July 4, 2025

The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics

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. Inside India’s scramble for AI independence Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap…

July 2023

Threads, a Slack alternative completely unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

July 15, 2023

Instagram’s Twitter clone Threads enjoyed a fairly fruitful first week in existence, sailing past 30 million users in the first 24 hours before passing 100 million signups within five days. And just yesterday, numbers from Data.ai indicated that Threads has now hit 150 million downloads. However, another completely unrelated app has been inadvertently thrust into […]

Threads, a Slack alternative completely unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

This week in robotics: Amazon’s iRobot deal hits an EU snag as new funding keeps hot drone summer rolling

July 15, 2023

This week brought in good news for the robotics space in the form of new investment for nascent companies, but two established players within the space hit a snag. Amazon’s potential $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, which had previously been approved by the U.K.’s antitrust regulators, is now getting an extensive review by the European […]

This week in robotics: Amazon’s iRobot deal hits an EU snag as new funding keeps hot drone summer rolling by Alyssa Stringer originally published on TechCrunch

Colleen Ballinger’s toxic gossip train won’t stop chugging on

July 14, 2023

The YouTuber apology video is an art form. A penitent creator must be remorseful, but not theatrical. Concise, but not rehearsed. Honest, but not defensive. Above all, an apology video cannot be memeable, or it’ll never be taken seriously.  Colleen Ballinger’s apology saga, however, will be one of the most memorable in YouTube history because […]

Colleen Ballinger’s toxic gossip train won’t stop chugging on by Morgan Sung originally published on TechCrunch

First Amendment org challenges restrictions on TikTok at Texas universities

July 14, 2023

Through a new lawsuit, a free speech group and research coalition that studies technology’s effect on society are pushing back against a ban on TikTok affecting government devices in the state of Texas. In the lawsuit, filed by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute on behalf of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, the allied […]

First Amendment org challenges restrictions on TikTok at Texas universities by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch