Price of going zero carbon by 2050 is more than £1tn, Chancellor saysLast month, the UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said the country should aim for a full elimination of net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 compared with an earlier target of an 80 per cent reduction, in order to limit future global temperature […]
Read moreMicrosoft quietly takes down huge facial-recognition databaseTraining a neural network to recognise faces is a data-intensive process, requiring as many different images as possible and ideally representing as wide a range of different people. Microsoft was one of a handful of companies offering a sufficiently large dataset for anybody to use. The Microsoft database (MS […]
Read moreIndian Government to mandate rapid electrification of Uber-style taxi servicesAccording to a source and records of government meetings, the services would need to achieve 2.5 per cent electrification by 2021, 5 per cent by 2022, 10 per cent by 2023 before hiking it to 40 per cent after that date. A 2018 study found that […]
Read moreIndia’s largest video streaming service, owned by Disney, breaks Safari compatibility to fix security flawHotstar, India’s largest video streaming service with more than 300 million users, disabled support for Apple’s Safari web browser on Friday to mitigate a security flaw that allowed unauthorized usage of its platform, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. […]
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Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staffFinancial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations. TechCrunch was tipped off to Maker Media’s unfortunate situation which was then […]
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George R.R. Martin’s next project is reportedly the video game, Elden RingE3 doesn’t technically start until Tuesday, but the leaks are already arriving fast and furious. Now that winter has come from HBO’s Game of Thrones, creator George R.R. Martin’s got several other projects in the works, including, reportedly, a new video game. Welp. Looks […]
Read moreA peek inside Sequoia Capital’s low-flying, wide-reaching scout programTen years ago, Sequoia Capital began quietly encouraging founders of its portfolio companies to consider which of their founder friends they might like to get behind financially. Sequoia would let them write checks to those companies, and it would share with them any later rewards. It was […]
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