[ad_1] Cruise control Either way, should we count on this new wave of firms to chase down the front-runners? Unsurprisingly, Mo ElShenawy, executive vice president of engineering at Cruise, isn’t convinced. “The state of the art as it exists today is not sufficient to get us to the stage where Cruise is at,” he says. … Read more
[ad_1] I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 New privacy-focused apps are ill-equipped to cope with moderation demandsIt makes maintaining the balance between privacy and policing more complicated. (WP $)+ How to have honest conversations with children about the Texas shooting. (The Atlantic $) 2 Big Tech’s lobbying efforts … Read more
[ad_1] TechCrunch is more than just a site with words. We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. To help you find the right show for your interests, we’ve compiled our audio output from the week. Embedded below is the latest … Read more
[ad_1] Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Happily we were once again at full strength this week, with Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and Mary Ann Azevedo chatting, and Grace handling production. You can tell from the topic list today that we are … Read more
[ad_1] Hi, everyone. Another grim week. The plain truth is that we have got to stop selling weapons of war to random civilians. The Plain View In 1727, 21-year-old Benjamin Franklin invited, as he put it, “my most ingenious acquaintance[s] into a club of mutual improvement.” He dubbed his new club the Junto, after the … Read more
[ad_1] Most people prefer not to be bothered by device configuration, bands and channels, or the deeper complexities of Wi-Fi. They simply want fast and reliable connections at home. Plume’s SuperPods are a plug-and-play mesh system that anyone can set up and use with a straightforward mobile app. Just because Plume’s SuperPods are simple to … Read more
[ad_1] from the not-helping dept While a lot of the scandals surrounding “big tech” have been overblown, one that hasn’t been discussed enough is Silicon Valley companies’ abuse of user two-factor authentication data. If you’ve been napping, two-factor authentication (preferably of the email variety) helps protect your accounts from being compromised by hackers. But when … Read more
[ad_1] According to a recent survey from Virtana research, 82% of respondents now leverage a multicloud strategy. More than three-quarters (78%) deploy workloads on more than three public cloud providers. A full 59% run more than half of their workloads on a public cloud that’s part of a multicloud deployment. Finally, the survey found that … Read more
[ad_1] For two decades now, we’ve had only one programming language available to use natively in a web browser: JavaScript. The slow death of third-party binary plug-ins has ruled out other languages, such as Java and Flash’s ActionScript, as first-class citizens for web development. Other web languages, like CoffeeScript, are merely compiled to JavaScript. But … Read more
[ad_1] A series of reports claimed earlier this week that the iPhone 14 production isn’t necessarily on track. First, a story from Asia said that at least one iPhone 14 model is behind schedule following the China lockdowns without identifying the device. Then, an analyst said the iPhone 14 Max might be the model at … Read more