TC+ Roundup: The venture downturn isn’t the end for Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand are facing the same challenges as the rest of tech: valuations have come back down, early-stage funding is up, and investors want their businesses to focus on sustainable long-term growth and a clear path to revenue. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount
Read moreBuilding for Medicaid’s regulatory moment with Neil Batlivala from Pair Team
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Neil Batlivala, the CEO and co-founder at Pair Team, a startup building infrastructure to help the most vulnerable populations get the clinical and social care they need through Medicaid expansion.
Read moreHere’s everything Amazon Web Services announced at AWS re:Invent
We will deliver quick hits of the biggest news from AWS re:Invent as they are announced. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreOxford study says internet use doesn’t harm mental health, but its research has limits
In one of the largest studies ever on mental health and internet use, the Oxford Internet Institute has declared that there is no “smoking gun” linking the internet with psychological harm. Professors Andrew Przybylski and Matti Vuorre studied data from two million people aged 15 to 89 in 168 countries,
Read moreNvidia taps China talent for autonomous driving endeavors
Nvidia has long been involved in the development of autonomous vehicle technologies, providing the industry with graphic processing units that can perform millions of calculations simultaneously. Now the semiconductor powerhouse is stepping up its AV game by seeking a talent boost in China. The firm is recruiting two dozen roles
Read moreAmazon unveils new chips for training and running AI models
There’s a shortage of GPUs as the demand for generative AI, which is often trained and run on GPUs, grows. Nvidia’s best-performing chips are reportedly sold out until 2024. The CEO of chipmaker TSMC was less optimistic recently, suggesting that the shortage of GPUs from Nvidia — as well as from Nvidia’s
Read moreConsider three lenses when building your go-forward brand
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Read moreAWS launches S3 Express One Zone, promises 10x write speed improvement
At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon AWS cloud arm today announced a major update to its S3 object storage service: AWS S3 Express One Zone, a new high-performance and low latency tier for S3. The company promises that Express One Zone offers a 10x performance improvement over
Read moreCoffee Briefing Nov. 28 – Canadian 5G users will pay more for quality experience; Holiday shoppers on board with GenAI; KPGM and Chainalysis partner; and more
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. Canadian 5G users want the best quality of experience and will pay more for it A new
Read moreCompel social media apps to toughen their privacy, trust practices, Parliament told
Social media platforms should be forced by the Canadian government to toughen their privacy practices, an expert told a parliamentary committee looking into illicit data harvesting by apps like China-based TikTok for foreign governments on Monday. Ottawa banned federal employees in February from using TikTok on government-owned internet-connected devices following
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