Google Maps Challenges Apple’s 3D Mode with a New ‘Immersive View’ For Cities
With a preview of its new, more “immersive” viewing experience, Google today unveiled its own concept for its next-generation Google Maps in response to increased…
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Google Chrome Adds Virtual Credit Card Numbers To Keep Your Real Ones Safe
Google said today that its Chrome browser would now let users to use a fake credit card number in online payment forms. Since they may…
Coinbase’s Difficult Q1 Results Complicate Market for Crypto Startups
The erratic price swings of crypto assets were observed earlier this week by TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, which also forecasted Coinbase’s results later this week may…
Berlin’s Gethenry Breaks into Last-Mile Delivery E-Bike Scene With $17.4M Seed
Berlin-based GetHenry, a startup that offers last-mile delivery bikes powered by electricity to couriers and logistics firms, has secured $17.4 million (€16.5 million) in a…
Acoustic Levitation Breakthrough after Scientists Create Self-Correcting Levitation Device
Using sound waves to make items hover has been proposed in the past. Research has supported this, but as you might assume, this requires a…
Carvana to Cut 2,500 Staff As It Struggles With Overcapacity
The American used-car business Carvana, which garnered at least $9 million in venture funding before going public, announced 2,500 layoffs Thursday. The company’s “previously disclosed…
The Eliza Effect How a Chatbot Convinced People It Was Real Way Back In The 1960s
After growing persuaded that the company’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) had developed sentience, a senior software developer at Google was last week placed…
Nothing to Worry about Dall-E Has Created a New Cryptid Named Crungus
Last month, an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher made headlines when he claimed that Dall-E 2, a text-to-image converter, had developed its own hidden language. Another…
Graphene E-Tattoos Are a Possible Revolution in Blood Pressure Monitoring
Blood pressure control is critical, particularly for persons with cardiovascular disease and those who are older. Sphygmomanometers, on the other hand, are cumbersome, need inflated…
Tony Fadell Cleans Out His Garage
Anyone interested in seeing what I discovered when I cleaned out my garage and discovered photographs of everything I’ve ever created?” Tony Fadell sent out…
All the Tech That Got Our Attention at F1 Miami Grand Prix
The worldwide glitterati descends on Miami this weekend for the city’s debut Formula One Grand Prix. The “Netflix effect” of “Formula 1: Drive to Survive,”…
An Early Tiktok Exec Just Launched a Dating App, Spark
Alex Hofmann, the former president of musical.ly (now TikTok), has already accomplished the seemingly impossible: he assisted in the development of an app that could…
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