Monthly Archives: June 2024

How Crypto Money Is Poised to Influence the Election

The industry’s political awakening — and enormous pool of cash — is already affecting high-profile races across the country.

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Perplexity now displays results for temperature, currency conversion and simple math, so you don’t have to use Google

Perplexity could already fetch this data from the web and display results in a descriptive way, but the company is adding some visual flair to these results to make them more prominent and quick. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. … Continue reading

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From sperm freezing to accounting tools: Finaloop’s founder scores $35M to solve e-commerce retailers’ bookkeeping headaches

Finaloop’s solution is a platform that uses automation in the background to track transactions covering three different functions in one. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development

In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway.

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Can A.I. Answer the Needs of Smaller Businesses? Some Push to Find Out.

Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are finding widest use at big companies, but there is wide expectation that the impact will spread.

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Lynn Conway, Computing Pioneer and Transgender Advocate, Dies at 86

She made significant contributions at IBM, but she lost her job because of her conviction that she inhabited the wrong body. She later fought for transgender rights.

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Elon Musk Got 72% in Tesla Shareholder Vote on Pay

About 72 percent of shares in the balloting affirmed the chief executive’s lucrative stock award. The company hopes to get a court to reinstate it.

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Apple Joins the A.I. Party, Elon’s Wild Week and HatGPT

“They really sort of make you feel like it’s Christmas and Coachella at the same time.”

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Apple analyst Kuo says new Apple Watch will include larger screen, thinner design

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a blog post that he expects the Apple Watch Series 10 to offer a thinner design and bigger screens.

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Surgeon general wants social media warning labels

Vivek Murthy says social media increases the risk that children will experience anxiety and depression.

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