February 6, 2025

Superlogic raises $13.7M at a $200M valuation to help consumers use reward points toward cool ‘experiences’

Superlogic, a startup that helps give consumers a way to apply rewards points toward experiences, has raised $13.7 million at a $200 million valuation, the company tells TechCrunch exclusively. Lin Dai, CEO and co-founder of Miami-based Superlogic, said his company’s technology is designed to “enhance the value of rewards points” by giving consumers a broader […]

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How startups can use generative AI from ideation to implementation

November 8, 2023

Souvik Das Contributor Souvik Das is CTO at Clearwater Analytics, a provider of SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions. The day ChatGPT debuted, this transformational technology captured the imaginations of business leaders and changed decision-making forever. Today’s C-suite sees incredible upside opportunities with generative AI. Set to drive a $7 trillion increase in […]

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Bridging the expectation-reality gap in machine learning

November 8, 2023
Machine learning (ML) is now mission critical in every industry. Business leaders are urging their technical teams to accelerate ML adoption across the enterprise to fuel innovation and long-term growth. But there is a disconnect between business leaders’ expectations for wide-scale ML deployment and the reality of what engineers and data scientists can actually build…

The Download: Hong Kong’s crypto obsession, and digitizing India’s documents

November 8, 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. Why Hong Kong is still bullish on crypto While Sam Bankman-Fried was waiting for the jury in his fraud trial to return their verdict last week, Hong Kong FinTech Week 2023, a new…

Meta taps Hugging Face for startup accelerator to spur adoption of open source AI models

November 8, 2023

Facebook parent Meta is teaming up with Hugging Face and European cloud infrastructure company Scaleway to launch a new AI-focused startup program at the Station F startup megacampus in Paris. The underlying goal of the program is to promote a more “open and collaborative” approach to AI development across the French technology world. The timing […]

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Why Hong Kong is still bullish on crypto

November 8, 2023
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. We were far from the courtroom where Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on seven criminal charges, but everyone still wanted to talk about him. That said, I have a feeling the conversations…

Waze gets a new safety feature that warns you if a road has a history of crashes

November 7, 2023

Waze announced today the launch of crash history alerts, designed to notify you if a road you’re approaching has a history of crashes. The new feature is powered by proprietary AI technology, which analyzes historical crash data as well as key characteristics of a road, such as its typical traffic levels, the elevation, whether it’s […]

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LG’s IT arm taps Tiger Global-backed QuickNode for web3 pursuit

November 7, 2023

Despite crypto’s badly tarnished reputation following FTX’s collapse, some large corporations are warmly embracing its underlying distributed ledger technology. LG CNS, the IT solutions subsidiary of the South Korean conglomerate, has formed a strategic partnership with QuickNode, a blockchain deployment platform aiming to bring web2 services into web3. Besides announcing the partnership, LG also revealed […]

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The Download: combating Parkinson’s with implants, and counting carbon’s cost

November 7, 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. A man with Parkinson’s regained the ability to walk thanks to a spinal implant The news: A man with Parkinson’s disease has regained the ability to walk after physicians implanted a small device…

Volante raises $66M for payments tech for banks and other legacy financial businesses

November 7, 2023

“Digital transformation” among enterprises hasn’t happened with quite the gusto that people predicted it would a few years ago. But today, a startup building fintech technology — for businesses to modernize legacy financial services like payments — is announcing a decent round of funding, a sign of how change is coming, even if slowly. Volante […]

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A man with Parkinson’s regained the ability to walk thanks to a spinal implant

November 6, 2023
A man with Parkinson’s disease has regained the ability to walk after physicians implanted a small device into his spinal cord that sends signals to his legs.  “I can now walk with much more confidence and my daily life has profoundly improved,” said the patient, a 62-year-old named Marc, during a press conference.  Marc is…