The Download: Uber’s flawed facial recognition, and police drones

December 6, 2022
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. Uber’s facial recognition is locking Indian drivers out of their accounts One evening in February last year, a 23-year-old Uber driver named Niradi Srikanth was getting ready to start another shift, ferrying passengers…

From the creator of Homebrew, Tea raises $8.9M to build a protocol that helps open source developers get paid

December 6, 2022

Tea, an open source unified package manager for software developers, today announced it has added another $8.9 million in seed funding to its coffer as it builds on recent momentum that has seen some 16,000 developers authenticate their software packages with Tea. Tea is the brainchild of Max Howell, creator of popular open source package […]

From the creator of Homebrew, Tea raises $8.9M to build a protocol that helps open source developers get paid by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

How Chargifi pivoted to Kadence, a platform to enable hybrid co-working, then pulled in $10M

December 6, 2022

Coordinating people, projects and their various locations, has become a headache for companies in the post-pandemic world of remote and hybrid working. There is expensive office space to maintain, logistics to figure out which employees are going to actually be in, and who’s working remotely each day. Let’s face it, earlier, hot-desk management software – […]

How Chargifi pivoted to Kadence, a platform to enable hybrid co-working, then pulled in $10M by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Rezonate raises $8.7M and launches its cloud identity protection platform out of stealth

December 6, 2022

Rezonate, a Boston- and Tel Aviv-based startup that offers an agent-less cloud identity protection platform that aims to help DevOps teams minimize attackers’ opportunities to breach cloud identity and access, is coming out of stealth today and announcing an $8.7 million seed funding round, led by State of Mind Ventures and Flybridge, with participation from […]

Rezonate raises $8.7M and launches its cloud identity protection platform out of stealth by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market

December 6, 2022

The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e., AI that generates images, text and more), is supercharging the AI inferencing chip market. Inferencing chips accelerate the AI inferencing process, which is where AI systems generate outputs (e.g., text, images, audio) based on what they learned while “training” on a specific set of data. AI […]

NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

I met a police drone in VR—and hated it

December 6, 2022
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I’m standing in the parking lot of an apartment building in East London, near where I live. It’s a cloudy day, and nothing seems out of the ordinary.  A small drone descends…