It’s been a busy day of Apple news thanks to some new iPads, but the company has plenty of other M-series devices, including the iMac. Apple slotted M3 chips into its desktop computers late last year, and now the base version of the 2023 iMac […]
Month: May 2024
Meta is testing cross-posting from Instagram to Threads
Meta is testing a new way to boost engagement on Threads using Instagram. The company is now testing the ability to cross-post photos from Instagram to Threads. Meta confirmed the experiment after a handful Threads users noticed the setting crop up in Instagram (TechCrunch was […]
You can upgrade the iPad Pro’s processor now, too
Apple has two versions of the M4 chip for the iPad Pro. | Screenshot: Apple The newly announced iPad Pro hides a sneaky upgrade option that Apple didn’t mention during its event today. When you cough up the $600 it costs to jump from the […]
India’s Oyo, once valued at $10 billion, seeks new funding at 70% discount
Oyo, the Indian budget-hotel chain startup, is negotiating with investors to raise a new round of funding that could cut the Indian firm’s valuation to $3 billion or lower, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The startup is engaging with investors, including Malaysia’s […]
OpenAI will release a Media Manager tool in 2025, allowing creators to block AI scraping
No price has yet been listed for the tool, and I’m guessing it will be offered for free since OpenAI is using it to position itself as ethical
Exclusive: Wayve co-founder Alex Kendall on the autonomous future for cars and robots
UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Wayve started life as a software platform loaded into a tiny electric ‘car’ called a Renault Twizy. Festooned with cameras, the company’s co-founders and PhD graduates, Alex Kendall and Amar Shah, tuned the deep-learning algorithms powering the car’s autonomous systems until […]
Nintendo forecasts 19.3% sales drop for fiscal 2025
Nintendo expects sales to fall 19.3% and earnings to fall 38.9% in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025.
Nintendo to announce Switch successor before March 2025
Nintendo will unveil a successor to the Switch sometime “within this fiscal year” ending March 2025, president Shuntaro Furukawa wrote in a post on X. That differs slightly from reports that the next-gen console would be announced this year, as it could also be revealed […]
Exclusive: AI startup Tenyx’s fine-tuned open-source Llama 3 model outperforms GPT-4
Tenyx has successfully fine-tuned Meta’s open-source Llama-3 language model to outperform OpenAI’s GPT-4 in certain domains, marking the first time an open-source model has surpassed the proprietary gold standard.
How to watch Apple unveil new iPads today at its ‘Let Loose’ event
Say hello to new iPads — probably. Apple is holding a live event this morning at 10AM ET to unveil new entries in its lineup of tablets. The keynote, dubbed Let Loose, will be starting soon, and you can watch live in a number of […]