81 minutes ago Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’

San Francisco startup Based Hardware announced the launch of a new AI wearable, Omi, to boost productivity during the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas this week. The device can be worn as a necklace where Omi’s AI assistant can be activated by saying “Hey Omi.” The startup also claims Omi can be attached to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 hours ago Former CEO of MoviePass’ parent company pleads guilty to fraud over ‘unlimited’ plan

The former chief executive of the parent company of MoviePass, Theodore Farnsworth, pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud and conspiracy after being accused of misleading investors over the service’s “unlimited plan.” Farnsworth also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud as the chief executive of Vinco Ventures, a publicly traded company. Helios & […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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9 hours ago Microsoft backs its $3B AI push in India with public and private sector deals

Microsoft announced a sweeping series of artificial intelligence partnerships across India’s core sectors on Wednesday, a day after pledging to invest $3 billion in the country over the next two years as it intensifies competition with rivals Google and Amazon. The tech giant’s chief executive Satya Nadella (pictured above) unveiled agreements with five major organizations […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 hours ago EU court fines European Commission for breaching its own data privacy laws

The EU court said the bloc's executive authority violated a citizen's rights by transferring some of his personal data to the U.S. without proper safeguards. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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8 hours ago UN aviation agency confirms hacker breached recruitment database to access thousands of records

ICAO says compromised data includes job applicants' names, email addresses and employment history © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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21 hours ago Xpeng Aero HT unveils ‘flying car’ that’s part van, part eVTOL at CES 2025

Xpeng Aero HT, the aerospace company under Chinese EV startup Xpeng, unveiled at CES 2025 its “modular flying car,” the Land Aircraft Carrier. It’s essentially an electric minivan with a small folding eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicle tucked in the back, which can be rolled out and launched into flight.  The company says […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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1 hour ago Microsoft rolls back its Bing Image Creator model after users complain of degraded quality

Ahead of the holidays, Microsoft said it was upgrading the AI model behind Bing Image Creator, the AI-powered image editing tool built into the company’s Bing search engine. Microsoft promised that the new model — the latest version of OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model, code-named “PR16” — would allow users to create images “twice as fast […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 hours ago Evaluating how brains generalize: Data from macaque monkeys reveals flaws in deep neural networks

Among the marvels of the human brain is its ability to generalize. We see an object, like a chair, and we know it's a chair, even when it's a slightly different shape, or it's found in an unexpected place or in a dimly lit environment.

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10 hours ago Nomupay raises $37M on a $200M valuation to build payment rails in underserved markets across Asia

Wirecard, a German fintech that raised hundreds of millions of dollars only to collapse in 2020 in a sea of scandal and insolvency, still makes headlines today as lawsuits continue against different entities and people once connected to the business. Meanwhile, a Dublin-based startup called Nomupay that was formed in 2023 out of some of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 hours ago Casio says hackers stole personal data of 8,500 people during October ransomware attack

The Japanese electronics giant says it did not negotiate with the hackers responsible for the attack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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19 hours ago Ruby Franke's Daughter Claims Her Bedroom Turned Into 'Honeymoon Suite' For Mom & Jodi Hildebrandt

Were Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt an item?? As Perezcious readers know, the business partners were charged with child abuse in 2023 for crimes done to Ruby’s children — who were also the stars of her popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers. In September 2023, one of Ruby’s sons escaped their home and ran to a [...] Read More... The post Ruby Franke's Daughter Claims Her Bedroom Turned Into 'Honeymoon Suite' For Mom & Jodi Hildebrandt -- They Were 'Sneaking Around' In 'Middle Of Night'! appeared first on Perez Hilton.

