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March 13, 2024

Spotify adds music videos in some countries TechCrunch Romain Dillet on March 13, 2024 at 9:01 am

Spotify is adding music videos to its mobile and desktop apps in some markets. They are tightly integrated with the company’s music library as the streaming giant lets you seamlessly switch between audio and music videos in its mobile and desktop apps. However, music videos are only available in beta in 11 select markets for […]

Dev-focused note-taking startup Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login TechCrunch Ivan Mehta on March 13, 2024 at 10:39 am

Stashpad, a developer-focused “DM to yourself”-styled notebook app, is now pivoting to a docs app that you can use without logging in. The company will still maintain its original notes app and call it “Stashpad Lists.” StashPad Docs is the company’s new offering that doesn’t require any login and supports Markdown formatting. The product is […]

Luminary Cloud’s simulator taps GPUs to help speed up product design TechCrunch Kyle Wiggers on March 13, 2024 at 11:00 am

Simulations are an essential step in physical product engineering. They enable engineers to create prototypes and understand how they might perform in the real world, accounting for factors like aerodynamic drag, air and water flows and pressure and temperature distributions. But today’s engineering simulators tend to be quite slow and difficult to scale up, according […]

Pint-size pickup startup Telo Trucks finds unexpected niche in fleet customers TechCrunch Tim De Chant on March 13, 2024 at 11:00 am

The young automotive company raised $5.4 million and added a Tesla co-founder to its board.

The Kate Middleton photo scandal is a rare — and consequential — flub

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Kate Middleton’s botched photo editing job seen around the world is more than just catnip for tabloids and TikTok conspiracy theorists. It’s also the most instructive illustration of the AI-flecked new reality we live in, a maelstrom formed when distrust and established processes converge and create chaos.

It’s hard to know what Middleton, aka the Princess of Wales and future Queen of England, was thinking when she allegedly edited her own photo so sloppily that it’s become front-page news in a bunch of countries. Shortly after the image was shared publicly, the world’s biggest wire agencies, like The Associated Press, Getty, and Reuters, issued retraction alerts — called “kill notices” — instructing media outlets to not use the image…

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