Technology

UK Spring Budget: Chancellor plans £1M annual AI prize, quantum investments, and a new £900M ‘exascale’ computer

March 15, 2023

The U.K.’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget — delivered on the same day that teachers, transportation workers, civil servants and others were on strike across the country — sought to strike a note of its own: optimism in the face of many signals to the contrary. With the U.K. narrowly predicted to […]

UK Spring Budget: Chancellor plans £1M annual AI prize, quantum investments, and a new £900M ‘exascale’ computer by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Snapchat adds new parental controls that block ‘sensitive’ and ‘suggestive’ content from viewing by teens

March 15, 2023

Snapchat launched parental controls on its app last year through the new ‘Family Center’ feature. Today, the company announced through a post on its online Privacy and Safety Hub it will now add content filtering capabilities that will allow parents to restrict teens from being exposed to content identified as sensitive or suggestive. To enable […]

Snapchat adds new parental controls that block ‘sensitive’ and ‘suggestive’ content from viewing by teens by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

How to Create a High-Converting Product Landing Page

March 15, 2023
Technology has changed the digital marketing landscape forever. We now have more ways than ever before to communicate company and product benefits. Marketers can improve on-site engagement and sales when they use the tools they have at their disposal.

The Download: GPT-4 is here, and metaverse marriages

March 15, 2023
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. GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why OpenAI has finally unveiled GPT-4, a next-generation large language model that was rumored to be in development for much of last year.…

Once scammed for ten grand, this VC is building a crypto security vault

March 15, 2023

One of the barriers to bringing cryptocurrency into the mainstream is the frequency of fraud in the space. Last year alone, over $3.9 billion worth of crypto was “lost”, according to an industry report, even though the number was already down roughly 50% from the year before. Francois Le Nguyen, an angel investor and former […]

Once scammed for ten grand, this VC is building a crypto security vault by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Grafana acquires Pyroscope and merges it with its Phlare continuous profiling database

March 15, 2023

Open source observability platform Grafana Labs today announced that it has acquired Pyroscope, the company behind the eponymous open source continuous profiling platform. Founded in 2020, the Y Combinator-backed Pyroscope raised a seed round in 2021 and counts the likes of Sensor Tower, Confluent, Line and Plaid among its customers. Grafana plans to integrate Pyroscope […]

Grafana acquires Pyroscope and merges it with its Phlare continuous profiling database by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Quora’s Poe is launching subscriptions to let you chat with GPT-4 powered bot

March 15, 2023

Yesterday, OpenAI unveiled its new GPT-4 model and competitor Anthropic unveiled its own ChatGPT competitor Claude. Parallelly, Quora announced that its chatbot app Poe will now have a paid tier that will let you ask questions to bots powered by these models. Poe subscriptions will set you back $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year, […]

Quora’s Poe is launching subscriptions to let you chat with GPT-4 powered bot by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices

March 15, 2023

GitHub has published its own internal guides and tools on how to go about setting up an open source program office (OSPO). The new GitHub-OSPO repository on GitHub (where else?) is aimed at businesses in the first year of setting up their inaugural OSPO, and includes everything from policies covering contributor license agreements (CLA) to […]

GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

This couple just got married in the Taco Bell metaverse

March 15, 2023
Last month, Sheel Mohnot and Amruta Godbole got married. This was no ordinary wedding, though. It was hosted on Decentraland, a virtual platform, and sponsored by Taco Bell.  I tried to attend. As a reporter covering virtual spaces and a fellow Indian-American, I was intrigued. Weddings are very important in Indian culture, and I wanted…