Twitter rival Mammoth adds a personalized For You feed to make its Mastodon client feel familiar
While Instagram Threads is making headlines for adding a chronological Following feed to its Twitter-like app, another popular Mastodon client is doing the opposite — it’s adding a new algorithmic For You feed instead. Mammoth, one of the apps co-founded by a former Twitter app developer and now backed by
Read moreYouTube offers new NFL Sunday Ticket deal for Verizon customers
Verizon and YouTube announced Wednesday a new NFL Sunday Ticket offering for new Verizon mobile and home internet customers. Starting July 27, new Verizon customers who sign up for eligible home internet (Fios 1 Gig, Fios 2 Gig, 5G Home Plus and LTE Home Plus) or mobile services will get
Read moreAWS launches new healthcare-focused services, powered by generative AI
Amazon is expanding its range of health-focused apps and services with a platform that offers AI tools to help clinicians transcribe and analyze their conversations with patients. At its annual AWS Summit conference in New York, Amazon unveiled AWS HealthScribe, an API to create transcripts, extract details and create summaries
Read morePowerX Appoints Ted Miller as Non-Executive Director
PowerX Technology Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Ted B. Miller Jr. as a Non-Executive Director. Ted Miller, an active investor in infrastructure tech, also advises the US Autonomy Institute, fostering intelligent autonomous infrastructure development. He’s also the Chairman of Visual Intelligence, using advanced aerial drone sensors to
Read moreEgnyte is bringing generative AI capabilities to its storage platform
Egnyte introduced some new generative AI tools today, and revealed more of what’s coming on the AI roadmap. The company also pointed out that it has been incorporating AI into the platform for over a decade, and is not simply jumping on the bandwagon of the moment. Today, it’s announcing
Read moreVolkswagen takes stake in Xpeng as part of Chinese EV deal
VW Group announced Wednesday a pair of deals with Chinese automakers aimed at shoring up sales in China. The German automaker said it will invest $700 million into Chinese automaker Xpeng as part of a deal to jointly develop and produce two mid-sized EVs for China. Volkswagen will acquire a
Read moreSource: Crowdstrike is close to acquiring Bionic.AI for between $200M and $300M
It sounds like another M&A deal is about to go down in the world of cybersecurity. Sources tell TechCrunch that Crowdstrike is in advanced negotiations to acquire Bionic.AI — a security posture management platform for cloud services — for between $200 million and $300 million. A deal has yet to
Read moreElon Musk Announces Twitter Rebranding to ‘X’
Twitter social media platform, now under the ownership of Elon Musk, has signaled at the possible change of name in the future. Reports claim that the social media company plans to rebrand by replacing the infamous bird logo with an ‘X’. This comes after Musk reveals that advertising revenue nearly
Read moreRIP Digits, the New York Times math game
The New York Times announced last week that it will stop making Digits, a math puzzle game that debuted in beta in April. The last of these daily math puzzles will go up on August 8. Digits is a fun game. It earned a slot in my daily rotation of
Read moreBlackRock and Reliance’s finance unit to form asset management venture
The world’s largest asset manager is re-entering India — and it’s doing so in a partnership with India’s richest man. Jio Financial Services and BlackRock said Wednesday they have agreed to form a joint venture, called Jio BlackRock, as the Indian conglomerate Reliance’s finance unit begins the lucrative asset management
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