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After opening up its developer API to select companies for testing in March, Meta's Twitter/X competitor Threads is now updating its developer documentation ahead of the API's public availability scheduled for June. and has introduced a sign-up sheet for interested parties. The new documentation details the API's current limitations, its endpoints, and more to help developers get started with threaded connectivity apps and other projects that integrate with new social networks. For example, if you want to track analytics about posts in a thread, you can use the Insights API to get views, likes, replies, reposts, citations, and more. It…

TikTok's next Instagram-competing photo-sharing app could be called TikTok Notes, according to screenshots posted by users. TikTok also confirmed that the app is in development. For the past few days, TikTok users have been receiving pop-up notifications about the new TikTok Notes app for sharing photos. According to the notice, the company will soon release a “new app for photo posting” called TikTok Notes, and users' existing photo posts will be shared on the app. Users can also choose not to share their image posts to the new app. TikTok confirmed that the app is working, but said it is…

A great app designed to optimize your viewing of Tuesday's total solar eclipse has rocketed to the top of the App Store. With over 140,000 lifetime downloads across iOS and Android, the simply named “The Eclipse App” provides cloud forecasts, a guide to exactly when totality will occur in your exact location, information about local events, and more. , provides a complementary experience for observing astronomical phenomena. , parks and observation decks in your area. The app itself is a collaboration between The Planetary Society, an independent space interest group, and The Eclipse Company, a technology company founded around the…

The U.S. Department of Commerce proposed on Monday to invest up to $6.6 billion to fund Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) third factory in Arizona. This funding will be provided through CHIPS and the Science Act with the aim of promoting domestic semiconductor production. The move represents a broader push to bring more manufacturing to the United States, but implicit in the noise about today's announcement is the potential for increased tensions with China. . The proposed fab is a greenfield facility, meaning it will be custom built from the ground up. It will focus on 2nm (or higher) architectures…

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…