September 7, 2024
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Ford bets on electric vehicles, Waymo doubles the number of passengers on its robotaxi and Canoo leaves California

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your hub for news and information on the future of transportation. Register here for free – just click TechCrunch Mobility! Monterey Car Week has come to a close. And while it remains steeped in tradition, the collection of parties, auctions and car shows held across the Monterey Peninsula is

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Gmail's new Gemini feature turns messy notes into polished emails in a snap

What you need to know Google's new Gemini features are now available in Gmail for the web, Android, and iOS, making it easier to polish up your email drafts. The new “Polish” feature in the Help Me Write tool transforms rough notes into formal emails with a single click or tap. Gmail now also has

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Complete Guide to BitLocker Encryption for Windows PCs – Computerworld

BitLocker is typically set to operate in “transparent” mode, automatically unlocking when you start your computer. This uses the computer's Trusted Platform Module (TPM) hardware to unlock the drive. The TPM stores the encryption key and provides it only if the Windows operating system does not appear to have been tampered with. This technology is

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Intel Core Ultra 285K outperforms Core i9-14900K in Geekbench, clocked at 5.7GHz

Intel is preparing its next-generation Arrow Lake desktop platform for a rumored October launch. Given the timing, some of its partners already have chips to test, and we’re now starting to see a trickle of Arrow Lake benchmarks appear online. Saw disappointing results for the Core Ultra 7 CPU, but now we have the numbers

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Equinix Metal and NetApp Cloud Adjacent Storage

Equinix Metal® and NetApp Cloud Adjacent Storage Combine hardware control and efficiency with high-performance storage and built-in encryption Download the guide Download the guide (contact form-7) Are you overwhelmed by the complexities of managing data in your hybrid multicloud environment? Traditional cloud storage solutions can limit your control and force you to pay high egress

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How Fabric plans to make advanced cryptography ubiquitous

Tissue cryptographyA hardware startup created by MIT and Stanford dropouts (and a married couple) Michael Gao and Tina Ju, want modern cryptographic techniques such as zero-knowledge proofs (which allow you to prove things without revealing exactly what you know) and fully homomorphic encryption (which allows you to work with encrypted data without decrypting it) to

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Google could combine Pixel screenshots with Circle to Search to rediscover

What you need to know A look at the APK offers a first look at Google's plans to integrate Pixel Screenshots into Circle to Search. After highlighting an area, users can “save” a photo to Pixel Screenshots to return to later and take advantage of Gemini’s capabilities to rediscover it. The Pixel Screenshots app debuted

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JumpCloud survey highlights commercial viability of Macs – Computerworld

Keeping up with HypeAI As the hype around artificial intelligence (AI) reaches a fever pitch, it is also interesting to see how much more aware business users have become of its implementation. Yes, 90% of organizations plan to implement AI initiatives in the next 24 months, but few intend to do so quickly. In fact,

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FTC bans AI-generated product reviews and social media follower bots

When shopping online, how can you determine whether a product is popular or simply designed to appear that way? Thanks to fake reviews and the inflated influence of social media profiles, that is sometimes not possible. To restore consumer trust in e-commerce, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has voted to ban artificial reviews (including those

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With Polestar 3 just weeks away from arriving, CEO is looking to make the company “self-sustaining”

Thomas Ingenlath is perhaps having too much fun in his Polestar 3, silently pulling away from stop signs and around hairpin bends, smiling like a man much younger than his 59 years. “This car is actually very powerful,” says Polestar’s chief executive as he cruises the roads with fellow enthusiasts near Spanish Bay, north of

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