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Sometimes baseball feels like a game of inches. Clubs often compete for seemingly small advantages to get a leg up. Over the last couple of decades, that’s meant investments in both advanced analytics and cutting-edge technologies. Sometimes both at the same time. While baseball fans themselves can be highly critical of changes to the 180+-year-old […]

Major League Baseball embraces 3D motion tracking to scout players by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Electrify America has become the latest company to align itself with Tesla’s EV charging standard. The company, which was created as part of a settlement of the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal, said Thursday it will add Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector to Electrify America and Electrify Canada’s fast charging networks by 2025.  Electrify […]

VW subsidiary Electrify America to add Tesla connectors to EV charging network by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

In our tech-driven world, the right to privacy — once the cornerstone of democracy — is disappearing at an alarming rate. But not everyone is keen on having Big Tech companies and nation-states surveilling every digital communication. This may be one reason why Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messaging app, has been downloaded more than 100 […]

Signal talks privacy, encryption, AI and more at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023’s Security Stage by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Between the robots and an AI-powered workflow, GeologicAI’s new business model is looking far more scalable than its old approach.

Batteries beat oil and gas as AI startup pivots to critical minerals exploration by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

After a cybersecurity audit mistakenly reset everyone’s password, a high school changed every student’s password to “Ch@ngeme!” giving every student the chance to hack into any other student’s account, according to emails obtained by TechCrunch. Last week, Oak Park and River Forest (OPRF) High School in Illinois told parents that during a cybersecurity audit, “due […]

High school changes every student’s password to ‘Ch@ngeme!’ by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

Should enormous companies of the world be run more like countries? Or should countries be run more like companies?

When companies have more influence than countries by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

In 2023, funds of funds (FoFs) are on track to raise the smallest amount of money this year in more than a decade. At the same time, muted venture deal activity has many firms ditching their follow-on funds. Despite these twin trends, a new emerging manager is looking to find success with a fund that […]

Level wants to back your fund — and your portfolio companies too by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

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. Humans may be more likely to believe disinformation generated by AI The news: Disinformation generated by AI may be more convincing than disinformation written by humans, according to a new study. It found…

Halo Car, a startup that uses remote operators to deliver rental cars to a customer’s door, has launched driverless operations in Las Vegas. Driverless operations mean something different for Halo than they do for autonomous vehicle companies like Cruise or Waymo because Halo’s vehicles aren’t capable of self-driving. The startup’s fleet is kitted out with […]

Halo Car launches remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las Vegas by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch