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Apple’s antitrust battle against Fortnite maker Epic Games is returning to the courtroom after both sides appealed last year’s ruling in a precedent-setting case over Apple’s alleged anti-competitive behavior. Last year, a U.S. District Court judge had largely favored Apple when ruling the tech giant was not acting as a monopolist with regard to its […]

The Epic Games-Apple antitrust battle resumes today in appeals court by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Owl Labs, a startup developing a linuep AI-powered meeting hardware, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series C round led by HP Tech Ventures (HP’s venture capital arm) with participation from Sourcenext, Matrix Partners, Spark Capital and Playground Global. The closing of the tranche marks the start of a strategic partnership with […]

Meeting camera startup Owl Labs lands $25M and partnership with HP by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Large language models (LLMs) have a dirty secret: they require vast amounts of energy to train and run. What’s more, it’s still a bit of a mystery exactly how big these models’ carbon footprints really are. AI startup Hugging Face believes it’s come up with a new, better way to calculate that more precisely, by…

A new lawsuit is taking on Apple’s data collection practices in the wake of a recent report by independent researchers who found Apple was continuing to track consumers in its mobile apps, even when they had explicitly configured their iPhone privacy settings to turn tracking off. In a proposed class action lawsuit, plaintiff Elliot Libman […]

Apple faces new lawsuit over its data collection practices in first-party apps, like the App Store by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Google paid the security researcher for reporting a bug that skirted Android lock screen protections.

A simple Android lock screen bypass bug landed a researcher $70,000 by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

It’s no secret that VC spending in 2022 did not take a page from the wild funding spree that was 2021. This year’s more measured approach has had a cooling effect — particularly on space-related startups. In Q3 alone, investments in 79 space companies hit $3.4 billion — down 44% from Q3 2021. Still, some […]

Playground, Seraphim and Root VCs talk funding trends at TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Nearly 75% of the world’s largest companies have already integrated AI and machine learning (ML) into their business strategies. As more and more companies — and their customers — gain increasing value from ML applications, organizations should be considering new security best practices to keep pace with the evolving technology landscape.  Companies that utilize dynamic…

Twitter Blue, Twitter’s paid tier, appears to be on ice at the moment as the company tries to navigate how to control it from being abused by impersonators while still promoting it as a mass market product to build out a new revenue stream among “official” users and the hundreds of millions of others who […]

Musk says orgs will soon verify affiliated accounts; Blue sign-ups and name changes will be reinstated end of this week by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

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. Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history Almost from the time the first tweet was posted in 2006, Twitter has played an important role in world events. The…

Another cell-based meat company is poised to have its meat products introduced in restaurants.

Vow’s first cultured meat product close to Singapore unveiling after $49.2M Series A by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch