π₯ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: Security,crunchyroll,Telus Digital π **What Youβll Learn**: Anime streaming service Crunchyroll has confirmed a data breach involving customer service ticket information following an incident with a third-party vendor, after a hacker claimed to have accessed user data and internal systems. The streaming site, which Sony acquired from AT&T in 2020 for $1.18 billion, operates as a joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan-based Aniplex. Crunchyroll has more than 2,000 titles in more than a dozen languages ββand serves 15 million subscribers worldwide, according to its website. Reports of…
π₯ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: AI,Exclusive,figure,hark π **What Youβll Learn**: A secret artificial intelligence lab founded by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock has shared new details about what it believes is a new marriage between model building and hardware design that will change how humans interact with intelligent software. The company said in a statement that it will design comprehensive multimedia models, devices and interfaces side by side to deliver a "seamless, comprehensive personal intelligence product." The system will have a permanent memory of your life and can listen, see and interact with the world in…
π₯ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: Apps,Transportation,air travel,Flights,Flighty,travel π **What Youβll Learn**: As chaos at airports becomes the new norm, popular flight tracking app Flighty has released a new feature called βAirport Intelligenceβ which provides users with real-time alerts on airport disruptions for reasons across 14,000 airports in the world. The release is timely, given that tensions in the Middle East have caused numerous flight delays, cancellations, and airport closures, while the United States has been facing a shortage of Transportation Security Administration agents, leading to closed security checkpoints and extremely long lines. The startup…
π Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: Apps,TC,Ads,commerce,Pinterest π **What Youβll Learn**: Pinterest announced Tuesday that it will launch a new feature called βPromote a Pinβ that allows users to boost the reach of their Pin in a few steps. The company said that this feature allows anyone, from individuals to small businesses, to reach a larger number of people without designing complex advertising campaigns. The company is rolling out the Promoted ID feature to users in the United States in the coming weeks, with global expansion planned in the future. The social network said its 619…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Cauldron Ferm has an unexpected origin story, as startups do. Its basic technology can be traced back to the 1960s, or perhaps the 1970s. The exact beginning is a bit hazy, actually. David and Polly McLennan dreamed of feeding the world using protein grown from microbes. The duo realized they needed to improve the process, which was expensive and time-consuming. Most fermentation occurs in batches. Visualize a brewery or vineyard. The ingredients go in and the microbes work for a while, but…
π₯ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: TC,AI,Robotics,robotics,google deepmind,artificial intelligence,robotics partnership,Agile Robots π **What Youβll Learn**: Agile Robots has partnered with Google DeepMind to develop robots with its AI research lab, the latest in a string of robotics companies to do so. Munich, Germany-based Agile Robots announced it has entered into a strategic research partnership with Google DeepMind on Tuesday. The partnership involves Agile Robots implementing Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics core models into its own robots and data collected by the robots used to improve the Gemini AI core models. The two companies will work together…
β¨ Discover this must-read post from WIRED π π **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Say What? π **What Youβll Learn**: At the same time When Apple announced the AirPods Pro 3 last year, the company also introduced a new feature called Live Translation. It makes the idea of ββa described Babel fish evocative The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyFact: Something sitting in your ear can instantly translate between languages, on demand.Instead of an exotic fish, here we have wireless headphones from Apple. This isn't actually limited to the latest earbuds, though given the timing of the launch, it will…
π Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: Startups,Hardware,Biotech & Health,oura,ultrahuman,Ultrahuman Ring Pro π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Ultrahuman, a Bengaluru-based health tech startup known for its smart rings, is trying to revive its business in the US after getting approval for the Ring Pro, setting off a renewed battle with Oura, which has consolidated its dominance in the meantime. The latest approval, granted by US Customs and Border Protection, comes less than a month after the Ring Pro's global launch in late February, and following an October ruling by the US International Trade Commission in Oura's favor…
π₯ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,dod,Anthropic,pete hegseth,supply chain risk,Senator Elizabeth Warren π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Anthropic is attracting a growing number of supporters in its fight against the US Department of Defense, which last month designated an artificial intelligence lab as a supply chain risk after it refused to compromise on how the military uses its artificial intelligence. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) equated the Defense Department's decision to "retaliation," arguing that the Pentagon could have simply terminated its contract with the AI ββlab, CNBC…
π Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: TC,Startups,Venture,AI π **What Youβll Learn**: Stanford assistant professor and exiting founder, Zain Asghar, has raised an $80 million Series A for a startup that is working to solve a bottleneck in AI inference in an intelligent way. The round was led by Menlo Ventures. Gimlet Labs has created what it claims is the first and only βmulti-silicon inference cloud,β software that allows an AI workload to run simultaneously across different types of devices. It can split the work of an AI application across both traditional CPUs and AI-tuned GPUs, as…
