Atomic Industries closes $17M seed to exascale America’s industrial base
In 2014, investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel infamously posed the distinction between companies that deal in “atoms” versus those that deal in “bits.” In its crudest terms, the former category includes businesses focused on things like hardware and manufacturing; the latter, software and financial services. Just shy of 10 years
Read MoreAI invades ‘word of the year’ lists at Oxford, Cambridge and Merriam-Webster
Few would disagree that 2023 was, in the world of technology at least, dominated by artificial intelligence. The dictionaries have taken note in their “word of the year” lists, and notably all the AI-related words they highlight are, in fact, existing words that have been appropriated and regurgitated with new
Read MoreScale Your React App with Storybook and Chromatic
Learn how to integrate Storybook and Chromatic to scale your React application's component library. Continue reading Scale Your React App with Storybook and Chromatic on SitePoint.
Read MoreBest of 1,000 StarCIO Articles: The Informative Digital Transformation Must-Reads
A couple of weeks ago, I celebrated my 1,000th blog post, an achievement I am just as proud of as publishing my two books, Driving Digital and Digital Trailblazer. In the post, I shared three time-tested lessons for digital trailblazers and thanked many contributors to my weekly Coffee with Digital
Read MoreThe makers of pro photography app Halide venture into video with Kino, due this February
Lux, the startup and makers of the popular pro photography app Halide and others, is venturing into video. The team today announced its plans to debut a new app, Kino, arriving in roughly two months’ time, that will allow iPhone users to work with video in a more professional capacity.
Read MoreChris’ Corner: Mentals and Models
Josh Comeau has a new learning guide out for CSS grid: An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid. I like how Josh gets into the “mental model” right away, because that’s the biggest thing with big APIs like this: you need to get the basics of how it works in your
Read More23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users
On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. The company also said that by accessing those accounts, hackers were also able to access “a significant number of files containing profile information about other users’ ancestry.” But 23andMe
Read Morere:Invent 2023: AWS aims to capture AI leadership by offering choice
AWS revealed its strategy for leadership in generative AI at its re:Invent conference last week, making it clear that, while rival Microsoft may have gotten off to an early start, AWS hasn’t been standing still. Generative AI is relatively new – ChatGPT has only been on the market for a
Read MoreAssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models
Companies are betting big on generative AI to gain a competitive edge. But adoption challenges remain. According to a recent survey from EY, a significant portion of businesses looking to embrace generative AI say that the field’s rapid progress — and the surge in vendors claiming to have AI expertise
Read MoreSpotify’s layoffs make sense when you consider its margins and market
Spotify is simply tinkering with its economics so that it is more attractive to investors. That means it needs to pay fewer salaries. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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