December 27, 2024

The world’s first industrial-scale plant for green steel promises a cleaner future

As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of it were being produced annually, enough to cover Manhattan in a layer more than 13 feet thick.  Making this metal produces a huge amount of carbon dioxide. Overall, steelmaking accounts for around 8% of the world’s carbon emissions—one of the largest industrial emitters and far more…

April 2023

Founded by actors, Mansa brings its free streaming service for global Black culture out of stealth

April 18, 2023

Mansa, a free ad-supported streaming service and content aggregator that offers a curated selection of Black cultural content, launched out of stealth today. Mansa offers a wide variety of content, from on-demand titles and digital linear (FAST) channels to short-form videos and user-generated content. The company was founded by actors David Oyelowo (“Selma”), Chiké Okonkwo […]

Founded by actors, Mansa brings its free streaming service for global Black culture out of stealth by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Goodbye to the fat middle

April 18, 2023

Adobe debuted its Firefly generative AI initiative last month, showcasing first a model trained on its own Adobe Stock images, and then yesterday it unveiled what it’s working on initially around video and audio editing. The features sound like powerful, efficiency-enhancing additions to a creative workflow – but they also sound poised to replace a […]

Goodbye to the fat middle by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung’s ‘News’ app launches with custom feeds and daily briefings

April 18, 2023

Samsung announced today that it’s introducing a “Samsung News” app that gives users access to everyday news from a variety of publications. The app, which will replace the company’s current “Samsung Free” app, includes custom news feeds, along with morning and evening briefings about the top news of the day. The company’s current Samsung Free […]

Samsung’s ‘News’ app launches with custom feeds and daily briefings by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Whisper Aero wants to make aviation, and the rest of the world, quieter

April 18, 2023

The world is loud. If delivery drones and air taxis – also known as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft – gain the level of market saturation investors are hoping for, cities and neighborhoods are only going to get noisier. That’s the assumption, anyway. But Whisper Aero does not seem to care much for […]

Whisper Aero wants to make aviation, and the rest of the world, quieter by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Semgrep (formerly r2c) lands $53M investment to grow code security platform

April 18, 2023

Ideally, when it comes to building secure applications, it’s best to check the code as it moves through the development process, so that vulnerabilities can be found before it gets into production. That’s exactly the kind of solution that Semgrep, formerly r2c, a San Francisco startup, has been building over the last five years. Today, […]

Semgrep (formerly r2c) lands $53M investment to grow code security platform by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Elon Musk wants to develop TruthGPT, “a maximum truth-seeking AI”

April 18, 2023

On Tuesday, Elon Musk said in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that he wants to develop his own chatbot called TruthGPT, which will be “a maximum truth-seeking AI” — whatever that means. The Twitter owner said that he wants to create a third option to OpenAI and Google with an aim to “create […]

Elon Musk wants to develop TruthGPT, “a maximum truth-seeking AI” by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch