Топ-10 технологий на 2026-01-15
1. The Fight on Capitol Hill to Make It Easier to Fix Your Car
Описание: As vehicles grow more software-dependent, repairing them has become harder than ever. A bill in the US House called the Repair Act would ease those restrictions, but it comes with caveats.
2. Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube
Описание: Google’s Gemini AI is getting what could prove to be a very big upgrade: To help answers from Gemini be more personalized, the company is going to let you connect the chatbot to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and your YouTube history to provide what Google is …
3. Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue
Описание: The Senate passed a bill that could give people who’ve found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE Act), would let victim…
4. Anthropic shakes up C-suite to expand its internal incubator
Описание: Mike Krieger, the Instagram co-founder who joined Anthropic two years ago as its chief product officer, is moving to a new focus at the AI startup: co-leading its internal incubator, dubbed the “Labs” team. The Anthropic Labs team started in mid-2024 with jus…
5. Microsoft announces glut of new data centers but says it won’t let your electricity bill go up | TechCrunch
| Описание: Microsoft announces glut of new data centers but says it won’t let your electricity bill go up | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com |
6. A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google’s AI agent shopping protocol – Google says she’s wrong | TechCrunch
Описание: A consumer economics watchdog says Google’s new Universal Commerce Protocol is ripe for misuse where consumers could pay more for items. Google denies this.
7. Ammobia says it has reinvented a century-old technology | TechCrunch
Описание: The startup has a new take on the Haber-Bosch process used to make ammonia. If Ammobia can deliver, it could change industries, from power generation to maritime shipping.
8. Ring founder details the camera company’s ‘intelligent assistant’ era | TechCrunch
Описание: AI is ushering in Ring’s next chapter, as the Amazon-owned video doorbell maker shifts toward becoming an “intelligent assistant.”
9. Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess
Описание: Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.
10. Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare – but maybe not as a chatbot | TechCrunch
| Описание: Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare – but maybe not as a chatbot | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com |