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Epic Games’ ‘MegaGrant’ makes EU alternative app store, AltStore PAL, available for free

AltStore PAL, an app that takes advantage of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) to bring a third-party app store to EU users, is now available for free, thanks to Epic Games. The app maker announced via social media posts on … Continue reading

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CodeRabbit raises $16M to bring AI to code reviews

Code reviews — peer reviews of code that help devs improve code quality — are time-consuming. According to one source, 50% of companies spend two to five hours a week on them. Without enough people, code reviews can be overwhelming … Continue reading

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Tech firm apologises for hostess lampshade outfits

The company-branded lampshades, which obscured the women’s faces, have been called “creepy” and “sexist.”

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Teradata: Generative AI Projects Risk Failure Without Business Executive Understanding

Teradata’s Chris Hillman believes that many AI initiatives are failing because business executives do not understand them.

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TipRanks, an AI-based stock tip evaluator created after its founder got burned by bad advice, sells for $200M to Prytek

Prytek had already been a big investor in TipRanks since 2017, most recently leading a $77 million round in the company in 2021. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Meta axed CrowdTangle, a tool for tracking disinformation. Critics claim its replacement has just ‘1% of the features’

Journalists, researchers, and politicians are mourning Meta’s shutdown of CrowdTangle, which they used to track the spread of disinformation on Facebook and Instagram. In CrowdTangle’s place, Meta is offering its Content Library – but is limiting usage to people from … Continue reading

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Klarna takes on banks with a personal account and cashback rewards ahead of IPO

Klarna, best known for its buy now, pay later loans, is launching a personal account for deposits and cashback rewards in the U.S. and Europe.

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Amazon to test Prime Air drone delivery service in the UK

Amazon and six other organizations will take part in a trial that will test the use of drone flights to remote locations.

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Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay

Cockroach Labs, the business and core developer behind the eponymous distributed SQL database known as CockroachDB, is changing its licensing once again — five years after it moved on from an open source model. The company revealed today that its … Continue reading

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Klarna takes on banking with new savings, cash-back offerings

Swedish fintech giant Klarna is rolling out two new products on Thursday that could make its buy now, pay later offerings more enticing to use.  The company is offering consumers in the U.S. and 11 European countries the ability to … Continue reading

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