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ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s first time on stage with his bandmates since he lost the ability to sing two years…
There was no ‘Twitch for Chefs’ until this Media Entrepreneur Cooked Up the Idea for Kittch
Interview with Kittch CEO Brian Bedol about monetizing food content, innovating with digital storytelling, and becoming the Twitch + OnlyFans for the Culinary World.
Building a Tight-Knit Community as a Small Business
The owners of Little Giant Muay Thai revolve their business around building a community, helping them rank #3 in Fitness & Instruction our America’s Favorite Mom & Pop Shops List.
Catch, offering health insurance for gig workers, relaunches with new owners
Alexa Irish and Laura Speyer, now the co-CEOs of Catch, acquired the company in June after the original co-founders shuttered the company.
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Warmly pivots from Zoom tool to directing warm leads to sales
When Warmly started a couple of years ago, people were meeting regularly in Zoom and the company provided a custom background and information about the participants. It was useful as far as it went, but when the founders had trouble selling the approach, they decided to pivot to a new idea: providing warm leads for […]
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Amazon adds social shopping features, including a way to ask friends for product feedback
Amazon is today launching a social shopping feature that will allow consumers to ask trusted friends for advice while they shop online through the Amazon app. The feature, dubbed “Consult-a-Friend,” lets shoppers send a message to people whose advice they want to receive. This message includes a link to the new experience where friends can […]
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SynFutures raises $22 million Series B, bucking ‘crypto winter’
Amid a global slowdown in venture investments for crypto projects, some companies continue to buck the trend. SynFutures, a decentralized crypto derivatives exchange, has completed a $22 million Series B funding round. Pantera Capital led the round, with participation from Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and HashKey Capital. SynFutures is rolling out its proprietary automated market […]
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The Download: striking actors training AI, and breaking ‘unbreakable’ encryption
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. How Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI Between July and September this year, actors in the US were invited to participate in an unusual research project, designed to capture…
After X, Meta and TikTok get EU request for info on response to Israel-Hamas war
Meta and TikTok have each been sent formal requests for information by the European Union under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission said today. In recent days, EU regulators has expressed concern about illegal content and disinformation circulating on social media platforms following attacks in the Middle East and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. […]
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Overstory snags $14M Series A to use AI to help utilities cut their wildfire risk
Utilities have long known about the hazards posed by trees growing close to power lines, but the successive disasters have thrown the issue into sharp relief.
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