Tech Rumors

With its avatar-generating AI, Lensa has been climbing the app store hit lists and turning off artists. It turns out that using the platform to create non-consensual soft porn is possible and far too simple, which is another reason to fly the flag. The Lensa app has produced photo sets …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In March 2021, Bionaut Labs, which was established in 2017, came out of hiding with the intention of commercializing years of medication delivery robot research. The Los Angeles-based business today announced a $43.2 million Series B investment round as a follow-up to its first $20 million funding announcement, bringing its …

Musk has now revealed that there will be additional verification badges used in addition to the blue verified badge, continuing the story of Twitter Blue’s ups and downs. For recognized users, such as businesses and governments, there will now be gold and grey ticks in addition to the traditional blue …

Google Messages reactions are changing. The beta version of the app is allowing certain users to choose any Emoji as a reaction, not just the current seven. This change will likely roll out to the public in the coming weeks. If you use Google Messages, you probably like the ability …

The cybersecurity specialists at NordPass have discovered the passwords that will be used the most frequently in 2022. According to their analysis, “password” was the most frequently used password in the UK this year, appearing in over 4.9 million different places. The most widely used password in the US was …

Expanded USB and peripheral compatibility are described in a new development report by Asahi, a project to bring Linux to the Apple Silicon Mac. The most recent version of Asahi Linux, a project to adapt Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, includes additional hardware compatibility, new features, patches for “longstanding pain …

One person was killed when a driver smashed through the Apple Derby Street retail store in Massachusetts. The driver claimed that the incident was a “unfortunate accident” rather than an attack. On Monday morning, 52-year-old Bradley Rein crashed his Toyota 4Runner through the front glass of the Apple Store in …