Technology

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Devin @Devin - about 3 years ago

A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible

Cerebras says its technology can run a neural network with 120 trillion connections—a hundred times what's achievable today.

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Kraig @Kraig - over 5 years ago

Daily Crunch: Google’s not making any more tablets – TechCrunch

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Google says it’s not making any more tablets “For Google’s first-party hardwa...continued

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Moises @Moises - over 5 years ago

India is investigating Google over alleged Android abuse – TechCrunch

More than 95 percent of the smartphones that ship in India run Android, according to industry estimates. Now the Indian antitrust watchdog is convinced that the nation should investigate whether Google is abusing the dominant position of its mobile operating system to hu...continued

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Maureen @Maureen - over 1 year ago

The $9,995 Fuell Fllow electric motorcycle is available for pre-order today

Erik Buell, best known for founding Buell Motorcycles, announced Fuell, his new electric motorcycle venture, back in 2019. In that same announcement, he said that Fuell would begin work on its first electric motorcycle: the Fuell Fllow. Following though a few…

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Elliott @Elliott - over 5 years ago

Measured promises a smarter approach to ad attribution – TechCrunch

Measured is giving advertisers a new way to determine whether their ads are actually working. Many of those advertisers currently rely on multi-touch attribution, an approach designed to measure how each channel and each ad contributed to a purchase decision. In fact, tha...continued

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Adelia @Adelia - over 3 years ago

Solar roof-tile and energy startup SunRoof closes €4.5M led by Inovo Venture Partners

SunRoof is a European startup that has come up with a clever idea. It has its own roof-tile technology which generates solar power. It then links up those houses create a sort of virtual power plant, allowing homeowners to sell surplus energy back to the grid…

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Iva @Iva - almost 4 years ago

Tesla is willing to license Autopilot and has already had “preliminary discussions” about it with...

Tesla is open to licensing its software, including its Autopilot highly-automated driving technology, and the neural network training it has built to improve its autonomous driving technology. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed those considerations on the company’s…

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Elian @Elian - over 5 years ago

Facebook unveils an automated ad builder and an appointment manager for small businesses –...

Facebook said it’s launching a number of new products aimed at small businesses today — which is appropriate, since we’re currently in the middle of National Small Business Week. These new features include Automated Ads, which Director of Product Management Nikila Sriniva...continued

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Assunta @Assunta - over 4 years ago

How to value a startup in a downturn

The value of technology companies has fallen as the broader public markets have repriced themselves in light of COVID-19-related market and economic disruptions.And as the public markets sort out the new value of a huge piece of global business, private companies are bein...continued

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Maureen @Maureen - over 2 years ago

GM doubles miles open to its Super Cruise technology - Reuters

General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Wednesday owners of certain vehicles equipped with its Super Cruise assisted driving system will now be able to use it on 400,000 miles (643,740 km) of North…

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Alexzander @Alexzander - about 3 years ago

The Israeli army is using facial recognition to track Palestinians, former soldiers reveal

According to former Israeli soldiers, the country’s military uses smartphone technology to track and identify Palestinians across the West Bank. The surveillance database houses thousands of photos of Palestinians that soldiers allegedly “competed” to take.

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Nelson @Nelson - over 5 years ago

Google’s new look for mobile search results puts site owners and publishers first – TechCrunch

Google today unveiled a new look for its mobile search results which gives sites a way to showcase their own branding, instead of looking like every other blue link. Before, the search results were blue and the source — a publisher’s site, for example — would appear below...continued

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Gregoria @Gregoria - over 5 years ago

Equity transcribed: Away’s $1.4B valuation and CrowdStrike’s S-1 – TechCrunch

Welcome back to another transcribed edition of Equity, the wildly popular TechCrunch podcast that digs deep into the week’s news about … equity. There were no IPOs this week so there was only one episode, but it was jam-packed with news about direct-to-consumer scooters, ...continued

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Monserrat @Monserrat - about 1 year ago

Inflatable tanks are being used on battlefields in Ukraine. How hard is it to tell the difference?

Using dummy tanks isn't a new tactic, but the technology around them hasn't gotten much better over the years.

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Geovany @Geovany - over 2 years ago

Britain makes crypto technology a priority for streamlining markets - Reuters

Britain will begin live testing of crypto blockchain technology for traditional market activities such as trading and settlement of stocks and bonds next year as part of a drive to become a global "crypto hub", the finance ministry said on Tuesday.

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Juliet @Juliet - almost 4 years ago

Elon Musk is donating $100M to find the best carbon capture technology

Elon Musk said Thursday via a tweet that he will donate $100 million towards a prize for the best carbon capture technology. Musk, who recently surpassed Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest person, didn’t provide any more details except to add i…

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Josiah @Josiah - about 3 years ago

DISH and IOG Collaborate on Using Blockchain Technology

DISH Network Corporation (DISH) and Input Output Global will coordinate on the usage of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) for wireless products in...

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Arvid @Arvid - over 5 years ago

IBM-Maersk blockchain shipping consortium expands to include other major shipping companies –...

Last year IBM and Danish shipping conglomerate Maersk announced the limited availability of a blockchain-based shipping tool called TradeLens. Today, the two partners announced that a couple of other major shippers have come on board. The partners announced that CMA CGM a...continued

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Raoul @Raoul - about 1 month ago

Amazon is Offering a Huge Discount on The Bose QuietComfort Ultra if You Buy it Before The End of...

Are you looking for the most premium ANC headphones on the market?

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Erik @Erik - over 3 years ago

A Silicon Valley VC firm with $1.8B in assets was hit by ransomware

Advanced Technology Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with more than $1.8 billion in assets under its management, was hit by a ransomware attack in July that saw cyber-criminals steal personal information on the company’s private investors, or l…

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Liliane @Liliane - 10 months ago

The New York Times is building a team to explore AI in the newsroom

The Times plans to hire a mix of engineers and editors for a new team that will experiment with generative AI and machine learning.

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Kraig @Kraig - over 3 years ago

What SOSV’s Climate Tech 100 tells founders about investors in the space

Who's investing in technology and startups that promise better human and planetary health? Here's a definitive who's-who of top climate tech VCs, angels and more.

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Marie @Marie - over 4 years ago

Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology

Across the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing by crafting technical tools to help combat the virus and save ...continued

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Iva @Iva - over 3 years ago

Australia to scrutinise foreign research collaboration on 'emerging' technology - Reuters

Australia will draw up a list of critical and emerging technologies that are subject to restrictions on foreign research collaboration, a parliament intelligence committee heard on Thursday.

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Delia @Delia - over 1 year ago

Lucid will power Aston Martin's future EVs

Aston Martin plans to build "ultra-luxury high-performance" EVs using Lucid's electric motors, batteries and other technology, Lucid announced in a press release. It's the first deal for Lucid to supply parts to other automakers — much like Rimac, which itsel…

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