The new Surface Laptop is one of the only devices that can download Office directly from Microsoft.
Source: CNET
It’s only been a few days since she started her new job, but Alda Leu Dennis, the newest partner (and COO) of Initialized Capital, seems like she’s ready to hit the ground running. Given her background, that’s not surprising. Â Dennis just joined the 15-person, San Francisco-based firm from the secondary investment firm 137 Ventures, where she led investments in Planet Labs,… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The race to crown a winner in the AI-powered recruiting software space is on. With both Workey and Mya nabbing rounds in the last few weeks, the timing is prime for a few players to seek advantage in the form of growth capital. This seems to be exactly what Entelo, a six year old player in the space, is doing. The company is announcing a $20 million Series C round of financing today led by U.S. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
In April we reported that Justin.tv founder and Y Combinator alum Justin Kan had assembled a team to “disrupt the legal industry” and was raising $10 million to do so. This week Kan confirmed that the company has completed its fundraising process, raising $10.5 million in what ended up being one of the biggest “party rounds” I’ve ever seen. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
When it looks, feels and is packaged like a competitor’s, is it really competition or just a knockoff?
The Juiced Board comes dangerously close to echoing that sort of sentiment. Juiced and Boosted are words that loosely share the same meaning, but it’s the appearances where both electric skateboards really seem to converge.
Until now, I never would have recommended a sub-$1,000… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
A series of policy changes at Amazon that detail how advertising will be supported within Alexa’s voice-enabled apps, called “Skills,” have now had their first casualty: VoiceLabs. The startup was the leading way for third-party developers to make money from their Alexa applications, through the use of VoiceLab’s “Sponsored Messages.” Unlike traditional… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Google designed object-recognition software that is small enough to fit on mobile devices — without using data stored on a cloud system. That means smart imaging features will not need an internet connection.
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Source: Digital trends
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a marimba-playing robot with four arms and eight sticks that uses artificial intelligence to write and perform its own musical compositions.
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Source: Digital trends
Someone running a 16-core Ryzen Threadripper on an ASRock X399 motherboard tested the configuration using Geekbench 4.1.0. The results were uploaded and are quite fast indeed, albeit optimizations will likely make it even faster.
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Source: Digital trends
Six of the biggest computing firms in the U.S. will share $258M in funding, as the Department of Energy launches a project to foster the development of the first American exascale supercomputer.
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Source: Digital trends