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Day: October 1, 2024
Snapchat’s new Footsteps feature tracks your location history
Snapchat is quietly rolling out a new “Footsteps” feature to all iOS users this week, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The new feature, which was previously only available to Snapchat+ subscribers, uses Snap Map to let you see how much of the world […]
Microsoft researchers propose framework for building data-augmented LLM applications
From explicit fact retrieval to hidden rationales, all you need to know about data-augmented LLM applications.
iOS 18 Control Center: 18 apps that add useful actions to your iPhone
We’ve compiled a list of iOS 18 apps that users can try in order to take advantage of the redesigned Control Center. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art
The startup from MIT’s CSAIL says its Liquid Foundation Models have smaller memory needs thanks to a post-transformer architecture.
Cybertruck Finally Gets Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
Some owners of Tesla’s electric pickup truck paid for the feature when they purchased it last fall—and now it’s starting to kick in.
The USB-C Apple Pencil is cheaper than ever in this early Prime Day deal
There are bargains aplenty to be had in the lead up to the October edition of Prime Day. Many are even bringing the prices of certain products down to record lows. Case in point: the USB-C Apple Pencil is cheaper than it’s ever been right […]
YouTube’s missing hits will come back now that it has a deal with SESAC
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has reached a deal with the music licensing organization SESAC that will bring back songs that were removed over the weekend. Many hit songs from artists such as Adele, Nirvana, and others disappeared, which YouTube blamed on […]
ByteDance will reportedly use Huawei chips to train a new AI model
As first reported by Reuters, ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, is planning to train and develop an AI model using chips from fellow Chinese company Huawei. Three anonymous sources approached Reuters with this information; a fourth source couldn’t confirm that ByteDance was using […]
Dot9 Games’ FAU-G shooter focused on Indian military gets a million pre-registrations
Dot9 Games and Nazara said the FAU-G: Domination mobile shooter game supported by the Indian military has gotten a million pre-registrations.