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23 hours ago At CES 2025, Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster

Uber will use Nvidia’s new generative world model simulation tool, Cosmos, and cloud-based AI supercomputing platform, DGX Cloud, to support the development of autonomous vehicle technology, the companies announced at CES 2025. Cosmos is being marketed to robotics and autonomy companies as a tool that generates physics-based videos from a variety of inputs, including 9,000 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 hours ago Facebook Marketplace to display eBay listings to appease EU regulators

Meta is set to start displaying eBay listings in its own Facebook Marketplace classifieds platform, in an effort to appease European regulators. Back in November, Meta was hit with a €798 million fine by the European Commission (EC) in Europe for breaching antitrust rules. The EC contended that Meta created “unfair trading conditions” by connecting […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 hours ago Edtech giant PowerSchool says hackers accessed personal data of students and teachers

The Bain Capital-owned edtech giant says hackers accessed its customer support portal using a "compromised credential." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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10 hours ago Nomupay raises $37M at a $200M valuation to build payment rails in underserved markets across Asia

Wirecard, a German fintech that raised hundreds of millions of dollars only to collapse in 2020 in a sea of scandal and insolvency, still makes headlines today as lawsuits continue against different entities and people once connected to the business. Meanwhile, a Dublin-based startup called Nomupay that was formed in 2023 out of some of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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8 hours ago Pacific Palisades residents respond to blazing wildfires burning across Los Angeles suburbs

Pacific Palisades residents respond to blazing wildfires burning across Los Angeles suburbs  Sky News

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19 hours ago Silicon Valley is so dominant again, its startups devoured over half of all global VC funding in 2024

For all the chatter about the decline of San Francisco, the data repeatedly shows that the area is still the best place for venture-backed startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 hours ago Healthcare analytics platform H1 has acquired Ribbon, backed by a16Z and General Catalyst

H1, a healthcare data analytics platform serving the pharmaceutical industry with data on over 10 million healthcare professionals, has acquired Ribbon, a startup that helps patients find doctors that are supported by their insurance. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The last time that Ribbon — founded in 2016 and a Y […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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16 hours ago Sam Altman’s family responds to lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted his sister

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to sexual assault accusations from his estranged younger sister on Tuesday, calling the claims “entirely untrue.” According to the Saint Louis Post Dispatch, in a new lawsuit filed Monday, Annie Altman alleges her older brother sexually assaulted her over a nine-year period in the 1990s and 2000s. The suit echoes […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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23 hours ago HR software startup OnPay was inspired by the founder’s family payroll business

In 2007, Jesse Burgess joined his family’s payroll business. He quickly noticed that the business’ six payroll clerks were getting bogged down by repetitive, monotonous tasks — and so he sought to streamline those tasks by creating workflow automation tools. Several years later, Burgess sensed an opportunity to bring the tools he developed for his […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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18 hours ago Warren presses Hegseth to answer questions about his past actions and statements

Warren asked the former Fox News host and Army veteran to respond no later than Friday to questions on allegations of past drinking, sexual assault, and mismanagement of veterans organization finances — all of which he denies. The post Warren presses Hegseth to answer questions about his past actions and statements appeared first on Boston.com.

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3 hours ago JetBlue passenger suddenly opens exit door as flight is taxiing for takeoff in Boston

Massachusetts authorities say a person on board a plane at Boston Logan International Airport that was taxiing for takeoff suddenly opened an exit door and was quickly restrained by other passengers

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23 hours ago Exclusive: How Melania Trump Landed a $40 Million Amazon Documentary Deal

Melania Trump is the brainchild behind a first of its kind, behind the scenes look at the work that goes into what a first lady does as she prepares to reenter the White House. Mrs. Trump's idea, which kicked off a kind of bidding war between major Hollywood studios, resulted in a $40 million distribution deal from Amazon. The post Exclusive: How Melania Trump Landed a $40 Million Amazon Documentary Deal appeared first on Breitbart.

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20 hours ago Allison Holker Exposes Late Husband, Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss. Shares Some Very Personal Secrets Of His And Gets A LOT Of Blowback! But

Do U agree with Perez? Allison Holker… [...] Read More... The post Allison Holker Exposes Late Husband, Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss. Shares Some Very Personal Secrets Of His And Gets A LOT Of Blowback! But appeared first on Perez Hilton.

