Spotify to shut off Car Thing for good, leading users to demand refunds
Spotify is notifying customers who purchased its Car Thing product that the devices will stop working after December 9, 2024. The company discontinued the device back in July 2022, but had said at the time that it would still support the units that had already been sold. The company’s plans
Read MoreX should bring back stars, not hide ‘Likes’
Elon Musk’s X is preparing to make “Likes” private on the social network, in a change that could potentially confuse users over the difference between something they’ve favorited and something they’ve bookmarked. According to new posts by company employees, the decision to hide “Likes” is meant to incentivize engagement, by
Read MoreWhat we learned when we gave developers access to an AI-powered tutor
The best learning happens one-on-one—that’s what decades of educational research shows, time and again. Benjamin Bloom, in his influential 1984 study, found that students who learned via 1:1 tutoring had significantly better educational performance—a difference of two standard deviations—than those who learned via traditional, one-to-many classroom instruction. To hone in
Read More$6M fine for robocaller who used AI to clone Biden’s voice
The FCC has proposed a $6 million fine for the scammer who used voice-cloning tech to impersonate President Biden in a series of illegal robocalls during a New Hampshire primary election. It’s more about robocalls than AI, but the agency is clearly positioning this as a warning to other would-be
Read MoreHow the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld
Photo by Oliver Morin / AFP via Getty Images On today’s episode of Decoder, I sat down with Joseph Cox, one of the best cybersecurity reporters around. Joseph spent a long time working at Vice’s tech vertical Motherboard, but last year, after Vice imploded, he and three other journalists co-founded
Read MoreTesla lobbies for Elon and Kia taps into the GenAI hype
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Is it me, or is the Tesla board being a bit extra these days as it tries to convince shareholders to vote
Read MoreApp developer Crowdaa raises €1.2M and plans a US expansion
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Read MoreCanva launches a proper enterprise product — and they mean it this time
Back in 2019, Canva, the wildly successful design tool, introduced what the company was calling an enterprise product, but in reality it was more geared toward teams than fulfilling true enterprise requirements. On Thursday, the company changed that, announcing a new enterprise version that is truly geared toward the needs
Read More‘Pro-competition’ rules for Big Tech make it through UK’s pre-election wash-up
The UK will shortly get its own rulebook for Big Tech, after peers in the House of Lords agreed Thursday afternoon to pass the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer bill (DMCC) — removing the last obstacle to the bill becoming law in the limited parliamentary time remaining for the government.
Read MoreSpotify experiments with an AI DJ that speaks Spanish
Spotify’s addition of its AI DJ feature, which introduces personalized song selections to users, was the company’s first step into an AI future. Now, Spotify is developing an alternative version of that DJ that will speak Spanish. References to the new AI DJ were spotted in the app’s code by
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