Friday, August 18, 2023

Moemate’s AI avatar analyzes your whole screen, with spotty but intriguing results

As evidenced by the slow death of Cortana, it’s clear that the AI assistants of yesteryear aren’t meeting expectations. And so they’re being remade. Amazon is building a new large language model akin to OpenAI’s GPT-4 to power its Alexa voice assistant. Meanwhile, Google is reportedly planning to “supercharge” Google Assistant with AI that’s more […]
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Thursday, August 17, 2023

HealthXCapital’s team joins Jungle Ventures

The team behind HealthXCapital, which invested in and helped health tech startups scale up, has joined Singapore-based Jungle Ventures. Seemant Jauhari, who led HealthXCapital since it was founded eight years ago, is now a partner at Jungle, where he will invest in healthcare startups in Southeast Asia and India. HealthXCapital’s portfolio includes RED.Health, Homage, Medfin […]

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Twitch will let streamers block banned users from watching streams

Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with. In Twitch’s latest episode of Patch Notes, its monthly product update show, the company announced that it would soon let streamers block banned users from watching […]

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ProjectDiscovery raises $25M to launch a cloud version of its threat-scanning platform

ProjectDiscovery, a platform that detects new, exploitable vulnerabilities in codebases, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by CRV with participation from Point72, SignalFire, Rain Capital, Mango Capital, Accel and Lightspeed. ProjectDiscovery began as a collaboration between four security engineers — Rishiraj Sharma, Sandeep Singh, Nizamul Rana and […]

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Google’s new Transparency Center outlines its product policies, reporting tools and more

Google is launching a new Transparency Center to make it easier for users to learn more about its product policies. The central hub collects existing resources and policies to inform users on how Google creates and enforces them. With the new hub, users can learn more about Google’s policy development process, transparency reports, policies by […]

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Agility Robotics’ Damion Shelton and Melonee Wise will discuss the future of warehouse automation at TC Disrupt 2023

Agility Robotics is on a steady march toward commercialization, thanks to the continued growth of robotics in warehouse fulfillment and logistics and the expanding feature set of its bipedal robot. We’re excited to announce that Digit — escorted by co-founder and CEO Damion Shelton and Melonee Wise, the company’s new CTO — will join us […]

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WhatsApp adds support for HD photos, says HD video coming ‘soon’

WhatsApp is getting an upgrade that will allow users to share HD photos through the messaging app, according to an announcement shared by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his Instagram broadcast channel and via a Facebook post. The feature, which allows users to preserve the high-def resolution of the photos they share with friends and […]

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X, formerly Twitter, now sorts posts by like count on profiles when signed out

X, formerly known as Twitter, now sorts posts by like counts as opposed to the order in which they were posted when users are logged out. Posts, formerly called tweets, still appear in chronological order on profiles when you’re logged into the social network, but once you log out, they are sorted by performance. The […]
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point

How do you critique functional art? Do you base your assessment on its capability or the resolution at which it solves a problem? Is it more important that it succeeds as art? Or is it the overall statement of purpose that matters, balance between form and function be damned? Not questions I expected to grapple […]

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Armed with new execs, dLocal rebounds from a short seller attack in a big way

Uruguayan fintech company dLocal saw its stock surge by over 30% on Wednesday on the news that the payments outfit had tapped former Mercado Libre CFO Pedro Arnt as its new co-CEO. Shares closed up nearly 32% at $20.45, after climbing as high as $24.22 earlier in the day, giving the company a $6 billion […]

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BNPL vendor Splitit moves to go private in exchange for fresh funds

As the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market continues on its slow decline, one of the major players, Splitit, is embarking on an effort to reorganize and pivot. Splitit today announced that it has a $60 million “capital commitment” from strategic investors including Thorney Investment Group, Parea Capital and Motive Partners. Bringing the startup’s total […]

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Snapchat’s My AI goes rogue, posts to Stories, but Snap confirms it was just a glitch

Snapchat’s My AI feature, an in-app AI chatbot launched earlier this year with its fair share of controversy, briefly appeared to have a mind of its own. On Tuesday, the AI posted its own Story to the app and then stopped responding to users’ messages, which some Snapchat users found disconcerting. “My Snapchat AI posted […]

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