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2021 Hyundai Elantra What We Know So Far
Hyundai and for that matter, most Korean manufacturers have really stepped up their game in the past couple of years as they have been pumping out vehicles that are put together more solidly than ever before and surprisingly they are giving the Germans a tough time...
Are Pedestrian Detection Systems for Vehicles Reliable?
You’ve probably read about autonomous vehicles, like Google’s Waymo cars, that have built-in pedestrian detection systems. The promise of autonomous vehicles is so popular, major car manufacturers including Ford and GM have committed billions of dollars into building...
What is SD-WAN and Why is it the Next Frontier in Technology?
Despite grossing $350 million across the globe, the hotly anticipated Terminate: Genysis movie was actually classified as a flop at the Box Office. This was largely due to its huge pre-production costs, with the film delayed for years while it was being conceived. The...
Cybersecurity is a very real issue, so what can businesses do?
Internet security concerns among businesses are at an all-time high, and addressing them will take strategic foresight and leadership. The public’s attention is frequently drawn to headlines around largescale data breaches, like the hacks of 32 million Twitter...
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Harbinger’s next product will be hybrid emergency vehicles
Trucking startup Harbinger is still a relatively new company, but the flexibility of its electric vehicle platform has helped it capture another customer in a different line of business. This time, Harbinger’s chassis will be used in emergency vehicles for 70-year-old...
After pivoting, Y Combinator grad Glimpse raises $35M led by a16z
Dispute-tracking fintech Glimpse announced Wednesday that it raised a $35 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from 8VC and Y Combinator. Founders Akash Raju, Anuj Mehta, and Kushal Negi, attended Purdue together and were initially building...
Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones
Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now. While many companies are trying to build humanoids or tout demos of their robots dancing and doing...
A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters
When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle—a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility that, Resnick estimates, won’t be fully set up until later in the year—potentially November. Still, the big (and for now,...
Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots
Amazon has confirmed that it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a two-year-old startup founded by former Meta and Google engineers who are developing kid-size humanoid robots. The acquisition was first reported by Bloomberg. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. What we do...
With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI
Kleiner Perkins, the prominent U.S. venture firm, announced on Tuesday that it raised $3.5 billion in fresh capital across two funds, a significant increase from the firm’s $2 billion fundraise less than two years ago. The firm, founded back in 1972, says it raised $1...
New Mexico just handed Meta its first courtroom defeat over child safety, and the rest of the country is watching
A jury in Santa Fe on Tuesday ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties after finding the company misled consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangered children. New Mexico attorney general Raúl Torrez’s office called the decision a “watershed...
Lululemon bets Epoch Biodesign can eat its shorts, literally
As the world electrifies, the oil and gas industry is counting on plastics to drive profits in the future. But not if Jacob Nathan has anything to say about it. Nathan started searching for a way to break down plastics when he was still in high school. Now, as founder...
OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it is shutting down Sora, a TikTok-like social app that launched six months ago. OpenAI did not give a reason for the shut down, nor did it share information about when it will officially be discontinued. When Sora first opened up as...
OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its powerful AI video model, app and API
OpenAI is shuttering Sora, its stand-alone AI video generation app and social network, and the availability for developers to access the Sora 2 video model family through its application programming interface (API) to rely on it for their own products or video...
Anthropic hands Claude Code more control, but keeps it on a leash
For developers using AI, “vibe coding” right now comes down to babysitting every action or risking letting the model run unchecked. Anthropic says its latest update to Claude aims to eliminate that choice by letting the AI decide which actions are safe to take on its...
Spotify tests new tool to stop AI slop from being attributed to real artists
At a time when AI slop is flooding music streaming platforms, Spotify is beta testing a new “Artist Profile Protection” feature that allows artists to review releases before they go live on their profiles. The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control...