Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has yet to call a vote on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. | Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images More than a dozen smaller tech companies, including Proton and DuckDuckGo are urging lawmakers to pass comprehensive antitrust legislation “as soon as possible.” For them, passing the bill would kill two…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Intel is working on making its Thunderbolt technology support a throughput of 80Gbps. That would put it on par with the upcoming USB4 Version 2.0 specification and double the throughput of today’s Thunderbolt 4. Intel showed a video of the “first test system” using a Thunderbolt connection running at 80Gbps today, Tom’s Hardware…
Enlarge (credit: Géza Bálint Ujvárosi / EyeEm via Getty) Cooks love their gadgets, from countertop slow cookers to instant-read thermometers. Now, there’s increasing interest in magnetic induction cooktops—surfaces that cook much faster than conventional stoves, without igniting a flame or heating an electric coil. Some of this attention is overdue: Induction has long been popular…
It’s clearer than ever that Amazon thinks its labor solutions are robotic. Amazon Amazon announced its latest robotics industry acquisition, Cloostermans, last Friday—the latest in a string of high profile business deals signaling the company’s continuing efforts to automate both its warehouse labor force and retail products. Founded in Belgium in 1884 as textile repair…
With just 15-30 seconds of someone’s voice, you can theoretically sound just like them. Davis Sánchez on Pexels The growing attention given to AI deepfake technology in recent years has primarily focused on visual trickery. Think videos able to uncannily superimpose a person’s face onto the body of another, surreal art generation based on user…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups. The feature allows large Messenger groups to organize chats into categories, including audio and video channels for real-time discussion, admin-only chats for announcements and event chats. Like Discord, Community Chats are designed to make it easier to keep…
Ashwin Ramasamy Contributor Share on Twitter Ashwin Ramasamy is the co-founder of PipeCandy, an online merchant graph company that discovers and analyzes business and consumer perception metrics about DTC brands and e-commerce companies. More posts by this contributor Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem…
If you’re a university- or college-level student who believes the future of finance is crypto — or even if you’re just crypto curious — pack a bag and head to Miami for TC Sessions: Crypto on November 17. Why? Well, for starters, TechCrunch (of Disrupt and Startup Battlefield fame) brings its considerable talent for attracting…
Apple has released another round of security updates to address vulnerabilities in iOS and macOS, including a new zero-day flaw that is being actively exploited by attackers. The zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-32917, allows a malicious app to run arbitrary code on an affected device with kernel privileges, Apple said in a security advisory on Monday,…
This morning’s Nintendo Direct was full of upcoming game announcements, but one in particular stood out to fans: the long-awaited sequel to “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” is coming to the Nintendo Switch on May 12, 2023. The new game will be called “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.” “Breath…