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Kristen Faulkner astonishing Olympic success of two gold medals stems from lessons learned from her former career as a venture capitalist, she says. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

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Meta and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced on Monday the expansion of their multi-year music licensing agreement, which enables users to share songs from UMG’s music library across Meta’s platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Horizon, Threads and WhatsApp) without violating copyright.  What’s most notable about the new agreement is that it states that the two companies are…

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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinA Cadillac Lyriq car is seen during the 19th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition … [+] in Shanghai on April 20, 2021 (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images General Motors’ second generation of its driver assist technology is…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinSomeone from Preevue Ltd. operating a FARO Focus Laser Scanner at the London Palladium. Preevue Ltd. Buying tickets to Broadway shows could soon become easier. Preevue, a leading provider of technology that allows theatergoers to get sneak peeks of the views from their seats, could soon become available at…

Susan Wojcicki, a longtime Googler who spent nearly a decade as the CEO of YouTube, passed away Friday after a two-year battle with non-small cell lung cancer. Wojcicki, who was 56, famously rented the garage of her Menlo Park home to Larry Page and Sergey Brin as they were starting Google…

Elon Musk doesn’t want Tesla to be just an automaker. He wants Tesla to be an AI company, one that’s figured out how to make cars drive themselves.  Crucial to that mission is Dojo, Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer designed to train its Full Self-Driving (FSD) neural networks…

Turkey appears to have restored access to Meta-owned Instagram, after blocking the app on August 2.  Abdulkadir Uraloglu, the country’s minister of transport and infrastructure, posted today that the ban would be lifted at 9:30pm Turkish time.  Cybersecurity monitor NetBlocks says, “Live metrics show that Instagram is being gradually restored on internet providers in #Turkey…