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5 product management tips that can help startups thrive in 2023
As companies cut costs to extend their runways, here’s how product managers can make the most of a tough situation.
5 product management tips that can help startups thrive in 2023 by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
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Co-Creation Hub’s edtech accelerator puts $15M towards African startups
Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned. According to a statement shared by the firm, the accelerator program will support and amplify the impact of […]
Co-Creation Hub’s edtech accelerator puts $15M towards African startups by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Can ‘we the people’ keep AI in check?
Technologist and researcher Aviv Ovadya isn’t sure that generative AI can be governed, but he thinks the most plausible means of keeping it in check might just be entrusting those who will be impacted by AI to collectively decide on the ways to curb it. That means you; it means me. It’s the power of […]
Can ‘we the people’ keep AI in check? by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch
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Singapore-based Transcelestial uses lasers to build affordable internet networks
Transcelestial is on a mission to make the internet more accessible by building a network of shoebox-sized devices that send lasers to one another, creating a fiber-like network. Today, the Singaporean-based startup announced it has raised $10 million, with the goal of expanding its wireless laser communications system in Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore […]
Singapore-based Transcelestial uses lasers to build affordable internet networks by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch
Toyota Research Institute’s robots leave home
“I think I’m probably just as guilty as everybody else,” Toyota Research Institute’s (TRI) senior vice president of robotics, Max Bajracharya, admits. “It’s like, now our GPUs are better. Oh, we got machine learning and now you know we can do this. Oh, okay, maybe that was harder than we thought.” Ambition is, of course, […]
Toyota Research Institute’s robots leave home by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch