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More ex-military officials are becoming VCs as defense tech investment reached $35 billion Jul 12, 2024

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As venture capitalists continue to pour money into defense tech startups, they’re turning to a new hiring pool: ex-military officials.

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Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps Jul 11, 2024

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Prompt engineering became a hot job last year in the AI industry, but it seems Anthropic is now developing tools to at least partially automate it. Anthropic released several new features on Tuesday to help developers create more useful applications with the startup’s language model, Claude, according to a company blog post.

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Whataburger app becomes unlikely power outage map after Houston hurricane Jul 11, 2024

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Fast food chain Whataburger’s app has gone viral in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, which left around 1.8 million utility customers in Houston, Texas without power. Hundreds of thousands of those people may remain without power for days as Houston anticipates a heat wave, with temperatures climbing into the mid-90s.

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Data workers detail exploitation by tech industry in DAIR report Jul 10, 2024

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The essential labor of data work, like moderation and annotation, is systematically hidden from those who benefit from the fruits of that labor. A new project puts the lived experiences data workers around the world in the spotlight, showing firsthand the costs and opportunities of tech work abroad.

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Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps Jul 10, 2024

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Poe, Quora’s subscription-based, cross-platform aggregator for AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, has launched a feature called Previews that lets users create interactive apps directly in chats with chatbots. Previews allows Poe users to build data visualizations, games and even drum machines

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YouTube and LinkedIn have games now, and here’s how you can play them Jul 09, 2024

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Here are the latest companies venturing into the gaming scene and details about each offering, including pricing, examples of titles and supported devices.

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Waymo robotaxi pulled over by Phoenix police after driving into the wrong lane Jul 09, 2024

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A police officer pulled over a self-driving Waymo vehicle in Phoenix after it ran a red light and pulled into a lane of oncoming traffic, according to dispatch records. The incident took place on June 19, but local media including Arizona Republic released bodycam footage of the traffic stop this week, showing the vehicle weaving.

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Noplace, a mashup of Twitter and MySpace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store Jul 08, 2024

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Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launches out of invite-only mode Wednesday.

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Fizz, the anonymous Gen Z social app, adds a marketplace for college students Jul 08, 2024

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Teddy Solomon just moved to a new house in Palo Alto, so he turned to the Stanford community on Fizz to furnish his room. “Every time I show up to buy something from somebody, I grill them about the marketplace, because I’m really curious about their experience,” Solomon, a co-founder of Fizz, told TechCrunch.

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Epic Games calls out Apple for rejecting its Games Store in the EU Jul 05, 2024

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Fortnite maker Epic Games has hit a stumbling block in its plans to bring the company’s alternative app store, the Epic Games Store, to the EU. As now permitted by the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Epic Games announced earlier this year it planned to bring both the digital storefront and its flagship game, Fortnite.

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