Technology

Our quick guide to the 6 ways we can regulate AI

May 22, 2023
Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. AI regulation is hot. Ever since the success of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, the public’s attention has been grabbed by wonder and worry about what these powerful AI tools can do. Generative…

Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages

May 22, 2023
Meta has built AI models that can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages—a tenfold increase on what’s currently available. It’s a significant step towards preserving languages that are at risk of disappearing, the company says. Meta is releasing its models to the public via the code hosting service GitHub. It claims that…

Meet the Disrupt Audience Choice roundtable winners

May 22, 2023

You voted in droves and the results are finally in! We can’t wait to hear the 10 incredible roundtables that you chose to send to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, September 19–21 in San Francisco. After counting literally thousands of votes, we’re ready to share the winners with you. But first… A reminder from the home office: […]

Meet the Disrupt Audience Choice roundtable winners by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Meta and data, chips and dips, crypto and meltdowns

May 22, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Today, we are talking about Meta’s latest fines, what’s new in chips, and […]

Meta and data, chips and dips, crypto and meltdowns by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

Volition wants to be DigiKey for industrial parts

May 22, 2023

If you’re an electrical engineer, DigiKey, Octopart and Mouser are permanently etched into your browser history — all the components you might need, at your fingertips. Volition just raised $11 million to become the same indispensable supplier for mechanical and industrial engineering: think motors, gears, pneumatics, hydraulics, controllers, sensors, measuring and test equipment, and a […]

Volition wants to be DigiKey for industrial parts by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon’s palm-scanning payment tech will now be able to verify ages, too

May 22, 2023

Amazon One, the retailer’s palm-scanning payment technology, is now gaining new functionality with the addition of age verification services. The company announced today that customers using Amazon One devices will be able to buy adult beverages — like beers at a sports event — just by hovering their palm over the Amazon One device. The […]

Amazon’s palm-scanning payment tech will now be able to verify ages, too by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: rub-on gene therapy, and safeguarding email memories

May 22, 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. The FDA just approved rub-on gene therapy that helps “butterfly” children The news: Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration approved sales of the first gene therapy that is directly applied to…

Fetch founder Melonee Wise joins Agility Robotics at CTO

May 22, 2023

We’ve discussed Agility quite a bit over the last several years. Most recently, it’s been a focus on the Oregon firm’s push to commercialize. There’s no question that the technology is impressive here. That much was clear when it was still an OSU research project. The path to market, on the other hand, has been […]

Fetch founder Melonee Wise joins Agility Robotics at CTO by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

How to preserve your digital memories

May 22, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. I recently published a short story about new policies recently announced by Google and Twitter that allow the companies to remove inactive accounts. Google said the decision…