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Rebellions, a South Korean fabless AI chip startup, said today it has closed $124 million (165 billion KRW) in a Series B round of funding to develop its third AI chip, called Rebel. The startup will also use the new capital, oversubscribed with an initial target of $90 million, to ramp up production of its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Last week, NASA held its annual day of remembrance to commemorate all those who lost their lives in the pursuit of human space exploration – including the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia. The day is a sobering reminder of the perils of spaceflight and the dear […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

OpenAI hopes to win the trust of parents — and policymakers — by partnering with organizations that work to minimize tech and media harms to kids, preteens and teens. Case in point, OpenAI today announced a partnership with Common Sense Media, the nonprofit organization that reviews and ranks the suitability of various media and tech […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Media streamer Plex has raised new capital. The company, which began as a media organization startup, has morphed over the years to become a one-stop shop for all your media, including ad-supported streaming, which now accounts for much of its revenue growth. The new round, which has not yet been disclosed, is larger than Plex’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Those of us lucky enough to be sitting by a window can predict the weather just by looking outside, but for the less privileged, weather forecasting and analysis is getting better and better. Tomorrow.io just released the results from its first two radar satellites, which, thanks to machine learning, turn out to be competitive with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Я уже жаловался тут на особенности переводов художественной литературы, когда из-за невежества переводчиков серьезно страдает переводимое произведение, а то и теряется часть его смысла. Бывает, впрочем, и иначе — когда переводчики начинают дописывать в свой перевод такое, что исходное произведение становится чем-то другим. Захотел я тут перечитать “Властелина Колец”. Я впервые его читал еще в 90-х и, разумеется, тогда понятия не имел, насколько перевод совпадает с оригиналом. Однако все же я неплохо помню и... →

Reddit's feeling out its own IPO valuation is crucial, especially given that hightened regulatory scrutiny is restricting M&A as an exit avenue for unicorns. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

What worked for PayPal is a good example of how your startup can start looking for its best routes to market, too. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

There’s no shortage of health and fitness trackers — the list of suppliers is as long as my arm, ranging from the mainstream (Apple, Google, Samsung, Fitbit, Withings) to the more esoteric and specialized (Polar, Suunto, Garmin). The assumption underpinning each of those devices is that you’re more or less healthy, and wanting to get […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Cap VC is launching a tool for VC firms, and is planning to expand its offering to startups raising money. The idea is to make better investment decisions, faster, using the power of AI. VC is a people-business above all, but as AIs are getting closer and closer to being people, too, there’s a slew […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Layoffs season is extending into a sustained state, defying more typical formations of cyclical boom and bust periods in tech. Meanwhile, AI continues to be ascendant – or at least the current version of neural networks trained on large data sets that drives developments like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. One topic keeps coming up […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Ahead of the launch of Apple’s Vision Pro on Friday, Zoom revealed today its upcoming visionOS app, which is set to release on February 2. The new app brings capabilities such as “persona” support for users to use a digital avatar during calls, 3D object sharing, its chat feature “Team Chat” and more. Apple’s Persona […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Apple’s upcoming iOS 18 software update may be “the biggest” in the company’s history, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. iOS 18 is expected to be announced at Apple’s annual WWDC event in June. “I’m told that the new operating system is seen within the company as one of the biggest iOS updates–if not the biggest–in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Commercial EV startup Arrival is being removed from the Nasdaq stock exchange as it speeds toward dissolution. The company, which went pubic after merging with a special purpose acquisition company, announced Monday morning that the Nasdaq will suspend trading of Arrival shares January 30, followed by a formal delisting. Nasdaq is taking the action after […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Shortwave email client, built by former Google engineers, is launching new AI-powered features such as instant summaries that will show up atop an email, a writing assistant to echo your writing, and extending its AI assistant function to iOS and Android, and multi-select AI actions. The startup introduced AI-powered summaries last year, but you had […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Ahead of a major Congressional hearing about children’s online safety, Meta has announced a collaboration with the Center for Open Science, a non-profit dedicated to transparency in academic research. As part of this pilot program, Meta says it will share “privacy-preserving social media data” with select academic researchers who study well-being. “At Meta, we want […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed the company is testing a feature called Flipside — an experiment that would essentially turn users’ “finstas” — their separate, private, and more personal accounts — into a new product feature. Flipside was first spotted in development last year, but Instagram said it was only an internal prototype at the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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