Highlight, now flush with $18M, helps CPG brands automate product testing
The company brings the entire product testing process under one umbrella and automates it so customers can set up their testing and get the product results they need quickly.
The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance
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. The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…
Apica acquires Logiq.ai to bring together observability and synthetic data
Apica, a 17-year old Swedish company, helps companies test applications using synthetic data. Today, the company announced it has acquired Logiq.ai to help expand beyond purely testing into post-production monitoring, an approach which should enable companies to improve their synthetic data set based on the application’s behavior in production. The company did not share the […]
Caden lands $15M to let users monetize their personal data
As consumers become more privacy aware, an increasing number of startups are emerging to — in line with the trend — enable people to monetize their data. Datacy, for example, lets users collect their browsing data, aggregate it with data from others and then sell it to the highest bidder. Pogo and Tapestri, similarly, grant […]
Apple reverses decision to change ‘end call’ button’s placement in iOS 17
Apple’s iOS 17 update, announced at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June, didn’t usher in many controversial changes. That is, apart from relocating the end-call button to the bottom right-hand side of the call screen gird. However, the Cupertino company has now reversed that decision, shifting the end call button back to the […]
Supercharge Two Computers With Microsoft Office for Only $79.99 Thanks to This Combo
Get your computers up to speed with Microsoft Office, now with two licenses.
‘Formula 1 on Water’: How SailGP Is Making Big Waves in the Racing World
SailGP’s Chief Content Officer Melissa Lawton explains how the elite boat racing league is growing its global audience of adrenaline junkies.
Meet Marqo, an open source vector search engine for AI applications
Vector databases are the unsung heroes of the modern AI movement, storing unstructured data such as images, videos and text to enable people and systems to search uncategorized content. They are particularly integral to large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT), owing in large part to the databases’ ability to power real-time […]
DynamoFL raises $15.1m to help enterprises adopt ‘compliant’ LLMs
DynamoFL, which offers software to bring large language models (LLMs) to enterprises and fine-tune those models on sensitive data, today announced that it raised $15.1 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Canapi Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners. The tranche, with had participation from Formus Capital and Soma Capital, brings DynamoFL’s total raised […]
The Download: tech’s ethical congregation, and the Inflation Reduction Act’s anniversary
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. The rise of the tech ethics congregation Just before Christmas last year, a pastor preached a gospel of morals over money to several hundred members of his flock. But the leader in question…
Netflix’s ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ anime debuts teaser trailer and premiere date
Netflix released the official teaser trailer for the highly anticipated anime series “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,” based on the popular “Scott Pilgrim” comic book series. “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” premieres all eight episodes on November 17. For those unaware of the nearly 20-year-old comic book series, “Scott Pilgrim” was written by Canadian author Bryan Lee […]