Land Moto accelerates its electric bike battery play with $3M infusion

Cleveland-based electric motorcycle startup Land Moto is looking to diversify by powering up the battery design side of its tech, and has raised $3 million (on top of $7 million raised last summer) to do so in 2024. Land’s primary product is a striking electric motorbike called the District, which sits somewhat at the intersection […]
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I’m sorry but you owe me 27% because I said so

This is a concept of user ownership that really rubs me the wrong way.
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Samsung Unpacked 2024: Galaxy S24 Includes Google’s Generative AI

The Galaxy S24 will retail starting at $799.99. Preorders begin today and the phone hits shelves on January 31.

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Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales ban to resume January 18

Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 sales will be halted again in the U.S. starting at 5 PM tomorrow, January 18, due to the rejection of a bid by Apple to have the sales ban paused throughout its appeal of an ITC decision that found its blood oxygen feature infringe on patents […]
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YouTube to eliminate 100 employees as layoffs at Google continue

Yet another series of layoffs has hit Google, this time at its video-sharing platform, YouTube. The company will eliminate 100 employees, a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. Last week, Google laid off more than 1,000 workers across several divisions, including engineering, services and voice-activated product Google Assistant. “As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company’s […]
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Apple again banned from selling watches in U.S. with blood oxygen sensor

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Apple antitrust suit could reportedly come as soon as March

The Justice Department is reportedly readying an antitrust case against the iPhone maker that could come as soon as March.

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EU calls for laws to force greater algorithmic transparency from music-streaming platforms

The European Parliament is calling for new rules to bring more fairness and transparency to music-streaming across the bloc, including proposals for a new bill to force streaming platforms to open up their recommendation algorithms. The bill would also require Spotify et al to make it clear where a song has been generated by artificial […]
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Prismatic lands $22M to connect disparate B2B SaaS apps

IT teams today have to juggle an enormous number of tools, apps and systems. The average company was using 130 software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps as of 2022, according to Statista — a volume that’s impacting productivity. Eighty percent of companies responding to a recent MuleSoft poll said that app integration challenges are slowing down their organization-wide […]
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Google Circle to Search and AI-Powered Multi-Search Coming to Mobile

Two new enhancements coming to Google’s search tools on phones use machine intelligence to make the search experience more efficient.

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