Month: July 2024

Lime tests two new e-bikes you don’t have to pedal

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The LimeBike (left) and the LimeGlider (right). | Image: Lime Lime is testing two new e-bikes designed to make bike-sharing accessible to a wider range of riders. Alongside throttles that mean you don’t have to pedal to move, the LimeBike and the LimeGlider both offer 20-inch wheels with fat tires for better traction, step-through frames … Read more

Airtable acquihires onboarding startup Dopt for AI talent

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Airtable today announced that it has acquired Dopt, a startup focused on helping other startups build product onboarding experiences for new users. Earlier this year, Dopt introduced a number of features that helped users add AI-based assistance tools to their respective services — those are the main reason Airtable is now acquiring the company. The … Read more

The Noonification: Automating App Architecture Diagrams: How I Built a Tool to Map Codebases from the Source (7/30/2024)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. ## Automating App Architecture Diagrams: How I Built a Tool to Map Codebases from the … Read more

Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over facial recognition and photo tags

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Image: The Verge Texas announced a massive settlement with Meta over the use of facial recognition on Facebook, resolving a lawsuit filed in 2022 claiming that the “Tag Suggestions” feature on photos uploaded to Facebook violated the state’s Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act and Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Meta has agreed to … Read more

TechCrunch Minute: Will AI get dumber?

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Although AI models have made big breakthroughs in the last few years, there’s now a risk that they could get dumber and even collapse, according to a new research paper published in Nature. The phenomenon is described by researchers as “model collapse.” Think of it as a snake eating its own tail — or a … Read more

Friend’s $99 necklace uses AI to help combat loneliness

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AI hardware is all the rage in startup land — though receptions have thus far been mixed. Two notable examples, Rabbit and Humane, released devices to disappointing results. a16z-backed Limitless and Exor-backed Bee AI, meanwhile, are working on their own screenless AI wearables. Avi Schiffmann, a Harvard dropout who built a Webby Award-winning website tracking … Read more

Adaptive Shield Showcases New ITDR Platform For SaaS At Black Hat USA

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LAS VEGAS, Nevada, July 30th, 2024/CyberNewsWire/–Amid rising breaches including Snowflake, the platform helps security teams proactively detect and respond to identity-centric threats in business-critical SaaS applications. Adaptive Shield, a leader in SaaS Security, today announced its breakthrough Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) platform for SaaS environments. Since entering this space a year ago, the … Read more

Hey, there ARE Growth funds in Europe — Kennet raises $287M for its largest fund to date

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Europe is routinely castigated by tech industry observers for having too little ‘growth capital’ funds, and, compared to the US, that’s true. That said, it is nowhere near non-existent on this front. To wit: Growth equity investor Kennet has just announced it’s raised €266 million for its largest fund to date, Kennet VI, which is … Read more

Lawmakers want to carve out intimate AI deepfakes from Section 230 immunity

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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers are proposing a bill to carve out Section 230 protection for tech companies that fail to remove intimate AI deepfakes from their platforms. Reps. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) and Ashley Hinson (R-IA) unveiled the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, Politico first reported, “to … Read more

DSCVR Launches Canvas: A Massive Leap For Web3 Social Embedded Apps

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LOS ANGELES, United States, July 30th, 2024/Chainwire/–DSCVR, the largest web3 social media and community-building platform, announces the launch of Canvas, a groundbreaking framework that enables developers to effortlessly build and integrate custom applications directly into DSCVR’s social feeds. With just a few tweaks any web application can be made into a Canvas application. Combined with … Read more