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Best gifts for frequent travelers

What’s the best gift you can get someone? Why, the gift of travel, of course. The next best is something to enhance the travel experience. As fun and enlightening as seeing new places is, the whole part of getting there … Continue reading

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TikTok parent ByteDance reportedly values itself at $300 billion

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, valued itself at $300 billion in a recent share buyback offer, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. That number might sound familiar, as the WSJ previously reported on a … Continue reading

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Botinkit’s robot wants to cook for you

Warehouses aren’t the only places grappling with a labor crunch. Since the start of the pandemic, restaurants around the world have been grappling with staffing shortages. A number of startups have entered the picture with automation solutions, aimed at reducing … Continue reading

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SpaceX Starship: Everything you’ve ever wondered but were afraid to ask

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket has the potential to transform the commercial space economy, ensure America’s position as the global leaders in the space race, and put humans on Mars for the first time. But first it has to get to orbit. … Continue reading

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T-Mobile says it was hacked, linked to Chinese breaches of telecom networks

This is the ninth known cyberattack to target T-Mobile in recent years, according to an ongoing count by TechCrunch. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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What a second Trump term means for the future of ransomware

The U.S. government has made big strides over the past four years in the ongoing fight against the “scourge of ransomware,” as President Joe Biden described it. At the start of his term, Biden and his administration were quick to … Continue reading

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EU AI Act: Everything you need to know

The European Union’s risk-based rulebook for artificial intelligence — aka the EU AI Act — has been years in the making. But expect to hear a lot more about the regulation in the coming months (and years) as key compliance … Continue reading

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‘AI Granny’ is happy to talk with phone scammers all day

On Thursday, the UK’s largest mobile network operator, O2, introduced a chatbot designed to frustrate phone scammers. Called “dAIsy,” it mimics an older woman with all kinds of time to chat – about knitting, her cat Fluffy – with the … Continue reading

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Former TuSimple co-founder urges courts to block asset transfer to China

Xiaodi Hou, the co-founder and former CEO of self-driving trucking startup TuSimple, has urged a California district court to issue a temporary restraining order to stop the company from transferring its remaining U.S. assets to China, according to a recent … Continue reading

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OpenAI’s tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others

A lawsuit by the world’s wealthiest man against one of the fastest growing companies of all time is necessarily interesting stuff. But while the allegations are yet to be proven, the case has already exposed a batch of emails between … Continue reading

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