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Good design has a habit of making things simple—sometimes too simple. You may look at the first iPod, for example, and marvel at its minimalist elegance without having to consider who designed it, where it was made and by whom, what materials it required, or even how long it would work.  The ease of use…

After looking at Twitter’s struggle with impersonation problems when Elon Musk relaunched Twitter Blue, Mark Zuckerberg is putting guardrails before launching Meta Verified. Earlier this week, the company announced its subscription plan, which is set to be available for users in New Zealand and Australia in the next few days. If you pay for Meta […]

Meta Verified won’t let you change name, username or profile photo for now by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

U.K.-based Amadeus Capital Partners and Austria’s Apex Ventures are pooling their collective venture capital (VC) resources for a new fund specifically targeted at early-stage deep tech startups.  The duo have raised an initial €28 million ($30 million) for the Amadeus Apex Technology Fund, with plans to close it out at €80 million ($85 million). The […]

European VC firms Amadeus and Apex partner for €80m early-stage ‘deep tech’ fund by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Blindingly amplifying views or posts on social media is one of the key reasons for the rapid spread of misinformation. Over the years, prominent figures have posted or retweeted false information on Twitter. The social network is now giving a chance to withdraw a retweet for such instances through a new Community Notes — its […]

Twitter will send a notification when a tweet you replied to or retweeted gets a Community Note by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI is quietly launching a new developer platform that lets customers run the company’s newer machine learning models, like GPT-3.5, on dedicated capacity. In screenshots of documentation published to Twitter by users with early access, OpenAI describes the forthcoming offering, called Foundry, as “designed for cutting-edge customers running larger workloads.” “[Foundry allows] inference at scale […]

OpenAI’s Foundry will let customers buy dedicated compute to run its AI models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Forecasting earthquakes is complex, relying on specialized analysis of minute signals from the Earth’s crust. Cancer treatment is also a highly complex field, involving thousands of researchers and billions of dollars worldwide. Either would be enough to fill the waking hours of any scientist. But the work of Jie Zhang, PhD ’97, a geophysicist and…

A new tweet by Twitter owner Elon Musk suggests the company is preparing to open source its algorithm as soon as next week — unless, of course, it’s all a joke. (One never knows these days!) However, Musk has been a longtime proponent of the idea that Twitter’s recommendation algorithm should be open sourced, having […]

Elon Musk suggests Twitter could open source its algorithm ‘next week’ by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Soylent, which is profitable and had been growing over the past few years, is Starco Brands’ third acquisition in six months.

Soylent acquired by Starco Brands as nutrition company shifts into its ‘natural next stage’ by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Across the 17-year history of Clarkesworld, a renowned literary magazine of science fiction and fantasy, authors have speculated about how evolving, futuristic technology will impact our world. Now, editor and publisher Neil Clarke is living through a debacle that could very well be a sci-fi story in its own right: His magazine in being uncontrollably […]

Science fiction publishers are being flooded with AI-generated stories by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch