March 2024

Europe’s DMA rules for Big Tech explained

March 7, 2024

The Digital Markets Act (DMA), an ex ante European Union reform of digital competition rules, will be in force today, by midnight Brussels’ time, on six tech giants — applying a new set of legal requirements on more than 20 of their “core platform services” (CPS). Online empires that scaled in an era of minimal […]

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Apple M3 MacBook Air review: Still the best Mac for most

March 7, 2024

Before we go any further, a question: What makes a computer an AI computer? Is it simply the ability to execute AI-powered tasks? To run LLMs locally? Is it something deeper? Is any computer that is capable of running any form of artificial intelligence/machine learning fundamentally an AI computer? It’s a simple question on the […]

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Adobe is making it easier to create social content on mobile with AI

March 7, 2024

Adobe is making it easier for users to create and publish social content on mobile, as the company announced today that it’s launching the latest version of the Adobe Express app in beta. With this update, Adobe is bringing its Firefly AI models directly into the app, allowing users to quickly create and edit social […]

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The Download: hydropower’s rocky path ahead, and how to reverse falling birth rates

March 7, 2024
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. Emissions hit a record high in 2023. Blame hydropower. Hydropower is one of the world’s largest sources of renewable electricity. But last year, weather conditions caused hydropower to fall short in a major…

Sequoia’s Jess Lee will demystify product-market fit at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

March 7, 2024

Build something people want. It’s a simple concept — and one that Y Combinator loves to repeat — but one that can be hard to get right when building a startup. How strongly a technology good or service resonates with potential customers is often called “product-market fit,” or PMF. The more product-market fit you have, […]

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NYT Games debuts redesigned app to boost discovery and simplify navigation

March 7, 2024

The NYT Games app is debuting a new redesign to help users discover games and track their progress more easily. The redesign comes nearly a year after the New York Times renamed its games-focused app from “NYT Crosswords” to “NYT Games” to better represent its growing family of games. The redesign, which features new game […]

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Zama’s homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M

March 7, 2024

Homomorphic encryption, a complex technique that uses cryptographic algorithms to keep data secure as it travels around networks and to third parties, continues to elude mass-market scalability and thus adoption — not least because currently, the complexity that makes it so effective also makes it slow and hard to use widely. But in a world […]

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What to Do When You’re Completely Broke

March 7, 2024
Your gut sinks with that sinking feeling that wakes you up in the middle of the night. You’re completely and utterly broke. Everybody experiences bad luck from time to time…