Atomic Industries closes $17M seed to exascale America’s industrial base

December 4, 2023

In 2014, investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel infamously posed the distinction between companies that deal in “atoms” versus those that deal in “bits.” In its crudest terms, the former category includes businesses focused on things like hardware and manufacturing; the latter, software and financial services. Just shy of ten years on, the distinction now strikes […]

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AI invades ‘word of the year’ lists at Oxford, Cambridge and Merriam-Webster

December 4, 2023

Few would disagree that 2023 was, in the world of technology at least, dominated by artificial intelligence. The dictionaries have taken note in their “word of the year” lists, and notably all the AI-related words they highlight are, in fact, existing words that have been appropriated and regurgitated with new meanings. A little on the […]

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The makers of pro photography app Halide venture into video with Kino, due this February

December 4, 2023

Lux, the startup and makers of the popular pro photography app Halide and others, is venturing into video. The team today announced its plans to debut a new app, Kino, arriving in roughly two months’ time, that will allow iPhone users to work with video in a more professional capacity. The news follows advances in […]

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