Why Spotify is launching its own font, Spotify Mix
Spotify launched its own font, the company announced on Wednesday. The music streaming service hopes that its new typeface, “Spotify Mix,” will help Spotify distinguish its own unique visual identity. Spotify Mix is a sans-serif typeface designed in partnership with Dinamo Typefaces, a Berlin-based type design studio that has worked
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A developer’s journal is a place to define the problem you’re solving and record what you tried and what worked.
Read moreUnify helps developers find the best LLM for the job
When developers have a particular job that AI can solve, it’s not typically as simple as just pointing an LLM at the data. There are other considerations such as cost, speed and accuracy and finding ways to balance all of those has been particularly challenging, especially with so many new
Read moreGranola debuts an AI notepad for meetings
Granola takes a more collaborative approach to working with AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreAerodome is sending drones to the scene of the crime
Response time is Aerodome’s immediate value prop for potential clients. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreDeepL, the AI language translation startup, nabs $300M on a $2B valuation to focus on B2B growth
Yet more major funding is being poured into a startup focused on AI. Today, DeepL – the company that builds automated text translation and writing tools that compete against the likes of Google Translate and Grammarly – announced that it’s raised an additional $300 million. It is now valued at
Read morePraktika raises $35.5M to use AI avatars to make learning languages feel more natural
Praktika has secured a $35.5M Series A round to apply AI-powered avatars to language-learning apps. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreOyo, once valued at $10 billion, shelves IPO plans for second time
India's Oyo, once valued at $10 billion, has withdrawn its IPO application from the market regulator for the second time. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreOre Energy emerges from stealth to build utility-scale batteries that last days, not hours
Where Aytac Yilmaz lives in the Netherlands, the sun might not appear for days on end, which can really crimp the output of the country’s solar panels. Wind turbines might make up some of the shortfall, but what if the wind disappears at the same time? Enter long-duration energy storage,
Read morePaytm warns of job cuts as losses swell after RBI clampdown
One 97 Communications, the parent company of India’s leading digital payments platform Paytm, warned of job cuts Wednesday after reporting its consolidated net loss had widened to $66.1 million in the quarter ending March, compared to a loss of $20.11 million in the same quarter last year, as it grapples
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