Google takes aim at Duolingo with new English tutoring tool

October 19, 2023

Google’s gunning for Duolingo with a new Google Search feature designed to help people practice — and improve — their English skills. Rolling out over the next few days for Search on Android devices in Argentina, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Venezuela, with more countries and languages to come in the future, the new feature […]

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Pebble’s $100k+ EV travel trailer can live off the grid for 7 days

October 19, 2023

Pebble, the California-based EV startup founded by a veteran of Apple, Cruise and Zoox, unveiled Thursday a prototype of its flagship product: an all-electric travel trailer designed for an off-grid seeking digital nomad. The so-called Pebble Flow, which was revealed virtually, is supposed to bring electrification, automation and the usability of an iPhone to the […]

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Tofu automates content creation for massive omnichannel B2B marketing campaigns

October 19, 2023

Creating the many types of content needed for large-scale B2B campaigns often result in marketers juggling dozens of tools. This makes it difficult to ensure cohesive messaging across their emails, landing pages and other materials, say the founders of Tofu. The startup wants to solve that problem, especially for small marketing teams, with a generative […]

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OpenAI debates when to release its AI-generated image detector

October 19, 2023

OpenAI has “discussed and debated quite extensively” when to release a tool that can determine whether an image was made with DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s generative AI art model, or not. But the startup isn’t close to making a decision anytime soon. That’s according to Sandhini Agarwal, an OpenAI researcher who focuses on safety and policy, […]

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Discord kills Gas, the anonymous compliments app it bought nine months ago

October 19, 2023

Discord is shutting down Gas, the anonymous compliments-based social media app it acquired back in January for an undisclosed sum. The app will officially shut down on November 7, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The news of the shut down was first reported by The Information. “We can confirm that the Gas app […]

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With X, Musk is playing the bottoms-up game

October 19, 2023

If you think Musk is ruining Twitter, then yeah, he is. That’s because he’s not in it for Twitter. He’s in it for X, and the current lovers of the platform are collateral damage.

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