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The Wrong iPhone 11 Plan Could Cost Individuals $819 & Families $1,593 – WalletHub Calculator
This year, 28% fewer Americans plan to buy the new iPhone compared to last year, according to the personal-finance website WalletHub’s new 2019 iPhone Savings Report. However, as the iPhone 11 release date approaches on September 20, WalletHub found that people can...
Huawei has launched its Global Industry Vision
Huawei has launched its Global Industry Vision (GIV) report today, continuing its predictions for technology and industry development up to 2025. Drawing from Huawei’s own quantitative data and real-world use cases of how intelligent technology is permeating every...
How to Create an Order Form That Engages Customers
Creating the perfect order form online is by no stretches of the imagination an easy feat. Besides just knowing how to code, you’re also required to know what your clients want and how you should be fulfilling their needs for them. There are numerous things required...
Social Media and How It Shapes the Microfinance Industry
The good thing about microfinance is that it provides people with opportunities to start their business. Given the availability of this loan option and the lower interest rate, they become more confident to take the loan out and make the most of it. A lot of people...
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Sales automation startup Rox AI hits $1.2B valuation, sources say
Rox, a startup developing autonomous AI agents to boost sales productivity, has raised a new funding round valuing the company at $1.2 billion, according to multiple sources. The funding included a lead investment from returning backer General Catalyst, two of the...
Agents need vector search more than RAG ever did
What's the role of vector databases in the agentic AI world? That's a question that organizations have been coming to terms with in recent months. The narrative had real momentum. As large language models scaled to million-token context windows, a credible argument...
Channel Surfer lets you watch YouTube like it’s old-school cable TV
There’s a fun new way to watch YouTube: by channel surfing like a boomer with cable TV. This creative idea comes from London-based developer Steven Irby, who has just launched a web app called Channel Surfer, which presents interesting YouTube videos in an interface...
Why Rivian is holding the $45,000 base model R2 until ‘late 2027’
Rivian revealed the specs and pricing details for its pivotal R2 SUV on Thursday, and the company also finally answered a long-burning question: When will customers be able to buy the promised $45,000 base model? That answer is “late 2027,” according to the company’s...
Substack launches a built-in recording studio
Publishing platform Substack is continuing to invest in video content as it launches the Substack Recording Studio, a built-in mechanism for creators to pre-record and publish videos. The studio, which is only available on the desktop, can support solo videos as well...
Facebook Marketplace now lets Meta AI respond to buyers’ messages
Facebook Marketplace is rolling out new Meta AI features, including one that automatically replies to messages from interested buyers, Facebook announced Thursday. The social network is also using AI to help sellers list items faster and summarize profiles and is...
Tinder tries to lure people back to online dating with IRL events, virtual speed dating
Tinder held its inaugural product keynote on Thursday, unveiling an ambitious slate of updates designed to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI. This comes on the heels of Match Group’s $50 million investment in product development, announced last...
Atlassian follows Block’s footsteps and cuts staff in the name of AI
Australian productivity software company Atlassian held layoffs as the company looks to funnel more money into AI. Atlassian announced it’s cutting 10% of its workforce, around 1,600 people, on March 11. The company said this decision allows it to spend more funds on...
Webflow buys AI content generation platform Vidoso to bolster its marketing suite
Webflow, which offers a software platform for building and hosting websites, is acquiring AI-powered content generation platform Vidoso to beef up its suite of marketing offerings. Founded in 2024, Vidoso uses large language models to help organizations generate...
Bumble to launch an AI dating assistant, ‘Bee’
Dating app maker Bumble is venturing into generative AI. During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, Bumble introduced a new AI assistant it’s calling “Bee,” designed to become a personal matchmaker that learns users’ “values, relationship goals,...
Law enforcement shuts down botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked routers
A global coalition of law enforcement agencies shut down a botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked home and small business routers on Wednesday. The operation targeted SocksEscort, which offered paid proxy services and was built on a botnet of hacked routers used...
A writer is suing Grammarly for turning her and other authors into ‘AI editors’ without consent
Grammarly released a controversial feature last week that uses AI to simulate editorial feedback, making it seem like you’re getting a critique from novelist Stephen King, the late scientist Carl Sagan, or tech journalist Kara Swisher. But Grammarly did not get...