Ford shutters company building an app for plumbers, electricians and other trades
Ford has shut down VIIZR, a software-as-a-service company that along with Salesforce built an app to help tradespeople like plumbers, locksmiths and electricians to schedule field...
Charting the last 10 years of the unicorn era
Do you know how many unicorns there were when Aileen Lee crowned them with this now-ubiquitous nickname in her 2013 TechCrunch column? Only 39. And at...
PagerDuty scoops up incident management startup Jeli.io
PagerDuty announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire Jeli.io, an early stage incident management startup. The companies did not share the price.
Jeli was founded in...
Musk: SpaceX’s Starlink “has achieved breakeven cash flow”
SpaceX’s Starlink has “achieved breakeven cash flow,” CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, a milestone achievement for the rocket company’s four-year-old satellite internet business unit.
He announced the...
SBF’s trial is coming to a close – here’s what you missed
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Don’t be afraid of the ‘AI-assisted’ Beatles song, ‘Now And Then’
There’s been a bit of FUD around the decision to use a form of AI to resurrect John Lennon’s voice in what Paul McCartney called “the...
Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper blames cyberattack for ongoing outage
Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper says a “cybersecurity incident” earlier this week was the cause of an ongoing outage, adding that the company is “working to...
Unredacted FTC suit shows ‘Project Nessie’ price-raising algorithm made Amazon $1.4B
The mysterious “Project Nessie,” hinted at in what little was not redacted in the FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon, is indeed an algorithmic pricing scheme that raised...
Stability AI’s latest tool uses AI to generate 3D models
Stability AI, the startup behind the text-to-image AI model Stable Diffusion, thinks 3D model creation tools could be the next big thing in generative AI.
At least,...
Matic’s robot vacuum maps spaces without sending data to the cloud
Countless startups are trying to solve hard robotics problems in industry. But few are looking to bring the tech into homes.
Well, few except for Matic.
A relatively...