Uber announces shuttle rides, features for caregivers and Costco perks

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Techme101

Uber on Wednesday announced several new product updates like Uber Shuttle, Costco perks and a feature that lets caregivers book rides for loved ones.

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A half-million school buses across US could become an EV battery powerhouse feeding the grid

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Techme101

Zum and Oakland schools will send power from EV school bus batteries back to the grid, marking a major effort to scale the energy supply stored in vehicles.

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Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins Amazon-backed Anthropic

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Techme101

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger is joining Anthropic as the chief product officer. Anthropic is one of the hottest artificial intelligence startups.

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FBI seizes hacking forum BreachForums — again

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Techme101

The FBI along with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies seized the notorious cybercrime forum BreachForums on Wednesday.  For years, BreachForums has been a popular English-language forum for hackers and cybercriminals who wanted to advertise, sell, and trade stolen data. Just recently, a threat actor advertised Dell customers’ personal information and data stolen from […]
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Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Techme101

The announcement signifies a significant shake-up in the streaming giant’s advertising approach.
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Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generator

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Techme101

Back in February, Google paused its AI-powered chatbot Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after users complained of historical inaccuracies. Told to depict “a Roman legion,” for example, Gemini would show an anachronistically diverse group of soldiers, while rendering “Zulu warriors” as uniformly Black. Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized, and Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of Google’s […]
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Google’s call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Techme101

A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real-time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They warn that, […]
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The top AI announcements from Google I/O

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Techme101

Google’s going all-in on AI — and it wants you to know it. During the company’s keynote at its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google mentioned “AI” more than 120 times. That’s a lot! But not all of Google’s AI announcements were significant per se. Some were incremental. Others were rehashed. So to help sort […]
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5 Best Expense Tracker Apps for 2024

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Techme101

Tackle business expenses like a champ with any of our top five software selections.

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Dietitian startup Fay has been booming from Ozempic patients and emerges from stealth with $25M from General Catalyst, Forerunner

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Techme101

For years, Sammy Faycurry has been hearing from his dietician mom and sister about how poorly many Americans eat and their struggles with delivering nutritional counseling. Although nearly half of all adults in the country are affected by chronic conditions linked to unhealthy diets, health plans have a limited number of in-network registered dieticians.  Faycurry […]
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