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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…

Tragedy has again struck a famous Silicon Valley family. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki just passed away, according to social media posts by her husband, Dennis Troper, and by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. She was 56. Wrote Troper on Facebook earlier Friday night, “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan…

India’s wearable market declined in Q2, primarily because smartwatch are not attracting consumers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

The internet is full of deepfakes — and most of them are nudes. According to a report from Home Security Heroes, deepfake porn makes up 98% of all deepfake videos online. Thanks to easy-to-use and freely available generative AI tools, the number of deepfakes online — many of which aren’t consensual — skyrocketed 550% from…

Anysphere, a two-year-old startup that’s developed an AI-powered coding assistant called Cursor, has raised over $60 million in a Series A financing at a $400 million post-money valuation, two sources familiar with the deal told TechCrunch.  The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Stocks regained their footing Thursday, rallying across the board as all three major U.S. indexes tallied major gains, though each remain well behind their all-time highs booked in July. Stocks went back up Thursday. AFP via Getty Images Key Facts The bellwether S&P 500 had its best day…