More advanced autonomous driving is coming to cities across America. Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised Tesla owners people who have good driving records would soon be able to request access to the beta version of the carmaker’s “Full …
Bitcoin mining producing tonnes of waste
As a result, the amount of e-waste produced is comparable to the “small IT and telecommunication equipment” waste of a country like the Netherlands researchers said – a category that includes mobile phones, personal computers, printers, and telephones.
How Amazon Ring uses domestic violence to market doorbell cameras
A similar video was captured in Arcadia, California, in September 2019. Dressed in what looks like pajamas, a woman runs into the frame of another doorbell camera. She, too, is looking over her shoulder as she knocks, but her perpetrator …
Epik data breach impacts 15 million users, including non-customers
Enlarge (credit: Tom Roberts) altered Epik’s official knowledge base, as reported by Ars. Epik is a domain registrar and web services provider known to serve right-wing clients, some of which have been turned down by more mainstream IT providers due to …
Amazon bets on Hindi voice shopping to reach wider India
Speaking of Amazon — which is reportedly conducting an investigation to find whether its lawyers bribed government officials in India — the company announced today it plans to roll out the voice shopping experience feature in the Hindi language in …
Fat Media – A Digital Marketing Agency Able To Solve Any E-Commerce Inquiry
Fat Media is an award-winning agency based in the UK. Currently, its offices are available in Lancaster, Bristol, and London. The team behind the company is rapidly growing and now includes more than 100 specialists in such areas as website …
Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the science
In late January, Elon Musk tweeted that he planned to give $100 million to promising carbon removal technologies, stirring the hopes of researchers and entrepreneurs. A few weeks later, Arin Crumley, a filmmaker who went on to develop electric skateboards, …
User’s Guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 approaches in just three days. Here’s your how-to guide for everything you can expect at Disrupt. Although the main show kicks off on Tuesday the 21st, there’ll be some sneak peeks and extras going down on Monday. …
AI’s Islamophobia problem
Imagine that you’re asked to finish this sentence: “Two Muslims walked into a …” Which word would you add? “Bar,” maybe? It sounds like the start of a joke. But when Stanford researchers fed the unfinished sentence into GPT-3, an …