Google adds Gemini to its Education suite
Google is launching a Gemini add-on for educational institutes through Google Workspace.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/google-adds-gemini-to-its-education-suite/
Colab’s collaborative tools for engineers line up $21M in new funding
Engineers Adam Keating and Jeremy Andrews were tired of using spreadsheets and screenshots to collab with teammates — so they launched a startup, Colab, to build a better way. The two met as undergrad...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/colab-is-building-collaborative-tools-for-mechanical-engineers/
YC-backed Recall.ai gets $10M Series A to help companies use virtual meeting data
More money for the generative AI boom: Y Combinator-backed developer infrastructure startup Recall.ai announced Thursday it’s raised a $10 million Series A funding round, bringing its total raised to ...
Poshmark’s ‘Promoted Closet’ tool lets sellers boost all their listings at once
Poshmark, the social commerce site that lets people buy and sell new and used items to each other, launched a paid marketing tool on Thursday, giving sellers the ability to promote their entire shop a...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/poshmark-promoted-closet-marketing-tool/
Sigma is building a suite of collaborative data analytics tools
Sigma Computing, a startup building a range of data analytics and business intelligence tools, has raised $200 million in a fresh VC round.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/sigma-is-building-a-suite-of-collaborative-data-analytics-tools/
Reddit reintroduces its awards system
Reddit announced on Wednesday that it is reintroducing its awards system after shutting down the program last year. The company said that most of the mechanisms related to awards will remain the same,...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/reddit-reintroduces-its-awards-system/
Spoor uses AI to save birds from wind turbines
Wind is the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but wind farms come with an environmental cost as wind turbines can wreak havoc on ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/spoor-uses-ai-to-save-birds-from-wind-turbines/
EU ‘closely’ monitoring X in wake of Fico shooting as DSA disinfo probe rumbles on
European Union enforcers of the bloc’s online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), said Thursday they’re closely monitoring disinformation campaigns on the Elon Musk-owned social network...
Cannabis and gaming payments startup Aeropay is now offering an alternative to Mastercard and Visa
The key to taking on legacy players in the financial technology industry may be to go where they have not gone before. That’s what Chicago-based Aeropay is doing. The provider of pay-by-bank solutions...
Forget EVs: Why Bedrock Materials is targeting gas-powered cars for its first sodium-ion batteries
Bedrock Materials is developing a new type of sodium-ion battery, which promises to be dramatically cheaper than lithium-ion.
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EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design concerns
Facebook and Instagram are under formal investigation in the European Union over child protection concerns, the Commission announced Thursday. The proceedings follow a raft of requests for information...
Thoma Bravo’s LogRhythm merges with Exabeam in more cybersecurity consolidation
Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has announced that its security information and event management (SIEM) company LogRhythm will be merging with Exabeam, a rival cybersecurity company backed by the lik...
Temu accused of breaching EU’s DSA in bundle of consumer complaints
Consumer protection groups around the European Union have filed coordinated complaints against Temu, accusing the Chinese-owned ultra low-cost e-commerce platform of a raft of breaches related to the ...
Senate study proposes ‘at least’ $32B yearly for AI programs
A long-running working group in the Senate has issued its policy recommendation for federal funding for AI: $32 billion yearly, covering everything from infrastructure to grand challenges to national ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/senate-study-proposes-at-least-32b-yearly-for-ai-programs/
FBI seizes hacking forum BreachForums — again
The FBI along with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies seized the notorious cybercrime forum BreachForums on Wednesday. For years, BreachForums has been a popular English-language f...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/fbi-seizes-hacking-forum-breachforums-again/
Matt Garman taking over as CEO with AWS at crossroads
It’s tough to say that a $100 billion business finds itself at a critical juncture, but that’s the case with Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, and the clear market leader in the cloud infr...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/matt-garman-taking-over-as-ceo-with-aws-at-crossroads/
Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server
The announcement signifies a significant shake-up in the streaming giant's advertising approach.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/netflix-in-house-advertising-technology-platform/
Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generator
Back in February, Google paused its AI-powered chatbot Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after users complained of historical inaccuracies. Told to depict “a Roman legion,” for example, Ge...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/google-still-hasnt-fixed-geminis-biased-image-generator/
Google I/O 2024: Here’s everything Google just announced
Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/google-i-o-2024-everything-announced-so-far/
Quilt heat pump sports sleek design from veterans of Apple, Tesla, and Nest
The heat pump startup unveiled its first products and revealed details about performance, pricing and availability.
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