IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Doomscrolling probably isn’t great for your mental health
It turns out that maybe, just maybe, spending a lot of time staring at your phone and reading bad news isn’t great for y...
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IT総合 IT総合 Dear Google, who wants an AI-written fan letter?
The first time I saw Google’s latest commercial, I wondered, “Is it just me, or is this kind of bad?” By the fourt...
IT総合 Ghostery’s CEO says regulation won’t save us from ad trackers
With Ghostery turning 15 years old this month, TechCrunch caught up with CEO Jean-Paul Schmetz to discuss the company's ...
IT総合 Apple reaches its first contract agreement with a US retail union
Two years ago, workers at an Apple Store in Towson, Maryland were the first to establish a formally recognized union at ...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Microsoft brings more generative AI to Bing
Bing is the latest search engine to introduce generative AI into its results, with Microsoft announcing that it’s making...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: What caused last week’s major tech outage?
Late last week, there was a worldwide tech outage that affected everything from airports to banks to healthcare. Flights...
IT総合 What Kamala Harris has said about AI, tech regulation, and more
With President Joe Biden dropping out of the race, Vice President Kamala Harris may become the Democrats’ new nominee. I...
IT総合 Joe Biden drops out of presidential race
President Joe Biden just announced that he no longer plans to seek reelection. “It has been the greatest honor of ...
IT総合 Bethesda Game Studios employees form a ‘wall-to-wall’ union
Employees at Bethesda Game Studios — the Microsoft-owned game developer that produces the Elder Scrolls and Fallout fran...
IT総合 Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage
Around 8.5 million devices — less than 1 percent Windows machines globally — were affected by the recent CrowdStrike out...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: OpenAI shrinks its flagship model
OpenAI is launching a mini version of its latest AI model. These small AI models are meant to be faster and more afforda...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: A Google robot shows off what Gemini can do
Google found a new way to demonstrate what its Gemini AI model can do, with help from a robot. This was a robot from Goo...
IT総合 Google reportedly in talks to acquire cloud security company Wiz for $23B
Google’s parent company Alphabet might be on the verge of making its biggest acquisition ever. The Wall Street Journal r...
IT総合 Meet the soft robots that can amputate limbs and fuse with other robots
Roboticists at The Faboratory at Yale University have developed a way for soft robots to replicate some of the more unse...
IT総合 Whistleblowers accuse OpenAI of ‘illegally restrictive’ NDAs
Whistleblowers have accused OpenAI of placing illegal restrictions on how employees can communicate with government regu...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: FTC finds ‘dark patterns’ in subscription apps
A new study from the Federal Trade Commission looks at the “dark patterns” that subscription apps and websites use to ge...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: How to protect yourself from AI scams
You probably like to think of yourself as reasonably sophisticated when it comes to online scams — you’re not opening ra...
IT総合 Epic Games CEO promises to ‘fight’ Apple over ‘absurd’ changes
It sounds like the latest dispute between Apple and Fortnite-maker Epic Games isn’t over. Epic has been fighting Apple f...
IT総合 Waymo robotaxi pulled over by Phoenix police after driving into the wrong lane
A police officer pulled over a self-driving Waymo vehicle in Phoenix after it ran a red light and pulled into a lane of ...
IT総合 Tesla makes it onto Chinese government purchase list
For the first time, Chinese government workers will be able to purchase Tesla’s Model Y for official use. Specifically, ...
IT総合 Apple reportedly working to bring AI to the Vision Pro
Apple’s AI plans go beyond the previously announced Apple Intelligence launches on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. According ...
IT総合 IRS finalizes new regulations for crypto tax reporting
Crypto platforms will need to report transactions to the Internal Revenue Service, starting in 2026. However, decentrali...
IT総合 Detroit Police Department agrees to new rules around facial recognition tech
As part of a legal settlement, the Detroit Police Department has agreed to new guardrails limiting how it can use facial...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Beware the smiling robot with living skin
Will robots ever have living, human skin? Researchers have been exploring the question and they’ve come up with some pre...
IT総合 Streaming execs think TV’s future looks a lot like its past
We’re at a transitional moment in streaming — user growth is slowing and major players are looking to consolidate, but t...
IT総合 Apple might partner with Meta on AI
As Apple enters the AI race, it’s also looking for help from partners. During the announcement of Apple Intelligence ear...
IT総合 YouTube is testing another way to combat ad blockers
YouTube continues its efforts to circumvent ad blockers. Earlier this week, ad blocker SponsorBlock posted that the Goog...
IT総合 Subscription vitamin company Care/of is shutting down
Care/of, a company offering personalized subscription vitamin packs, says it will be canceling all subscriptions as of M...
IT総合 William Anders, astronaut who took the famous ‘Earthrise’ photo, dies at 90
William A. Anders, the astronaut behind perhaps the single most iconic photo of our planet, has died at the age of 90. O...
IT総合 New York moves to limit kids’ access to ‘addictive feeds’
New York’s state legislature has passed a bill that would prohibit social media companies from showing so-called “addict...