Thanksgiving 2022 online sales pip past forecasts at $5.3B, up 2.8% on last year, mobile accounted for 55% of all purchases

November 25, 2022

Analysts and e-commerce leaders have been predicting a muted online holiday shopping season this year, with sales in the first three weeks of November essentially flat over a year ago due to a weaker economy, inflation, and more people returning to shopping in stores again in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. But looking at […]

Thanksgiving 2022 online sales pip past forecasts at $5.3B, up 2.8% on last year, mobile accounted for 55% of all purchases by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Be like Gmail? Proton Mail will soon offer email categorization, message scheduling, and more

November 25, 2022

Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite of privacy-focused products including email, has teased a fairly substantial upgrade for its flagship Proton Mail and calendar services. Although Proton has expanded into cloud storage and VPNs through the years, encrypted email remains Proton’s bread and butter — and that is arguably the most interesting facet of its latest […]

Be like Gmail? Proton Mail will soon offer email categorization, message scheduling, and more by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: AI conquers Minecraft, and babies after death

November 25, 2022
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. A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing The news: An AI that binged on 70,000 hours of people playing Minecraft has learned how to play the…

A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing

November 25, 2022
OpenAI has built the best Minecraft-playing bot yet by making it watch 70,000 hours of video of people playing the popular computer game. It showcases a powerful new technique that could be used to train machines to carry out a wide range of tasks by binging on sites like YouTube, a vast and untapped source…

UK to criminalize deepfake porn sharing without consent

November 25, 2022

Brace for yet another expansion to the UK’s Online Safety Bill: The Ministry of Justice has announced changes to the law which are aimed at protecting victims of revenge porn, pornographic deepfakes and other abuses related to the taking and sharing of intimate imagery without consent — in a crackdown on a type of abuse […]

UK to criminalize deepfake porn sharing without consent by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

We can now use cells from dead people to create new life. But who gets to decide?

November 25, 2022
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. Peter Zhu was just 19 years old when he died following a skiing accident in West Point, New York. His donor card made clear he had wanted to donate his organs. But…

Elon Musk says Twitter’s new multicoloured verification will launch next week

November 25, 2022

After messing up the first launch of Twitter’s “power to the people” verification system, Elon Musk said that the social network will tentatively roll out a new multicolored verification system next week. The owner of Twitter said that, under this scheme, companies will get a gold checkmark, government officials will get a grey checkmark — […]

Elon Musk says Twitter’s new multicoloured verification will launch next week by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

A new wave of Solo GP VCs is coming to Europe and Hypernova hopes to power it

November 25, 2022

The US has had solo VC fund managers for many years but the trend is only just starting to catch on in Europe. One of the newest is Underline Ventures, started this year by Bogdan Iordache in Romania. His career trajectory towards being a Solo GP fits the profile: a former entrepreneur, a key player […]

A new wave of Solo GP VCs is coming to Europe and Hypernova hopes to power it by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch