Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Google adds automatic transcriptions in English to Meet and plans to add support for French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese in 2023 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google adds automatic transcriptions in English to Meet and plans to add support for French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese in 2023  —  Meetings — nobody wants them but everybody has them.  So for those times when you're in a meeting but mostly just surfing the web, it's nice to have a transcript …



IIHS survey: 53% of Super Cruise, 42% of Autopilot, and 12% of ProPILOT Assist users say they were "comfortable treating their vehicles as fully self-driving" (David Shepardson/Reuters)

David Shepardson / Reuters:
IIHS survey: 53% of Super Cruise, 42% of Autopilot, and 12% of ProPILOT Assist users say they were “comfortable treating their vehicles as fully self-driving”  —  Drivers using advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla (TSLA.O) Autopilot or General Motors (GM.N) …



Nansen: former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky, who resigned on September 27, has moved ~$960K in CEL and USDC from six wallets to exchanges so far in October (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
Nansen: former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky, who resigned on September 27, has moved ~$960K in CEL and USDC from six wallets to exchanges so far in October  —  Data show that Alex Mashinsky, who resigned as Celsius' CEO on Sept. 27, continues to move crypto out of wallets while withdrawals are suspended for customers.



Amazon's second Prime Day event is an attempt to capture holiday spending ahead of Black Friday as growth lags; analysts estimate an extra $4.1B in Q4 sales (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Amazon's second Prime Day event is an attempt to capture holiday spending ahead of Black Friday as growth lags; analysts estimate an extra $4.1B in Q4 sales  —  Amazon is holding its second Prime Day shopping event in a year for the first time this week in a bid to boost its flagship ecommerce product and reverse declining sales.



Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following allegations of fake compliance certificates (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times : Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following...