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Amazon India is gearing up to hold its annual Prime Day sale on July 15 and 16, presenting a multitude of discounts and offers on…

It’s that time of week again, folks. Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular digest of the past week in tech. New here? Not to worry — sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday, then read on for the week’s recap. This week, we’re covering Netflix quietly axing its basic plan in Canada, the IRL social app shutting down after it was discovered that most of its users were fake and the blockbuster sales of the Flipper hacking device. Also in store, TC has reporting on Lenovo’s Yoga Book 9i…

<!----> 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV General Motors is ending production of its first long range BEVs, the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV, at the end of 2023, a media report said. TheDetroitBureau.com said the announcement came when the nameplate is achieving record sales and helping GM to…

Netflix Inc. said it would roll out new password-sharing limitations more broadly—including in the U.S.—by the end of June, and announced it would soon wind down the DVD-by-mail business that the company was built upon. Netflix added 1.75 million subscribers in the first quarter and ended the period with 232.5 million customers. After losing subscribers for the first time in a decade a year ago, the company took a series of steps to expand its customer base, including launching an ad-supported tier of…

Today’s Heardle was quite the doozy. Screenshot: GizmodoThe viral word game Wordle has spawned its fair share of clones, from Octordle to Absurdle to the movie-based Framed. Unfortunately, Heardle, the Spotify-owned, music-based version of the word guessing game, will be shutting down next month.Video Chat - From Sci-Fi to Sci-FactHeardle operated much like Wordle, but instead of guessing words with five letters at a time, users guess a song by hearing only a few seconds at a time. Spotify, which acquired Heardle in 2022…

<!----> Lucid Group CEO Peter Rawlinson has told workers in a letter posted on the company’s website the EV startup would reduce its workforce by about 18%, affecting both employees and contractors. “This action is aligned with the cost discipline announcement we made in late February when we…

Researchers at Stanford University have taken down their short-lived chatbot that harnessed Meta’s LLaMA AI, nicknamed Alpaca AI. The researchers launched Alpaca with a public demo anyone could try last week, but quickly took the model offline thanks to rising costs, safety concerns, and “hallucinations,” which is the word the AI community has settled on for when a chatbot confidently states misinformation, dreaming up a fact that doesn’t exist. Along with an interactive demo, Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNetflix has “axed” a new Nancy Meyers romantic comedy following a dispute with the director.The filmmaker has lined up her next project, which will be her first feature film since The Intern in 2015.Titled Paris Paramount, the comedy, announced in April 2022, follows a filmmaking duo who reunite on set after a failed romance years before. Paris Paramount is eyeing an A-list cast,…

Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it's cutting 6% of its global workforce, or about 600 jobs, becoming yet another tech company forced to rethink its pandemic-era expansion as the economic outlook weakens. Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it's cutting 6% of its global workforce, or about 600 jobs, becoming yet another tech company forced to rethink its pandemic-era expansion as the economic outlook weakens. CEO Daniel Ek announced the restructuring in a message to employees that was also posted…

London, January 23 Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it’s cutting 6 per cent of its global workforce, becoming yet another tech company resorting to layoffs as the post-pandemic economic outlook weakens. CEO Daniel Ek announced the restructuring in a message to employees that was also posted online. As part of the revamp involving a management reshuffle, “and to bring our costs more in line, we’ve made the difficult but necessary decision to reduce our number of…