Spotify starts ‘disinvesting’ in France in response to new music-streaming tax

Spotify is pulling support for two music festivals in protest against a controversial new tax directed at music-streaming platforms operating in France, and...

The creator of ChatGPT just got fired by his own company

The company behind ChatGPT and GPT-4 has dropped its CEO and co-founder, Sam Altman. According to a blog post from OpenAI: “Mr. Altman’s...

LG’s IT arm taps Tiger Global-backed QuickNode for web3 pursuit

Despite crypto’s badly tarnished reputation following FTX’s collapse, some large corporations are warmly embracing its underlying distributed ledger technology. LG CNS, the IT...

Apple promises ChatGPT will arrive on iOS 18 ‘by the end of the year’

We saw a slew of new Apple Intelligence features demoed for iOS 18 (and Apple's other software packages) at WWDC 2024 in June,...

Ex-Google, Coursera employees start Lutra AI to make AI workflows easier to build

While working at Coursera and later Google over the past decade, there were many times when Jiquan Ngiam would see an engineering function...

6 work from home gifts for remote workers in 2023

According to WFHResearch, 40% of US employees work remotely at least one day a week. This means the chances you know someone who...

Video game startups might be a bright spot for VC in 2024

The global video game industry makes more money each year than movies and music combined. But that doesn’t mean the sector was immune...

Wind.app makes DeFi accessible to the average consumer

Hussain Elius is best known as the co-founder of Pathao, one of Bangladesh’s top ride-sharing apps. For his latest startup, however, Elius is...

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, October 12 (game #223)

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can...

NYT Connections: hints and answers for Sunday, August 4

Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four...