Amazon begins testing Agility’s Digit robot for warehouse work
At today’s Delivering the Future event, Amazon announced that it will be begin testing Agility’s bipedal robot Digit in its facilities. Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist Tye Brady said the testing is in its “very, very early stages,” adding, “We’re take a lot to understand it better and see if there’s
Read moreChrome’s search bar now has smarter autocomplete, automatic typo fixes and more
Google is introducing five new updates to the Chrome address bar to make it easier to search the web, the tech giant announced on Wednesday. The changes include smarter autocompletion, automatic typo corrections, searches within bookmark folders, suggestions for popular sites and an improved visual layout. The Chrome address bar
Read moreMeet Alliance DAO’s latest accelerator cohort of startups building in crypto winter
TechCrunch+ got to see a number of startups during web3 accelerator Alliance DAO’s latest demo day, which we're covering exclusively. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreAmazon and MIT are partnering to study how robots impact jobs
Mention automation and someone will invariably (and understandably) mention its impact on jobs. There are a lot of opposing views on the subject, of course, but the one thing everyone seems to agree on is that robotics and AI will have a profound impact on human jobs, going forward. At
Read moreVodacom Group to List and Trade on A2X
Vodacom Group will officially trade as a secondary listing on the A2X Stock Exchange at market open on Thursday, 26 October 2023. From the date of listing, traders can actively trade Vodacom Group’s ordinary shares on A2X. Complimenting Already Existing Listing on JSE The secondary listing on A2X complements the
Read moreHollard Makes Strategic Investment in Life Insurance Disruptor
Disruption in the world of Insurance is the buzzword of the day in the industry. In a move poised to shake up the South African mass-market life insurance landscape, the Hollard Group makes a significant strategic investment in South African based insurtech, Simply Financial Services. Simply, a registered FSP and
Read moreMicrosoft launches Radius, an open-source application platform for the cloud-native era
Microsoft today announced the launch of Radius, a new open-source, language-agnostic application platform for building and running cloud-native applications. The project is being spun out of the Microsoft Azure Incubation team, the same group that previously launched open-source projects like Dapr for building microservices, the KEDA event-driven autoscaling solution, and
Read more5 investors on the pros and cons of open source AI business models
As a part of TC's ongoing AI survey series, we spoke to a group of five investors about the pros and cons of open source AI business models. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreGoogle bulks up Android’s malware defenses to combat new tricks, including AI
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is upgrading Android’s Play Protect malware protection system to help it spot malicious apps that change their identifiable features to avoid detection, the company has announced. “This enhancement will help better protect users against malicious polymorphic apps that leverage various methods, such
Read morePlaid taps former Expedia exec as its new chief financial officer, says ‘no timeline’ for IPO
Fintech startup Plaid has hired former Expedia CFO Eric Hart to serve as its first chief financial officer. When asked if the move meant that the company was planning to go public, a spokesperson told TechCrunch: “We do not have any plans to IPO at this time…It will be a
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