Rporters hear from a steady stream of new startups every day about their ideas, concepts, products, and services. Startups that say they can tell when an employee might want to leave for a new job, that think they can tell if someone is depressed by listening to their voice, that …
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Kaito, an AI-powered cryptocurrency search engine, raises $5.3 million to enhance browsing
The company disclosed exclusively that Kaito, an AI-powered search engine for cryptocurrencies, raised $5.3 million in a seed round led by Dragonfly Capital. According to Yu Hu, the founder and CEO of Kaito, “there are people fighting against information overload all the time.” “We are reducing the time it takes …
Read More »Shadow introduces a cloud storage platform Dark Drive
Now that Shadow has two distinct products, it is a legitimate tech business. The business is also releasing Shadow Drive, a cloud storage service built on Nextcloud, in addition to its cloud computing offering, which is excellent for games. At a news conference in Paris, co-founder and deputy CEO Stéphane …
Read More »Researchers are developing self-constructing robots
The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT is working on a challenging effort to create self-assembling robots. Although the team acknowledges that the creation of an autonomous self-building robot is still “years away,” their effort has so far produced promising outcomes. Voxels, a term taken from computer graphics, are …
Read More »A hard lesson in hype advertising can be learned from the FTX catastrophe
A Super Bowl ad featuring Larry David had never, ever, ever been released. Weeks in advance, as is increasingly standard, there was no genuine teaser or trailer. Instead, cryptocurrency exchange FTX went old school and planned to surprise spectators with the renowned comedian during the actual game. The Seinfeld and …
Read More »The collapse of FTX demonstrates how unstable the cryptocurrency market really is
It’s quite simple for an empire you built with joke money to disappear overnight. That is the easiest explanation for the collapse of the once-dominant cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which filed for bankruptcy on Friday. At the start of November, FTX was in charge of one of the most valuable cryptocurrency …
Read More »Commentary from former Vine executives on Elon Musk’s proposal to revive the app
Former workers claim a revival would have a difficult time competing with TikTok, which now rules the short-form video market. On October 30, Elon Musk, who had just been named “Chief Twit,” published a Twitter poll asking the straightforward question, “Bring back Vine?” After almost five million votes, the survey …
Read More »Shuffles, a collage-making application from Pinterest, is released to the public
Shuffles, a new collage-making app from Pinterest, is now accessible to everyone after earlier this summer’s invitation-only test period. The app gained a following among Gen Z users, who made “aesthetic” collages using the creative expression tool and shared them publicly on TikTok or privately with their friends or the …
Read More »Introducing Pineapple, the platform promising to transform business networking for Generation Z
Today marks the official release of Pineapple, a software that aims to reinvent professional networking for Generation Z. With Pineapple, young professionals will have a method to network with others via a visual story profile that functions almost like a digital portfolio. The platform is only right now accessible via …
Read More »Man destroys a Frida Kahlo drawing to create NFTs, sells only four, and prompts a criminal inquiry
A Non-Fungible Token (NFT) fanatic allegedly mistakenly believed that burning a priceless sketch would raise its value on the blockchain. The artist is being looked into by Mexican authorities for the prank, in addition to not recovering even close to the value of the artwork. Martin Mobarak, a businessman, destroyed …
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