Hashtag Trending Jun.21-Over 100,00 ChatGPT accounts on sale on the dark web; Employees believe companies are slow to adopt new technologies; Are we finally getting flying cars?
Over 100,000 ChatGPT accounts found for sale on the dark web, Employees claim companies are too slow to adopt new technologies and yes, finally, we might actually get those flying cars. These and more top tech news stories from Hashtag Trending and Tech News Day. I’m your host Jim
Read moreAmazon will hold its Prime Day shopping event on July 11-12
Amazon announced today that it will host the annual Prime Day shopping event on July 11-12. The company typically offers a lot of discounts to customers to boost sales numbers during this event. The company said the event will start on July 3 a.m. EDT and run through July 12.
Read moreHow Amazon beat Walmart — and who might beat Amazon: talking with reporter Jason Del Rey
Jason Del Rey has spent the last 15 years reporting on e-commerce businesses, including Walmart and Amazon. Now, in a new book that hit shelves today called Winner Sells All, he tells the broader story of Walmart — which long focused on preserving what it had built — and its
Read moreRoblox invites its community to build mature experiences for 17+ users
Roblox is well aware that its young users are getting older, and the company is making every effort to grow up along with them. The platform, once synonymous with younger kids, announced Tuesday that it would allow creators to build mature content designed for users age 17 and up. To
Read moreInstagram now finally allows users to download public Reels
Instagram is finally letting users download Reels posted by others so they can share them outside the app. Rival short video app TikTok has had this feature for years and gained popularity by people watching short videos with the app’s watermark outside the platform. On Tuesday, the company’s head Adam
Read moreMusk says looking to bring Tesla and Starlink to India after meeting with PM Modi
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk says the firm is looking to invest in India and bring the electric carmaker to the country “as soon as humanly possible.” Musk said he had a “very good” conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday and is hopeful that they will be
Read moreHPE leaps onto the generative AI bandwagon with GreenLake for LLMs
In what Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) president and chief executive officer (CEO) Antonio Neri said is “one of the boldest bets in the history of our company,” today at HPE Discover, the company announced HPE GreenLake for Large Language Models (LLMs), which brings the company into the realm of artificial
Read moreAvaya beefs up exec team, launches Azure-hosted cloud offering
A new and invigorated Avaya Holding Corp. is taking shape, as witnessed by the announcement Friday of three new executives joining the company and the launch of the Avaya Enterprise Cloud yesterday at the company’s partner and user conference, Avaya Engage, in Orlando. Joining the organization are Amy O’Keefe, who
Read moreTexas says state-funded EV chargers must include Tesla plugs
Texas will require electric vehicle charging companies to include Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) and the Combined Charging System (CCS) standard in order to qualify for a state program to electrify highways through federal funds, Reuters reports. “The decision by Ford, GM, and now Rivian to adopt NACS changed
Read moreCruise rolls out Android app for robotaxi service
Android phone users finally have access to Cruise’s robotaxi service, which is predominately in San Francisco as well as in Austin and Phoenix. The self-driving unit under GM said Tuesday that it has developed an Android app to support its robotaxi service. The company tweeted that it has started onboarding Android
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