5 h. ago Canada roars to first, Spain rediscovers its 2024 form in San Francisco SailGP’s first day

Canada roars to first, Spain rediscovers its 2024 form in San Francisco SailGP’s first day - The Athletic  The Athletic

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6 h. ago Jonah Peretti helped shaped digital media — can he do it again?

Jonah Peretti’s career to date has been defined by constant reinvention. As the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, Peretti has been at the forefront of digital media for almost two decades, navigating changes as the once small startup transformed into, at one point, a multimedia powerhouse. But as the company grows older, one question lingers: […]

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10 h. ago Charlie Javice trial becomes a master class in hubris for both sides

Charlie Javice’s high-profile fraud trial has become a showcase of embarrassing missteps on both sides, with eyebrow-raising details about how JPMorgan Chase was allegedly deceived into buying her startup, Frank, for $175 million when it had just 300,000 customers instead of four million. Per a new WSJ article, one pivotal moment came when former Frank […]

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11 h. ago Northwest lawmakers fight closure of Portland, Seattle Department of Housing and Urban Development offices

Northwest lawmakers fight closure of Portland, Seattle Department of Housing and Urban Development offices  KGW.com

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17 h. ago Medical Mysteries: After 18 years, a writer’s insights and farewell

Medical Mysteries: After 18 years, a writer’s insights and farewell  The Washington Post

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20 h. ago A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering

Stardust, an Israeli–US startup, intends to patent its unique aerosol technology for temporarily cooling the planet.

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32 h. ago Alex Marlow: Canada’s Mark Carney ‘Can’t Form Half a Sentence’ But Is Determined to Take on Trump

On Friday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about Canadian P.M. Mark Carney. After playing video of Carney giving a vague, stumbling statement on discussions with Trump, Marlow said, “I like to insult politicians for when The post Alex Marlow: Canada’s Mark Carney ‘Can’t Form Half a Sentence’ But Is Determined to Take on Trump appeared first on Breitbart.

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33 h. ago Tamino's new album reflects the loss and change of a move across the ocean

The new album from Belgian singer Tamino, Every Dawn's A Mountain, is a mysterious reflection on loss and change after he settled in New York City.

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38 h. ago DNA data storage: AI method speeds up data retrieval by 3,200 times

Researchers from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science have developed an AI-based method that accelerates DNA-based data retrieval by three orders of magnitude while significantly improving accuracy. The research team included Ph.D. student Omer Sabary, Dr. Daniella Bar-Lev, Dr. Itai Orr, Prof. Eitan Yaakobi, and Prof. Tuvi Etzion.

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38 h. ago Anthropic appears to be using Brave to power web search for its Claude chatbot

Earlier this week, Anthropic rolled out a web search feature for its AI-powered chatbot platform, Claude, bringing the bot in line with many of its rivals. It wasn’t immediately clear which search index might be powering the feature — one possibility was that Anthropic had developed its own. But evidence suggests it’s Brave Search, the […]

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39 h. ago Kelly Clarkson confesses she’s ‘lost’ a lot as she returns to talk show after mysterious absence

"American Idol" alum Kelly Clarkson marked her 1,000th episode of "The Kelly Clarkson Show" and admitted to her fans that she’s "lost, alone, a lot" during her time hosting the program.

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40 h. ago Wayve CEO shares his key ingredients for scaling autonomous driving tech 

Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall sees promise in bringing his autonomous vehicle startup’s tech to market. That is, if Wayve sticks to its strategy of ensuring its automated driving software is cheap to run, hardware agnostic, and can be applied to advanced driver assistance systems, robotaxis, and even robotics.  The strategy, which Kendall laid […]

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41 h. ago 1X will test humanoid robots in ‘a few hundred’ homes in 2025

Norwegian robotics startup 1X plans to start early tests of its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in “a few hundred to a few thousand” homes by the end of 2025, according to the company’s CEO, Bernt Børnich. “Neo Gamma is going into homes this year,” Børnich told TechCrunch in an interview at Nvidia GTC 2025. “We […]

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42 h. ago Commercial services platform BuildOps becomes a unicorn, raises $127M

Commercial services tech hasn’t historically been considered “sexy,” but the need for innovation in the space is enormous. That need has translated into a large fundraise for a company focused on streamlining commercial contracting processes. On Friday, BuildOps, which develops software for commercial services contractors, announced that it has raised $127 million in a Series […]

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45 h. ago Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors

MIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling “interconnect” that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer.

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45 h. ago US to reopen vast areas of Alaska to oil and gas development

US to reopen vast areas of Alaska to oil and gas development  Quantum Commodity Intelligence

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50 h. ago DEVELOPMENT: 3010 SW Avalon Way gets OK from Southwest Design Review Board at its first meeting in 15 months

DEVELOPMENT: 3010 SW Avalon Way gets OK from Southwest Design Review Board at its first meeting in 15 months  West Seattle Blog

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57 h. ago Interior reopens millions of acres in Alaska for energy development

Interior reopens millions of acres in Alaska for energy development  Roll Call

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59 h. ago A high schooler built a website that lets you challenge AI models to a Minecraft build

As conventional AI benchmarking techniques prove inadequate, AI builders are turning to more creative ways to assess the capabilities of generative AI models. For one group of developers, that’s Minecraft, the Microsoft-owned sandbox-building game. The website Minecraft Benchmark (or MC-Bench) was developed collaboratively to pit AI models against each other in head-to-head challenges to respond […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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60 h. ago Perplexity is reportedly in talks to raise up to $1B at an $18B valuation

AI-powered search startup Perplexity is said to be in early talks to raise up to $1 billion in a new funding round valuing the startup at $18 billion. Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported on Thursday that Perplexity’s annual recurring revenue has now reached $100 million. Perplexity’s valuation has soared in recent […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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