HTC takes on Apple’s Vision Pro and PC Gaming with $1,000 Vive Focus Vision
The Vive Focus Vision has enough firepower under the hood to appeal to PC gamers tethered via the DisplayPort. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreFisker reverses course on making Ocean owners pay for recall repairs
The reversal comes as EV startup Fisker prepares to enter the fourth month of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreThree new ways to personalize your iPhone’s Home Screen in iOS 18
iOS 18 offers the most control over the look and feel of your iPhone's user interface than any other version of Apple's mobile operating system to date. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreLinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service
LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the US — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions’ data privacy rules — have an opt-out toggle in their settings screen disclosing that LinkedIn scrapes personal data to
Read moreThis Week in AI: Why OpenAI’s o1 changes the AI regulation game
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s been just a few days since OpenAI revealed its latest flagship generative model, o1, to the world. Marketed as a “reasoning” model, o1 essentially takes longer to “think” about questions
Read moreLuminate’s hair-saving chemo helmet nears release, as new funding goes toward home cancer care
The pitch sounds a bit sci-fi: a helmet called Lily that people undergoing chemotherapy wear to prevent the hair loss, which is a common side effect of the treatment. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: Everything you need to know about iOS 18
It’s time to upgrade your iPhone to iOS 18. We know – updating your phone is annoying, and sometimes those software downloads can take a weirdly long time. But if you like customization and fun perks like iMessage text effects, it’s worth the upgrade. And if you’re often texting friends
Read moreYouTube launches Communities, a Discord-like space for creators and fans to interact with each other
At its Made on YouTube event on Wednesday, the company announced a new dedicated space for creators to interact with their fans and viewers. The space, called “Communities,” is kind of like a Discord server built into a creator’s channel. With Communities, YouTube is hoping creators won’t need to use
Read moreAmazon adds PayPal as a payment option to Buy with Prime
Amazon’s Buy with Prime program, which lets shoppers with a Prime membership purchase items from third-party stores and check out using their Amazon account, is getting a new payment option: PayPal. Today, Amazon announced that Prime customers can use PayPal to check out on websites that’ve integrated the Buy with
Read moreEdera is building a better Kubernetes and AI security solution from the ground up
Edera, a startup looking to simplify and improve how Kubernetes containers and AI workloads are secured by offering a new hypervisor, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures. Kubernetes is now 10 years old, but Edera founders Ariadne
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