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An influential industry group that represents Google, Meta and Amazon among other tech firms has expressed concerns about the digital competition law recommended by an Indian parliamentary panel that seeks to regulate their alleged anticompetitive practices, calling the proposal “absolutist and regressive” in nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tesla quietly announced new pricing for the China market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Snap is shutting down its camera app for the desktop that allows users to apply filters like cat ears and pirate hats on video calls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2019, Ring launched the Peephole Cam, a camera that fits over existing door peepholes to record goings on outdoors, in apartment building hallways and so on Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amazon’s conversational voice assistant, Alexa, has made its way into many electric vehicles in recent years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bird Buddy, the maker of a smart bird feeder that snaps photos of your bird visitors which are collected in a companion mobile app, is out today with another product for its nature enthusiast and birdwatching community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your health is all you’ve got, and you can’t change what you can’t measure, so it’s little wonder that health trackers are everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple is increasing service charges for battery replacement of out-of-warranty iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks starting March 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tesla reported Sunday 405,278 vehicles delivered in the fourth quarter of 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first open-source equivalent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has arrived, but good luck running it on your laptop — or at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fidelity, which was among the group of outside investors that helped Elon Musk finance his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, has slashed the value of its stake in Twitter by 56%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

India said on Thursday that under its G20 presidency, it will prioritize the development of a framework for global regulation of unbacked crypto assets, stablecoins and decentralized finance and will possibly explore their “prohibition” in a potentially large setback for the nascent industry. The Reserve Bank of India, the Indian central bank, said that crypto […]India to explore prohibition of unbacked crypto in its G20 presidency by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spotify has launched a New Year’s Hub to help its users ring in 2023, the streaming service announced on Thursday. The company says the one-stop destination gives users access to classic party playlists and special takeovers from artists like Charli XCX, Rita Ora, N-Dubz and Céline Dion. “We’ve got plenty of music to kickstart your celebration, and it’s […]Spotify wants to help you ring in 2023 with its New Year’s Hub by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Alibaba’s former CEO Jack Ma passed the torch to Daniel Zhang, he established a system that regularly rotates executives to ensure the company always stays agile in the fast-changing internet space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If Twitter isn’t loading fine for you, you’re not alone. Tens of thousands of users are complaining that they are unable to access the Elon Musk-owned social network, seeing scores of strange error-messages instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Movano’s getting a week’s jump on what might well prove a banner CES for the smart ring. Today the Bay Area-based firm debuted Evie, a smart ring focused on women’s health set to hit the market later next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twitter is a mess, but it’s still addictive. While some folks might have headed to Mastadon, those who stick around might still want to get the best out of the bird site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Baidu, the Chinese internet giant that became known for its search engines, is making some big strides in autonomous driving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There are plenty of time-tracking apps for Mac that automatically log the hours you’ve spent signed-in. Some even offer granular data, telling you how much time you spent on a particular app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This year in tech, too much happened and very little of it made sense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Facebook’s parent company Meta has agreed a $725 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit related to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than a week after being banned from Twitter, Jack Sweeney, the University of Central Florida sophomore who has been a pain in the side of Elon Musk for at least the past year, has a new account on the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amid all the chaos, Twitter rolled out a useful feature that lets you search for listed company stocks and cryptocurrency prices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The FTX/Alameda saga continues, with news late Wednesday that two key Sam Bankman-Fried associates were charged and have been charged with federal criminal offences in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Isn’t it wonderful that there are researchers out there whose job is quite simply to make a robotic bird? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google already offers parents and guardians tools to restrict purchases their children make on Play Store using the family payment method. The company is now introducing an additional feature that will allow children to send a purchase request for the manager of the family account to approve when there is no present payment method. Children […]Google Play now lets children send purchase requests to guardians by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kredito created products with few requirements so that customers could more easily access financial products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue. At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google has announced that it is bringing India’s online document storage service DigiLocker to the Files app on Android to let users access verified government-issued documents from the app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For years, teachers have used YouTube to promote their lessons and persuade learners to join their classes off the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There are a ton of tools that cater to the needs of having a collaborative whiteboard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation that included journalists that had been banned from the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lucid Motors, the publicly traded electric carmaker, is poised to enter China as it starts hiring in the world’s largest EV market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Airbnb is rolling out a new toggle to show you the price inclusive of all fees (before taxes) for your stay instead of showing you a per-night price. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

UNESCO calls water pollution one of the main challenges facing societies, with 2 million tonnes of sewage entering the world’s water each day. Oxyle wants to help solve the crisis with a new wastewater treatment that removes micropollutants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Toxic and hateful comments on YouTube have been a constant headache for the company, creators and users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

China’s abrupt easing of its zero-COVID policy last week has led to a spike in cases and rising fears of the virus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sunday was a landmark day for both commercial and public space ventures, with NASA’s Orion capsule returning to Earth just hours after the launch of a privately funded and built lunar lander by Japanese company ispace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Uber is suing the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission, which last month approved a fare hike for ride-hail apps and taxi drivers amid a post-pandemic driver shortage, rising operational costs and higher inflation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Microsoft is to acquire a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), the company that owns the London Stock Exchange as well as a several other businesses including financial market data company Refinitiv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Roblox is adding two new ways for people who spend time in its virtual worlds to find old friends and make new ones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Thursday, Disney+ launched its first-ever ad-supported plan, “Disney+ Basic,” in the U.S. at $7.99 per month, which is the same price as the previous ad-free plan before Disney raised the price to $10.99/month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s an ever-growing list of wearables that track people’s health, but what about a vehicle that monitors one’s blood pressure and heart rate with smart sensors and algorithms? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kenyan edtech Zeraki, a scale-up that is building digital learning and school data analytics platforms, has raised $1.8 million seed funding in a round led by Acumen Fund, for product catalog growth and regional expansion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Uber and Motional, the Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture focused on commercializing self-driving technology, have launched a robotaxi service in Las Vegas — the first step in the companies’ 10-year plan to co-scale across major North American cities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google announced today that it’s making it easier for users to drill down on a search and explore related topics. Search currently has a few filters to help you refine and separate your search results between videos, news, images or shopping results. Now, the search giant is going to start showing users a scrollable list […]Google Search’s new topic filters make it easier to refine results and expand searches by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple has talked a big game about its future plans to break into the automotive market. But a report from Bloomberg says that Apple has had to scale back its plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kapu, a social commerce startup, coming out of stealth today having raised $8 million seed funding, is hoping to help lessen the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers, many of whom are grappling with the sky-rocketing food prices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French VC firm Partech has closed another seed fund dedicated to early-stage tech startups — the fund is called Partech Entrepreneur IV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s probably not a secret to those doing a lot of focused work in the space, but when it comes to generative AI, it’s quickly becoming apparent that how a user interfaces with generative models and systems is at least as important as the underlying training and inference technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices