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Google continues to roll out Gemini across a variety of products today as it announced that Android Studio bots will be upgraded to Gemini Pro. During the Google IO developer event in May 2023, the company first announced Studio Bot powered by the PaLM-2 foundation model. The company is rolling out Gemini in over 180 countries with his Android Studio Jellyfish version. In February, Google also updated the base model of its Bard chatbot from PaLM-2 to Gemini Pro. Similar to the Studio bot, the new Gemini bot resides within the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and allows developers to ask…

US consulting firm Greylock McKinnon Associates has revealed a data breach in which hackers stole 341,650 social security numbers. The data breach was disclosed Friday on the Maine state government's website, where the state posts a data breach notification. In a data breach notification mailed to affected victims, GMA said it suffered an unspecified cyberattack in May 2023 and said it “immediately took steps to mitigate the incident.” . GMA provides financial and litigation support to corporations and U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, and litigates civil litigation. According to the data breach notification, GMA informed affected…

Google announced Monday that it is launching an upgraded “Find My Device” network in the United States and Canada. Find My Device's crowdsourcing network of over 1 billion Android devices helps users find misplaced Android devices and everyday items. Find My Device Network is similar to Apple's Find My Network and works with devices running Android 9 or later. The Find My Device network allows users to find their Android smartphone or tablet by ringing their phone or locating it on a map, even when they're offline. Google's previous Find My Device service required an Internet connection to locate your…

Early stage founders, listen up. TechCrunch is looking for 200 pioneering startups to join TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 in San Francisco this October. Following the successful expansion of 2022, when Startup Battlefield showcased the top 200 companies from around the world, the class of 2023 raises the bar even further with entrepreneurs from over 35 countries and from diverse backgrounds spanning his 25 industries. It was done. Now in its third year, competition is fiercer than ever. If your startup is selected from a large number of applicants, you will receive full access to the show, special workshops, investor…

Today, the technology world is paying an incredible amount of attention to AI and its applications, but it's not just artificial intelligence that's making progress. If you're really into the weeds, keep an eye out for advances in quantum computing, as revealed recently by announcements from Microsoft and Quantinuum. The companies have achieved what TechCrunch described as a “major advance in quantum error correction,” which could make quantum computing systems much easier to use than before. The point is that he encoded multiple physical qubits into one logical qubit, making it easier to detect and correct errors. Error rates in…

BoAt, India's largest audio and wearables brand, is investigating a possible data breach after hackers advertised a cache of customer data online. Samples of purported customer data were uploaded to known cybercrime forums and included names, phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, and order numbers. Some of the data reviewed by TechCrunch appears to be authentic based on matching it with publicly available phone numbers. The hacker said the breach occurred in March and the data of more than 7.5 million customers was compromised. In a statement emailed to TechCrunch, BoAt said it was investigating the issue, but did not…

Hello. Welcome to Equity, the startup business podcast. Uncover the numbers and nuances behind the headlines. This is a Monday show where we dig into the weekend and take a peek at his week ahead. Now that Y Combinator's demo day is finally over, you can dive into the latest news, while Friday's show is still worth listening to. So this morning on Equity Monday, we saw an opportunity that the US could pass an actual data privacy law. There are moves to report it, but it is still very far from becoming law. Elsewhere, there's a new deal between…

Uber Eats is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed to encourage discovery and allow restaurants to showcase their food. Uber Eats senior director of product Awaneesh Verma told TechCrunch exclusively that the new feed is being tested in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto. The company plans to launch the feed globally in the future. With this launch, Uber Eats joins a number of other popular apps (including Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and Netflix, to name a few) that have launched their own short-form video feeds in response to TikTok's growing popularity. I did. TechCrunch also recently learned that LinkedIn has…

Microsoft has announced a new London hub for its recently announced Consumer AI division. The company will be led by Jordan Hoffman, an AI scientist and engineer recently hired from Inflection AI, a high-profile AI startup that Microsoft invested in last year. The news comes as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a new consumer AI division led by the founders of Inflection AI, including Mustafa Suleiman, co-founder of AI company DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014. This was announced about three weeks after the announcement. At the time, Nadella said that “several members of the Inflection team” were also joining…

Paddy Cosgrave, co-founder of technology conference WebSummit, will return to his role as CEO after stepping down in October over controversial comments he made on social media last year about the Israel/Gaza war. . Rumors of his return began to surface over the weekend.Mr Cosgrave confirmed the move. Post on X today. Notably, Cosgrave made no mention in his announcement of the political comments he made that led to his resignation seven months ago, including a social media post he wrote at the time. have also been deleted). Instead, Cosgrave is trying to ease tensions with a plan to shift…