With iPhone 14 Pro, your screen can always be on

You know what sucks? Having to turn your phone’s screen on just to check whether you have notifications or to check the time. With the new Apple iPhone 14 Pro and iOS 16, Apple introduces its &#

Yelp launches revamped feed with AI-powered business summaries

Yelp is releasing new features as part of its winter release, which includes a more visual feed, AI-powered summaries of businesses, and number masking while contacting businesses for better privacy.

Yelp rolls out AI-powered search updates and the ability to add videos to reviews

Yelp announced today that it’s introducing a series of new updates, including an enhanced AI-powered search experience and the ability to add videos to reviews. Yelp says it can now better under

Meta open sources an AI-powered music generator

Not to be outdone by Google, Meta has released its own AI-powered music generator — and, unlike Google, open-sourced it. Called MusicGen, Meta’s music-generating tool, a demo of which can

That 30-slide deck won’t cut it anymore

Founders are ditching the narratives around purpose, problem and solutions.

The week in AI: Apple makes machine learning moves

Keeping up with an industry as fast moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with n

5 trends in VC funding for pre-seed startups

Compared to H1 2022, so far this year, VCs are spending 12% less time poring over pitch decks, but founders haven’t slowed down: 16% more decks were sent out.

AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot

You’ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein — with a synthesized voice that&#821

Wyze launches version 3 of its $20 security camera

Wyze first made a name for itself when it launched its $20 indoor security camera a few years ago. Since then, the company branched out into other smart home products, ranging from doorbells to scales

This Week in Apps: Users pan Snapchat’s AI, Bluesky has a moment, Apple wins antitrust appeal

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as c

GameSnacks, from Google’s Area 120, brings fast, casual online games to developing markets

A new project called GameSnacks is launching today from Google’s in-house incubator, Area 120, with the goal of bringing fast-loading, casual online games to users in developing markets. Billion

OpenAI’s new experiments in music generation create an uncanny valley Elvis

AI-generated music is a fascinating new field, and deep-pocketed research outfit OpenAI has hit new heights in it, creating recreations of songs in the style of Elvis, 2Pac, and others. The results ar

Porsche’s Mission E Cross Turismo is the EV crossover you want

Porsche unveiled a new concept version of its forthcoming Mission E all-electric car today at at the Geneva Motor Show. The Mission E Cross Turismo is a crossover utility vehicle with all-wheel drive,

The Militarization Rate Of Technology And Elon Musk’s AI Worries

We recently marked the 112th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first powered, manned flight. The flight lasted 12 seconds. That one-fifth of a minute has continuously reverberated throughout techn

With Hykoo, You Can Combine Video And Text To Create 12-Second Short Films

Despite all the mobile video apps out there, Gary Krieg said there's still something missing — a need he's trying to fill with his new app <a target="_blank" href="http://hykoo.co">Hykoo</a>.

Cord Project Launches Voice Messaging App That Borrows The Good Parts Of Texting

With <a target="_blank" href="http://cord.im">the Cord Project</a>, a pair of former Googlers are aiming to encourage people to use their smartphones for something a little unusual — talking to othe

Alibaba Smashes Its Record On China’s Singles’ Day With $9.3B In Sales

Today is Singles' Day in China. In case you missed the media hype and have no idea why November 11 (11/11) is significant -- think of it of a mash-up of all of North America's biggest e-commerce sales

The 250 New Emoji? Here’s What They’ll Look Like

Yesterday afternoon, the Unicode Consortium published a list of 250 new Emoji that they hope Google, Apple, Twitter and the rest will all come to embrace. Spiders! Middle fingers! "Man in business sui

#Love: My First Experience With Internet Porn

Pornographic media has existed since the dawn of time, but it has never been as widely available and accessible as it is today. That's largely due to the internet, which provides a launch pad for our

The Most Important M’s In M-Commerce

A few customer groups are driving a disproportionate share of growth in smartphone use and mobile transactions. For entrepreneurs looking to build the next billion dollar m-commerce company, it pays t
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