December 2023

Google moves to end geofence warrants, a surveillance problem it largely created

December 16, 2023

Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law enforcement to tap Google’s vast banks of location data to identify potential criminals. The use of so-called “geofence warrants” have exploded in recent years, in large […]

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Robotics Q&A with UC Berkeley’s Ken Goldberg

December 16, 2023

For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson Part 2: Toyota Research Institute’s Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake Part 3: Meta’s Dhruv Batra Part 4: Boston Dynamics’ Aaron Saunders Ken Goldberg is […]

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Robotics Q&A with Nvidia’s Deepu Talla

December 16, 2023

A version of this q&a first appeared in TechCrunch’s free robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.  We’re wrapping up our end-of-year robotics Q&A series with this entry from Deepu Talla. We when I paid a visit to NVIDIA’s Bay Area headquarters, back in October. For more than a decade, Talla has been the chip giant’s Vice […]

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Stock Trading Plan AFTER the Fed Meeting

December 16, 2023
If you were to ask Chairman Powell if there is a “dovish tilt” by the Fed who would say emphatically no. That is because they are open to raising rates…