Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages
A new gadget called Dex allows kids to take pictures of objects and the AI translates the word into different languages.
The Download: AI to measure pain, and how to deal with conspiracy theorists
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. AI is changing how we quantify pain Researchers around the world are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure. The…
Stop Clearing Your Inbox — It’s Not Productive. Try This Smart Strategy Instead.
Inbox Zero is not a productivity strategy; it’s a distraction trap.
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‘Why Not Me?’: Inside the New Wave of Celebrity Soccer Team Ownership
Investor and multiple sports team owner Sam Porter breaks down the game we see playing out in shows like “Welcome to Wrexham” and “Necaxa.”
Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text or on social media. According to Forbes, that also makes the URL indexable by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up those conversations on the web.
New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone
Prices for hacking tools that allow governments to break into mobile phones keep going up, thanks to efforts by tech firms shoring up their cybersecurity.
FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains
FieldAI builds foundational AI models that help all kinds of robots learn and adapt to new environments using physics.
NASA’s new AI model can predict when a solar storm may strike
NASA and IBM have released a new open-source machine learning model to help scientists better understand and predict the physics and weather patterns of the sun. Surya, trained on over a decade’s worth of NASA solar data, should help give scientists an early warning when a dangerous solar flare is likely to hit Earth. Solar…
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Y Combinator alum SRE.ai raises $7.2M for DevOps AI agents
The company helps automate complex enterprise workflows (like continuous integration and testing) — or, in other words, it makes DevOps capabilities more efficient as AI technology takes hold.