Devialet launches new high-end audio amplifier
After releasing soundbars, portable speakers, wireless earbuds, Devialet is now going back to its roots with a new amplifier — the Devialet Astra. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreBeleaguered startup Humane drops Ai Pin price by $200
Humane on Wednesday announced a $200 price cut to its flagship product, the Ai Pin. The Bay Area startup, founded by two former Apple executives, has reportedly struggled to sell the product, which launched in April for $700. In a message sent to its email list, Humane highlights its return
Read moreSales hiring just got smarter: Meet AI Interviewer for Sales
Today, sales professionals spend a staggering amount of their time on tasks that don’t directly contribute to selling—approximately 70%, according to the latest Salesforce ”State of Sales” report. One of the most time-consuming of these non-selling tasks is recruiting and hiring new talent, which often pulls sales leaders away from
Read morePhilly’s Portal is like social media come to life
For once, the biggest tourist attraction in Philadelphia’s Love Park isn’t the iconic artwork that gives the plaza its name. While a couple of tourists trickle through to take pictures with the love sculpture, the main attraction this week is the Portal, which was encircled by a crowd of about
Read moreArm reportedly cancels Qualcomm design license
In a move that could profoundly affect an already beleaguered global supply chain, Arm has reportedly issued Qualcomm a 60-day notice of cancelation for chip design licensing. The move, reported by Bloomberg, would have an impact on a majority of smartphone manufacturers that rely on Qualcomm chips. U.K.-based Arm, which
Read moreBookcase can turn an iPhone into an e-reader
Amazon made a big splash in e-reader land last week with the release of its first-ever color Kindle. When it comes to devoted e-readers here in the States, Amazon is very nearly the only game in town. Plenty have tried to knock the Kindle off its perch, but the brand
Read moreLongtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI
Miles Brundage, a longtime policy researcher at OpenAI and senior adviser to the company’s AGI readiness team, has left. In a post on X on Wednesday and in an essay in his newsletter, Brundage said that he thinks he’ll have more impact as a researcher and advocate in the nonprofit
Read moreWayve starts testing its buzzy end-to-end self-driving tech in the US
Buzzy, well-funded U.K. startup Wayve is starting to test its self-learning automated driving software in San Francisco, and it’s celebrating that entry into the U.S. by also opening an office in Sunnyvale, California. Wayve says it will start by testing a more limited version of its automated driving system —
Read moreDuckDuckGo will be making more early-stage investments in privacy-focused startups
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search alternative to Google, wants to put money into startups that have a similar focus on privacy. The company says that it’s actively seeking startups looking for investment, or startups that might be interested in partnering up or being acquired. In a blog post today, the company
Read moreGoogle releases tech to watermark AI-generated text
Google is making SynthID Text, its technology that lets developers watermark and detect text written by generative AI models, generally available. SynthID Text can be downloaded from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s updated Responsible GenAI Toolkit. “We’re open-sourcing our SynthID Text watermarking tool,” the company wrote in a post on
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