The founders of HERO Software didn’t start out to help small tradespeople in construction with a platform. They started out to fight the climate crisis. But in doing so, they stumbled on a way to help the whole business. Now, the company has closed a […]
Day: July 12, 2024
Amazon AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all U.S. customers
Amazon’s AI-powered shopping assistant, named “Rufus,” is now live for all U.S. customers in the Amazon mobile app, the retailer announced on Friday. The assistant, which lives on the bottom right of the app’s main navigation bar, is designed to offer customers help with finding […]
The 5 best cordless vacuums for 2024
Old-school, upright vacuums left a lot to be desired, and cordless models are here to right many of those wrongs. These types of vacuums tend to be thinner, lighter and easy to maneuver around a home, and you don’t really have to sacrifice suction power […]
AT&T says criminals stole phone records of ‘nearly all’ customers in new data breach
The stolen data includes 110 million AT&T customer phone numbers, calling and text records, and some location-related data. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Massive AT&T data breach impacted nearly every single customer
AT&T just confirmed a massive data breach in 2022 that impacted “nearly all” of its customers, according to a statement provided by TechCrunch. The company had over 110 million wireless subscribers in 2022 so, yeah, this is kind of a big deal. The data breach […]
X is in hot water in the EU over blue checkmarks and ads
X is the latest notable tech company to land in trouble with the European Union. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, has revealed the preliminary findings of an investigation. It claims that X has violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) in a number of […]
Drag queens the future of healthcare? At least Healthvana thinks so
Taking a unique approach, Healthvana is upending AI-patient interactions, transcending typical healthcare portals that ‘suck.’
EU’s AI Act gets published in bloc’s Official Journal, starting clock on legal deadlines
The full and final text of the EU AI Act, the European Union’s landmark risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence, has been published in the bloc’s Official Journal. In 20 days’ time, on August 1, the new law will come into force and in […]
Amazon AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all U.S. customers
Amazon’s AI-powered shopping assistant, named “Rufus,” is now live for all U.S. customers in the Amazon mobile app, the retailer announced on Friday. The assistant, which lives on the bottom right of the app’s main navigation bar, is designed to offer customers help with finding […]
Tesla reportedly delaying its robotaxi reveal until October
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Tesla won’t reveal its long-promised fully autonomous robotaxi until October in order to give the company’s engineering team more time to build and test prototypes, Bloomberg reports. The event was originally set for August 8th, which Tesla […]