Tesla Reports Record Deliveries for the First Quarter of 2023 Following Price Cuts
The electric vehicle manufacturer reported a nearly 36% increase in deliveries for the first quarter of 2023 as compared to Q1 2022.
The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics
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. Inside India’s scramble for AI independence Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap…
Spotify is shutting down its live audio app Spotify Live
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
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
McDonald’s Closes All U.S. Offices Ahead of Impending Layoffs: Report
Employees were told to work from home Monday through Wednesday as corporate has decided to handle all layoffs and terminations virtually.
Maximize Your Online Presence: 3 Reasons Why You Must Invest in a Social Media Agency
Running social media takes a lot of time, energy and a specific set of skills that might not apply to every business owner. Rather than devote the time you could spend on your own craft/skill set to social media, you can let a social media marketing (SMM) agency handle that for you
The Great Pretender
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
Twitter’s new dog icon is sending dogecoin — sigh — to the moon
Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. You can see it for yourself on Twitter.com, where you will be greeted with a pup: The particular dog image — a shiba inu — corresponds with the logo of the dogecoin blockchain and cryptocurrency. Normally […]
Twitter’s new dog icon is sending dogecoin — sigh — to the moon by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
A decade later, this VR treadmill is finally ready to ship
As free promotion for hardware startups go, one would be hard pressed to point to something better than a $175 million Spielberg film. “It was actually Warner Bros. that had reached out to us to get two Omnis for use in the movie,” Virtuix founder and CEO Jan Goetgeluk tells TechCrunch. “We shipped them two, […]
A decade later, this VR treadmill is finally ready to ship by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
AirTree backs generative AI content creation and management platform Narrato
Generative AI is hot among venture capital firms now, with $4.5 billion invested in 2022. Narrato, a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding. Based in San Francisco, Narrato raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by AirTree Ventures, the Australian […]
AirTree backs generative AI content creation and management platform Narrato by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch
This Woman Was Drowning in Debt Before She Tried ‘Cash Stuffing.’ Now She’s Made The Highly Effective Practice a Full-Time Business.
A Texas woman was $80,000 in debt before she tried a method of budgeting called “cash stuffing.” Now, she’s not only paid off her debt but turned the budgeting practice into a full-time business to help others save.