Spotify is shutting down its live audio app Spotify Live

April 3, 2023

Spotify is shutting down its live-audio app Spotify Live, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The company says it will continue to explore live features on its main platform. The news was first reported by Music Ally. “After a period of experimentation and learnings around how Spotify users interact with live audio, […]

Spotify is shutting down its live audio app Spotify Live by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter’s new homepage logo is very doge-y

April 3, 2023

Breaking news: a 51-year-old man has made a joke that reeks of the same sophistication a 13-year-old boy might bring to Reddit. After Twitter’s botched attempt to remove legacy blue checkmarks from verified accounts that don’t pay for Twitter Blue, it seems the platform has set its sights on more juvenile coding endeavors. Yes, Twitter’s […]

Twitter’s new homepage logo is very doge-y by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

The Great Pretender

April 3, 2023

There is a good reason not to trust what today’s AI constructs tell you, and it has nothing to do with the fundamental nature of intelligence or humanity, with Wittgensteinian concepts of language representation, or even disinfo in the dataset. All that matters is that these systems do not distinguish between something that is correct […]

The Great Pretender by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch