Max Q: A week of firsts
In this issue: A first for NASA’s Artemis program… and Japanese firm ispace; news from Quantum Space, and more.
Max Q: A week of firsts by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch
The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics
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. Inside India’s scramble for AI independence Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap…
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Toyota president keeps pushing idea that people hate EVs, despite epic waitlists
Hydrogen is nowhere near ready for cars and light trucks, and the hybrid era is drawing to a close. Toyota of all companies should know that.
Toyota president keeps pushing idea that people hate EVs, despite epic waitlists by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch
AI-based data analytics enable business insight
Remember buying music on CDs? Or even vinyl? From the consumer perspective, the shift to streaming services provides a limitless selection of content that we can access on all of our devices. For the music industry, it creates tremendous opportunities to collect, analyze, and monetize data about our listening habits. That was the directive SK…
Helm.ai snags $31M to scale its ‘unsupervised’ autonomous driving software
A few bright spots remain in the autonomous vehicle industry even amid macroeconomic headwinds that have nearly shut off the spigot of venture capital and led to further consolidation. Helm.ai, a startup developing software designed for advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous driving and robotics, is one of them. The Menlo Park, Calif-based startup recently raised […]
Helm.ai snags $31M to scale its ‘unsupervised’ autonomous driving software by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where they gathered to talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes captured from low angles—including some you really wouldn’t want shared on the Internet. In one particularly revealing shot, a young woman in a…
Foundation raises $7M to return ‘sovereignty’ to a chaotic crypto world
Foundation Devices announced it has raised a $7 million seed round to double down on its “sovereign computing platform.”
Foundation raises $7M to return ‘sovereignty’ to a chaotic crypto world by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
A gallery of presidents
When Sally Kornbluth becomes MIT’s 18th president on January 1, 2023, she joins a long line of leaders that includes mathematicians, chemists, physicists, engineers, an astronomer, a neurobiologist, two Rad Lab researchers, a US Census superintendent, a dean of the Sloan School, and an editor of Technology Review—many of whom served as scientific advisors to…
Rerouting
When I tell people that I work on getting robots to cook and do household chores, they often ask me why this is so difficult. “A child can learn to make an omelet,” they say. “Why is it so hard for a robot?” I usually tell them that they think it’s so easy because they’re…
The Download: metaverse ethics, and spotting AI text
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. I just watched Biggie Smalls perform ‘live’ in the metaverse For a moment on Friday, Biggie Smalls was the only man on stage. A spotlight shone on him in his red velvet suit,…
Design and implement a content governance system to increase ROI
Vanity metrics don’t measure how engaged potential customers are; they simply gauge the relative popularity of your business.
Design and implement a content governance system to increase ROI by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch