A student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without consent.
A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech
Month: February 2024
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander tipped over at touchdown, but it’s still kicking
It turns out Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus spacecraft didn’t land upright after all. In a press conference with NASA Friday evening, the company revealed the lander is laying on its side after coming in a little faster than expected, likely catching its foot on the surface […]
Byju’s founder, ousted by shareholders, says rumors of his firing ‘greatly exaggerated’
Byju Raveendran, the founder of eponymous edtech group Byju’s, told employees on Saturday that he continues to remain the chief executive of the startup and that rumors of his firing have been “greatly exaggerated,” a day after a shareholder group voted to remove him at […]
Google releases new open LLMs, Rivian lays off staff and Signal rolls out usernames
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, Google launched two new open large language models, Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B, in its continued bid for generative AI dominance. The company, which describes the […]
With liquidity rare, VCs may get creative to return investor cash
Welcome to the very last issue of The Exchange! With TechCrunch+ sunsetting this month, The Exchange column and its newsletter are also coming to an end. Thank you for reading, emailing, tweeting, and hanging out with us for so many years. P.S. A special thanks […]
This Week in AI: Addressing racism in AI image generators
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. […]
Google explains why Gemini’s image generation feature overcorrected for diversity
After promising to fix Gemini’s image generation feature and then pausing it altogether, Google has published a blog post offering an explanation for why its technology overcorrected for diversity. Prabhakar Raghavan, the company’s Senior Vice President for Knowledge & Information, explained that Google’s efforts to […]
Let’s talk about Xbox | This week’s gaming news
No one is suggesting that Microsoft should stop making video game hardware. What we’ve been considering, here in the dark and twisted Engadget Slack channels, is whether Microsoft should keep making generationally distinct consoles in the traditional hardware cycle. Basically, does Xbox need a box? […]
Why AI can (and should) lead to a renaissance in the humanities
AI makes the humanities critically important — and not just because science hasn’t yet provided answers to classic philosophical questions.
A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech
A student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without consent.