UPchieve, an online tutor app for low-income students, launches a free tool for teachers
UPchieve, the free, 24/7 online tutoring and college counseling app for low-income students, announced Thursday it’s giving teachers in Title 1 middle schools and high schools a new tool to ensure their students get the academic support they need. The new offering, called “UPchieve for Teachers,” allows teachers to offer
Read moreElevating your search experience: Stack Overflow for Teams ML-powered reranking experiment
Today, we're excited to share details about our latest experiment that aims to make your search results in Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise even more relevant and useful.
Read moreUNDP and IBM Unveil Interactive Energy Solutions on GeoHub
IBM and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced new interactive energy models on UNDP’s global GeoHub platform. These innovative solutions use technologies such as the IBM Watson AI and data platform to allow users—from national and community policymakers to the general public—to analyze complex energy issues using advanced artificial
Read moreKiwibot acquires an ad startup to turn its delivery robots into mobile billboards
There’s ample opportunity in the form of a mobile billboard. Kiwibot is so convinced of this fact that it plunked down $25 million to purchase Nickelytics. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreHarbor is building a better baby monitor and an army of night nannies
Like most good startup stories, Harbor began life as a product of disappointment. Kevin Lavelle, the co-founder and CEO of innovative clothing company Mizzen and Main, couldn’t find a baby monitor to suit his needs. He and his wife, Jen, had homed in on Nanit, a popular product renowned for
Read moreAI notetaker Fathom raises $17M
In many meetings today, it sometimes feels like there are more AI notetaking and transcription bots than people. There are seemingly dozens of options to choose from these days, but one I’ve seen with increasing regularity is Fathom. The company was one of the earlier players when it launched in
Read moreAI vs. human engineers: Benchmarking coding skills head-to-head
We are excited to introduce our AI Benchmarking Report, where we compare the software engineering skills of several popular AI models. Over the past few years, we’ve been helping our customers embrace AI in hiring, including building an AI-assisted assessment experience. To do that, we had to start by understanding what
Read moreKarman Industries hopes its SpaceX-inspired heat pumps will replace industrial boilers
The startup will use turbomachinery to develop a heat pump capable of generating industrial-grade heat. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreEU to tell Apple how to do interoperability, DMA style
The European Union has opened two “specification proceedings” on Apple under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will see it instructing the iPhone maker on how to comply with certain interoperability provisions in the market fairness regulation. If Apple fails to meet the Commission’s requirements it could risk fines
Read moreThe Cauchy distribution’s counter-intuitive behavior
Someone with no exposure to probability or statistics likely has an intuitive sense that averaging random variables reduces variance, though they wouldn’t state it in those terms. They might, for example, agree that the average of several test grades gives a better assessment of a student than a single test
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