Monthly Archives: July 2024

Netflix streaming rival Tubi expands with over 20,000 titles

Ad-supported streaming service Tubi brings its library of over 20,000 titles to the UK. After launching successfully in the US and Canada, gathering 80 million monthly active users, Tubi is now coming to the UK. The ad-based streaming service has … Continue reading

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Apple adds support for new languages across lock screen, keyboard and search on iOS 18

Apple unveiled iOS 18 last month at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Since then, the company has released two developer betas in the last few weeks with extended support for multiple new languages across the lock screen, Siri, keyboard, and … Continue reading

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Murdoch Netflix rival to launch in UK

Tubi will offer more than 20,000 films and TV series, including Hollywood titles and British content.

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China pushes to compete with Neuralink with new brain tech committee

China has unveiled a proposal to establish a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Standardization Technical Committee as part of its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The plan aims to spearhead the development and regulation of BCI technologies, similar to those … Continue reading

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Revolut CEO confident on UK bank license approval as fintech firm hits record $545 million profit

Revolut’s CEO Nikolay Storonsky said he is optimistic about the fintech firm’s chances of being granted a U.K. banking license.

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Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks

Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including generative models like its own Claude. Unveiled on Monday, Anthropic’s program will dole out grants … Continue reading

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Salesforce shareholders reject compensation plan for CEO Marc Benioff, other top execs

Shareholder advisory firms raised concerns about additional pay for CEO Marc Benioff in the form of equity grants.

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CISA Report Finds Most Open-Source Projects Contain Memory-Unsafe Code

Analysts found that 52% of open-source projects are written in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++.

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Senators urge Synapse’s owners, partners, and VC backers to restore customers’ access to their money

A group of senators has banded together to urge Synapse’s owners and bank and fintech partners to “immediately restore customers’ access to their money.” As part of their demands, the senators implicated both the partners and investors of the company … Continue reading

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TechCrunch Space: Star spangled

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. I hope everyone has a fantastic July 4 this week. Go eat a hot dog. Read my story from last week on the causes of Starliner’s additional delay and what it might mean … Continue reading

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