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The EV business has been merciless and has claimed lots of well-intentioned players…

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Every company or organization putting out an AI model has to make a decision on what, if any, boundaries to set on what it will and won’t discuss. Goody-2 takes this quest for ethics to an extreme by declining to talk about anything whatsoever. The chatbot is clearly a satire of what some perceive as…

We may not be using the M word much these days, but the race to build an interconnected avatar-driven virtual world didn’t take the last year off. The metaverse, a tech buzzword sandwiched in between the hype eras of NFTs and AI, is still being built, regardless of what we’re calling it. And in light…

Both retailers have struggled with how to handle rising cases of retail theft and people trying to cheat at self-checkout…

Kai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting in 2012 brought the U.S.’s gun violence problem close to home. Kloepfer began thinking of ways to solve the problem using what he knows: technology. Twelve years later, that project has turned into Biofire, a firearms…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinAerial view of office buildings in the South Central Business district of Jakarta in Indonesia … [+] capital city. getty The Southeast Asian tech sector overall raised US$4.3 billion in 2023 (as of December 5, 2023), down 65% from US$12.4 billion raised in the same period the year before.…

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20VC founder Harry Stebbings unveiled his third, and final, offshoot fund called 20PRODUCT that kicks off with $5 million in capital commitments. Similar to his earlier funds, 20SALES and 20GROWTH, 20Product brings together a group of experts that will invest in early-stage founders looking to start, grow and scale their companies. Essentially, it’s like having…

When I was a student in the UK, I remember that renting appliances like washing machines and televisions was the norm for some people, especially students living in short-term accommodation. Israeli startup Xyte (pronounced “excite”) has just raised $30 million, as it sees a return to this sort of hardware-as-a-service model to be the way…