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...
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IT総合 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...
IT総合 8 predictions for AI in 2024
This last year was a banger for AI as the technology went from niche to mainstream about as fast as anything ever has. 2...
IT総合 Lingrove’s carbon-negative wood alternative branches out with $10M round
These days even niche industries have concerned souls looking for more eco-friendly options for materials and processes,...
IT総合 OpenAI buffs safety team and gives board veto power on risky AI
OpenAI is expanding its internal safety processes to fend off the threat of harmful AI. A new “safety advisory gro...
IT総合 A16Z will give literally any politician money if they help deregulate tech
Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has announced its intent to begin lobbying the US government, and their plan i...
IT総合 FCC issues final denial of $885M Starlink subsidy
The FCC has made a final denial of Starlink’s application for $885 million in public funds to expand its orbital c...
IT総合 Fuzzy Door’s Viewscreen on-set AR puts CG characters and locations in the viewfinder
Practically every TV and film production uses CG these days, but a show with a fully digital character takes it to anoth...
IT総合 Anthropic’s latest tactic to stop racist AI: Asking it ‘really really really really’ nicely
The problem of alignment is an important one when you’re setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of fina...
IT総合 Google’s best Gemini demo was faked
Google’s new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less c...
IT総合 Seattle biotech hub pursues ‘DNA typewriter’ tech with $75M from tech billionaires
A new Seattle biotech organization will be funded to the tune of $75 million to research “DNA typewriters,” ...
IT総合 Respeecher’s ethics-first approach to AI voice cloning locks in new funding
Ukrainian synthetic voice startup Respeecher is finding success despite not just bombs raining down on their city, but a...
IT総合 ‘Animate Anyone’ heralds the approach of full-motion deepfakes
As if still-image deepfakes aren’t bad enough, we may soon have to contend with generated videos of anyone who dar...
IT総合 AI invades ‘word of the year’ lists at Oxford, Cambridge, and Merriam-Webster
Few would disagree that 2023 was, in the world of technology at least, dominated by artificial intelligence. The diction...
IT総合 I’m watching ‘AI upscaled’ Star Trek and it isn’t terrible
For years, dedicated Star Trek fans have been using AI in an attempt to make a version of the acclaimed series Deep Spac...
IT総合 OpenAI’s GPT Store delayed to 2024 following leadership chaos
OpenAI’s app store for AI, the GPT Store, will not launch this year as previously announced, but rather on an unsp...
IT総合 Nucleos puts secure, tablet-powered education in the hands of inmates
Inmates in correctional facilities around the country have wildly varying levels of opportunity to prepare for life afte...
IT総合 Cradle’s AI-powered protein programming platform levels up with $24M in new funding
Biotech and AI startup Cradle is finding success with its generative approach to protein design, landing big customers a...
IT総合 Meta turned a blind eye to kids on its platforms for years, unredacted lawsuit alleges
A newly unredacted version of the multi-state lawsuit against Meta alleges a troubling pattern of deception and minimiza...
IT総合 This week in AI: The OpenAI debacle shows the perils of going commercial
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy round...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s ‘thermonuclear’ lawsuit over hate-adjacent ads on X… actually confirms them
Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging defamation by a news organization over claims that m...
IT総合 WTF is going on at OpenAI? We have theories
In perhaps the most unexpected tech news of the year, billionaire and AI evangelist Sam Altman has been ejected from his...
IT総合 Blackshark.ai’s Orca Huntr lets you build orbital intelligence models with a scribble
Blackshark.ai has already made a digital twin of the Earth, and its next play further democratizes the hitherto lofty (i...
IT総合 Candela’s electric hydrofoiling ferry takes flight
The future is going to be electric, but in the air and on the water that transition is proving more difficult than on la...