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Daily Crunch: AI-driven fintech Candidly nabs $20.5M Series B to help consumers 'crush debt'

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Mar 2023

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When It Comes to OnlyFans, Humans Can Outcompete AI

[photo1]Lux AlptraumIn the spring of 2001, when I was just 18 years old, I launched a multiyear career as an online porn model and cam girl, giving paying customers access to my naked body in the form...

Mar 2023

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The oh-so-biased branding risk in venture capital

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week's startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.One of the quiete...

Mar 2023

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Smartphone makers searched for a way forward at MWC 2023

The slowdown was inevitable, of course. Nothing stays hot forever -- especially in this industry. By tech standards, smartphones have had a good run, but the last few years have seen device makers sea...

Mar 2023

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Barcelona nights

I've yet to walk the entire floor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year (that's the goal for this afternoon), but my sense is the majority of the robots present fit into one of two categorie...

Mar 2023

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Universal Hydrogen takes to the air with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to fly

As a Universal Hydrogen-branded plane, equipped with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to power an aircraft, made its maiden test flight in eastern Washington, co-founder and CEO Paul Eremenko decla...

Mar 2023

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Instagram starts testing its age verification tools in more countries

Meta announced today that it has started testing its age verification tools on Instagram in more countries, including Canada and Mexico. Last June, the social media app began testing new options for u...

Mar 2023

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Scientists have mapped a secret hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza

In 2016, scientists using muon imaging picked up signals indicating a hidden corridor behind the famous chevron blocks on the north face of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. The following year, the ...

Mar 2023

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Daily Crunch: Stealth startup Figure releases first photos of its all-purpose humanoid robot

To get a roundup of TechCrunch's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here.G'day, friends! Good to spend some time with you again. Come spend s...

Mar 2023

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How WIRED Will Use Generative AI Tools

[photo1]By Gideon LichfieldLike pretty much everyone else in the past few months, journalists have been trying out generative AI tools like ChatGPT to see whether they can help us do our jobs better. ...

Mar 2023

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The life-upending flaw that USPS won't fix

Sometime in November, someone walked into a U.S. post office and filled out a change of address form, just as tens of millions do each year to route their mail to a new address. The person signed the ...

Mar 2023

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

Sesamm, a French startup that helps financial firms and corporates adhere to their ESG goals by using natural language processing (NLP) to generate insights from digital content, has raised EUR35 mill...

Mar 2023

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Review: Insta360 Link

[photo1]Matt Jancer8/10"That's probably the best-looking webcam I've seen you test," one of my colleagues remarked over Zoom the other day as I stared into the eye of the Insta360 Link webcam. A choru...

Mar 2023

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Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles

On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ test...

Mar 2023

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Idle Farming Tycoon: Build Farm Empire - Tips and strategies to progress faster

If you have played and enjoyed many idle clicker games, you may also like the game made by titan arrow games. Idle Farming Tycoon: Build Farm Empire is a small game with good graphics...

Feb 2023

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Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub

Magazine app Flipboard is joining the Fediverse -- the group of interconnected servers powering a range of open source, decentralized applications, including the newly popular Twitter alternative Mast...

Feb 2023

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Entitle raises $15M seed round to modernize permissions management

Tel Aviv-based Entitle, a startup that helps businesses automate how their developers gain permission to access cloud resources, today announced that it has raised a $15 million seed round led by Glil...

Feb 2023

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Pokemon GO: Leaks reveal Gholdengo is coming in the March Community Day 2023

As per the latest leaks from the Dataminers, they seem to have found some of the expected new content for Pokemon GO ahead of the Pokemon GO March Community Day 2023. Fans have specul...

Feb 2023

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Mobile Legends March 2023 Starlight Pass: New skins, emotes and more

The new Month, March 2023 is almost here and is featuring the debut of a new Starlight skin for mage hero, Valentina. Valentina is going to be the Lucky Mage-...

Feb 2023

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Nokia phonemaker HMD Global to move some manufacturing to Europe

HMD Global, the Finnish phonemaker and inheritor of the Nokia mobile phone brand, has revealed plans to transition some of its manufacturing to Europe.The company said the move is designed to meet a "...

Feb 2023