According to a recent analysis, 2022 was the worst year yet for “climate-sceptic” content on the social media platform. According to fresh analysis, climate change lies on Twitter reached previously unheard-of heights this year. Along with growing worries about inaccurate information and hateful content that have proliferated since Elon Musk’s …
Read More »In 2023, Microsoft will increase the cost of first-party Xbox games from $60 to $70
Next month, Microsoft will offer Xbox Game Studios titles for $69.99, joining Sony, Ubisoft, and other developers. Next month, Microsoft will raise the cost of its first-party Xbox games. New full-priced Xbox Game Studios titles like Redfall, Starfield, and Forza Motorsport will start selling in 2023 for $69.99 instead of …
Read More »Three years later, Tesla finally delivers the first electric semi-trucks
The production of the electric long-hauler, which was first announced in 2017 and was scheduled to begin in 2019, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a worldwide parts shortage. The first Tesla Semi trucks were delivered to customers on Thursday at a ceremony at the company’s Gigafactory in …
Read More »The best social media app, Zenly, will sadly be discontinued on February 3rd
The popular social mapping tool Zenly, which Snap purchased five years ago, will be discontinued on February 3rd, 2023. There is nothing quite like Zenly, thus it will be a sad day. The Paris-based team succeeded in developing an app that straddled the line between a social app and a …
Read More »Stewart Butterfield, the CEO of Slack, will reportedly retire in January
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced his impending resignation in January just a few days after Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor made the same announcement. The news was initially reported by Business Insider. Salesforce has emailed TechCrunch to confirm the news. The organization also disclosed that Lidiane Jones, who has served as …
Read More »This explains why the cost of streaming Netflix, Disney Plus, and HBO Max keeps rising
A lose-lose dilemma exists. Others lose money by distributing it on their own networks, while some streamers lose money by paying to have material on their platforms. The outcome? price increases The cost of streaming services just keeps rising. This year, pricing increases were announced by Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, …
Read More »Youth “Gaming Addiction” Defeated by Strict Restrictions, According to China Report
According to a recent report by the China Game Industry Group Committee, which was covered by state media outlets, the “gaming addiction” that supposedly engulfed China’s youth has been definitively resolved by strict gaming restrictions. The report, which was made public on the official WeChat account of data provider CNG, …
Read More »Employers are spending money on technology that continuously reads brainwaves of workers to “optimize” performance
Some firms used alternate strategies to make sure they received exactly what they wanted from employees as the pandemic kept everyone indoors and a record number of individuals started working from home. On workplace computers, some employees installed “spyware,” which tracked users and revealed what they were doing online. Some …
Read More »V7 spends $33M to automate computer vision AI model training data
Ironically, creating such AI faces a significant scalability issue. Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to assist, and perhaps even replace, humans in carrying out routine jobs and solving challenges that humans have been unable to address. It has to source and absorb ever-larger data troves because it is only as good …
Read More »VerSe Innovation, funded by Google and Microsoft, decreases staff by 5% and salary
TechCrunch has verified and confirmed that VerSe Innovation, the $5 billion Indian startup that created the news aggregator Dailyhunt, the short-video platform Josh, and the hyperlocal video tool PublicVibe, has laid off 150 employees, or 5% of its 3,000-person workforce. People with knowledge of the situation told TechCrunch that the …
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