Maniv, the VC firm based in Tel Aviv and New York City, has closed a $140 million that reflects its evolving investment ethos. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microservice architecture has revolutionized the development and deployment of modern software systems, offering unprecedented scalability, flexibility, and maintainability. Despite the fact that microservices are considered a cutting-edge development industry, the term was first used 20 years ago — in 2005, Peter Rogers invented the term “micro-web services” during a presentation on cloud computing. Rogers created … Read more
The rise of contextual and semantic search has made ecommerce and retail businesses search straightforward for its consumers. Search engines and recommendation systems powered by generative AI can improve the product search experience exponentially by understanding natural language queries and returning more accurate results. This enhances the overall user experience, helping customers find exactly what … Read more
Why I Started PromptDesk As a Machine Learning engineer at Seismic, the world’s leading AI-powered sales and marketing enablement platform, I’ve witnessed firsthand the incredible pace at which the AI market is moving. This rapid evolution, coupled with market hype and confusion, inspired me to create PromptDesk, a 100% open-source project to streamline prompt-based development. … Read more
OpenAI captivated the tech world a few months back with a generative AI model, Sora, that turns scene descriptions into original videos — no cameras or film crews required. But Sora has so far been tightly gated, and the firm seems to be aiming it toward well-funded creatives like Hollywood directors — not hobbyists or small-time … Read more
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel on Wednesday announced plans to vote on rules restoring net neutrality. The vote, set for April 25, would reinstate 2015 internet rules adopted under President Obama that were subsequently repealed by President Trump’s FCC two years later. Rosenworcel, a longtime advocate for net neutrality, announced plans to reverse the reversal toward … Read more
If you’re anything like me – you’ve dealt with missing data in your datasets at least once. Or twice. Or one too many times… Sometimes, all it takes to handle those pesky NAs is dropping them i.e. removing the rows containing missing data. However, this might not always be optimal, especially for time series data, … Read more
Illustration by Samar Haddad for The Verge | Photo by The Verge One of the coolest things you can do with the Apple Vision Pro is use your Mac screen — either floating by itself in a virtual landscape or, better yet, in mixed reality. It’s hard to make work exciting, but if you can, … Read more
TypeScript’s increasing popularity in recent years has made it something many front-end developers have started to learn. As a front-end engineer, I was regularly told it was pretty simple and would be easy to just pick up, given my background in JavaScript. When I finally started working somewhere where we used TS, while it was … Read more
Although there are plenty of initiatives encouraging young women into a career in tech, the reality is that men still outnumber women by a ratio of 3:1. Additionally, by the time students choose their majors in college, only 21% of engineering majors, and just 19% of computer science majors are women. But one woman who … Read more
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. … Read more
ByteTrade Lab, an industrial partner with the University of California, Berkeley (“Berkeley”) FHL Vive Center, today announced that the partnership has led to the launch of GaiaNet, a new decentralized AI infrastructure project. GaiaNet is a decentralized network that provides secure, censorship-resistant, and monetizable AI agents that incorporate each individual’s proprietary knowledge and skills … Read more
Par38 Matter-compatible floodlight. | Image: Lifx Lifx is bringing its high-end smart bulb chops to Matter with two new bulbs that support the standard over Wi-Fi. The two bulbs are an A21 indoor bulb ($39.98) and a Par38 indoor / outdoor option ($34.98) and will be available only through The Home Depot, starting today. The … Read more
Studies show that consumers associated Tesla with Musk, which might be damaging the EV brand’s bottom line. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s controversial behavior in recent years is “very likely” to be a contributing factor in Tesla’s declining sales, according to corporate reputation tracking firm Caliber. Survey data … Read more
The DSS will last five years and could lead to a new regulatory regime for securities settlement.
Photo by Matt McClain / The Washington Post via Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission will vote on April 25th on a proposal to restore net neutrality rules, the agency announced on Wednesday. If the five-member panel votes to restore the rules, internet service providers (ISP) will be reclassified from information services to common carriers, … Read more
Agnes Kozera and David Kierzkowski, the co-founders of podcast sponsorship marketplace Podcorn, today launched their newest app—Storiaverse, a short-form entertainment platform that offers a multi-format reading experience, combining animated video and written content. Available on iOS and Android devices, Storiaverse caters to graphic novel readers and adult animation fans who want to discover original stories … Read more
The token’s rise comes alongside a wave of trading volume.
In the dynamic realm of blockchain gaming, a groundbreaking contender is ascending, promising a fresh perspective on gaming and blockchain synergy.
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, when we take a moment to dig into a raft of startup and venture capital news. No big tech here! Keep in mind that Y Combinator’s demo day … Read more
The path of least resistance is already open. Remember when learning to code felt like trying to crack a secret code? It seemed like only the tech-savvy elite had the key to unlock this world. But things are changing! Picture this: just like English has become an international language, platforms like Webflow are shaking up … Read more
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge For many years, Spotify held strong at its monthly subscription of $9.99, but that changed last July when Premium jumped up to $10.99. Now it appears that the leading subscription music service is planning another price hike — and not waiting nearly as long this time. Bloomberg reports … Read more
