Google’s making the second generation of Imagen, its AI model that can create and edit images given a text prompt, more widely available — at least to Google Cloud customers using Vertex…
Tech Crunch – Google unveils MedLM, a family of healthcare-focused generative AI models
Google thinks that there’s an opportunity to offload more healthcare tasks to generative AI models — or at least, an opportunity to recruit those models to aid healthcare workers in completing their tasks….
Tech Crunch – Amazon competes with its own Goodreads with launch of book discovery service, ‘Your Books’
Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns. The retailer announced the launch of a new Amazon feature, Your Books, which will…
Tech Crunch – Choosing the right deep tech fund manager: 4 essential questions for investors and founders
To master deep tech investing, a VC fund manager must understand market opportunities that are growing in size and at a rate that cannot be ignored. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved….
Tech Crunch – Tesla to restrict Autopilot’s best feature following recall
Tesla is limiting the use of its Autopilot driver-assistance software as part of a 2-million-vehicle recall, one of the first results to come from an ongoing multi-year investigation by the nation’s top…
Tech Crunch – Apple introduces protection to prevent thieves from getting your passwords
Apple introduced new security settings with the iOS 17.3 developer beta on Tuesday to prevent thieves from entering your passcode to get your info including account passwords. Apple will likely roll out…
Tech Crunch – Apple adds iPhone 15 and additional M2 Macs to Self-Service Repair program
When it launched last April, Self-Service Repair marked a shift for Apple. The company’s longtime policy of deferring to in-house ‘Geniuses’ softened, as right-to-repair momentum had been building among users and legislators…
Tech Crunch – Worldcoin adds integrations with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Mercado Libre
Worldcoin, a crypto project co-founded by Sam Altman, said it now supports integrations for its World ID with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Mercado Libre. The company already supports integrations with Discord,…
Texas Monthly – Texas Sage Is the Weatherman of the Plant World
During the record-breaking heat of summer 2023, some Texans put their hopes of rainfall in the flowering of a silvery-gray shrub. An evergreen native to West Texas, South Texas, and the Edwards…
Tech Crunch – European Union lawmakers agree deal to bolster gig worker rights
Some two years of talking about gig worker rights later and European Union lawmakers have finally reached a deal on the final shape of the Platform Worker Directive. The development could deliver…