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The Tech That Can Grow Your Firm's Bottom Line

[photo1]Your customer relationship management system -- or CRM -- is your firm's virtual front door.This technology allows you to communicate with prospective clients, automate the intake process, and...

To Combat the Overdose Crisis, Expand Drug-Checking Programs

[photo1]Abdullah Shihipar Alexandra CollinsOver the past two weeks, Minnesota and Vermont took steps to explicitly legalize, fund, and expand drug-checking resources. These are major developments for ...

How to deal with an egotistical CEO

Here's the thing, it doesn't take long for an outsized ego to manifest itself in the workplace.Everything is self-referential. Any topic leads back to wonderful them.One of my clients was offered a jo...

How to Turn a Job Rejection Into a Future Opportunity

How to Turn a Job Rejection Into a Future Opportunity

Supreme Court Justices Know Their Opinions Have Real-World Consequences, Right? -- See Also

(Photo by Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images)Two Supreme Court Justices Would Greenlight Revoking Child Labor Laws: And clean water. And unions. And...

Two Keys to Optimizing Your FAFSA and (Hopefully) Getting More Financial Aid

Going to college is all about filling out forms. Even before you get it, you have to fill out standardized tests, admissions and scholarship applications, and it doesn't stop there. One of the most im...

Kenya's Tawi takes on auditory processing disorder to win Microsoft Imagine Cup

Microsoft's student tech-for-good competition, the Imagine Cup, has crowned this year's winner: Tawi, a team from Kenya that applied machine learning tools to helping kids with auditory processing dis...

Elon Musk doubles-down on Tesla robotaxis in TV interview

On Tuesday afternoon, after the close of the stock market, Tesla held its annual meeting. Tesla CEO Elon Musk told rapturous attendees that 2023 would finally see the Cybertruck go into production and...

Malware turns home routers into proxies for Chinese state-sponsored hackers

Researchers on Tuesday unveiled a major discovery--malicious firmware that can wrangle a wide range of residential and small office routers into a network that stealthily relays traffic to command and...

Deals: Apple Watch Ultra Drops to New All-Time Low Price of $701.99 on Amazon

The Apple Watch Ultra has hit a new record low price of $701.99 on Amazon, down from $799.00. This beats the previous best-ever price by about $29 and as of writing only Amazon is off...

Use This Tool to Get Cheaper Hotel Rates, Even After You Book

Like everything that costs money, hotel stays have gotten more expensive. But what you see is not necessarily what you have to settle for if you join HotelSlash, a search and booking engine that track...

How Your Phone's Background Can Help You Study

We love a tiny hack around here and sometimes, it's the smallest ones that make a big impact. If you're studying for finals right now, you might be feeling pretty overwhelmed trying to cram everything...

Amazon launches free channels, check marks come to Gmail and OpenAI raises more moolah

It's that time of week again, folks -- Week in Review (WiR) time. For those new to the scene, WiR is TechCrunch's regular newsletter that recaps the biggest tech stories over the past few days. There'...

Only Morons Use ChatGPT As a Substitute for Google

Recently, on a question-and-answer thread on Reddit, somebody asked about the exact heel height of a discontinued weightlifting shoe. "I've looked everywhere, but not even ChatGPT knows," I remember t...

How the feds caught a notorious credit card fraudster

The U.S. government announced on Wednesday that it had dismantled "Try2Check", a credit card checking operation that allowed cybercriminals involved with the bulk purchase and sale of stolen credit ca...

Nova is building guardrails for generative AI content to protect brand integrity

As brands incorporate generative AI into their creative workflows to generate new content associated with the company, they need to tread carefully to be sure that the new material adheres to the comp...

Use This Glitch to Get Your Twitter Verification Back for Some Reason

If you see a blue check on Twitter these days, it's likely because that accounts now pays for Twitter Blue and not because they verified their identity with the company. But thanks to the company firi...

Raging About John Roberts's Wife 'Scandal' Really Making Liberals Look Stupid

(Photo by Jabin Botsford - Pool/Getty Images)To be very clear, the Supreme Court is a cesspool of ethical scandals right now and they're overwhelmingly about conservative misconduct. Clarence Thomas i...

Deals: Amazon Has Nearly Every 2022 iPad Model at All-Time Low Prices, Starting at $399

Apple's 2022 iPad is seeing multiple discounts today on Amazon, with savings across nearly every model of the tablet. Below you'll find record low prices across both Wi-Fi and cellular models of the 1...