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Two widow founders launch DayNew, a social platform for people dealing with grief and trauma

April 23, 2024

After losing their husbands in devastating and unexpected ways, Karine Nissim and Eloise Bune D’Agostino discovered there were no suitable places where people could go to face all the challenges that surface during the grieving process, including daunting tasks such as organizing a funeral ceremony and donating belongings, as well as scouring the internet for […]

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Amazon wants to host companies’ custom generative AI models

April 23, 2024

AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing business, wants to be the go-to place companies host and fine-tune their custom generative AI models. Today, AWS announced the launch of Custom Model Import (in preview), a new feature in Bedrock, AWS’ enterprise-focused suite of generative AI services, that allows organizations to import and access their in-house generative AI models […]

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Amazon launches a new grocery delivery subscription in the U.S

April 23, 2024

Amazon said today that it has launched a new grocery delivery subscription for Prime Members and customers with an EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) in the U.S. across 3,500 cities and towns. The company started testing grocery delivery in three locations last year, including Denver, Colorado; Sacramento, California; and Columbus, Ohio The subscription costs $9.99 per […]

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Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data

April 23, 2024

Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo GenZ users, a new study by Mozilla pointed out. Researchers reviewed dating apps in terms of privacy in 2021. In the latest report, they noted that dating apps have become more data-hungry and intrusive. The organization studied […]

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Adobe claims its new image generation model is its best yet

April 23, 2024

Firefly, Adobe’s family of generative AI models, doesn’t have the best reputation among creatives. The Firefly image generation model in particular has been derided as underwhelming and flawed compared to Midjourney, OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, and other rivals, with a tendency to distort limbs and landscapes and miss the nuances in prompts. But Adobe is trying […]

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TechCrunch Space: Engineering the future

April 22, 2024

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Don’t worry – we’ll be diving into the Mars Sample Return news shortly.

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Here are the 30+ startups showcasing at HAX’s May 1 Demo Day

April 22, 2024

A few weeks back, TechCrunch ventured out to New Jersey to pay an early visit to HAX’s Newark offices. As much as I complained about the 90-minute commute in from Queens, it’s nothing compared to the last time I paid a visit to the SOSV-run hardware accelerator’s Shenzhen space. HAX’s China operations have shrunk considerably […]

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