SheerDrive Raises Pre-Series A Round Led By JITO Angel Network

January 16, 2023
The funds will be utilized in scaling growth and expanding SheerDrive’s footprint in the pre-owned car market in India, as well as further developing the company’s AI/ML-based intelligent VIAR technology platform to its next version of operational capability

The Download: ID’ing rioters in Brazil, and shooting for the moon

January 16, 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. Brazilians are turning to Instagram to identify far-right rioters In the hours after far-right insurrectionists trashed government buildings in Brazil’s capital on Sunday January 8, a new account popped up on Instagram.  Called…

Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices

January 16, 2023

An increasing number of organizations are adopting microservices, the loosely-coupled, independently-deployable services that together make up an app. According to a 2020 O’Reilly survey, 77% of organizations had adopted microservices as of then, with 29% reporting that they were migrating or implementing a majority of their systems using microservices. The widespread microservices adoption has spawned […]

Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Tesla rolls into a pressure cooker, Paris mulls its scooter future, and the double SPAC arrives

January 16, 2023

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Tesla rolls into a pressure cooker, Paris mulls its scooter future, and the double SPAC arrives by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter’s third-party client issue is seemingly a deliberate suspension

January 16, 2023

Last Friday, a ton of popular Twitter clients including Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and Echofon were down. Users couldn’t log into their accounts or look at their timelines. At first, it looked like a bug in Twitter API, but radio silence from Twitter and new details indicated that the company deliberately limited access to third-party apps. The […]

Twitter’s third-party client issue is seemingly a deliberate suspension by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

The New Microsoft AI Tool Can Mimic Anyone’s Voice

January 16, 2023
A new AI tool by Microsoft has garnered quite the attention. Vall-E’s AI Text To Speech system (TTS) can take a three second recording of a person and then convert written words into a speech in that person’s voice. What is the most frightful and astonishing part about the tool is its accuracy.