Amazon announced this morning a further investment in voice technology with an expansion of its Alexa Fund Fellowship to 14 new universities, up from only 4 in 2017, the Fellowship’s first year. The program, which is designed to support conversational A.I. and speech science research, is now coming to 18 total universities, including new additions,…
A “legacy system” was to blame for exposing the contact information of attendees of this year’s Black Hat security conference. Colorado-based pen tester and security researcher who goes by the handle NinjaStyle said it would have taken about six hours to collect all the registered attendees’ names, email and home addresses, company names, and phone…
Asset managers who deploy asset-monitoring and management solutions can benefit from realtime data without having to physically monitor their assets, and this remains one of the most common uses of IoT (Internet of Things) technology. The ability to gain visibility into an asset’s status, location, health, and/or performance without actually being in front of it…
Rowkin’s Bit Charge Touch offer the kind of compact fully wireless in-ear design many consumers want — and have a very palatable price — but that comes at a cost of short playback time and less-than-stellar sound quality. The post No bigger than bullets, these true wireless earbuds redefine ‘tiny’ appeared first on Digital Trends.…
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on TechNode, an editorial partner of TechCrunch based in China. Maimai, China’s biggest rival to LinkedIn, has revealed today that it received a $200 million D Series investment back in April in what the company claims to be the largest investment in the professional networking market. That’s surprising but…
From yeast-grown Cannibinoids to project management software to consumer apps looking to gauge opinions on college campuses, there was quite the wide variety of spaces represented on the second day of pitches from Y Combinator’s Summer 2018 class. As we noted yesterday, B2B software and services was the biggest vertical with 30 percent of the…
Sea, one of Southeast Asia’s largest internet companies, continues to see losses although its growing e-commerce business helped it hit record revenue. The Tencent-backed company went public back in October when it raised around $1 billion through an NYSE listing. Its latest earnings released today show revenue broke $200 million for the first time ($219.6 million)…
India-based lending platform Capital Float has been busy raising capital, having closed an Amazon-led $22 million extension to its $45 million Series C last year — now it’s putting some of that capital work after it acquired personal finance service Walnut. The acquisition is $30 million spread across cash and stock, the companies said, and it’ll…
India-based lending platform Capital Float has been busy raising capital, having closed an Amazon-led $22 million extension to its $45 million Series C last year — now it’s putting some of that capital work after it acquired personal finance service Walnut. The acquisition is $30 million spread across cash and stock, the companies said, and it’ll…
In this column I have been writing about how servitization is an important trend for industrial companies and beyond and how IoT services are creating an outcomes-based economy that benefit tech suppliers and end users alike. Perhaps that’s why it makes a lot of sense to extend the discussion and take a closer look at…
