supposed to work much better than what’s available out there. And this tech foundation unlocks new use cases around audio. […]

Gladia turns any audio into text in near real time by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Hours after rumors started circling in China about a possible stepdown of Alibaba’s chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang, the ecommerce behemoth confirmed midday on Tuesday that the executive will hand over the torch. Zhang will be replaced by Joe Tsai, Alibaba’s current executive vice chairman, as chairman, and Eddie Wu, current chairman of Alibaba’s marketplaces […]

Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang to pass the torch and focus on cloud by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

When it comes to hiring, a process that is well documented can help you avoid many of the common hiring pitfalls. This process will change over time, but when optimized, it can be part of your company playbook to allow you to scale and grow confidently.

Explorer Hamish Harding was aboard a vessel that lost contact an hour and 45 minutes into its dive towards the Titanic wreck.

Autonomous trucking company TuSimple last week successfully completed a fully autonomous semi-truck run on public roads in China without a human present in the vehicle and without human intervention. The company claims to have completed China’s first so-called “driver-out” run. This is the second time TuSimple has pulled the driver out of operations on public […]

TuSimple tests removing human driver from self-driving truck in China by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Sophia Celentano, a 21-year-old corporate marketing intern at Ogilvy Health who attends the University of Virginia, is going viral for showing viewers on TikTok how she commutes — by plane.