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27 hours ago UN aviation agency ‘investigating’ security breach after hacker claims theft of personal data 

ICAO says the incident was allegedly linked to a hacker 'known for targeting international organizations' © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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5 hours ago Livestream shopping app Whatnot raises $265M, pinning valuation at nearly $5B

Whatnot, the platform that allows users to sell items such as trading cards, comics, and sneakers through live videos, announced on Wednesday that it has secured $265 million in a Series E funding round, a significant investment for a livestream shopping platform. This round puts Whatnot’s valuation at $4.97 billion. The investment marks an important […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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23 hours ago Google puts $1M into 3D design app Rooms after more than 1 million ‘rooms’ created

3D design app Rooms just landed more funding. Launched into beta in 2023, the app from ex-Google employees allows users to build and code interactive 3D rooms and mini-games using a library of more than 10,000 items, which can be further edited using the programming language Lua. Now, Google itself has invested $1 million into […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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23 hours ago Brain monitoring may be the future of work, but how it's used could improve performance or worsen discrimination

Despite all the attention on technologies that reduce the hands-on role of humans at work—such as self-driving vehicles, robot workers, artificial intelligence and so on—researchers in the field of neuroergonomics are using technology to improve how humans perform in their roles at work.

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6 hours ago Siren secures strategic funding for its socks that detect diabetic foot ulcers

After studying burn victims and war veterans, entrepreneur Ran Ma hand-made a sock that contained sensors to detect foot ulcers. Now, her company, Siren, has secured $9.5 million, with an $8 million check from lead investor Mölnlycke Health Care to further the development and adoption of its diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) prevention product. It’s now […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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24 hours ago Employer.com offers to buy failed fintech Level, a week after it makes offer for Bench

Employer.com has offered to acquire Level, a fintech startup that just last week abruptly shut down after failing to find a buyer, according to The Information. But Level is still mulling over the offer, its Employer.com CMO Matt Charney told TechCrunch. “It’s with legal,” he said. Founded in 2018 by early Square employee Paul Aaron, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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24 hours ago Mexican Security Guard Dead After Shooting at Honduran Consulate in Georgia

A shooting outside the office of the Honduran Consulate near Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday left a security guard dead and one person injured. The post Mexican Security Guard Dead After Shooting at Honduran Consulate in Georgia appeared first on Breitbart.

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15 hours ago Delta SkyMiles members can now earn miles riding with Uber, ending its deal with Lyft

Uber announced during CES 2025 a multi-year exclusive partnership with Delta Air Lines that allows SkyMiles members to earn miles when they ride with Uber or order delivery through Uber Eats in the United States. The deal means an end of Delta’s partnership with Lyft. The Uber partnership will launch in the spring, giving Uber […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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36 hours ago Rudy Giuliani is held in contempt of court in $148 million defamation case

Rudy Giuliani was found in contempt of court for failing to properly respond to requests for information as he turned over assets to satisfy a defamation ruling granted to two Georgia poll workers.

Economics

26 hours ago UK confirms plans to criminalize the creation of sexually explicit deepfake content

The U.K. is forging ahead with plans to make the act of creating sexually explicit “deepfake” images a specific criminal offence. A deepfake refers to manipulated media, often video or audio, created using AI to make someone appear to say or do something they didn’t. The U.K. had already made sharing — and the threat […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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15 hours ago Delta SkyMiles members can now earn miles riding with Uber, as deal with Lyft nears end

Uber announced during CES 2025 a multi-year exclusive partnership with Delta Air Lines that allows SkyMiles members to earn miles when they ride with Uber or order delivery through Uber Eats in the United States. The deal means an end of Delta’s partnership with Lyft. The Uber partnership will launch in the spring, giving Uber […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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27 hours ago Withings launches BPM Vision, a $130 home blood pressure monitor, at CES 2025

Withings has made a name for itself by making clinical grade health technologies accessible to consumer. This week at CES 2025, the firm revealed two new products that fit the description nicely, one hardware and one software. BPM Vision is the more notable. It’s a travel size home blood pressure monitor, complete with interchangeable arm […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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16 hours ago Allison Holker Accused Of 'Disgracing' tWitch After Revealing Deeply Personal Secrets

Allison Holker is receiving some major backlash after opening up about what the late Stephen “tWitch” Boss was going through behind closed doors. On Tuesday, the mom of three revealed she found an array of skeletons in her late husband’s closet after he passed away First, there was a “cornucopia” of drugs hidden away in [...] Read More... The post Allison Holker Accused Of 'Disgracing' tWitch After Revealing Deeply Personal Secrets -- See Her Response! appeared first on Perez Hilton.

