Spotify CEO teases potential AI-powered capabilities surrounding personalization, ads
During Spotify’s second-quarter earnings call this morning, CEO Daniel Ek teased a few ways the streaming service could introduce additional AI-powered functionality. Ek touched on how AI could be used to create more personalized experiences, summarize podcasts and generate ads. Earlier this year, the company launched a DJ feature that
Read moreAkhetonics raises capital for its all-optical processor prototype
Traditional processors from the likes of Intel, AMD, or Nvidia have well-known limitations around speed, energy efficiency, and electromagnetic interference. For instance, foundational chip makers like TSMC and Samsung are currently racing to move to the 3 nm process for customers like Apple and Nvidia. In the meantime, photonics is
Read moreZombie game maker Techland joins Tencent’s global empire in latest acquisition
Tencent, one of the world’s largest gaming companies, is set to gobble up Techland, the Polish game developer known for open-world zombie games like Dying Light, adding yet another member to its sprawling investment portfolio. In a letter to players, Techland’s founder and CEO Paweł Marchewka announced that Tencent is
Read moreWhy Tailwind CSS Became So Popular: A Developer’s Guide
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Read moreTrying NLP on Middle English
It’s not fair to evaluate NLP software on a language it wasn’t designed to process, but I wanted to try it anyway. The models in the spaCy software library were trained on modern English text and not on Middle English. Nevertheless, spaCy does a pretty good job of parsing Chaucer’s
Read moreBlue Origin, Astrobotic, Varda Space and others win NASA funding to develop advanced space tech
NASA awarded new funding to 11 companies today for advanced space tech projects ranging from advanced power generation on the lunar surface to additive manufacturing for space habitats. The awards, which total $150 million across all 11 companies, were announced as part of the space agency’s Tipping Point program. According
Read moreHow to prevent an ‘operational catastrophe’
Julia Ivzhenko Contributor Julia Ivzhenko is head of operations at Futurra Group, an IT company with Ukrainian roots that develops math service MathMaster. Developing a fast-scaling business with a supply side in the early stages requires growing with high dynamics and little resources. Operational mistakes while scaling might have an
Read moreOpenAI scuttles AI-written text detector over ‘low rate of accuracy’
OpenAI has shut down its AI classifier, a tool that claimed to determine the likelihood a text passage was written by another AI. While many used and perhaps unwisely relied on it to catch low-effort cheats, OpenAI has retired it over its widely criticized “low rate of accuracy.” The theory
Read moreRemember Amazon’s Clubhouse competitor? That’s okay — neither does almost anybody else
At the height of the COVID-19 health crisis, when many of us — forced by quarantine rules and social distancing guidelines — were locked indoors and away from public spaces, Clubhouse, the audio-focused social platform, grew explosively. A platform where anyone could talk about . . . well, just about
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