User Interviews, which helps companies recruit survey participants, raises $27.5M

December 20, 2022

Most companies agree that user experience is important. In a 2019 report from UserZoom, 70% of enterprise CEOs said that they see user and customer experience as a competitive differentiator. But figuring out what exactly users want — and what frustrates them — can prove to be a challenge. Customer satisfaction and market research surveys […]

User Interviews, which helps companies recruit survey participants, raises $27.5M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon and EU settle two antitrust cases, including one focused on merchant data abuse

December 20, 2022

The European Commission (EC) has announced that it has reached an agreement with Amazon over a duo of antitrust probes, one that will enshrine commitments made by Amazon in European Union (EU) antitrust legislation. The initial probe kicked off back in 2018, when regulators launched enquiries into how Amazon was leveraging non-public data from third-party […]

Amazon and EU settle two antitrust cases, including one focused on merchant data abuse by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: home robot surveillance, and problematic AI text

December 20, 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 Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where…

Petals is creating a free, distributed network for running text-generating AI

December 20, 2022

BigScience, a community project backed by startup Hugging Face with the goal of making text-generating AI widely available, is developing a system called Petals that can run AI like ChatGPT by joining resources from people across the internet. With Petals, the code for which was released publicly last month, volunteers can donate their hardware power […]

Petals is creating a free, distributed network for running text-generating AI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

TikTok’s new feature will tell you why a particular video appeared in your For You feed

December 20, 2022

TikTok is launching a new feature that allows users to see why a particular video was recommended to them in their For You feed, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature is designed to bring more context to content recommended in For You feeds, TikTok says. To understand why a particular video has been […]

TikTok’s new feature will tell you why a particular video appeared in your For You feed by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Creating an Army Of Digital Banking Literates

December 20, 2022
Establishing the infrastructure for the future of banking and financial services is a necessity. Nevertheless, the growth of this sector depends on improved technical capacity and digital proficiency. Although the use of technology is progressing, digital literacy is lagging