• Nordstrom to Roll Out Digital Marketplace, Enhanced Search Feature

    Nordstrom will roll out a new digital marketplace on its website, Nordstrom.com, along with an enhanced search feature. The marketplace will provide the luxury retailer’s customers with a wider selection of products, brands and sizes, while allowing its brand partners to showcase more of their products, Nordstrom said in a Monday (April 29) blog post. “Nordstrom’s digital marketplace represents one way […]

  • Uber Adding New Safety Features To App To Better Protect Women

    The company is automating safety features that include encrypted audio recordings, pin verification, live location sharing and a fourth feature ride check -- which detects if a ride ends early, stops unexpectedly, or goes off course.

  • Soundcore's new sports earbuds offer a Powerbeats Pro-style customizable secure fit for a fraction of the price

    The Sport X20 specializes in customization as you can adjust the hook to fit your ear and tweak its audio output.

  • US Homeland Security names AI safety, security advisory board

    The board will develop recommendations for the transportation sector, pipeline and power grid operators, internet service providers and others to 'prevent and prepare for AI-related disruptions to critical services that impact national or economic security, public health, or safety'

  • US Homeland Security Launches AI Safety Security Board To Counter Cybersecurity Threats

    The AI safety security board comprising of the CEOs of Microsoft, OpenAI and others will advise the DHS on safe AI adoption and create a forum for AI security risk information sharing

  • BARTA to offer a day of free rides

    The free bus rides on Wednesday are part of a statewide rider appreciation initiative.

  • What Romanians leave behind in their Uber rides?

    According to Uber eighth annual Lost & Found Index, in Romania, Bucharest is the most forgetful city, being on the sixth place in the list of forgetful European cities. The index also features which times of day and days of the week folks forget items most, and of course, tips on how to reunite them […]

  • English Bulldog Prefers Stroller Rides Over Walks

    Heather Garvin, from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has a fun companion for her outdoor adventures: Gus, her three-year-old English bulldog.

  • Twitch's TikTok-like discovery feed is rolling out to all users

    Twitch is officially rolling out its new TikTok-like discovery feed to all users this week, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feed, which is launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps, allows viewers to scroll through bite-sized bits of content to discover new streamers. The official launch follows Twitch’s earlier […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Why would anyone trust the new AI Safety and Security Board?

    Today, most techies accept full-blown wokeness as long as they get to keep their hands on the controls. And most wokies accept technologization so long as they run the controls. This is the circular logic behind the Department of Homeland Security’s new AI Safety and Security Board. Remember when Elon Musk renamed X’s discredited trust and safety team to just “safety”? The new Woke Borg expansion pack installed by DHS is the Terminator of trust gaps. To begin with, this is the bloated...

  • How SafeOpt Empowers Users to Secure Authentic Brand Deals

    In today’s digital world, securing authe­ntic brand deals while safeguarding privacy and safe­ty is challenging. However, innovative­ platforms like SafeOpt provide tools and strate­gies to navigate online offe­rs confidently. SafeOpt, an email re­targeting platform, prioritizes user privacy, ad relevance, and data security over conve­ntional advertising methods. Here­ are eight ways SafeOpt e­mpowers users to secure­ […]

  • WhatsApp now rolling out passkey support for iPhone users

    WhatsApp has been internally testing passkey support in its iPhone app for some time. However, the option was still unavailable to most users. But that seems to be changing now, as Meta is slowly rolling out the passkey option to WhatsApp users on the iPhone with the latest version of the app. more