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The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024. You already know what we’re expecting, so sit back, relax and stay tuned throughout the week as we bring you the products, announcements and startup news from MWC that you need to know. So far, we’ve seen some big announcements from companies, including new Android features from Google, Lenovo’s new laptop concept and rollable phone concept and Xiaomi’s robotic dog. As MWC progresses, here’s how you can follow along with our team’s coverage. Thursday, February 29 Brain.ai and the…
A U.S. government surveillance agency stole more than a gigabyte of seemingly sensitive personal data from the U.S. Department of the Interior's cloud systems. The good news: The data is fake and was part of a series of tests to see if the department's cloud infrastructure is secure. The experiment is detailed in a new report released last week by the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG). The purpose of the report was to test the security of the Home Office's cloud infrastructure and its “Data Loss Prevention Solution,” software that protects the Home Office's most sensitive data from…
You may not have a Copilot key on your PC keyboard yet, but if you're a Windows 11 user, you'll soon be able to use Copilot on your desktop for more everyday tasks. Starting today, Microsoft is adding skills and plugins for services such as OpenTable, Shopify, and Kayak that will allow Copilot to further modify Windows 11 settings. This is in addition to new AI editing integration into default apps like Clipchamp and Photos, as well as widgets (which no one is paying attention to, but Microsoft hasn't given up on yet) and the Windows Snap feature to help…
Spotify is rolling out a new feature called Song Psychic that allows customers to ask Spotify questions and get answers in the form of music. This addition builds on the success of Spotify's personalized year-end review called Wrapped, which provides a clever way to turn Spotify music data into insights designed for social sharing. But in the case of Song Psychic, the goal is not to look back at the past or listening history, but rather to leverage her Spotify understanding of music and song titles to answer various personal questions like asking a psychic or a magic 8 ball.…
EQ Tickets, a startup aimed at combining the online ticket-buying experience with social networking, has quietly emerged to make discovering shows and other live events a more social activity. Additionally, the company promises to offer ticket prices that are lower than some of its competitors operating similar secondary ticket markets. Additionally, EQ Tickets plans to take over competitors such as Eventbrite and expand into new major ticket marketplaces to generate revenue. Founded by brothers Aaron and Ryan Caradonna and hip-hop artist Matt Raposo (Rapta), the idea for EQ Tickets began with a personal interest in sports entertainment, Aaron explains. He…
Google today announced that it is introducing improvements to search suggestions in Chrome. As part of the changes, users will now get more helpful search suggestions in Chrome based on what other users are searching for, see more search suggestion images, and search suggestions even when you have poor connectivity. You will be able to find it. Search suggestions are a drop-down list of suggested completions that appear before you finish typing your query on Google. This feature generates predictions so users can save time and speed up their searches. With these new updates, Google is expanding the availability of…
humanitarian love pin and Rabbit handheld have received considerable press attention for their respective approaches to integrating generative AI and hardware. Humane, in particular, presents wearables as a perspective on life beyond smartphones. Naturally, this begs the question, “What exactly is wrong with smartphones?” While it's true that form factors have reached a plateau, these devices are still in the hands of billions of people around the world. Earlier this week, I met Jerry Yue amidst the cacophony of sounds at Deutsche Telekom's Mobile World Congress booth. After a product demo and a sit-down conversation, I'll admit that I was…
A team led by a former Twitter engineer is reimagining how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which launched a private beta over the weekend, is a new startup that offers a personalized, “multi-perspective” news-reading experience, leveraging AI to not only summarize the news, but also to present it in an unbiased way. aims to summarize. The same goes for compensating or claiming authors and publishers. Particle has yet to reveal its business model, but it arrives at a time of growing concern about the impact of AI on the rapidly shrinking news ecosystem.…
Brave releases AI-powered assistant Leo for all Android users. Assistant allows users to ask questions, translate pages, summarize pages, and create content. The Android launch comes a few months after Brave first launched Leo on desktop. According to Brave, Leo will be available on his iOS devices in the coming weeks. Leo creates real-time summaries of web pages or videos, answers questions about content, generates long-form written content, translates or rewrites pages, creates transcriptions of video or audio content, and writes code. can do. By using Leo, Brave hopes that users will no longer have to rely on her ChatGPT…