Thursday, February 15, 2024

Singularities are a pain in the neck for robot arms — Jacobi Robotics is trying to solve them

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It’s easy to lose track of the fact that robotics is as much a software problem as a hardware one. The programming understandably gets overshadowed by the alure of mechatronics, but without the proper software solution, you’ve got little more on your hands than an expensive paper weight. The road to widespread robotics adoption is […]


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Happy Valentine’s Day, dating app downloads are slowing down

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It may be Valentine’s Day here in the U.S., but the dating app market isn’t looking as promising as it used to. According to a new analysis by app intelligence provider data.ai, global downloads of dating apps saw only tepid growth year-over-year as of this January — a slight increase of just 1.9% to reach […]


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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

GM is expanding its hands-free driving system to rural highways

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GM is expanding access to Super Cruise with plans to let drivers use the hands-free advanced driver assistance system on about 750,000 miles of roads in the United States and Canada. The expansion, which will nearly double the automaker’s Super Cruise network by 2025, will include rural and minor highways that often connect smaller cities […]

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Varda Space Industries finally gets approval to bring its drug manufacturing spacecraft back to Earth

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Varda Space Industries has received long-awaited approval from regulators to return its first spacecraft to Earth — and with it, a batch of pharmaceutical crystals manufactured on orbit. Varda’s Winnebago capsule has been stuck in limbo for months. The company launched the spacecraft on a SpaceX Transporter mission eight months ago, with the plan to […]

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Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media

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People on Bluesky and Mastodon are fighting over how to bridge the two decentralized social networks, and whether there should even be a bridge at all. Behind the snarky GitHub comments, these coding conflicts aren’t frivolous – in fact, they could shape the future of the internet. Mastodon is the most established decentralized social app […]

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Largest text-to-speech AI model yet shows ’emergent abilities’

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Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent” qualities improving its ability to speak even complex sentences naturally. The breakthrough could be what the technology needs to escape the uncanny valley. These models were always going to grow and improve, but the researchers specifically hoped to see […]

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KTrust launches an automated red team for Kubernetes security

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KTrust, a Tel Aviv-based security startup, is taking a different approach to Kubernetes security from many of its competitors in the space. Instead of only scanning Kubernetes clusters and their configurations for known vulnerabilities, KTrust is taking a more proactive approach. It deploys an automated system that tries to hack into the system. This allows […]


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Instacart lays off 250 employees, or 7% of its workforce, to ‘reshape’ company

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Grocery-delivery giant Instacart announced today that it’s laying off around 250 employees, or roughly 7% of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring. Instacart CEO Fidji Simo said in a letter to investors that the layoffs will allow the company to streamline how it operates. The company announced the layoffs alongside the release of […]


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Roam raises $24M to scale electric vehicle production in Kenya

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Roam, an EV startup based in Kenya, has raised $24 million in a Series A round, including up to $10 million debt commitment from the U.S International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), to scale the production of electric motorcycles and buses. Equator, an Africa-focused climate tech VC fund, led the round, which also had the participation […]

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Earlybird Health closes twice-larger second fund, will write bigger checks

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Germany-based Earlybird Health announced the final closing of its second fund of €173 million (around $185 million). This is more than twice the size of Earlybird's first healthcare-focused fund.

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Surprise! Mark Zuckerberg thinks Quest 3 is better than Vision Pro

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Mark Zuckerberg tried Apple’s Vision Pro headset and his verdict is that the Meta Quest 3 is a better product. Shocking, right? In a video posted on his Instagram account, recorded with Quest 3’s passthrough, the Meta CEO said before trying out the headset he thought that Quest 3 would provide better value to people […]

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Andrej Karpathy is leaving OpenAI again — but he says there was no drama

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Researcher Andrej Karpathy confirmed today that he is leaving OpenAI for the second time to work on personal projects. He said in a post on X that the decision is not because of an event, issue, or drama. Karpathy, who was the founding member of OpenAI, left the company to join Tesla in 2017. He […]

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Foundry Group is shutting down and won’t raise another fund

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Foundry Group, an 18-year-old venture firm with nearly $3.5 billion in assets under management, has quietly decided to shut down and not raise any more funds. The move was unexpected considering that the firm announced a $500 million fund last year. Boulder, Colorado-based Foundry first announced that its current fund would be its last on […]

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