IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: This robotic wheelchair can climb stairs
Korea’s Institute for Machinery and Materials unveiled a pretty cool robotic wheelchair this week. By creating a complia...
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IT総合 IT総合 Facebook says, ‘How do you do, fellow kids?’
Back in my day, Facebook was cool. Gaggles of middle schoolers trolled the local mall, where we would stop into the Appl...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: X lost 40 million monthly active users after Brazil ban
Bluesky has gained 2 million new users over the last week, which can only mean one thing: something fishy is going on at...
IT総合 Bitcoin ATMs are a hotbed for scams, FTC says
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a report about increasing fraud at Bitcoin ATMs. These ATMs allow people to...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Here’s why AI has a hard time spelling ‘strawberry’
Is AI going to take my job one day? I hope not. But in the meantime, I can do something that ChatGPT can’t: I can spell ...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: The company behind Pokémon GO wants to build a 3D map of the world
Niantic wants to build a richer 3D map of the world, and it’ll use its 2021 acquisition of Scaniverse to do that. After...
IT総合 Why AI can’t spell ‘strawberry’
How many times does the letter R appear in the word “strawberry?” According to formidable AI products like G...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is returning home empty
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are stuck aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after their test fligh...
IT総合 Apple will replace CFO Luca Maestri next year
Apple announced today that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will step away from his executive role, effective Januar...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Tech billionaires want to build a utopian city in California
A crew of tech billionaires have been trying to get the California Forever project off the ground, which would create a ...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: AI could help design and test F1 cars faster
Formula One teams are looking at a startup called BeyondMath to bring their car construction to the next level. BeyondMa...
IT総合 This founder had to train his AI not to Rickroll people
Flo Crivello was monitoring outputs from the AI assistants his company Lindy makes when he noticed something strange. A ...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: This startup wants to mine water on the moon
Meet Starpath, a startup that wants to make it possible for you to live on Mars one day. Starpath is building robo...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Ikea is expanding its fleet of inventory drones
If you went 20 years into the past and asked someone what we’d be using drones for now, they’d probably guess that we’d ...
IT総合 Thirty-nine state AGs now support Live Nation-Ticketmaster lawsuit
The United States Department of Justice filed a major lawsuit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster in May, arguing that the ...
IT総合 Could Trump’s AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement be illegal?
On Sunday, former President Donald Trump posted a collection of memes on Truth Social — the platform owned by his ...
IT総合 Biden tells creators they have something traditional media does not: ‘You’re trusted’
At the first ever White House Creator Economy Conference, the most popular man to drop by was not a TikTok superstar or ...
IT総合 Controversial internet bill KOSA passed by Senate
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has passed in the Senate after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pushed the interne...
IT総合 MatPat, the first big YouTuber to successfully exit his company, is lobbying for creators on Capitol Hill
Though MatPat retired from YouTube, he’s still pretty busy. In fact, he’s been spending a lot of time on Capitol Hill.
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IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Meta’s new ‘Imagine me’ feature lets you generate AI selfies
Meta’s AI integrations into apps like Instagram and Facebook have felt pretty useless so far. If I’m just trying to find...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: A UK school was reprimanded for unlawful use of facial recognition technology
Today’s story takes us to a high school on the outskirts of Essex, which has ended up on the wrong side of the UK’s GDPR...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Where Kamala Harris stands on tech issues
This weekend, President Biden announced that he would suspend his campaign for president, and he endorsed his vice presi...
IT総合 There’s a lot more to the Kamala Harris memes than you think
“You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” says Vice President Kamala Harris in a now infamous clip. An overlay of...
IT総合 The CrowdStrike outage is a plot point in a rom-com
There’s a man in Florida right now who wants to propose to his girlfriend while they’re on a beach vacation. He couldn’t...
IT総合 From the Sphere to false cyberattack claims, misinformation runs rampant amid CrowdStrike outage
This serves as an example for how easy it is to spread inaccurate information online during a time of immense global con...
IT総合 Communia bets social media can be good for you
Olivia DeRamus is flipping the script: What if scrolling through social media didn’t make us miserable? What if, especia...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Over 100k YouTube videos have been scraped to train AI for Apple, Nvidia
What do MrBeast, John Oliver and the Wall Street Journal have in common? The transcripts of their YouTube videos have be...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: This startup wants to make Wordle for chess
If you play Wordle every day but also happen to enjoy chess, we’ve got great news for you. Echo Chess, a game buil...
IT総合 TechCrunch Minute: Whistleblowers say OpenAI employs ‘illegally restrictive’ NDAs
Trouble could be on the horizon for OpenAI. A group of whistleblowers accused OpenAI of requiring its employees to sign ...
IT総合 Hank Green reckons with the power — and the powerlessness — of the creator
Hank Green has had a while to think about how social media has changed us. He started making YouTube videos in 2007 with...