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Presto can now make Santa, celebrities, ‘appear’ in your drive-thru
The goal is to help restaurants increase sales by offering upsells, reduce wait times, improve order accuracy and just delight customers.
Presto can now make Santa, celebrities, ‘appear’ in your drive-thru by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Protect AI lands a $13.5M investment to harden AI projects from attack
Seeking to bring greater security to AI systems, Protect AI today raised $13.5 million in a seed-funding round co-led by Acrew Capital and Boldstart Ventures with participation from Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures and Aviso Ventures. Ian Swanson, the co-founder and CEO, said that the capital will be put toward product development and customer outreach as […]
Protect AI lands a $13.5M investment to harden AI projects from attack by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Artifact wants to record your family history in podcast-like audio recordings
After Ross Chanin’s grandfather died, Chanin mourned not only him, but the fact that he’d never gotten a chance to hear more about his grandfather’s life. Over a conversation with a journalist friend, George Quraishi, it became clear to Chanin that Quraishi’s skill set — interviewing and audio editing — could be conducive to capturing […]
Artifact wants to record your family history in podcast-like audio recordings by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Zipline is now the national drone service provider for Rwanda
Zipline got its start six years ago using its autonomous electric drones to deliver blood in Rwanda. Now, the logistics and drone delivery startup is expanding its Rwandan government partnership with a lofty aim: complete nearly 2 million instant deliveries and fly more than 200 million autonomous kilometers in the country by 2029. The government […]
Zipline is now the national drone service provider for Rwanda by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
AWS, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation
The Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Overture Maps Foundation, a new nonprofit organization that aims to enable developers to build new mapping products thanks to its interoperable map data and new tooling. The new organization was founded by AWS, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, but the organization stresses that it is “open to […]
AWS, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Coinbase launches asset recovery tool for unsupported Ethereum-based tokens
The new tool will help Coinbase’s customers recover more than 4,000 unsupported Ethereum-based tokens mistakenly sent to wallets.
Coinbase launches asset recovery tool for unsupported Ethereum-based tokens by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
Microsoft to start multi-year rollout of EU data localization offering on January 1
Microsoft will begin a phased rollout of an expanded data localization offering in the European Union on January 1, it said today. The EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, as it’s branding the provision for local storage and processing of cloud services’ customer data, is intended to respond to a regional rise in demand […]
Microsoft to start multi-year rollout of EU data localization offering on January 1 by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch