Podcasters can now upload their RSS feed to YouTube

February 8, 2024

Podcast creators can now submit their RSS feed to YouTube and YouTube Music, the company revealed in a video uploaded to its Creator Insider channel. It was previously announced in August that support was coming for RSS feeds. The functionality was available as an invite-only beta test last year. The move to embrace RSS feeds […]

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Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations

February 8, 2024

Your phone’s camera is as much software as it is hardware, and Glass is hoping to improve both. But while its wild anamorphic lens creeps to market, the company (running on $9.3 million in new money) has released an AI-powered camera upgrade that it says vastly improves image quality — without any weird AI upscaling […]

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Plaid’s new president hails from Cloudflare, has IPO experience

February 8, 2024

Plaid has named Jennifer (Jen) Taylor, who most recently served as Cloudflare’s Chief Product Officer, as its first president. The move is notable in that it comes just months after the fintech startup hired former Expedia CFO Eric Hart to serve as its first chief financial officer. The hiring of a CFO is a step […]

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Security flaw in a popular smart helmet allowed silent location tracking

February 8, 2024

The maker of a popular smart ski and bike helmet has fixed a security flaw that allowed the easy real-time location tracking of anyone wearing its helmets. Livall makes internet-connected helmets that allow groups of skiers or bike riders to talk with each other using the helmet’s in-built speaker and microphone, and share their real-time […]

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GM hires ex-Tesla battery guru Kurt Kelty to help with its Ultium problems

February 8, 2024

General Motors has hired battery expert and ex-Tesla executive Kurt Kelty to be the automaker’s new vice president of batteries — a brand new role for the company. His first day will be February 19. Kelty will join GM at a time when the company has struggled to increase the output of the battery packs […]

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