December 25, 2024

These stunning images trace ships’ routes as they move

As we run, drive, bike, and fly, we leave behind telltale marks of our movements on Earth—if you know where to look. Physical tracks, thermal signatures, and chemical traces can reveal where we’ve been. But another type of trail we leave comes from the radio signals emitted by the cars, planes, trains, and boats we…

May 2024

VCs and the military are fueling self-driving startups that don’t need roads

May 18, 2024

A new crop of early-stage startups — along with some recent VC investments — illustrates a niche emerging in the autonomous vehicle technology sector. Unlike the companies bringing robotaxis to city streets, these startups are taking their tech off-road.  Two recent entrants — Seattle-based Overland AI and New Brunswick-based Potential — are poised to get […]

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Deal Dive: Sagetap looks to bring enterprise software sales into the 21st century

May 18, 2024

When the founders of Sagetap, Sahil Khanna and Kevin Hughes, started working at early-stage enterprise software startups, they were surprised to find that the companies they worked at were trying to sell their innovative tech through old-school methods like repeated cold emails and calls. Khanna, a former product marketer, and Hughes, a former sales manager, […]

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This Week in AI: OpenAI moves away from safety

May 18, 2024

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. By the way, TechCrunch plans to launch an AI newsletter […]

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You’re Reading Body Language All Wrong — And It’s Putting Your Next Business Deal On The Line. Decode Non-Verbal Cues By Following These 5 Steps.

May 17, 2024
In the intricate dance of business meeting negotiations, the nuances of communication become the fulcrum on which decisions balance. For the astute entrepreneur, understanding body language is not just a skill; it’s an imperative. However, relying solely on isolated gestures can be deceptive. To truly harness the power of non-verbal cues, one must grasp the concept of “clusters.”

Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo

May 17, 2024

After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top of the App Store’s charts. But the increased attention also brought the threat of legal action, as Adobe targeted Delta for sporting a logo that looked too […]

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GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites

May 17, 2024
Soon after OpenAI released GPT-4o on Monday, May 13, its newest version of the large-language model chatbot, some Chinese-language speakers started to notice something seemed off: the tokens it uses to parse text were full of spam and porn phrases. On May 14, Tianle Cai, a Ph.D student at Princeton University studying inference efficiency in…