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iOS 16.3 Brings These New Features to Your iPhone
Apple's iOS 16.3 update is available now, and it brings new features, bug fixes and security updates to your iPhone. One of the biggest new features in iOS 16.3 means iPhone users can now use security keys to protect their Apple ID, and users should also see...
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI ask court to throw out AI copyright lawsuit
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI want the court to dismiss a proposed class action complaint that accuses the companies of scraping licensed code to build GitHub’s AI-powered Copilot tool, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a pair of filings submitted to a San...
Temu’s hot streak, Walmart’s m-commerce & an Apple XR App Store • TechCrunch
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2%...
Get a Lifetime Subscription to Dollar Flight Club Starting at $40
Are you itching to travel? Whether you fly frequently or just want to save some money on a particular trip you have in mind, Dollar Flight Club can help budget-conscious ticket-buyers find the best deals to help you travel around the world for less. Flights...
Twitter vows to take ‘less severe actions’ against rule-breaking accounts
Twitter is promising that it’ll take “less severe actions” when disciplining accounts that break its rules; it’ll only suspend Twitter accounts that engage in “severe or ongoing, repeat violations” of its rules. The company also says it’ll be letting anyone...
How US police use digital data to prosecute abortions • TechCrunch
In late April, police in Nebraska received a tip saying 17-year-old Celeste Burgess had given birth to a stillborn baby and buried the body. Officers soon learned that her mother, Jessica Burgess, and a friend had helped her with transportation and burial. The...
Mark Data Privacy Day by Locking Down Your Online Life
Yes, Data Privacy Day is a completely made-up event, but it's as good a time as any to take a good look at your online life and shore up your efforts to protect your personal digital privacy. The annual occasion, feted by cybersecurity and digital privacy...
Watermarking AI text, and freezing eggs
That’s why the team behind a new decision-making tool hope it will help to clear up some of the misconceptions around the procedure—and give would-be parents a much-needed insight into its real costs, benefits, and potential pitfalls. Read the full story....
A watermark for chatbots can spot text written by an AI
For example, since OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT was launched in November, students have already started cheating by using it to write essays for them. News website CNET has used ChatGPT to write articles, only to have to issue corrections amid accusations of...
Top tech news for Thursday, January 26, 2023
Green light.Besides Elon Musk, other businesses also have quarterly reports. Today that list includes Intel later this afternoon, and Comcast, which said it shed 440,000 TV subscribers in three months but added 365,000 customers to Xfinity Mobile.For now, we’re...
As activist investors target Salesforce, what’s next for the CRM giant? • TechCrunch
By any measure, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been a successful executive. He helped build Salesforce from the ground up, starting in an apartment in San Francisco in 1999 and eventually erecting Salesforce Tower, the tallest building in the city. He took the...