This Innovative Storytelling App Starring Famous Names Is up to $100 Off
Kevin Costner, John Lithgow, and Phil Jackson are just some of the narrators you’ll get on Autio.
AI can now create a replica of your personality
Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your childhood, your formative memories, and your career to your thoughts on immigration policy. Not long after, a virtual replica of you is able to embody your values and preferences with stunning…
April 2024
A pair of Airbnb alums is bringing intelligence and automation to data protection
When Julie Trias and Elizabeth Nammour were working together at Airbnb on the company’s data team, they had to deal with data spread across a variety of sources, and that growing sprawl led to challenges in keeping data safe. The founders’ own frustration with the existing crop of data protection options motivated them to launch […]
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Instagram is updating its ranking systems to surface more content from smaller, original creators
Instagram is introducing a few new changes to its ranking systems to better highlight content from smaller, original creators.
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Portal Space Systems unveils Supernova, an ultra-mobile spacecraft
The era of stationary spacecraft may soon be over. Portal Space Systems, a company headed by propulsion expert Jeff Thornberg, is looking to help usher in a new renaissance in in-space transportation with its ultra-mobile Supernova satellite bus. Think of it as maneuverability-as-a-service — tech that could propel transfers from low Earth orbit to geostationary […]
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‘Wallet-as-a-service’ startup Ansa raises $14 million with female investors leading the way
Ansa, a startup that helps merchants develop and offer branded virtual wallets, has raised a $14 million Series A round of funding, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. Renegade Partners led Ansa’s latest financing, which included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, BoxGroup and Wischoff Ventures and new investor B37 Ventures. With this latest […]
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SafeBase taps AI to automate software security reviews
Security review automation platform SafeBase has raised new cash from investors including Zoom’s corporate VC arm.
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Beehiiv attracts $32M to make its newsletter publishing platform more sticky
With the number of people using e-mail globally approaching 5 billion, newsletters delivered regularly into people’s inboxes continue to look like a sticky way of getting attention for whatever it is that you’re writing. Now, in a signal of the popularity of the medium, one of the startups building a platform for creating and distributing […]
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The Download: robotics’ data bottleneck, and our AI afterlives
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. The robot race is fueling a fight for training data We’re interacting with AI tools more directly—and regularly—than ever before. Interacting with robots, by way of contrast, is still a rarity for most.…
WeTransfer cuts out the middle man and now lets users sell files directly on the platform
The integrated payments on WeTransfer are powered by Stripe and are rolling out to all users globally.
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The first-ever race between four self-driving cars and a Formula 1 driver just happened in Abu Dhabi
Wander the pits at any professional motorsports event, especially something like Formula 1, and you’ll see endless computer displays full of telemetry. Modern teams are awash in real-time digital feedback from the cars. I’ve been in many of these pits over the years and marveled at the streams of data, but never have I seen […]
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