March 2024

Stell helps engineers focus on building, not paperwork

March 11, 2024

“Hard tech” is the latest buzz in venture capital, but all hard tech industries still rely on software infrastructure to ensure machines run properly, parts are shipped on time, and that they are built to very exact requirements. Stell, a two-year-old software startup, is focused on this latter part of the engineering ecosystem. The company […]

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Alphabet spin-off SIP launches Verrus, a data center concept built around battery ‘microgrids’

March 11, 2024

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners — the Alphabet spinout that focuses on building and backing new approaches to complicated infrastructure problems in areas like power, broadband and waste management — has launched its latest project, a new concept for more flexible data center energy management called Verrus. Verrus incorporates “microgrids” based on advanced, high-power batteries with software […]

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Pinterest rolls out its ‘body type ranges’ tool to the US

March 11, 2024

Pinterest announced today that its tool for filtering searches by different body types has officially rolled out to users in the U.S. The platform started experimenting with the feature last year and is currently testing it in Canada. As part of today’s launch, Pinterest now features size-inclusive brands on its search landing page, including Eloquii, […]

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Potential ‘meme stock’ Reddit to raise ~$748M in IPO, to let Redditors sell shares immediately

March 11, 2024

Reddit’s IPO should be interesting to watch — and not just because the business remains unprofitable, but also because of how the company has chosen to bring in its community of active users and moderators into its public markets debut. In a new SEC filing, Reddit says it’s planning to sell around 22 million shares, priced […]

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The Download: rise of the multimodal robots, and the SEC’s new climate rules

March 11, 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. An OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humans The news: In the summer of 2021, OpenAI quietly shuttered its mulrobotics team, announcing that progress was being…

An OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humans

March 11, 2024
In the summer of 2021, OpenAI quietly shuttered its robotics team, announcing that progress was being stifled by a lack of data necessary to train robots in how to move and reason using artificial intelligence.  Now three of OpenAI’s early research scientists say the startup they spun off in 2017, called Covariant, has solved that…