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Flock Safety’s solar-powered cameras could make surveilliance more widespread Flock Safety is a multi-billion dollar startup that’s got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the company’s new Solar Condor cameras, those eyes are solar-powered and using wireless 5G networks to ...

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Flock Safety's solar-powered cameras could make surveillance more widespread | TechCrunch

Flock Safety is a multibillion-dollar startup that's got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the company's new Solar Condor cameras, t...

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Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist As part of an investigation into people involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, the Spanish police obtained information from the encrypted services Wire and Proton, which helped the au...

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Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch

Spanish police requested information from Apple, and encrypted services Proton and Wire, about a pro-Catalan independence activist.

techcrunch 2 years ago

Google Deepmind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is not only more accurate, bu...

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Google DeepMind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app | TechCrunch

Google DeepMind has taken the wraps off a new version of AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavio...

techcrunch 2 years ago

The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. And I was able to tell within about 30 seconds of turning it...

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The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point | TechCrunch

I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January.

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Ex-NSA hacker and ex-Apple researcher launch startup to protect Apple devices Two veteran security experts are launching a startup that aims to help other makers of cybersecurity products to up their game in protecting Apple devices. Their startup is called DoubleYou, the name ...

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Ex-NSA hacker and ex-Apple researcher launch startup to protect Apple devices | TechCrunch

Patrick Wardle and Mikhail Sosonkin want to sell specific tools to cybersecurity companies focused on protecting Apple devices.

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Biden signs bill that would ban TikTok if ByteDance fails to sell the app President Biden has signed a bill that would ban TikTok if its owner, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it within a year. The bill includes aid for Ukraine and Israel. U.S. Senators passed the bill 79-18 on lat...

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Biden signs bill that would ban TikTok if ByteDance fails to sell the app | TechCrunch

President Biden has signed a bill that would ban TikTok if its owner, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it within a year.

techcrunch 2 years ago

Framework’s repairability philosophy is set to expand beyond the laptop Framework Computer was ahead of the curve. The company was founded in 2019, as 20 U.S. states began exploring potential right to repair bills. It delivered its first product, the Framework 13, in 2021...

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Framework's repairability philosophy is set to expand beyond the laptop | TechCrunch

Framework Computer was ahead of the curve. The company was founded in 2019, as 20 U.S. states began exploring potential right to repair bills. It

techcrunch 2 years ago

US government says security flaw in Chirp Systems’ app lets anyone remotely control smart home locks CISA said Chirp Systems ignored the federal agency and the reporting security researcher. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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US government downgrades bug in Chirp Systems app that contained hardcoded password | TechCrunch

CISA said Chirp Systems ignored the federal agency and the reporting security researcher.

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Post News, the a16z-funded Twitter alternative, is shutting down Post was backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator, but the platform never disclosed how much it raised. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pers...

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Post News, the a16z-funded Twitter alternative, is shutting down | TechCrunch

Post was backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator, but the platform never disclosed how much it raised.

techcrunch 2 years ago

TechCrunch Minute: Meta’s new Llama 3 models give open-source AI a boost New AI models from Meta are making waves in technology circles. The two new models, part of the Facebook parent company’s Llama line of artificial intelligence tools, are both open-source, helping the...

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Watch: Meta's new Llama 3 models give open-source AI a boost

Meta's new AI models are here, as part of a series of announcements from the company as it integrates AI further with Facebook and Instagram.

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How to play Pokémon and other Game Boy games on your iPhone Apple finally updated its App Store guidelines to allow global developers to host retro game emulators on iOS. Now, you don’t need to jailbreak your iPhone or download any sketchy software — you can g...

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How to play Pokémon and other Game Boy games on your iPhone | TechCrunch

After decades of jailbreaking and sideloading, Apple finally will let you download emulators from the iOS App Store.

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Cherub, an angel investing community inspired by dating apps, entices investors and founders to pair up Jaclyn Johnson and Angeline Vuong were on a hike deliberating how hard it can be for people to get started in angel investing when they realized they had stumbled upon a startup idea. © 2024 TechCrun...

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Cherub, an angel investing community inspired by dating apps, entices investors and founders to pair up | TechCrunch

Cherub is a online membership-based community that matches founders and angel investors based on their preferences.

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Substack’s Notes feature is getting more Twitter-like capabilities Substack is adding new capabilities to its Twitter-like Notes feature that bring it more in-line with the social network now known as X. The company announced on Tuesday that users can now post videos...

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Substack’s Notes feature is getting more Twitter-like capabilities | TechCrunch

Substack is adding new capabilities to its Twitter-like Notes feature that bring it more in-line with the social network now known as X.

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Open-source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse While the launch of a survey isn't necessarily a commitment to federating Ghost, it is another signal pointing to the broader reshaping of the web that's now underway. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights r...

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Open source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse | TechCrunch

While the launch of a survey isn't necessarily a commitment to federating Ghost, it is another signal pointing to the broader reshaping of the...

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Elon Musk plans to charge new X users to enable posting Elon Musk is planning to charge new X users a small fee to enable posting on the social network and to curb the bot problem. In reply to an X account that posted about changes on X’s website, Musk sai...

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Elon Musk plans to charge new X users to enable posting | TechCrunch

Elon Musk is planning to charge new X users a small fee to enable posting on social networks and curb the bot problem.

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OpenAI expands to Japan with Tokyo office and GPT-4 model optimized for the Japanese language OpenAI is expanding to Japan, announcing today a new Tokyo hub and plans for a GPT-4 model optimized specifically for the Japanese language. The ChatGPT-maker opened its first international office in ...

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OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, adds GPT-4 model optimized for Japanese | TechCrunch

OpenAI is expanding to Japan, announcing today a new Tokyo hub and plans for a GPT-4 model customized specifically for the Japanese language.

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WhatsApp trials Meta AI chatbot in India, more markets WhatsApp is testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with users in India and some other markets, signalling its intentions to tap the massive user base to scale its AI offerings. The...

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Meta trials its AI chatbot across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger in India and Africa | TechCrunch

Meta has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing Meta AI, its large language model-powered chatbot, with WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger users...

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Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integration Threads. Mastodon. Bluesky. Substack Notes. Post. Nostr. Spoutible. There’s no shortage of X competitors in the months following the acquisition of the text-based social network formerly known as Twit...

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Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integration | TechCrunch

Lyrak is a new X rival that aims to differentiate itself by focusing on real-time news and monetization options for creators.

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Meta confirms that its Llama 3 open-source LLM is coming in the next month Meta's Llama families, built as open-source products, represent a different philosophical approach to how AI should develop as a wider technology. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...

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Meta confirms that its Llama 3 open source LLM is coming in the next month | TechCrunch

Meta's Llama families, built as open-source products, represent a different philosophical approach to how AI should develop as a wider technol...

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Meta’s X competitor Threads invites developers to sign up for API access, publishes docs After opening its developer API to select companies for testing in March, Meta’s Twitter/X competitor Threads is now introducing developer documentation and a sign-up sheet for interested parties ahea...

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Meta's X competitor Threads invites developers to sign up for API access, publishes docs | TechCrunch

After opening its developer API to select companies for testing in March, Meta's Twitter/X competitor Threads is now introducing developer doc...