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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin becomes World and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded “proof of personhood” crypto startup that scans people’s eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the “coin” from its name and is now just “World.” The startup also unveiled its next generation of iris-scanning “Orb” … Continue reading →

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All mobile phones must be hearing aid compatible under new FCC rules

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

The FCC Thursday issued rules requiring that all mobile phones — including smartphones — sold in the U.S. be compatible with hearing aids. The news comes two years after the FDA made hearing aids available to all Americans without a … Continue reading →

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Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers’ cloud products

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Missing logs could make it more difficult to identify unauthorized access to the customers’ networks during that two-week window. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, is psyched about AI, but points out that it hasn’t cured cancer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Thursday that Prabhakar Raghavan, the executive in charge of the company’s search engine and ads products, is leaving his role. Longtime Google executive Nick Fox will replace Raghavan, who will now take on the … Continue reading →

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Feds arrest man who allegedly participated in hack of the SEC’s X account, boosting Bitcoin’s price

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Eric Council Jr. and unnamed co-conspirators were allegedly behind the hack of the official @SECGov account on X. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Beyond the hype: Why Tesla’s robotaxi future faces regulatory roadblocks

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Kirsten is still out doing Kirsten things, so I (Rebecca Bellan) will … Continue reading →

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The 14 biggest take-private PE acquisitions so far this year in tech

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

A roundup of the year’s billion-dollar take-private deals in the technology sector. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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ChatGPT comes to Windows

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

ChatGPT is now on Windows. Today, OpenAI announced that it’s begun previewing a dedicated Windows app for ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform. Currently only available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users, the app is an early version, OpenAI … Continue reading →

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With $11.9 million in funding, Dottxt tells AI models how to answer

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

As we’ve reported before, enterprise CIOs are taking generative AI slow. One reason for that is AI doesn’t fit into existing software engineering workflows, because it literally doesn’t speak the same language. For instance, LLMs (aka large language models) require … Continue reading →

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