June 20, 2025

The Download: talking dirty with DeepSeek, and the risks and rewards of calorie restriction

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. It’s pretty easy to get DeepSeek to talk dirty AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but people use general-purpose chatbots for sex talk too, despite their stricter content…

Prosus in talks to sell Olx Autos business in India, other markets

March 10, 2023

Prosus is actively engaging with multiple players to explore sale of classified business Olx’s Autos unit in several markets including India and Indonesia, according to a source familiar with the matter. In a statement, the technology investor said pursuit of a global growth strategy for Olx’s automotive business “is no longer the right approach for […]

Prosus in talks to sell Olx Autos business in India, other markets by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Daily Crunch: Bach to the future – Forthcoming Apple Music Classical app will feature 5M tracks

March 9, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello crunchers! Christine is off for a few days, which means you’re stuck with just me. Prepare for awful puns and worse jokes. Oh yes.  But before we start the pun-ishment, let’s […]

Daily Crunch: Bach to the future – Forthcoming Apple Music Classical app will feature 5M tracks by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

With this brain map we are one step closer to total fruit fly simulation

March 9, 2023

In a way, fruit flies are just like us. They have eyes, legs, nervous systems, and they love fruit. Unlike us, however, they only have a few thousand neurons in their brains, which means scientists can map of just all the cells but all the connections between them — producing for the first time a […]

With this brain map we are one step closer to total fruit fly simulation by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch