Technology

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Leda @Leda - over 3 years ago

Verve Motion raises $15M following exosuit pilot with grocery workers

The exoskeleton/exosuit category has been heating up over the past few years. It makes sense, really. There are two giant — and dramatically different — potential customer bases. On one end are those sorts of jobs that could benefit from some wearable assista…

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Alexandro @Alexandro - over 5 years ago

KKR leads $300M investment in phishing training company KnowBe4 – TechCrunch

You might not have known about KnowBe4 before, but you should now because this morning, the company announced a massive $300 million investment led by private equity firm KKR. The deal is based on a $1 billion valuation. Existing investors Elephant and TenEleven Ventures ...continued

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Emmie @Emmie - over 5 years ago

Microsoft aims to train and certify 15,000 workers on AI skills by 2022 – TechCrunch

Microsoft is investing in certification and training for a range of AI-related skills in partnership with education provider General Assembly, the companies announced this morning. The goal is to train some 15,000 people by 2022 in order to increase the pool of AI talent...continued

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Grayce @Grayce - about 1 year ago

Tesla Speeds Toward Twin Trials Over Autopilot-Related Crashes

Tesla has certainly been overly ambitious in advertising an Autopilot feature that doesn’t really work, and now it’s facing legal ramifications over its cars’ self-driving capabilities. The company is in the middle of two lawsuits, with trials scheduled for t…

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Cyril @Cyril - over 3 years ago

Digital banking solutions provider Meniga closes additional €10M investment

Meniga, the London fintech that provides digital banking technology to leading banks, has closed €10 million in additional funding. The round is led by Velocity Capital and Frumtak Ventures. Also participating are Industrifonden, the U.K. Government’s Future …

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Rex @Rex - about 2 years ago

Compass Minerals picks lithium extraction technology to supply Ford, others - Reuters

Compass Minerals International Inc (CMP.N) said on Wednesday it will use a lithium extraction technology developed by EnergySource Minerals LLC to produce the electric vehicle battery metal…

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Alan @Alan - 10 months ago

Sam Altman thinks the Vision Pro is the 2nd 'most impressive' technology since the iPhone

Sam Altman didn't clarify what he thinks the most impressive technology is, but he could be referring to artificial intelligence.

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Colin @Colin - over 5 years ago

Equity transcribed: Silicon Valley’s founder fetish infantilizes public companies – TechCrunch

Welcome back to this week’s transcribed edition of Equity. This was a big week of news that the Equity duo had to cover. Kate was at the Code Conference, Fortnite maker, Epic Games bought Houseparty, and a bit more on the Bird-Scoot deal. Then came talk of the CrowdStrike...continued

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Teagan @Teagan - over 5 years ago

2048 Ventures raises $27M fund to back first-time founders and the ‘first-time founder mindset’ –...

2048 Ventures, a new early-stage firm founded and led by Alex Iskold and Paul Sethi, is announcing that it has raised a first fund of $27 million. Iskold spent five years as the managing director of Techstars NYC, and he previously founded Info Lab and GetBlue. Sethi, mea...continued

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Dayton @Dayton - over 5 years ago

Microsoft warns users to patch as exploits for ‘wormable’ BlueKeep bug appear – TechCrunch

Microsoft has issued its second advisory this month urging users to update their systems to prevent a re-run of attacks similar to WannaCry. The software giant said Thursday that the recently discovered “wormable” vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services for Windows can a...continued

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Rose @Rose - almost 3 years ago

Targus built Apple’s Find My tracking tech into its Cypress Hero EcoSmart backpack

Targus announced a new backpack with built-in Find My technology that’s set to be released later this year. Other new accessories it announced include a dock that can add secure fingerprint authentication to your work laptop.

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Monserrat @Monserrat - about 1 year ago

Biden Names Technology Hubs to Boost Industry and Create Jobs

The hubs, which touch 32 states and Puerto Rico, aim to spur innovation and create jobs in the industries that are concentrated in these areas.

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Hank @Hank - about 2 years ago

BMW is building a new custom voice assistant for its cars based on Amazon’s Alexa

BMW is going to build its own custom voice assistant using the core technology that powers Amazon’s Alexa. The automaker plans on rolling out the new feature within the next two years.

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Sandrine @Sandrine - 15 days ago

Custom Drone Software Searches, Rescues

When a new technology first arrives in people’s hands, it often takes a bit of time before the full capabilities of that technology are realized. In much the same way that many early Internet…

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Angus @Angus - almost 3 years ago

Firefox’s latest security feature is designed to protect itself from buggy code

Firefox 95 introduces a new security feature to limit the damage that security vulnerabilities can cause. RLBox was designed with help from researchers at the University of California San Diego and the University of Texas.

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Assunta @Assunta - over 2 years ago

Google sues Sonos over new voice-assistant technology - Reuters

Alphabet's Google escalated its legal war with Sonos Inc on Monday, filing lawsuits in California federal court that said Sonos' new voice-assistant technology violates several Google patents.

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Josiah @Josiah - over 5 years ago

Twitter takes down ‘a large number’ of Chinese-language accounts ahead of Tiananmen Square...

Twitter has suspended a large number of Chinese-language user accounts, including those belonging to critics of China’s government. It seems like a particularly ill-timed move, occurring just days before thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4. “...continued

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Hannah @Hannah - 7 months ago

TSMC Unveils 1.6nm Process Technology With Backside Power Delivery

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: TSMC announced its leading-edge 1.6nm-class process technology today, a new A16 manufacturing process that will be the company's first Angstrom-class production node and promises to outperform its prede…

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Bart @Bart - over 2 years ago

Italy's PM Draghi vetoes technology transfer to China - Reuters.com

Italy's prime minister, Mario Draghi, has vetoed a transfer of technology and software to China in a deal involving industrial robot maker EFORT Intelligent Equipment (688165.SS), accor…

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Manley @Manley - over 5 years ago

Coinbase loses its first CTO after just one year in the job – TechCrunch

Coinbase, the $8 billion-valued crypto exchange, has lost its CTO after Balaji Srinivasan announced his departure from the company. Srinivasan became the U.S. company’s first CTO one year ago after it acquired Earn.com, where he was CEO and co-founder. Given the tenure —...continued

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Priscilla @Priscilla - over 3 years ago

Kargo unveils its new Fabrik publishing system

Digital advertising company Kargo is launching a new product and new business unit called Fabrik. Founder and CEO Harry Kargman explained that Fabrik is a content management system designed for publishers’ modern needs and integrated with Kargo’s advertising …

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Mariano @Mariano - about 3 years ago

Amazon One’s palm-scanning tech makes first move into entertainment venues

Amazon’s palm-scanning technology Amazon One has launched for the first time outside of an Amazon or Whole Foods Store. It’s being introduced in Colorado’s famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre as a collaboration with ticketing company AXS.

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Clarissa @Clarissa - over 4 years ago

Lucid Motors CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson to join TC Sessions: Mobility 2020

Lucid Motors will unveil its long anticipated all-electric luxury electric Air sedan on September 9, a vehicle that promises to have at least 517 miles on a single charge. The company has been toiling away for years now, pushing forward battery technology and raising mone...continued

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Roger @Roger - about 1 year ago

From Android to Windows, Snapdragon Seamless brings your devices together

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Seamless, a new technology that allows better communication between Snapdragon devices.

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Anderson @Anderson - over 2 years ago

India shares down as tech, autos drag; inflation data eyed - Reuters

Indian shares edged lower in early trade on Friday, as technology and automobile stocks declined amid weakness in other Asian markets, while investors awaited domestic inflation data.

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