India has millions of dairy farmers. It’s creating a methane problem that’s tricky to solve

BENGALURU, India — Abinaya Tamilarasu said her four cows are part of the family. She has a degree in commerce from a local college, but prefers being home milking cows and tending to her family’s land. “Our family cannot let farming go, it’s a way of life for us,” said the 28-year-old, who lives on … Read more

Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M

Mermaid, the open source diagramming and charting tool, has long been popular with developers for its ability to create diagrams using a Markdown-like language. As is often the case, Mermaid founder Knut Sveidqvist created the project because he saw a need for it in his own job as a software architect and then open sourced … Read more

Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Massive Franken-Sheep With Cloned Animal Parts

An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers hunt sheep on private ranches. But these weren’t just any old sheep. They were “massive hybrid sheep” created by illegally importing animal parts from central Asia, cloning the sheep, and then breeding an enormous hybrid … Read more

Family offices tripled, creating a new gold rush on Wall Street

Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. The number of family offices in the world has tripled since 2019, setting off a new race … Read more

Florida teens arrested for creating ‘deepfake’ AI nude images of classmates

Two Florida middle schoolers were arrested in December and charged with third-degree felonies for allegedly creating deepfake nudes of their classmates. A report by Wired cites police reports saying two boys, aged 13 and 14, are accused of using an unnamed “artificial intelligence application” to generate the explicit images of other students “between the ages of 12 and 13.” The … Read more

Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates

Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of male and female classmates without consent, according to police reports obtained by WIRED via public record request. The arrest reports say the boys, aged 13 and 14, created the images of the students who were “between … Read more

Steven Spielberg Clashed With John Williams While Creating Their Most Emotional Score

Discussing his brilliant career (and 54 Academy Award nominations) with Variety, Williams revealed that settling on the main theme for “Schindler’s List” proved difficult. The composer gave Spielberg two options and was surprised by his preference. Per Williams: “I wrote two, principally — the one that we know and another one which is called ‘Remembrances’ … Read more

Miranda Bogen is creating solutions to help govern AI

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. Miranda … Read more

Ramit Sethi slams Kevin O’Leary for repeating the tired trope of creating wealth by skipping coffee, says ‘frugality’ isn’t the key to riches

‘Just tell the honest truth!’: Ramit Sethi slams Kevin O’Leary for repeating the tired trope of creating wealth by skipping coffee, says ‘frugality’ isn’t the key to riches Buying coffee to-go has become a hot topic in personal finance. Some high-profile financial experts are convinced that overspending on lattes and cappuccinos is among the key … Read more

An unlikely challenger to Putin brings a rare show of defiance, creating a dilemma for the Kremlin

They have lined up by the thousands across Russia in recent days, standing in the bitter cold for a chance to sign petitions to support an unlikely challenger to President Vladimir Putin. Boris Nadezhdin has become a dilemma for the Kremlin as he seeks to run in the March 17 presidential election. The question now … Read more