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Wreak havoc on your favorite streamer’s game with Crowd Control

May 1, 2023

You’re streaming the Sims to your loyal Twitch followers, when suddenly, a fire ignites in the middle of your virtual home. As you scramble to put out the fire before the Sim firefighters arrive, another flame appears out of nowhere. In the Twitch chat, your fans are giggling — they have caused quite the ruckus […]

Wreak havoc on your favorite streamer’s game with Crowd Control by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

RTRO launches an algorithm-free social app for friends, creators and brands

May 1, 2023

Ahead of Meta’s launch of a text-based social network, female-founded social networking startup RTRO is launching its app this week with the goal of connecting brands, creators, and their fans and followers in a more positive environment focused on human connections and communities, not algorithm-driven content. To accomplish this, RTRO divides its social experience into […]

RTRO launches an algorithm-free social app for friends, creators and brands by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Brain scans can translate a person’s thoughts into words

May 1, 2023
A noninvasive brain-computer interface capable of converting a person’s thoughts into words could one day help people who have lost the ability to speak as a result of injuries like strokes or conditions including ALS.  In a new study, published in Nature Neuroscience by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, a model trained…

Vote for the roundtables you want at Disrupt 2023

May 1, 2023

Back in February, we started calling for content — urging startup subject-matter experts to submit applications to lead roundtable discussions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 19–21 in San Francisco. And by crikey, answer the call they did. Literally thousands of applications, dozens of late nights and gallons of coffee later, we narrowed down the […]

Vote for the roundtables you want at Disrupt 2023 by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Undercover in the metaverse

May 1, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. I recently published a story about a new kind of job that’s becoming essential at the frontier of the internet: the role of metaverse content…

Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google

May 1, 2023
Geoffrey Hinton, a VP and Engineering Fellow at Google, and a pioneer of deep learning who developed some of the most important techniques at the heart of modern AI, is leaving the company after 10 years, the New York Times reported today. Hinton, who will be speaking live to MIT Technology Review in his first…