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39 hours ago Report: Texas Cop Seriously Injured While Jumping on Escaping Suspect's Car

A Texas police officer suffered a serious brain bleed after falling off the back of a car allegedly being driven by a fleeing suspect in a shocking video. The post Report: Texas Cop Seriously Injured While Jumping on Escaping Suspect’s Car appeared first on Breitbart.

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18 hours ago Poll: Majority of U.S. Parents Support Reducing Size, Influence of Department of Education

The survey comes after Donald Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail to abolish the Department of Education. The post Poll: Majority of U.S. Parents Support Reducing Size, Influence of Department of Education appeared first on Breitbart.

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40 hours ago Shooter at Honduran Consulate in Georgia Kills One and Injures Another

The police arrested the person they believe opened fire outside the entrance to the consulate, which is near Atlanta.

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18 hours ago CES 2025 Day 1: Honda, BMW, X’s victory lap, and the first show floor gadget reveals

CES 2025 is officially underway in Las Vegas. Monday’s press day saw keynotes from Samsung, Nvidia, Toyota, and Sony, among others, while Tuesday was all about the exciting new gadgets on the show floor. TechCrunch reporters are on the ground giving you the latest reveals at the conference.  Below, you’ll find a list of the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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19 hours ago Lurie’s new S.F. public safety chief accused of driving under the influence in lawsuit

Lurie’s new S.F. public safety chief accused of driving under the influence in lawsuit  San Francisco Chronicle

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19 hours ago AWS says it’ll invest ‘at least’ $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia

On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, said that it plans to invest “at least” $11 billion in Georgia to expand its infrastructure to support various cloud computing and AI technologies. AWS estimates that its investment will create roughly 550 jobs in the state. “AWS is proud to expand our operations in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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20 hours ago FTC accuses gig work app Handy of misleading ads and opaque fees for workers

The FTC and New York’s attorney general have accused Handy, the gig app customers can use to book cleaners, handymen, and more, of making deceptive claims about how much workers could earn through its platform. In a complaint filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the FTC […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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21 hours ago Internal watchdog found Trump DOJ officials may have tried to influence 2020 election

DOJ officials during the first Trump administration may have leaked private information to media outlets in a bid to influence the 2020 election, a watchdog report says.

Politics

21 hours ago Chinese VCs are hounding failed founders to claw back their investments

In the US, it’s accepted that most startups fail – and when that happens, VCs (generally) accept their losses and move on. But that’s not the case in China, where VCs are trying to claw back their investments in failed startups by pursuing the personal assets of their founders in court, The Financial Times reports. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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21 hours ago Physician governor urges Capitol Hill to block RFK Jr.'s confirmation: 'Our children's lives depend on it'

Questions over the likelihood of Kennedy's confirmation took a turn this week after GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, the incoming chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, called out the potential future HHS Secretary for being "wrong" on the issue of vaccines.

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21 hours ago Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise $2B at $60B valuation, led by Lightspeed

OpenAI rival Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new capital in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to The Wall Street Journal. The round, which The Journal reports would value Anthropic at $60 billion, would bring Anthropic’s total raised to $15.7 billion, going by Crunchbase’s data. It would also […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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22 hours ago Trump: Carter was a 'very fine' person but Panama Canal moves were 'a big mistake'

President-elect Trump criticized Jimmy Carter's diplomacy that led to the Panamanians regaining control of the PCZ nearly 100 years after Teddy Roosevelt helped the U.S. take it over.

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