Annuity Plans Will Never Be the Same
I want to ask you a personal question. When was the last time you thought about your retirement? I’m not trying to put you on the spot or embarrass you….
The Download: unraveling a death threat mystery, and AI voice recreation for musicians
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. Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake. In April 2024, a mysterious someone using the online handles “Waifu” and “Judische” began posting death threats on Telegram and Discord channels aimed…
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Halo Car launches remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las Vegas
Halo Car, a startup that uses remote operators to deliver rental cars to a customer’s door, has launched driverless operations in Las Vegas. Driverless operations mean something different for Halo than they do for autonomous vehicle companies like Cruise or Waymo because Halo’s vehicles aren’t capable of self-driving. The startup’s fleet is kitted out with […]
Halo Car launches remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las Vegas by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Social trading app Shares receives EU stock trading license
Fintech startup Shares has raised $90 million for its stock trading app. And yet, the service is only available to people who live in the U.K. But that’s about to change as the company has received a couple of authorizations from French regulators. With EU passporting rules, Shares could also expand to other European countries. […]
Social trading app Shares receives EU stock trading license by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
Lightspeed makes first investment in Africa, backing Ghana’s Berry Health
Sexual and mental health stigmatization in Africa has evolved over several decades to a point where negligence to address the issue has led to the continent topping the charts in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and mental health cases. For one, around 11 people per 100,000 die by suicide in Africa yearly, according to the World […]
Lightspeed makes first investment in Africa, backing Ghana’s Berry Health by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Lab-grown meat just reached a major milestone. Here’s what comes next.
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I briefly became a vegetarian around the age of 13. The story is a common one in my generation, I think: I saw a video of slaughterhouse conditions, cried my eyes out,…
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Meta expects recommendation models ‘orders of magnitude’ bigger than GPT-4. Why?
Meta made a remarkable claim in an announcement published today intended to give more clarity on its content recommendation algorithms. It’s preparing for behavior analysis systems “orders of magnitude” bigger than the biggest large language models out there, including ChatGPT and GPT-4. Is that really necessary? Every once in a while Meta decides to freshen […]
Meta expects recommendation models ‘orders of magnitude’ bigger than GPT-4. Why? by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
Cyware lands $30M to modernize cybersecurity operations
Cyware, a startup developing products to help enterprises modernize their security operations, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series C funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures. Advent International, Zscaler, Emerald Development Managers, Prelude and Great Road Holdings also participated, bringing Cyware’s total raised to $73 million. Cyware was founded in 2016 […]
Cyware lands $30M to modernize cybersecurity operations by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Meta really wants to explain its AI recommendation algorithms to you
Meta is publishing new material to explain how its recommendation engine works across different products. Along with that, it is also rolling out a new option called “Why am I seeing this?” for Instagram and Facebook Reels as well as Instagram’s Explore page. This way, you can understand the reason why that post is being […]
Meta really wants to explain its AI recommendation algorithms to you by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch