Technology
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Pablo @Pablo - about 5 years ago
Where are US fintech’s next billion-dollar startups?
Where are US fintech’s next billion-dollar startups? – TechCrunchAs fintech investments soar to new heights, investors are looking at the bottom and top levels of the services stack to find the next billion-dollar startups.That’s the word from seasoned investors like Andr...continued
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Kari @Kari - about 3 years ago
Samsung's next-gen chip technology delayed until 2022 - CNET
The company's 3-nanometer manufacturing technology is late, but its more advanced 2nm successor will arrive in 2025.
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Minnie @Minnie - over 5 years ago
Apple Updates Its MacBook Pro & Lowers the Price of MacBook Air
Apple Updates Its MacBook Pro & Lowers the Price of MacBook AirApple has announced some notable changes to its MacBook Air and entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro in time for back-to-school season. The tech giant has also discontinued the 12-inch MacBook.The 13-inch MacBo...continued
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Emmie @Emmie - about 5 years ago
South Korea-based Mathpresso, developer of tutoring app Qanda, raises $14.5 million Series B
South Korea-based Mathpresso, developer of tutoring app Qanda, raises $14.5 million Series B – TechCrunchSeoul-based education technology startup Mathpresso announced today that it has raised $14.5 million in Series B funding. The company’s flagship app is Qanda, which pr...continued
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Jeffrey @Jeffrey - over 3 years ago
AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot
You’ll need to prick up your ears up for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein — with a synthesized voice that’s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio re…
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Izaiah @Izaiah - about 3 years ago
Emerging Legal Technology Forum 2021: Law firms need to leverage legal tech to stay competitive -...
Emerging legal technology dynamics brings along issues of managing risk, technology prioritization, and in-line evolutionary needs associated with these new technologies, all of which can greatly impact the pace and delivery of legal services today.
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Ariel @Ariel - 4 months ago
What It's Like Using a Brain Implant With ChatGPT video
We spoke to two people pioneering ChatGPT's integration with Synchron's brain-computer-interface, to learn what it's like to use and where this technology is headed.
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Meggie @Meggie - over 5 years ago
Nvidia recreates the Apollo 11 landing with real-time ray tracing
Nvidia recreates the Apollo 11 landing with real-time ray tracing – TechCrunchIt’s the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, and Nvidia is using the anniversary to show off the power of its current GPU technology, using the RTX real-time ray tracing, which ...continued
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Patrick @Patrick - over 3 years ago
Sololearn raises $24M for its bite-sized, Duolingo-like mobile-first coding education app
Coding is not just for engineers and computer programmers anymore: the pace of technology and its growing ubiquity mean that even non-tech roles will require workers to have some degree of knowledge to do their jobs in the future. Today a company called Solol…
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Americo @Americo - over 3 years ago
The ‘Frankencloud’ model is our biggest security risk
The SolarWinds attack was successful because it took advantage of a vast, intermixed supply chain of technology vendors. The lesson? Complexity is the enemy of security.
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Meggie @Meggie - about 3 years ago
Speech recognition works for kids, and it’s about time
Speech recognition holds tremendous promise for something desperately needed in the era of COVID-19: technology that can significantly improve reading outcomes and tackle the global literacy crisis in a real and profound way.
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Anderson @Anderson - over 2 years ago
The Low Threshold for Face Recognition in New Delhi
Police in India's capital say they only require an 80 percent accuracy rate for matches, raising new alarm bells for civil liberty advocates.
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Nestor @Nestor - almost 5 years ago
Aiven raises $40M to democratize access to open source projects through managed cloud services
The growing ubiquity of open-source software has been a big theme in the evolution of enterprise IT. But behind that facade of popularity lies another kind of truth: Companies may be interested in using more open-source technology, but because there is a learning curve wi...continued
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Teagan @Teagan - over 1 year ago
Billionaire CEO of military technology supplier Palantir advocates for AI weapons: 'We must not g...
Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of Palantir, wrote a New York Times op-ed advocating for deeper integration between AI and military systems.
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Raoul @Raoul - almost 3 years ago
The Future of Preventative Health and Mindfulness Technology
What every entrepreneur needs to know when starting a business in 2022's Health and Wellness industry.
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Zackery @Zackery - over 4 years ago
NASA Space Lasers Offer 'Fantastically Detailed' Look at the World's Ice Loss
Look at all this ice loss of the coast of western Antarctica. Gif : NASA GoddardThe ice sheets are melting, and a new study research relies on state-of-the-art technology to reveal where the biggest losses are happening. It’s pretty freaking cool even if the results are b...continued
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Nestor @Nestor - over 2 years ago
What Is the Future Of Work? Technology or People?
With advancements in technology and AI, businesses can benefit from using technology to augment human intelligence, not replace it. Which leaves many wondering "how do we navigate from this point?"
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Rex @Rex - over 2 years ago
‘Little Miss Nobody’: Child’s Remains Have Been Identified, Sheriff Says
In 1960, a child’s body was found by a hiker in a remote part of Arizona. Using DNA technology, investigators were finally able to identify her as Sharon Lee Gallegos, age 4.
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Rahsaan @Rahsaan - over 4 years ago
ChromaCode’s tech to boost COVID-19 testing gets Bill Gates backing
Boasting a technology that can dramatically increase the capacity of existing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing used to identify people infected with COVID-19 and other illnesses, ChromaCode has attracted new funding from Bill Gates-backed Adjuvant Capital.“We want ...continued
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Rahsaan @Rahsaan - over 1 year ago
Biden signs order banning certain US investments in Chinese technology
The order – to be implemented next year – restricts investments in semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum tech and AIPresident Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order that will narrowly prohibit certain US investments in sensitive technology in…
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Roger @Roger - over 4 years ago
Rigetti Computing took a $71 million down round, because quantum computing is hard
The $71 million in financing that quantum computing technology developer Rigetti Computing recently raised came at a significant cut to the company’s valuation, according to several sources with knowledge of the company.The company declined to comment on its valuation or ...continued
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Alexander @Alexander - 11 months ago
Exclusive: Jaxon AI teams up with IBM Watson in battle against AI hallucination
Jaxon AI's Domain-Specific AI Language (DSAIL) technology is designed to prevent hallucinations and inaccuracies with IBM watsonx models.
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Alexzander @Alexzander - about 4 years ago
Keep Pregnancy Tests Dumb
Screenshot : ClearBlueI love a good teardown as much as the next gadget nerd, but two teardowns of digital pregnancy tests on Twitter illustrate how “technology” for reproductive health often misses the mark.AdvertisementThe first teardown comes via Twitter user @CrunkCom...continued
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Kraig @Kraig - over 5 years ago
These companies may smooth startups’ path to the public market — if they don’t kill each other...
This morning, the SEC approved as the U.S.’s 14th stock exchange Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), an outfit that was conceived in 2012 by “Lean Startup” author Eric Ries as a place where public market shareholders who hold onto their shares through thick and thin would be...continued
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Kari @Kari - over 5 years ago
Google making it simpler to track wireless earbuds’ battery life in Android: Report
Google making it simpler to track wireless earbuds’ battery life in Android: ReportGoogle is trying to make it easier for users to monitor the individual battery life data of truly wireless earbuds on their Android devices by providing a major update to its Bluetooth Fast...continued
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