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🔥 Read this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Product Review 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The maps on inReach were pretty much useless. The offline maps on the Garmin Fenix ​​8 Pro and Garmin Forerunner 970 have more detail. There's also no upcoming turn notifications, like you get on the Fenix, just an alert if you veer 50 meters off course. After a while, I stopped following my path on the inReach Mini 3 Plus.Besides live tracking and emergency SOS tools, satellite messaging is InReach's most useful tool. Adding audio is…

✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Automatic speech recognition,Cohere,text to speech,voice AI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first audio model: Transcribe, an open source automatic speech recognition model that can be used for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis. Relatively lightweight at just 2 billion parameters, the model is intended for use with consumer GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It currently supports 14 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Arabic. Cohere says Transcribe outperforms models like Zoom Scribe…

✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Security,Startups,General Catalyst,Y Combinator,Conntour 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Today the surveillance technology industry is in the spotlight, but not for the best reasons. With controversy over US Immigration and Customs Enforcement exploiting the Flock camera network to monitor people, and criticism of home camera maker Ring for building new features that would enable law enforcement to ask homeowners for footage of their neighborhoods, there is currently a wide debate over safety, privacy, and who can watch who. But controversy doesn't erase markets, and the continued improvement of vision language models has…

✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Build Mode,Build Mode Video,Bland AI,Isaiah Granet 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When you're building at breakneck speed, hiring a reliable team is crucial to an early-stage startup. In this episode of Build Mode, Isabel Johansen sits down with Isaiah Granit, CEO and co-founder of Bland, a voice AI company that has grown from pre-seed to Series B in just 10 months. Their team has swelled to 75 people, and Granit has tactical advice on how the company can find hidden talent in unexpected places. With a founding team fresh out…

💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Search,Google,AI,Search Live ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Google announced Thursday that it is expanding its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, globally to include all languages ​​and locations where AI mode is available. With this expansion, people in more than 200 countries and regions will be able to access this feature, Google says. First launched in July 2025, Search Live allows users to point their phone's camera at objects for real-time help, enabling back-and-forth conversations based on visual context from the camera feed. Before this global expansion, Search Live was only…