Monthly Archives: January 2024

Fantuan acquires Chowbus’ food delivery business

With the acquisition comes a partnership between Fantuan and Chowbus that will meld each of their strengths with local Asian restaurants. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public

From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom drama, it declined to provide them.

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Elo Life Systems grabs another $20.5M to get its monk fruit sweetener to market

Elo Life is focused on a number of technologies from developing plant-based sweeteners to crop protection. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google announces new AI-powered features for education

Google announced a bunch of new features for classroom management, accessibility, and AI-powered features for creating questions and lesson plans as part of the Bett ed-tech event in the UK. AI-powered features Google already allows teachers to add questions to … Continue reading

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Meta Quest headsets outsold PSVR2 by 30-1 over the holiday season

VR remains on the fringe of gaming, which it has done for the past several years. Headsets are freely available and there are some games such as Elite Dangerous and just about any car racing game that benefit hugely from … Continue reading

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eBay job cuts: Around 1,000 layoffs at tech giant

eBay has become the latest tech giant to announce mass layoffs in the first month of 2024. The online marketplace has this week confirmed it plans to reduce its workforce by approximately 1,000 – equating to roughly 9% of its … Continue reading

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Diablo IV Season 3 Unique drops revealed

With Season 3 of Diablo IV underway and adventurers are already powering their way through the new threat facing Sanctuary, Blizzard has snuck in some new unique item drops throughout the game. There are six new uniques in total, one … Continue reading

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Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them.

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India’s Zee Entertainment urges Sony to restore blockbuster merger, sues over termination

Sony earlier this week called of the transaction with Zee Entertainment, which is reported to be worth $10 billion.

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Learn How to Code From Novice-Friendly Courses for Just $50 Through 1/28

Learning to code can be so easy with the classes in this bundle; most were designed for novices, and others will take you further when you’re ready.

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