15 Weird and Wonderful Side Hustles You Never Knew Existed
Turns out there are all kinds of wacky ways to make extra cash. We found 15 people bringing in thousands of dollars on unexpected ventures, and they’re happy to share the wealth.
Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs
A live agent spends hours each week manually documenting routine interactions. Another combs through multiple knowledge bases to find the right solution, scrambling to piece it together while the customer waits on hold. A third types out the same response they’ve written dozens of times before. These repetitive tasks can be draining, leaving less time…
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How to Find Your Flow State When Your Life Is Filled With Digital Distractions
A prescription for quieting distractions and finding your flow from the new book “The Wolf Is At The Door.”
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Ubicloud wants to build an open source alternative to AWS
Using the large cloud computing providers is convenient, but not exactly cheap. Ubicloud, a new startup founded by the team behind Citus Data, which Microsoft acquired in 2019, wants to change the dynamics by offering a layer of core cloud computing services on top of affordable bare-metal servers from providers like Hetzner, OVH Cloud, Leaseweb […]
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Ema, a ‘Universal AI employee’, emerges from stealth with $25M
Generative AI well and truly has a grip on public technology discourse these days. A new startup called Ema out of San Francisco thinks it’s a lot more than just a passing fancy. It’s emerging from stealth today, with a product of the same name, that it believes will open a new chapter in how […]
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The Download: rise of the robots, and what organoids can teach us
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. The robots are coming. And that’s a good thing. —This is an excerpt from a new book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, by MIT CSAIL director Daniela Rus …
Binance to halt naira services amid ongoing regulatory probe in Nigeria
Binance will halt its naira (NGN) services in response to heightened regulatory scrutiny in Nigeria, it said in a blog post today. The cryptocurrency exchange will begin delisting any existing NGN spot trading pairs by Thursday, March 7. It advised users to withdraw, trade, or convert their NGN assets into crypto before the service discontinuation. Any […]
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Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper
AI-powered video generation is a hot market on the back of OpenAI’s releasing Sora model last month. Two Deepmind alums Yishu Miao and Ziyu Wang have publicly released their video generation tool Haiper with its own AI model underneath. Miao, who was previously working at TikTok in the Global Trust & Safety team, and Wang, […]
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SOLO’s new credit bureau concept helps lenders ditch third-party data
Georgina Merhom developed the concept for SOLO after helping freelancers in Egypt who didn’t have bank accounts.
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