The Download: DOGE’s influences, and rescuing federal data from deletion
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Connect Money scores $8M to enable non-bank businesses to offer embedded finance services
Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platforms continue to be at the heart of driving access to digital financial services through their technology that offers fintech capabilities to non-bank businesses. Businesses are tapping these platforms to get past difficulties and time-consuming processes, such as building tech infrastructure and acquiring requisite regulatory approvals, to offer financial services such as cards, […]
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Matt Rogers, Nest and Mill co-founder, talks mastering consumer tech at Disrupt 2024
Consumer technology is hard, but few people have mastered it as well as Matt Rogers, co-founder of Nest and now Mill, his new startup that promises to turn your table scraps into planet-saving treasure. Mill burst out of the gate last year after spending some time in stealth refining its waste bin, an easy to […]
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Google is bringing Gemini access to teens using their school accounts
Google announced on Monday that it’s bringing its AI technology Gemini to teen students using their school accounts, after having already offered Gemini to teens using their personal accounts. The company is also giving educators access to new tools alongside this release. Google says that giving teens access to Gemini, can help prepare them with the […]
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The Download: hyperrealistic deepfakes, and using math to shape wood
Meet the architect creating wood structures that shape themselves
Synthesia’s hyperrealistic deepfakes will soon have full bodies
Women in AI: Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance
Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance. She is known for her research and advocacy work within technology.
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Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent
Charlette N’Guessan is the Data Solutions and Ecosystem Lead at Amini, a deep tech startup leveraging space technology and artificial intelligence to tackle environmental data scarcity in Africa and the global South.
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