IT総合 Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations
Your phone’s camera is as much software as it is hardware, and Glass is hoping to improve both. But while its wild...
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IT総合 IT総合 AI-generated Biden calls came through shady telecom and Texan front ‘Life Corporation’
Voters in New Hampshire were treated in January to a call purporting to be from President Biden telling them not to vote...
IT総合 Spice up your desktop with these unusual keyboards from Keychron, HHKB, Cloud Nine, and others
Mechanical keyboards are everywhere these days, and there’s a larger variety now than than ever before. If youR...
IT総合 FCC moves to outlaw AI-generated robocalls
No one likes robocalls to begin with, but using AI-generated voices of people like President Biden makes them even worse...
IT総合 Justice hits eBay for $59 million for selling obviously illegal pill-counterfeiting gear
You don’t need to resort to the dark web to find your illicit pill counterfeiting presses and molds. Just go to eB...
IT総合 Cerulean empowers ocean pollution watchdogs with orbital observation
The vastness of the ocean allows polluters to evade detection in all but the most egregious violations. SkyTruth aims to...
IT総合 Drone couriers and virtual faces among Alchemist Accelerator’s demo day highlights
Today is demo day at Alchemist Accelerator, which focuses on very early stage startups from technical founders. 15 compa...
IT総合 Tomorrow.io’s radar satellites use machine learning to punch well above their weight
Those of us lucky enough to be sitting by a window can predict the weather just by looking outside, but for the less pri...
IT総合 OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
OpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing, and today brings just such an occasion. The compan...
IT総合 FTC orders AI companies to dish on investments, partnerships and meetings
The FTC is aiming to unravel the complex and secretive corporate relationships in the top AI companies out there in a ne...
IT総合 Feds kick off National AI Research Resource with pilot program live today
A year to the day after it was proposed, the National AI Research Resource is coming online — at least in pilot form — a...
IT総合 Gamers flock to Palworld’s ‘Pokémon with guns’ despite copyright qualms
When Palworld made its inauspicious debut in a teaser a year or so back, few thought this strange, blatant Pokémon ripof...
IT総合 Japan’s SLIM mission makes historic Moon landing, but its time is running out
Japan’s long-planned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon has successfully touched down on the lunar surface, makin...
IT総合 Astroscale takes the wraps off its $25M orbital refueling craft for Space Force
Orbital operations company Astroscale has revealed new details about its approach to refueling satellites in space, as p...
IT総合 Land Moto accelerates its electric bike battery play with $3M infusion
Cleveland-based electric motorcycle startup Land Moto is looking to diversify by powering up the battery design side of ...
IT総合 NASA’s robotic, self-assembling structures could be the next phase of space construction
Bad news if you want to move to the Moon or Mars: housing is a little hard to come by. Fortunately, NASA (as as always) ...
IT総合 Navier partners with Stripe to offer electric boat commute to far-flung employees
Electric boat startup Navier has landed the first official pilot program for its hydrofoiling watercraft, partnering wit...
IT総合 X-59 ‘Quiet supersonic’ jet from NASA and Lockheed finally rolls out
NASA and Lockheed Martin have finally taken the wraps off of the X-59, a “quiet supersonic” aircraft that ma...
IT総合 OpenAI changes policy to allow military applications
In an unannounced update to its usage policy, OpenAI has opened the door to military applications of its technologies. W...
IT総合 From voice synthesis to fertility tracking, here are some actually helpful AI products at CES
“AI” was everywhere this year at CES; you couldn’t swing a badge without hitting some company claiming...
IT総合 Nwm’s open-air headphones are literally not there
A new audio brand spun out of Japan’s NTT is showing off some personal audio tech at CES 2024 that is remarkable n...
IT総合 Smart molluscs – yes, smart molluscs – could watch our waterways 24/7 for pollution
If the clams could speak, what would they say? Surely we all ask ourselves this question every day. But a French startup...
IT総合 OneCourt’s haptic mini-field lets blind fans follow the game by touch
Sports fans most often take in their favorite game by watching it on TV or from the venue itself, but those with blind a...
IT総合 Can a striking design set rabbit’s r1 pocket AI apart from a gaggle of virtual assistants?
In a sea of AI-enabled gadgets at CES, the rabbit r1 (all lowercase, they insist) stands out not just for its high-vis p...
IT総合 Satellite imagery analysis shows immense scale of dark fishing industry
Satellite imagery and machine learning offer a new, far more detailed look at the maritime industry, specifically the nu...
IT総合 SVB, SBF and (more) OpenAI: The 2023 chronicles, pt. 2
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startup...
IT総合 National Lab simulates Armageddon-style nuclear asteroid deflection
As if last year’s fabulous Dual Asteroid Redirection Test firing a satellite bullet into an asteroid wasn’t ...
IT総合 Quick! Get these last-minute gifts for the gamer in your life
2023 was an absolute unit of a year for gaming. No one could possibly have played all the awesome titles that came out a...
IT総合 FTC proposes to strengthen COPPA, closing loopholes that allowed tech to surveil kids
The FTC has proposed tightening up the rules protecting kids from the surveillance economy. The updated rules would requ...
IT総合 Against Pseudanthropy
“Shall I say thou art a man, that hast all the symptoms of a beast? How shall I know thee to be a man? By thy shap...