April 2024

The impact of TikTok’s ban in other countries could signal what’s ahead for the U.S.

April 25, 2024

On April 24, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill that would ban TikTok if its owner ByteDance doesn’t sell the app. The bill requires ByteDance to secure a deal within nine months, with a 90-day extension available to close it. After this deadline, the U.S. will bar app stores from listing the app. TikTok […]

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Petlibro’s new smart refrigerated wet food feeder is what your cat deserves

April 25, 2024

Ding, ding, ding! Dinner is served. Fresh out of the cold tin can. Petlibro, a pet tech startup that designs automatic food and water dispensers for cats, launched its first refrigerated smart feeder on Thursday. The company’s new “Polar Wet Food Feeder” aims to solve a widely known problem among pet owners: how to keep […]

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Carv raises $10M Series A to help gamers monetize their data

April 25, 2024

Carv, a data layer platform that lets web3 gaming and AI companies, as well as gamers, control and monetize their data, has raised a $10 million Series A round led by Tribe Capital and IOSG Ventures.  Carv’s new round comes approximately five months after it received a strategic investment led by HashKey Capital. The startup […]

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The Download: hyperrealistic deepfakes, and clean energy’s implications for mining

April 25, 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. An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary Until now, AI-generated videos of people have tended to have some stiffness, glitchiness, or other unnatural elements that make…