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Meet the minds shaping AI: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 AI Stage revealed

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the AI Stage comes alive with the voices shaping the future of technology, creativity, and security. Top VCs reveal what it takes to win funding in a rapidly evolving landscape, as they place bets on the next wave of AI founders. Hear groundbreaking insights from leaders at visionary startups like Apptronik, […]

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MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder

January 5, 2023

Not everyone believes that the metaverse — social, VR-centric worlds — has staying power. But MeetKai is among the steadfast optimists. Founded in 2018, the startup initially focused on conversational AI, aiming to build cutting-edge, top-of-the-line voice recognition and speech synthesis tech. It soon broadened its focus, introducing products to help developers build components of […]

MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

CircleCI warns customers to rotate ‘any and all secrets’ after hack

January 5, 2023

CircleCI, a company whose development products are popular with software engineers, has urged users to rotate their secrets following a breach of the company’s systems. The San Francisco-headquartered DevOps company said in an advisory published late Wednesday it is currently investigating the security incident — its most recent in recent years. “We wanted to make you aware […]

CircleCI warns customers to rotate ‘any and all secrets’ after hack by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Why 2023 is a breakout year for batteries

January 5, 2023
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. If you stop to think about it for long enough, batteries start to sound a little bit like magic. Seriously, tiny chemical factories that we carry around to store energy and release it…

Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs as tech layoffs continue

January 5, 2023

Amazon has announced that it will be “eliminating” more than 18,000 roles at the company, extending a previously-announced round of layoffs that was set to impact some 10,000 workers. The announcement is significant in terms of the number of people impacted, though it represents just 1.2% of Amazon’s 1.5 million global headcount. In a memo […]

Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs as tech layoffs continue by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

What’s next for mRNA vaccines

January 5, 2023
Cast your mind back to 2020, if you can bear it. As the year progressed, so did the impact of covid-19. We were warned that wearing face coverings, disinfecting everything we touched, and keeping away from other people were some of the only ways we could protect ourselves from the potentially fatal disease. Thankfully, a…

Microsoft partners with India space agency to work with startups

January 5, 2023

Microsoft plans to collaborate with the Indian space agency to give Indian space tech startups free access to cloud tools, the two said Thursday, the latest in the U.S. tech giant’s attempts to deepen its ties with young firms in the South Asian market. As part of a memorandum of understanding that Microsoft has signed […]

Microsoft partners with India space agency to work with startups by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

BMW unveils Dee prototype, “the next level of human-machine interaction”

January 5, 2023

BMW revealed a prototype for the i Vision Dee concept car during the automaker’s keynote at CES on Wednesday evening. The four-door sedan came out on stage in a crisp white, but later morphed into a variety of colors and patterns to show off Dee’s E-Ink technology, which will allow car owners to configure the […]

BMW unveils Dee prototype, “the next level of human-machine interaction” by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Ember brings Find My functionality to its self-heating travel mug

January 5, 2023

Ember’s a bit of a weird one. The Southern California firm has two distinct – though not wholly unrelated arms. There’s the smart mug side of the business that launched the startup and the more recent cold chain shipping wing, which leverages its temperature control technology to move things like medical supplies. While it seemed […]

Ember brings Find My functionality to its self-heating travel mug by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch