Technology
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Giles @Giles - almost 5 years ago
The Amazing Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming The Music Industry
The Amazing Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming The Music IndustryThe days of debating if artificial intelligence (AI) will impact the music industry are over. Artificial intelligence is already used in many ways. Now it's time to consider how much it will influe...continued
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Hulda @Hulda - over 2 years ago
Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 133 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed the Safari Technology Preview to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari. …
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Myles @Myles - over 2 years ago
CANADA STOCKS-Toronto market rises for third day as technology rallies - Reuters.com
Canada's main stock index rose on Thursday in lighter than usual trading as heavily weighted financial and technology stocks contributed to broad-based gains.
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Erik @Erik - almost 2 years ago
Goldman hires Google exec to co-head applied innovation unit - memo - Reuters
Goldman Sachs has hired Jared Cohen, who founded technology incubator Jigsaw at Google, to co-head its newly created applied innovation unit, an internal memo showed, as the Wall Street powerhouse invests in technology expertise.
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Zackery @Zackery - almost 4 years ago
RiskIQ adds National Grid Partners as securing data becomes a strategic priority for utilities
RiskIQ, a startup providing application security, risk assessment and vulnerability management services, has added National Grid Partners as a strategic investor.The funding from the investment arm of National Grid, a multinational energy provider, is part of a $15 millio...continued
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Angus @Angus - about 2 years ago
Germany's Sunfire to provide equipment for Finland's green hydrogen plant - Reuters.com
Sunfire, a German clean technology company, will provide electrolysis equipment for Finland's first industrial-scale green hydrogen plant, its Finnish operator P2X Solutions said on Tuesday.
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Elian @Elian - over 2 years ago
Autonomous tugboat will make a trailblazing 1,150 mile voyage
There are a number of autonomous boats under development, but we've seen few commercial self-driving ships plying waterways. Now, a company called Sea Machines has announced that it will send an autonomous, remotely commanded tugboat on a 1,000 nautical mile …
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Hank @Hank - almost 5 years ago
SupplyCompany to secure seed funding
SupplyCompany to secure seed fundingLondon and Mumbai-based SupplyCompany, a design-to-delivery sourcing platform, has agreed to raise 1.5 million pounds in seed funding. Episode 1 is the lead investor.LONDON, 11 JULY 19: SupplyCompass (www.supplycompass.com), a design-to...continued
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Allene @Allene - almost 5 years ago
Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings – TechCrunch
Uber is now requiring the same good behavior from riders that it has long expected from its drivers. Uber riders have always had ratings, but they were never really at risk of deactivation — until now. Starting today, riders in the U.S. and Canada are now at risk of deac...continued
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Priscilla @Priscilla - about 3 years ago
Look out Amazon Go — A Lisbon startup plans to offer autonomous stores to other retailers
Look out Amazon Go. A Lisbon startup plans to offer the same autonomous store technology to other retailers. Lisbon-based Sensei, a computer vision startup that allows convenience stores to offer check-out-free purchasing has secured a seed round of $6.5 mill…
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Angus @Angus - almost 5 years ago
Security stays hot as Imperva grabs Distil Networks – TechCrunch
Last week 4 security companies changed hands. The shopping spree continued this week with CDN company Imperva, announcing it was buying bot mitigation startup Distil Networks. The companies did not share the acquisition price. Imperva CTO Kunal Anand says his company had...continued
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Leda @Leda - almost 3 years ago
Google's first Street View EV is a Jaguar loaded with air quality sensors
Over the next twelve months, Jaguar I-Pace EVs outfitted with Google's Street View mapping technology will be driving around Dublin..
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Geovany @Geovany - 4 months ago
How Airbnb uses AI to weed out people trying to use its rental properties for New Year's parties
Airbnb utilizes AI and machine learning technology to prevent parties on New Year's Eve. Last year, the company blocked 63,550 NYE bookings in the US.
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Zetta @Zetta - over 3 years ago
Bluetooth SIG works to include wearables in COVID-19 exposure notification systems
Current smartphone-based exposure notification systems (ENS) like the one created jointly by Apple and Google are a clever way of leveraging modern technology to support comprehensive contact-tracing efforts by health agencies worldwide. But the COVID-19 pandemic is not w...continued
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Ryleigh @Ryleigh - almost 5 years ago
HolodeckVR raises €3M from Germany’s ProSiebenSat1 to put VR onto dodgems – TechCrunch
Consumer VR might not have taken off in the mainstream but it’s still fun to use, and it’s even more fun to use in groups. There is more of an arcade renaissance for VR going on right now, as well as location-based multi-user VR experiences. That’s the premise behind Muni...continued
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Dayton @Dayton - almost 3 years ago
LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology
We've always had a soft spot for language at Google. Early on, we set out to translate the web. More recently, we’ve invented machine learning techniques that help us better grasp the intent of Search queries. Over time, our advances in these and other areas …
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Maureen @Maureen - almost 3 years ago
Snapchat shows off new AR features and more ‘inclusive’ camera tech
Snap showed off new AR features, announced partnerships with YouTube, and previewed a new more “inclusive” version of its cameras technology..
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George @George - almost 2 years ago
Panasonic and Leica unveil 'L squared' project to jointly develop cameras and lenses
Panasonic and Leica have formed a new collaboration called L² (L squared) that will see them jointly develop cameras, lenses and imaging technology, they announced. Both companies are already part of the L-Mount mirrorless alliance (along with Sigma and Leitz…
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Minnie @Minnie - almost 3 years ago
How one founder realized the potential of sustainable energy stored deep below our feet
On this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy came up with the idea for Dandelion while working at Google X, tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems, and making them tractable through the …
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Allene @Allene - over 3 years ago
Bryte raises $24m, pivots from selling $8k AI-powered mattresses to licensing its tech
Bryte today announced $24M in Series A funding led by ARCHina Capital. This comes as the company moves away from selling its $8,000 mattress direct to consumers and instead is working with partners who would utilize Bryte’s technology in their mattresses. Bry…
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Alexzander @Alexzander - about 5 years ago
Lego introduces a new STEM Star Wars kit – TechCrunch
No one does brand synergy quite like Lego. The company’s been one of the biggest Star Wars licensers over the years, and for the first time, it’s applying one of the most valuable pieces of IP to its own line of STEM kits, Lego Boost. For this year’s Star Wars Day, the Da...continued
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Ariel @Ariel - over 1 year ago
Amazon begins large-scale rollout of palm print-based payments
The technology has drawn scrutiny from privacy activists and politicians.
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Cyril @Cyril - over 2 years ago
Toronto index up as energy, technology shares gain - Reuters
Canada's main stock index was set for its third-straight session of gains on Thursday, aided by technology and energy shares, although trading volumes are likely to be low because of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.
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Liliane @Liliane - about 3 years ago
Save 93% on the most innovative technology in the music industry
TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to the EasySplitter Pro Vocal Remover is on sale for £29.12 as of April 14, saving you 93% on list price. Whether you’re looking to remix a song and need to separate the vocals from the instrumental track or you want to make a …
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Maida @Maida - almost 4 years ago
CTA asks the US government for tariff exemptions on robotics, drones and 3D printers
The Consumer Technology Association penned an open letter alongside a number of other industry representatives asking the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office to loosen tariffs on a number of tech categories manufactured in China.The parties seek to widen current COVID-19-r...continued
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