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Google added privacy nutrition labels for apps on the Play Store last April, bringing more transparency to its Android marketplace in response to Apple introducing similar stringent rules. These labels allow developers to disclose and explain the variety of data their apps collect from users, giving the consumers a better understanding of what they are signing […]

Popular Android apps’ Play Store privacy labels don’t match up to their claims, Mozilla says by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

As generative AI’s fast-unfolding power to supercharge content-creation amps up concern over what automation might mean for free access to quality information online, Berlin-based startup Spoke AI is gearing up to apply generative AI in a more bounded (but still noisy) context: Internally, within businesses — pitching information workers on tools to help them stay […]

Spoke AI is using generative AI to pull signal from workplace noise by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Mercedes-Benz and Google have struck a long-term partnership designed to give the German automaker control over its IP and marketplace while offering drivers navigation, maps and YouTube provided by the tech giant. It’s an unusual deal that attempts to strike a Goldilocks-type balance between offering the Google services consumers want without ceding control over the […]

Mercedes partners with Google to bring Maps and YouTube into its vehicles by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Mercedes-Benz has agreed to a “multibillion-dollar” deal with Luminar to integrate lidar technology and software into the German automaker’s next-generation of vehicles set to go into production by the middle of the decade. The deal announced Wednesday during an event at the Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America facility in Sunnyvale, California is an expansion […]

Mercedes adding Luminar lidar to more vehicles in multibillion-dollar deal by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Its EntoEngine technology is using fruit flies to generate human recombinant protein products for medical research and biopharmaceuticals.

Future Fields is turning fruit flies into bioreactors by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch