December 26, 2024

This international surveillance project aims to protect wheat from deadly diseases

When Dave Hodson walked through wheat fields in Ethiopia in 2010, it seemed as if everything had been painted yellow. A rust fungus was in the process of infecting about one-third of the country’s wheat, and winds had carried its spores far and wide, coating everything in their path. “The fields were completely yellow. You’d…

Google’s new Gemini-powered conversational tool helps advertisers quickly build Search campaigns

January 23, 2024

Google announced today that Gemini, its family of multimodal large language models, now powers the conversational experience within the Google Ads platform. With this new update, it will be easier for advertisers to quickly build and scale Search ad campaigns. The conversational experience is designed to help build Search campaigns through a chat-based tool. The […]

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VR needs to build for its best use cases – not for all-around computing

January 23, 2024

Apple’s Vision Pro launch resembles its Apple Watch debut in more ways than one, but to me the most telling similarity is in the marketing approach. Apple has striven to distance the Vision Pro from the existing crop of virtual reality (and even mixed reality) devices – many of which are objective failures – by […]

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Brex cuts 20% of staff amidst reports of stalled growth, high burn

January 23, 2024

Expense management startup Brex, which was valued at $12.3 billion two years ago, laid off 282 people, or about 20% of its staff today. The once high-flying fintech startup sent a note to employees (that was also published on the company’s website) today, announcing the news. In addition, Brex announced that its COO, Michael Tannenbaum, […]

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Learn how WebAssembly can benefit your startup

January 23, 2024

If you’re looking for a better development tool to build your startup (or enterprise) empire — one that’s fast, efficient, secure, offers easy debugging, multiple language support, portability, browser compatibility and a whole lot more — you need to know about WebAssembly, a.k.a., “Wasm.” Fun fact: A World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) standard since 2019, […]

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Kin.art launches free tool to prevent GenAI models from training on artwork

January 23, 2024

It’s a wonder what GenAI, particularly text-to-image AI models like Midjourney and OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, can do. From photorealism to cubism, image-generating models can translate practically any description, short or detailed, into art that might well have emerged from an artist’s easel. The trouble is, many of these models — if not most — were […]

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