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Read moreDeal Dive: Betting on beauty fads is big business
RepeatMD recently raised a $50 million Series A round to serve the exploding med spa industry that is built on consumer beauty trends. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreI’m watching ‘AI upscaled’ Star Trek and it isn’t terrible
For years, dedicated Star Trek fans have been using AI in an attempt to make a version of the acclaimed series Deep Space 9 that looks decent on modern TVs. It sounds a bit ridiculous, but I was surprised to find that it’s actually quite good — certainly good enough
Read moreRobotics Q&A with Meta’s Dhruv Batra
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson Part 2: Toyota Research Institute’s Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake This time it’s Dhruv Batra, research director, FAIR (The
Read moreBounding complex roots by a positive root
Suppose you have an nth degree polynomial with complex coefficients p(z) = anzn + an-1zn-1 + … + a0 and you want to find some circle that is guaranteed to contain all the zeros of p. Cauchy found such a circle in 1829. The zeros of p lie inside the
Read moreIt’s time for a heat check on the subscription economy and its proposed value to customers
Companies employing subscription licensing have grown between three and four times faster than the S&P 500 over the past 12 years. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreArtificial Intelligence used to maintain 6 Million Trees in Kenya
AstraZeneca pledges to plant up to six million trees in Kenya and plans to use an AI deep learning model to monitor tree health, long-term survival and carbon sequestration. This is all, in support of the company’s flagship AZ Forest programme towards climate action, human health and community resilience. AI
Read more5 Transformative Technologies of 2023: A Year of Innovation and Progress
The year 2023 has been marked by unprecedented technological advancements that have reshaped industries and daily life. From artificial intelligence to biotechnology, here are the top five technologies that have revolutionized the landscape. Newsgpt: Redefining News Delivery with AI At the forefront of the technological revolution is Newsgpt, a groundbreaking
Read moreMetroFibre launches its first Fibre Experience Store in Thembisa
MetroFibre Networx launched its first ‘Fibre Experience’ store in Thembisa today, giving impetus to a major drive by the fibre network operator (FNO) to ensure that fibre connectivity and real fibre speeds reach into and are accessible to underserved communities. To date, MetroFibre’s network has passed over 20 000 homes in
Read more23andMe says hackers accessed ‘significant number’ of files about users’ ancestry
Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company’s recent data breach. In a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published Friday, the company said that, based on its investigation into the incident, it had determined that hackers had
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