Improve Productivity With Better Sleep Thanks to These Noise-Blocking Earbuds
The SleepEEZ wireless earbuds were created with sleep comfort in mind.
How 3D printing could make better cooling systems
A new 3D-printed design could make an integral part of cooling systems like air conditioners or refrigerators smaller and more efficient, according to new research. Heat exchangers are devices that whisk away heat, and they’re everywhere—used in data centers, ships, factories, and buildings. The aim is to pass as much heat as possible from one…
Amazon Is Ending an Important Privacy Feature for Alexa Echo Devices By the End of the Month
Customers are faced with a choice: Let Amazon listen in or stop using Alexa.
Google brings a ‘canvas’ feature to Gemini, plus Audio Overview
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Google seems to agree. On Tuesday, the company added a feature to its AI-powered Gemini chatbot that the company is calling Canvas. Similar in concept to OpenAI’s identically-named Canvas tool for ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Artifacts, Canvas provides Gemini users with an interactive space where they […]
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CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs ‘unlawful’
Federal court rules U.S. cybersecurity agency must re-hire over 100 former employees
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Al Gore’s Just Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS for nature-based climate investments
The new fund aims to restore nature to reverse biodiversity loss and emissions from land use.
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You’ve Probably Seen Her Name at Nordstrom or Sephora. These Are the Negotiation and Leadership Secrets That Helped Her Make Millions.
She’s learned a lot during her decades in business and says, “the second time around can be more interesting and passionate.”
‘This Corporate Espionage Is Breathtaking’: Company Says It Caught a Spy With a Slack Trap
HR software company Rippling filed a lawsuit claiming corporate espionage was carried out on a platform typically used for team collaborations and Friday afternoon GIFs.
Anthropic-backed AI-powered code review platform Graphite raises cash
AI coding assistants are becoming wildly popular, with the vast majority of respondents in GitHub’s latest poll saying that they’ve adopted AI tools in some form. Y Combinator partner Jared Friedman recently claimed that a quarter of YC’s W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI. Sensing an opportunity, VCs are rushing to back startups developing […]
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Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut. But it […]
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Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta’s Llama models have hit 1B downloads
In a brief message Tuesday morning on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads. That’s up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024 — a 153% increase over a roughly-three-month period. Llama, which powers Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, across the tech giant’s […]
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