Longplay rolls out a big refresh to its album-focused music app
Love listening to full-length albums instead? Longplay, an indie music app from developer Adrian Schoenig that focuses on the album-listening experience, is out today with a significant update that improves on the album-playing app first launched in 2020. While the original version offered a unique music discovery experience by offering
Read MoreGoogle now blurs explicit imagery in Search results by default
Google is finished rolling out its new SafeSearch feature that blurs explicit imagery, such as violent or sexual photos, by default. The company announced back in February that it would be rolling out the change later this year, and has now confirmed in a blog post that it is available
Read MoreMaking an impact: the Women in the IT Channel celebrates four new Hall of Fame honourees
This week, Channel Daily News hosted its annual Women in the IT Channel recognition luncheon at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Ont. to celebrate the achievements of women in the channel. The theme of the event was ‘Making an Impact’. Four honourees were recognized and added to the Women
Read MoreX wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history
Image: The Verge X, the platform previously known as Twitter, is expanding the amount of data it collects on users. The social network has updated its privacy policy to include carveouts for “biometric information” and “employment history,” as spotted by Bloomberg. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use
Read MoreMTN Group Names Marina Madale Executive for Sustainability & Shared Value
MTN Group is delighted to declare the appointment of Marina Madale as Group Executive for Sustainability & Shared Value, commencing on 1 September 2023. Previously, Marina held the role of General Manager for Sustainability and Shared Value at MTN Group. In her new capacity, she will lead the strategic vision
Read MoreIBM promised to back off facial recognition — then it signed a $69.8 million contract to provide it
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due to concerns about racial profiling, mass surveillance, and other human rights violations. In June 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests swept
Read MoreSee the complete Sustainability Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
Keeping apace of the latest trends and innovation in climate tech and sustainability — an area that touches every industry and city — is nearly impossible. It’s why we created the Sustainability Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 and invited the best and brightest minds to share their insights. The dedicated
Read MoreMeta releases a data set to probe computer vision models for biases
Continuing on its open source tear, Meta today released a new AI benchmark, FACET, designed to evaluate the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect things in photos and videos, including people. Made up of 32,000 images containing 50,000 people labeled by human annotators, FACET — a tortured acronym
Read MoreAI-powered BeFake is a real app, not a BeReal parody…and it has $3M in funding
BeFake, a social networking app that combines concepts from popular Gen Z app BeReal along with AI technology has netted itself $3 million in seed funding to create an AI-augmented social network. The app’s name, a clear reference to BeReal’s authentic photo sharing among friends, is meant to suggest it
Read MoreLEAP Fund puts $1M into African, Latin America e-mobility projects
The LEAP Fund has chosen three projects in Africa and four in Latin America that focus on e-mobility to fund. These selected initiatives will receive funding grants totaling a significant amount of US $1.05 million. The primary objective of the fund is to offer support to organizations situated in emerging
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