June 17, 2025

Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy

Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge in the market, featuring blockchain technology and a token economy.

Microsoft’s computer vision model will generate alt text for Reddit images

March 7, 2023

Two years ago, Microsoft announced Florence, an AI system that it pitched as a “complete rethinking” of modern computer vision models. Unlike most vision models at the time, Florence was both “unified” and “multimodal,” meaning it could (1) understand language as well as images and (2) handle a range of tasks rather than being limited […]

Microsoft’s computer vision model will generate alt text for Reddit images by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: geothermal power’s potential, and AR for luxury jewelry

March 7, 2023
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. This geothermal startup showed its wells can be used like a giant underground battery In late January, a geothermal power startup began conducting experiments where it pumped water deep below the desert floor…

Threecolts raises $90M to build out its toolkit for third parties selling on marketplaces like Amazon

March 7, 2023

Amazon rules the roost when it comes to e-commerce, with its marketplace outpacing everyone else when it comes to gross merchandise value, reach and market capitalization. That fact inevitably makes it a big part of how millions of brands and retailers sell goods online. Threecolts, a London startup founded by an ex-Amazon exec that builds […]

Threecolts raises $90M to build out its toolkit for third parties selling on marketplaces like Amazon by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

4 Stocks to Buy in Any Market Climate

March 7, 2023
The stock market is expected to remain volatile in the near term as investors remain anxious about the Fed’s actions. Amid high recession worries, fundamentally strong healthcare stocks, Pfizer (PFE),…

Droit, a regulatory compliance platform used by major banks, raises $23M

March 7, 2023

Droit, a regulatory compliance platform used by finance heavyweights such as Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and UBS, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. Founded out of New York in 2012, Droit serves to bolster financial institutions’ trading decision-making by integrating regulatory knowledge into the pre-trade process, highlighting key information on […]

Droit, a regulatory compliance platform used by major banks, raises $23M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

reMarkable powers up its e-paper tablet with a keyboard case for distraction-free writing

March 7, 2023

The reMarkable 2 is a great tablet for reading long documents on, annotating them, taking notes, sketching… but not for full-on writing. At least, it wasn’t until they put out this great keyboard folio that converts this tablet into a pretty compelling minimalist writing station — if you don’t mind a slightly premium price. The […]

reMarkable powers up its e-paper tablet with a keyboard case for distraction-free writing by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT

March 7, 2023

D-ID, the Israeli startup behind Deep Nostalgia, announced today that it’s launching the beta version of its new web app that allows users to talk face-to-face with photorealistic AI. The web app, called chat.D-ID, combines D-ID’s text-to-video streaming technology with OpenAI’s ChatGPT to make conversations with AI more accessible. The startup’s CEO and co-founder, Gil […]

D-ID’s new web app gives a face and voice to OpenAI’s ChatGPT by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Salesforce plans to incorporate generative AI across the platform

March 7, 2023

Salesforce has been in the news for a lot of non-product reasons of late, so it would be understandable that the company wants to bring the focus back to the business of selling software and away from the machinations of activist investors. Today at the TrailheadDX developer conference, the company announced a generative AI push […]

Salesforce plans to incorporate generative AI across the platform by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch