Google spares three Area 120 R&D projects The search giant announces that three of its Area 120 experimental products will live on. Google has announced that three of its Area 120 experimental products will live on, despite the company shuttering the majority of its in-house incubator earlier this year. Area 120 was launched in 2016
Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours The outage affected Office 365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Azure Active Directory and more Microsoft today acknowledged that a major cloud outage that took down multiple Microsoft 365 services for more than four hours yesterday was caused by a “network
The thing we thought was happening with robotic investments is definitely happening A new study has found that the thing we thought was happening with robotic investments is definitely happening. Between 2013 and 2016, the number of American firms investing in robotics grew from 66 to 91. In that same time period, the number of
Meta will restore Trump’s Facebook account ‘in the coming weeks’ Meta will restore Trump’s Facebook account ‘in the coming weeks’ By Rebecca Kerr Facebook’s independent oversight body has overturned the social media giant’s decision to indefinitely ban Donald Trump from its platforms, saying the company “did not follow its own rules” when it made the
Critical Role, the popular Dungeons & Dragons webseries, is partnering with Amazon Prime Video to create an animated series based on the events of its second campaign. The news was announced on Thursday during a live stream on the show’s Twitch channel. The new series will be set in the world of Exandria and will
A network of knockoff apparel stores exposed 330,000 customer credit cards A massive data breach at a network of knockoff apparel stores has exposed the credit card information of more than 330,000 customers. The data breach was first discovered by security researcher Brian Krebs, who reported that the compromised data includes customer names, credit and
Tesla’s energy storage arm caps 2022 with ‘highest level’ of deployments ever Tesla is on track to deploy more energy storage systems in 2022 than it has in any other year in its history, the company said in an update Tuesday. The electric car and solar panel maker said it has installed 1.56 gigawatt-hours of
We’re in the midst of a new Gilded Age, where a handful of tech giants are locked in a race to own the future. In this winner-take-all battle, artificial intelligence (AI) is the new gold. You can’t open a newspaper or attend a conference without hearing about the transformative power of AI. The hype is
Twitter partners with DoubleVerify and IAS on brand safety initiative amid advertiser exits Twitter has announced a partnership with DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science (IAS) to help improve brand safety for advertisers on the platform. The partnership comes amid a number of high-profile advertiser exits from Twitter over concerns about offensive and racist content on
Disney+ advertisers will soon get Hulu’s ad targeting capabilities Disney+ is set to take on Hulu in the streaming wars, and it looks like the Mouse House is borrowing a few tricks from its longtime rival. According to a report from Recode, Disney will soon offer advertisers the ability to target ads to specific audiences