Technology

These are the first Denon-branded Nura headphones

June 20, 2023

Nura suffered the same quiet fate as countless startups before. The innovative Australian firm was effectively acqui-hired by Masimo, which has been amassing its own arm of audio brands. The Southern Californian medical device company previously purchased numerous familiar names, including Bowers and Wilkins, Polk Audio and Denon. Unlike those firms, however, the Nura brand […]

These are the first Denon-branded Nura headphones by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Scaling MLOps for the enterprise with multi-tenant systems

June 20, 2023
Multi-tenant systems are invaluable for modern, fast-paced businesses. These systems allow multiple users and teams to access and use them at the same time. Machine learning operations (MLOps) teams, in particular, benefit greatly from using multi-tenant systems. MLOps teams that don’t leverage multi-tenant systems can fall victim to inefficiency, inconsistency, duplicative work, and bumpy onboarding—adding…

Jane Technologies launches innovative point-of-sale platform for cannabis dispensaries

June 20, 2023

Jane Technologies today announced the launch of its new point-of-sale platform that it says will improve the overall cannabis shopping experience with reliable online listings and in-store curated shopping recommendations. Everyone knows the pain. You found your favorite strain on your dispensary’s online menu, only to go to the shop and discover it’s out of […]

Jane Technologies launches innovative point-of-sale platform for cannabis dispensaries by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

The counterfeit lawsuits that scoop up hundreds of Chinese Amazon sellers at once

June 20, 2023
Sun Qunming had no idea that the word “airbag” could be trademarked.  Sun, who owns an e-commerce company of 13 people in Shenzhen, China, has been selling phone cases to Amazon buyers in Europe and the US since 2016. But last year, her business ground to a halt. One of her products has air-filled bumper…

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…

How climate vulnerability and the digital divide are linked

June 20, 2023
The Wi-Fi signal is weak outside the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Anacostia, a historic African-American section of Washington, DC. The abolitionist leader’s former home sits serenely atop a grassy hill in the otherwise bustling neighborhood. It is one of Monica Sanders’s final stops on an overcast December afternoon. Facing the property, she holds…