Weather Up puts a fully interactive weather app into an iOS widget
A new weather app, Weather Up 3.0, launching today, is pushing the boundaries of what iOS 17’s interactive widgets are capable of. The app is introducing fully interactive widgets, where you can tap on the forecast displayed on the widget to see more details about current conditions or the days
Read moreDigs raises $7M for its collaboration platform for home builders
Vancouver, Washington-based Digs, a collaboration platform that provides homebuilders, vendors and — eventually — homeowners with something akin to a digital twin of a home, today announced that it has extended its $7 million seed round from 2023 with another $7 million. The new round was led by the Oregon
Read moreMore work needed to blunt public’s AI privacy concerns: Report
Organizations aren’t making much progress in convincing the public their data is being used responsibly in artificial intelligence applications, a new survey suggests. The report, Cisco Systems’ seventh annual data privacy benchmark study, was released Thursday in conjunction with Data Privacy Week. It includes responses from 2,600 security and privacy
Read moremmm.page could make you enjoy the internet again
The internet can be bad. But mmm.page might just be good. The platform is hard to explain, but it describes itself as “Tumblr x Animal Crossing x Mii Plaza,” which is somehow more accurate than my idea of “MySpace meets Linktree, except not really.” The anonymous founder, XH, told TechCrunch,
Read moreChunk Foods secures funding, Latin America deal for plant-based whole cuts
The partnership with meat and dairy producer Sigma Alimentos brings Chunk’s plant-based products to Latin America for the first time. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreMicrosoft lays off 1,900 employees in Activision Blizzard and Xbox divisions
Three months after completing its $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees in its gaming divisions. This amounts to about 8.6% of 22,000 Microsoft employees in gaming. Blizzard president Mike Ybarra also announced he will step down, now that the acquisition is finalized.
Read moreWhy Canadian provinces, territories need to regulate AI
The use of artificial intelligence in Canada’s federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments has to be regulated as much as its use in the private sector, a conference on AI in the public sector has been told. However, Stephen Troupe, CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), also
Read moreBrute force cryptanalysis
A naive view of simple substitution ciphers is that they are secure because there are 26! ways to permute the English alphabet, and so an attacker would have to try 26! ≈ 4 × 1026 permutations. However, such brute force is not required. In practice, simple substitution ciphers are breakable
Read moreBooming data analytics and AI exacerbating tech talent shortage: Survey
Nearly 77 per cent of data professionals in Canada believe that the shortage of tech talent will continue throughout 2024, a new survey by Toronto-based IT consultancy firm Adastra found. This is mainly because of the accelerated adoption of data analytics and AI. Two specific areas are impacted by the
Read morePixel 8 Pro users can now use the Thermometer app to measure body temperature
Google announced today that it’s rolling out a few new features for Pixel users. Most notably, the tech giant announced that Pixel 8 Pro users will be able to use the phone’s Thermometer app to take their temperature, or someone else’s, with a forehead scan. You can save the reading
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