January 2024

Pinecone’s vector database gets a new serverless architecture

January 16, 2024

For a long time, vector databases were a bit of a niche product, but since they are uniquely suited to provide context and long-term memory to large language models, everybody in the database space is now seemingly trying to bolt vector search onto their existing products as fast as possible. Meanwhile, dedicated services like Pinecone, […]

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The Download: Apple Vision Pro, and how AI judges gymnastics

January 16, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Apple Vision Pro: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 History is littered with doomed face computers. Google Glass, Microsoft HoloLens, and even Meta’s Quest line all flopped. Now, it’s Apple’s turn to try.  At the…

3 Pharma Stocks for January 2024 Profits

January 16, 2024
The pharmaceutical industry is thriving, fueled by steady demand for drugs, cost-efficient alternative discoveries, and rapid technological innovations. Hence, fundamentally strong pharma stocks Novo Nordisk (NVO), Eton Pharmaceuticals (ETON), and…

African neobank Kuda raised $20M at flat valuation last year, missed user milestone projection by 3M

January 16, 2024

Earlier this month, Kuda co-founder and CEO Babs Ogundeyi told users that the Nigerian online challenger bank had reached almost N₦56 trillion (~$60 billion) in transaction value since its 2019 launch.  Ogundeyi also said that Kuda had achieved a notable milestone, with 7 million retail and business customers as of today. However, the figure falls […]

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How AI is changing gymnastics judging 

January 16, 2024
There was one individual Olympic spot left. According to the intricate set of rules governing who gets slots for the games, it would come down to who placed highest in the high bar final: Croatia’s Tin Srbić or Brazil’s Arthur Nory Mariano. They were at the 2023 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, last October. Mariano…