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The most amazing drummer on the internet My daughter introduced me to El Estepario Siberiano’s YouTube channel a few months back, and I have been obsessed ever since. The Spanish drummer (real name: Jorge Garrido) posts videos of himself playing supercharged cover versions of popular tracks, hitting his drums with such jaw-dropping speed and technique…

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Rose Rocket, whose platform helps transportation companies communicate, raises $38M

June 20, 2023

In 2015, Justin Sky, Justin Bailie and Alexander Luksidadi — all veterans of the trucking and logistics industry — came to the realization that, in order to get to a stage of real-time collaboration, the entire trucking industry needed to come online. Shippers, carriers and brokers — the intermediaries between carriers and shippers — had […]

Rose Rocket, whose platform helps transportation companies communicate, raises $38M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Parrot AI, a transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A

June 20, 2023

Artificial intelligence touches many aspects of professional industries, including medicine, legal, business, information technology and more, as of late; AI-powered transcription service is one example that has become an integral part of those fields.   Parrot AI, a transcription platform offering speech-to-text depositions for the legal and insurance industry, said Tuesday it has raised $11 million […]

Parrot AI, a transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: explaining the recent AI panic, and digital inequality in the US

June 20, 2023
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. How existential risk became the biggest meme in AI Who’s afraid of the big bad bots? A lot of people, it seems. Hundreds of scientists, business leaders, and policymakers have recently made public…

Spotify’s will reportedly launch HiFi audio through a costlier premium subscription

June 20, 2023

A couple of years after its original announcement, Spotify will finally launch its HiFi tier with lossless music streaming through a “Supremium” plan later this year, which might cost more than the current premium plan of $9.99 per month. A report by Bloomberg noted that the company is launching this new plan to bolster its […]

Spotify’s will reportedly launch HiFi audio through a costlier premium subscription by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Peak XV Partners backs India’s Digantara to propel space situational awareness

June 20, 2023

Digantara, an Indian space tech startup that is working on space situational awareness, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia) as it plans to kick off commercial space operations and satellite traffic management. This is notably the first space-tech investment by the […]

Peak XV Partners backs India’s Digantara to propel space situational awareness by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch