Comfort Electric, Uber’s premium electric vehicle service, is being rolled out to 14 additional markets in the United States and Canada. Customers in 40 different regions across North America can now reserve a sleek, eco-friendly ride. Luxury electric vehicles, including the Tesla Model S, Model 3, Model X, and Model …
Read More »How quick! Microsoft uses artificial intelligence to promote products through Bing Talk
Bing Chat, Microsoft’s latest search agent powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, “explores” and includes advertisements in its responses. These sponsored results are labeled as such, but it still raises the question of how far we have progressed from the first generation of search engine advertisements. Microsoft’s official blog post today acknowledged …
Read More »Google’s new ad transparency hub will archive an advertiser’s past campaigns
Search, Display, and YouTube ads from verified advertisers can now be found in a single unified hub on Google’s new Ad Transparency Center. Accessible via this link or the My Ad Center page, the new transparency hub provides information about when and where a particular brand’s ads were shown, as …
Read More »GitHub eliminates its Indian engineering team
As part of Microsoft’s cost-cutting measures in response to weakening global market conditions, the popular developer platform GitHub has laid off nearly its entire engineering team in India. According to a source with knowledge of the situation, the developer company has laid off more than a hundred workers in the …
Read More »Twitter is dying
It’s been five months since Elon Musk overpaid for Twitter, a comparatively obscure microblogging service. Due to its unmatched capacity to disseminate real-time information and make knowledge accessible, the platform had outperformed itself in terms of sheer user numbers. It might seem like the only place online that truly matters …
Read More »Microsoft lets cybersecurity generative AI run amok
Microsoft unveiled Security Copilot today as part of its ongoing effort to incorporate generative AI into all of its products. This new tool promises to “summarize” and “make sense” threat intelligence. Microsoft promoted Security Copilot in a vague statement as a mechanism to correlate attack data while prioritizing security problems. …
Read More »Alternative to the TikTok ban? Lemon8, an Instagram rival owned by ByteDance, makes the Top 10 of the US App Store
The parent firm of TikTok, ByteDance, is pushing one of its social platforms into the Top Charts of the U.S. App Store as U.S. politicians advance with their plans for a ban or forced sale of the app. The Instagram competitor Lemon8, which is owned by ByteDance and bills itself …
Read More »Apple Music Classical is now available for download to everyone
Apple’s new app for classical music, Apple Music Classical, is now available for download. The app is free for everyone, but you need an Apple Music subscription. Notably, it is not available in countries like China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan and Turkey. The company said that there are more than …
Read More »Techstars-backed Fez Delivery gets funding to scale its last-mile logistics platform
Fez Delivery, a Lagos-based last-mile logistics startup with hubs across Nigeria, has raised $1 million led by pan-African investor Ventures Platform with participation from Voltron Capital, Acasia Ventures and other angel investors. Founder and CEO Seun Alley, in a statement, said the company plans to use the seed investment to …
Read More »Elon Musk says Twitter will only show verified accounts on its algorithmic timeline
In the latest chapter in the saga of Elon Musk and his strange Twitter decisions, the social network’s CEO has declared that Twitter will only show verified accounts on the algorithmic “For You” timeline starting April 15. In a tweet, Musk justified the move by saying this was the “only …
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