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The Roborock Black Friday sale will save you a fortune

This content was produced in partnership with Roborock. This Black Friday, Roborock has some amazing offers on robot vacuums that are seriously going to change your life. If you hate cleaning your home manually, these timesavers will make everything better, all while being far more efficient than anything you could produce. With up to $340…

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Where to watch the holiday classic A Christmas Story

America has many Christmas traditions: drinking eggnog that may or may not be spiked with alcohol, singing outdated carols to random strangers, avoiding weird relatives during dinner, and listening to Mariah Carey endlessly proclaim that all she wants for Christmas is you. But it wouldn’t be the holidays without at least one viewing — and…

V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models • TechCrunch

V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models • ProWellTech

Artificial intelligence promises to help, and maybe even replace, humans to carry out everyday tasks and solve problems that humans have been unable to tackle, yet ironically, building that AI faces a major scaling problem. It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing…

Yahoo gets 25% stake in Taboola as part of long-term advertising deal • TechCrunch

Yahoo gets 25% stake in Taboola as part of long-term advertising deal • ProWellTech

Yahoo is taking a nearly 25% stake in advertising network Taboola. In exchange for this move, Taboola is becoming Yahoo’s native advertising partner through a 30-year commercial agreement. If you’re not familiar with Taboola, you may have seen its content recommendation widgets on popular news websites, such as USA Today, Insider and The Weather Channel….

SWVL reduces its headcount by 50% six months after axing 400+ staff • TechCrunch

SWVL reduces its headcount by 50% six months after axing 400+ staff • ProWellTech

Cairo-born and Dubai-based mass transit and shared mobility services provider SWVL has carried out its second round of layoffs affecting 50% of its remaining headcount, according to a statement shared by the company. The news is coming six months after SWVL laid off 32% of its workforce in a “portfolio optimization program” effort geared towards…

News and updates from TechCrunch's Meta Connect 2022 coverage • TechCrunch

Meta hit with ~$275M GDPR penalty for Facebook data-scraping breach • ProWellTech

Facebook’s parent, Meta, has been hit with another hefty penalty for breaching European data protection law. The €265 million (~$275M) fine was announced today by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the tech giant’s lead regulator for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The DPC confirmed that the decision, which was adopted on…