CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (where users type the characters they see in a box amid other squiggles); image recognition (youβre selecting, say, all the squares in a grid with a bicycle image); and checkbox [β¦]
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Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors. TechCrunch has gotten a peek at an internal SpaceX document about such a tender offer from May 2022. Musk posted on X last month that SpaceX holds such sales for employees about [β¦]
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. After a bumpy few years following Robinhoodβs 2021 IPO β a period during which shares of the commission-free trading app plummeted by more than 90% after it abruptly restricted trading in some meme stocks βΒ the 12-year-old company was just declared Yahoo Financeβs [β¦]
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Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in β or excluded from β its AI training data. But 7 months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day. Called Media Manager, the tool would βidentify copyrighted text, [β¦]
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For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the human race. But in 2024, those warning calls were drowned out by a practical and prosperous vision of generative AI promoted by the tech industry β a vision that also benefited their wallets. [β¦]
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Accel has raised $650 million for its eighth India fund as the U.S. venture firm expands its investment strategy in the South Asian market. The new fund follows the firmβs seventh India fund secured in March 2022. Accel β which has backed companies including e-commerce group Flipkart, food delivery platform Swiggy and software group Freshworks [β¦]
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Late Tuesday evening, a federal judge blocked tech lobbying group NetChoiceβs challenge to Californiaβs recently enacted law, SB 976, which prohibits companies from serving βaddictive feedsβ to minors. The effect of this decision is that beginning Wednesday, companies will be prohibited from serving an addictive feed to a California-based user they know to be a [β¦]
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Conservative activists claim X is censoring them for being critical of its owner, Elon Musk.
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When a company releases a new AI video generator, itβs not long before someone uses it to make a video of actor Will Smith eating spaghetti. Itβs become something of a meme as well as a benchmark: Seeing whether a new video generator can realistically render Smith slurping down a bowl of noodles. Smith himself [β¦]
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TechCrunchβs Found podcast, which has brought listeners the stories behind the startups since April 2022, released its final episode today. Iβve been one of the hosts of Found since November 2022 and in that time have spoken to more than 75 founders about the startups they are building. These founders hail from many different backgrounds [β¦]
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A New York Times investigation found that dozens of potential pedophiles have prolifically exploited the child influencer industry.
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Elon Musk had an eventful 2024, what with his hard push into right-wing politics and leveraging his X social media platform and considerable influence to help Donald Trump win the presidential election. Putting politics aside for a moment, itβs worth focusing on another Musk pastime: making promises for Tesla. The Tesla CEOβs promises β and [β¦]
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On December 27, a Waymo robotaxi and a Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery robot collided at a Los Angeles intersection, according to a video thatβs circulating on social media. The footage shows a Serve bot crossing a street in West Hollywood at night and trying to get onto the sidewalk. It reached the curb, backed up [β¦]
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One last mega-deal closed out an eventful 2024. On Tuesday, World Wide Technology (WWT), a tech services company based in St. Louis, announced it has agreed to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in a deal that values the latter at $1.8 billion CAD (~$1.25 billion). The deal, which is all-cash, was unanimously approved by Softchoiceβs [β¦]
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Ah, 2024: the year we debated how to pronounce βhawk tuah,β pondered the health benefits of eating rocks, and held space for a Broadway showstopper. It was a year when the discourse could feel shockingly pure and joyful β at least for a few minutes, before we all came tumbling back down to reality. Online [β¦]
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Lumen says there is 'no evidence' that customer data was accessed during the intrusion
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French food delivery startup Epicery will cease operations Tuesday, after one last holiday season hurrah for its clients and the local food businesses that were using the platform during its nine years in business in exchange for a 25% commission. In a message announcing the decision to customers earlier this month, Epiceryβs team said that [β¦]
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These simple cybersecurity resolutions can help keep your startup protected from most malicious hackers.
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India has once again pushed back a contentious plan to limit major technology companiesβ control of the nationβs digital payments system, extending a regulatory uncertainty that has weighed on the sector for years. The National Payments Corporation of India said on Tuesday it would extend the deadline for implementing a 30% cap on any individual [β¦]
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India has removed restrictions on WhatsAppβs payments service in a significant victory for Meta in its largest market by users as the social media giant seeks to compete with entrenched fintech rivals. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the payments body overseeing the popular instant payments rail called UPI, said Tuesday that WhatsApp can [β¦]
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