Elon Musk guts Tesla's charging team after winning over major automakers

Tesla has gutted its charging team in a new round of layoffs, despite recently winning over major automakers like Ford and General Motors and making its connector the defacto standard in North America. CEO Elon Musk announced the new layoffs in an overnight email to executives, first reported by The …...Read More

A bill strengthening NCMEC's CyberTipline heads to the president's desk

A bipartisan bill designed to protect children from online sexual exploitation is headed to President Biden’s desk. Proposed by Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-SC), the bill aims to strengthen the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) CyberTipline. When an online service provider detects child sexual …...Read More

Ring the alarm bells, the iPhone alarm isn’t working

After many users complained about their alarms ringing silently on iPhones, Apple said that it is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. Wall Street Journal reporter Joanna Stern and NBC correspondent Emilie Ikeda said that Apple confirmed that it is working on an issue of some …...Read More

Samsung's operating profit soars 930% as AI tailwinds drive demand for memory chips

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that its operating profit surged more than 930% in the first quarter of 2024, driven by soaring demand for its servers, memory chips and storage used in AI applications. The company, which struggled in 2023 as the macroeconomic slowdown hurt demand for its products, said …...Read More

Watch: OpenAI's media deal rush continues with FT deal

OpenAI has landed a new content deal with the FT. But instead of being a merely simple deal in which OpenAI gets words, and FT gets money, the two are teaming up a bit more deeply. Look to see FT.com links in ChaptGPT in the future. But the FT-OpenAI tie-up …...Read More

Productive solar technologies draw investors as global off-grid solar sector funding slumps

Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) technologies, especially those in the solar irrigation and cold chain segment, saw increased investor interest last year, despite a 43% funding slump recorded in the global off-grid solar sector. The global association for the off-grid solar energy industry, GOGLA, says PURE technologies raised $65 …...Read More

Shinkei's humane, quality-preserving fish-harvesting tech could upend the seafood industry

Harvesting fish is an inherently messy business, what with being at sea, the slippery creatures wriggling around, and everything else. Shinkei is working to improve it with an automated system that more humanely and reliably dispatches the fish, resulting in what could be a totally different seafood economy. On many …...Read More

Sam's Club's AI-powered exit tech reaches 20% of stores

Amazon may be scaling back its AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts, but Walmart-owned Sam’s Club says it’s turning to AI to speed up its own exit technology. Instead of requiring store staff to check members’ purchases against their receipts when …...Read More

Seam wants to make customer data accessible to every business user

As data access becomes increasingly tied to business success, making data available to all business users, regardless of their data wrangling skills has grown in importance. The founders of Seam, an early stage startup, experienced the need to make data more accessible first hand when they were at Okta, and …...Read More

US fines telcos $200M for sharing customer location data without consent

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that it is fining the four U.S. major wireless carriers around $200 million in total for “illegally” sharing and selling customers’ real-time location data without their consent. AT&T’s fine is more than $57 million, Verizon’s is almost $47 million, T-Mobile’s is more …...Read More