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Two former Harvard students will launch “always on” AI-powered smart glasses that listen, record, and transcribe all conversations and display relevant information in real time. “We're looking forward to seeing you get the chance to get started,” said Anhphu Nguyen, co-founder of a startup that develops a technology called Halo. Or, as his co-founder Caine Ardayfio said, glasses “give endless memories.” “AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say… just like an IRL,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to a startup that claims to help users “cheat” everything from job interviews to…

Created on Wednesday by Google Events, the company announced a new feature in Google Photos that allows users to ask the app to edit photos. This feature will first launch on a Pixel 10 device in the US and will allow you to explain the edits you want to edit into a photo with either a photo or text. Google has also added support for Google Photos C2PA content credentials. The Pixel 10 phone will be the first mobile phone from Google to adopt this standard. It is designed to improve transparency in how images are created and whether AI…

Created at Google event Wednesday, the company announced a personal health coach that drives a new AI built with Gemini coming to Fitbit. The tech giant says the new personal health coach is one fitness trainer, sleep coach and wellness advisor. Google is set to roll out a preview of Personal Health Coach as part of Fitbit Premium in October with a redesigned app available on the latest Fitbit trackers, Fitbit smartwatches and Pixel Watches. Personal Health Coach will learn your preferences when you share them and also take into account your real-time metrics from your Fitbit or Pixel Watch.…

Google has launched a new journaling app called the Pixel Journal at the Pixel 10 Launch event. This has been coming in nearly two years since Apple introduced the Journal app with the arrival of iOS 17 in 2023. According to Google, Pixel Journal uses an on-device AI model to encourage users to fill out journal entries. This app can create or suggest prompts based on memory, past entries, or goals. Additionally, apart from recording your mood, you can add photos, locations and activities to your journal entries. Image credit: Google The company said that journal apps will learn about…

Location-Tracking App Life360 today announced that it is adding new notifications to its app. This allows users to let them know that friends and family members will not arrive at a specific location at a specified time. This feature is intended to help users keep track of someone's location at all times to see if they have safely reached a location. Life360 said it will launch new no-show notifications during the return season to help reduce parental stress about attending school. The company said, “Where are you? Text. To activate this feature, you can go to the person you want…

Hundreds of thousands of conversations that users with Elon Musk's Xai Chatbot Grok are easily accessible through Google search, Forbe reports. When a Grok user clicks the “Share” button in a conversation with a chatbot, a unique URL is created that users can use to share their conversations via email, text, or social media. According to Forbes, these URLs are indexed by search engines such as Google, Bing, and Duckduckgo. Users of Meta and Openai chatbots have recently been affected by a similar issue. Similar to these cases, the chats Grok leaked offer a glimpse into questions about the less…

The new UAE-based startup offers up to $20 million for hacking tools that help governments break into any smartphone via text messaging. Launched this month, Advanced Security Solutions currently offers at least a portion of public prices across the zero-day market. Zero Day is a software flaw that is unknown to the developers affected at the time of discovery. These tools are of great value, especially for hackers working for law enforcement and intelligence reporting agencies. Apart from the $20 million highest prize that applies to any mobile operating system, the company also offers exploit bounties in a variety of…

Martin Hunt, a firefighter from the age of 15 and now 26, knew firsthand the pain of a small community with a tight budget to buy fire equipment. One day in 2023 he found himself chatting with one of his firefighters friends who asked if Hunt knew how to do better. “When we couldn't find anything, it became clear that we needed a streamlined, national market for expensive and difficult-to-move equipment like fire trucks,” Hunt told TechCrunch. “A few months later, I quit my job without any products or funds to build a solution.” He worked with his university friend…

“It wasn't one big light bulb. It was death by a thousand cuts,” Edward Alley said when asked if he had led him and his co-founder, Raj Kadiyala, to launch Sre.ai. The company offers natural language AI agents that can run complex enterprise DEVOPS workflows such as continuous integration and testing. “Instead of sewing together a variety of low-code tools for enterprise applications such as Salesforce compared to products built on AWS, GCP, or Azure, teams can now travel faster with context-driven chat-like experiences that work through everything.” The duo thought about this product while working for Google Research and…

Martin Hunt, a firefighter from the age of 15 and now 26, knew firsthand the pain of a small community with a tight budget to buy fire equipment. One day in 2023 he found himself chatting with one of his firefighters friends who asked if Hunt knew how to do better. “When we couldn't find anything, it became clear that we needed a streamlined, national market for expensive and difficult-to-move equipment like fire trucks,” Hunt told TechCrunch. “A few months later, I quit my job without any products or funds to build a solution.” He worked with his university friend…