Online Dating Scammer Steals $1.8 Million from His Victims. Women ‘Fed Lie After Lie.’
Another Tinder Swindler strikes again, promising his romantic hookups lucrative investment opportunities.
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…
Tesla has a home battery to sell you, with or without solar
Tesla is opening up Powerwall home battery sales, nearly two years after limiting them because its supply was “too low.” Tesla announced its backup battery tech long ago, in 2015, explicitly intending for the product to work in tandem with solar panels. Yet up until 2021, the automaker also allowed folks to buy the big […]
Tesla has a home battery to sell you, with or without solar by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch
New to the C-Suite? Here Are 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming CEO
For those just beginning the leadership journey, a little insight can go a long way.
Reddit has been down for hours
Social media platform Reddit is experiencing an outage that is affecting its website and app, according to the company’s status page and to whomever has tried to load the platform. Reddit has been down since at least 12:18 pm PDT. The company has identified an internal systems issue and a fix “which may take some […]
Reddit has been down for hours by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
California agency must provide Tesla with details of racial bias investigation
California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) must provide Tesla with details of the investigation it conducted prior to filing a lawsuit against the company for racial discrimination, a judge has ruled. The CRD first sued Tesla in February last year after receiving several allegations that Tesla’s Fremont factory was a racially segregated workplace where Black workers […]
California agency must provide Tesla with details of racial bias investigation by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Daily Crunch: Meta’s ‘year of efficiency’ continues as CEO announces plans to dismiss 10,000 more workers
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Daily Crunch: Meta’s ‘year of efficiency’ continues as CEO announces plans to dismiss 10,000 more workers by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
The Number of Households Making $150,000 a Year and Renting Has Gone Up 87% Since 2016
The rental market is reportedly becoming more and more geared toward wealthy people.
Regulators are taking a harder look at those insider stock sales by SVB execs
The Justice Department and SEC are investigating the stock sales that officers of Silicon Valley Bank made days before the bank failed, according to both the WSJ and the NYTimes. The probes are reportedly in their preliminary phase and both outlets note that it’s common to investigate prearranged stock selling plans when the sales take […]
Regulators are taking a harder look at those insider stock sales by SVB execs by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch
GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why
OpenAI has finally unveiled GPT-4, the San Francisco-based company’s next-generation large language model. Its last surprise hit, ChatGPT, was always going to be a hard act to follow, but the company has made GPT-4 even bigger and better. Yet how much bigger and why it’s better, OpenAI won’t say. GPT-4 is the most secretive release…
California Restaurant Goes Viral For ‘Insane’ List of Demands on Job Listing: ‘Do Not Apply If You’ll Need Nights Off Because Your Grandma Poisoned You’
The Tonga Hut in Palm Springs, California, is generating buzz over its very specific list of demands for a future server.