Now that The Last of Us episode 5 has finished painting and passing us notes, it’s time to just marvel at what Craig Mazin and Neil Bruckmann are doing here. Five episodes in, and the HBO series just delivered yet another episode-of-the-year contender. Up there with The Last of Us episode 3, this episode managed…
A leading executive at Google told a German newspaper that the current form of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, can be unreliable and enter a dreamlike, zoned-out state. “This kind of artificial intelligence we’re talking about right now can sometimes lead to something we call hallucination,” Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at Google and head…
A coffee run in Oklahoma turned out way more expensive than one family had planned, according to The Sacramento Bee. An Oklahoma man was charged nearly $4,500 for a coffee order with the vast majority of it a tip, and then, per reports, he and his wife had to go through a minor odyssey involving…
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. It’s Friday, and we’re slumping back in our office chairs with a hot cup of coffee after a week that’s been as slow as mid-winter molasses. For Black History Month, we are…
Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have been found to carry out a number of malicious actions, including dropping malware, deleting the netstat utility, and manipulating the SSH authorized_keys file. The packages in question are aptx, bingchilling2, httops, and tkint3rs, all of which…
Gaming subscription services are all the rage now, but Apple Arcade isn’t quite like Google Stadia or Xbox Game Pass. So if you’ve got questions about it, we’ve got plenty of answers. Updated 02/10/23: Aquatic rocket-bike racer Riptide GP: Renegade+ is now available. The game was first released in the App Store in 2016. What…
USB-C is coming to iPhones eventually, and everything so far points towards the iPhone 15 finally making the switch from Lightning. However, Apple may still keep some holdovers from the Lightning era, according to a rumor on Chinese social networking site Weibo (opens in new tab), limiting certain functions to Apple-approved accessories. Right now Apple…
A coffee run in Oklahoma turned out way more expensive than one family had planned, according to The Sacramento Bee. An Oklahoma man was charged nearly $4,500 for a coffee order with the vast majority of it a tip, and then, per reports, he and his wife had to go through a minor odyssey involving…
Sustainability is becoming a more important concern for businesses than ever. A KPMG report from 2020 showed that 80% of top companies have sustainability reports and a growing number of small businesses are following suit. There is a clear economic reason for this since 92% of consumers state that they are more willing to trust…
All startups have to navigate the turbulent economic climate of 2023. But whether your company can survive depends on a lot of factors, including the viability and originality of your idea and the amount of cash you have in the bank. There are ways to merely survive, of course, to hunker down and weather the…
