Do You Make Your Coworkers Feel Uncomfortable? Fix These 6 Behaviors Before It’s Too Late.
We want to be liked and respected at our jobs. But in our efforts to do so, many of us unintentionally do things that have the opposite effect.
US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts
The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
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September 2023
PayPal (PYPL) vs. Enova International (ENVA): Which Financial Stock Is the Better Value Buy?
Driven by sustained demand and rapid adoption of digital technology, the financial services industry’s prospects appear appealing. Also, financial companies generally benefit from a high-interest rate environment. Amid this backdrop,…
Want to Sound Smarter? This Stanford Professor’s Simple 3-Point Technique Will Help
With a little structure, you can impress audiences with your ad-libbing all day.
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd shares how AI will ‘supercharge’ love and relathionships
Bumble, Inc. CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd believes the power of AI technology will lead to a better online dating experience for her apps’ users. Speaking at the Code Conference on Wednesday, the Bumble and Badoo exec shared how her company uses AI technology to improve matching and other aspects of the business. While she noted […]
ChromeOS 117 update brings Material You design and a new window organizer
Google is rolling out ChromeOS 117 to Chromebooks with several new features including Material You design, a customizable window-switching panel, and the ability to join video calls directly from the calendar view. The company is bringing customizable Material You design to Chromebooks. After selecting a wallpaper and a color palette, these settings will be reflected […]
Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment
Every company is now a software company, as the cliché goes, which means every company needs to understand what’s going on inside their apps and infrastructure. Even the slightest lag can be the difference between onboarding a new customer and, well, not. This is where the concept of “observability” enters the fray, a software monitoring […]
Transfr, a VR platform for workforce training, raises $40M
Transfr, a startup creating VR tools for training and career development, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series C round led by ABS Capital with participation from JPMorgan Chase Impact Finance, Advisory, Lumos Capital Group, Akkadian Ventures, Spring Tide Capital, Firework Ventures and Album. The round brings Transfr’s total raised to $90 […]
Being is an app that wants to help users map out and address mental health concerns
Being, a Delaware-based startup, is on a mission to scale its mental health app, which aims to help users create a map of their concerns to better navigate their everyday issues. The company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, was founded in 2020 by CEO Varun Gandhi and CTO Abhishek […]
Blend uses generative AI to give you a personalized clothing guide
Shopping for clothing online has liberated us from the need to brave the endless aisles, fluorescent lights and sale-hungry crowds of the brick-and-mortar retail inferno. But anyone who has found themselves two hours deep into a fashion rabbit hole, with nothing to show for it but 15 open tabs, four full shopping carts, an earful […]
Publisher-focused Twitter alternative Post comes to Android, adds newsletter support
Post, a publisher-focused Twitter/X alternative backed by a16z, is bringing its social news-sharing app to Android today along with new tools that will make it easier for creators to share their newsletter content on the platform. By doing so, writers will have additional opportunities to monetize their existing publications, thanks to Post’s micropayments system where […]