Category: Technology

Enlarge / Max viewers will soon need their own account to watch Ellie in The Last of Us Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has confirmed that it will be cracking down on password sharing for its Max streaming service starting this year. The news follows streaming rivals, including Netflix and, soon, Disney-owned Disney+ and Hulu, in […]

Future of Families: How reproductive technology can reverse population decline Speakers: Antonio Regalado, Sr Editor of biomedicine and special guest Martín Varsavsky, Founder of Prelude Fertility Birth rates have been plummeting in wealthy countries, well below the “replacement” rate. Even in China, a dramatic downturn in the number of babies has officials scrambling, as its […]

Last month, Amazon announced that it’d launch a new AI-powered chatbot, Rufus, inside the Amazon Shopping app for Android and iOS. After a few weeks’ delay, the company began to roll out Rufus to early testers today — including some of us at TechCrunch — to help find and compare products as well as provide […]

Meta’s social media platforms are back up Tuesday after a widespread outage appeared to block thousands of users from logging onto their accounts. Facebook and Meta users started seeing problems around 10 a.m. Eastern time, based on reports to Downdetector.com, a site that tracks online glitches. The issues peaked with more than 570,000 Facebook users […]

If you’re a parent, you could be eligible for two child tax credit payments: one from the federal government and one from your state. So far this year, 16 states are sending out additional child tax credit money, with the most recent state, Wisconsin, joining in. In addition, Congress is working on a plan to expand the federal child […]

Meta said it had resolved a technical issue with its platforms, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram, after what appeared to be an hourslong outage on Tuesday. After user reports of an outage that lasted about two hours, Meta said it had fixed the issue that caused the sites to go down. “We resolved the […]

January was a dull month, at least in my opinion. Maybe everyone was recovering from their holidays. February was a short month, but it was far from dull. And I’m not even counting the first shipments of Apple Vision. OpenAI has demoed an impressive text-to-vision model called SORA; Google has two very impressive small language […]