Android is adding Auracast support, which allows hearing aids to connect to public audio broadcasts
Google announced on Thursday that Android phones will soon support Auracast, a new Bluetooth technology that uses a phone to enable a direct
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Oracle is reportedly a top choice for helping run TikTok
TikTok has until April to finalize a sale to a U.S.-based buyer, yet uncertainties about the future of the short-form video app remain.
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Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation
Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5
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Rad Power Bikes already has a new CEO
Rad Power Bikes has named a new CEO, just a few days after its previous leader stepped down. The e-bike company has tapped
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5 ways TechCrunch Sessions: AI will fuel your AI growth
Less than three months until TechCrunch’s biggest AI event yet! If you’re shaping the future of AI, investing in the next game-changing innovation,
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Xbox debuts a new AI-powered gaming companion for mobile users
Ahead of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Xbox revealed on Thursday that it’s experimenting with an AI-powered gaming sidekick. “Copilot for Gaming,” powered
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Apple’s appeal against UK’s secret iCloud backdoor order must be held in public, rights groups urge
Privacy rights groups have called on Apple’s legal challenge to a secret U.K. government order asking it to backdoor an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE)
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OpenAI’s ‘creative writing’ AI evokes that annoying kid from high school fiction club
When I was 16, I attended a writing workshop with a group of precocious young poets, where we all tried very hard to
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Spotify launches a program to publish audiobooks from independent authors
In an expansion of its existing audiobook efforts, Spotify on Thursday announced the launch of a new publishing program for authors that allows
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Bria lands new funding for AI models trained on licensed data
AI-powered image generators, which are at the center of a number of copyright lawsuits against AI companies, are frequently trained on massive amounts