Month: July 2023

Seoul-based Finda, which runs an online loan comparison service, raised a ~$37M Series C from JB Financial and 500 Global; Finda brokered ~$3B in loans in 2022 (Shruti Khairnar/FinTech Futures)

Shruti Khairnar / FinTech Futures: Seoul-based Finda, which runs an online loan comparison service, raised a ~$37M Series C from JB Financial and 500 Global; Finda brokered ~$3B in loans in 2022  —  South Korean fintech Finda, which operates a loan comparison platform, has secured $37 million (KRW 47 billion) in Series C funding from

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Seoul-based Finda, which runs an online loan comparison service, raised a ~$37M Series C from JB Financial and 500 Global; Finda brokered ~$3B in loans in 2022 (Shruti Khairnar/FinTech Futures)

Shruti Khairnar / FinTech Futures: Seoul-based Finda, which runs an online loan comparison service, raised a ~$37M Series C from JB Financial and 500 Global; Finda brokered ~$3B in loans in 2022  —  South Korean fintech Finda, which operates a loan comparison platform, has secured $37 million (KRW 47 billion) in Series C funding from

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AI-Powered War Machines: The Future of Warfare Is Here

The advancement of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) has paved the way for a new era in warfare. Gone are the days of manned ships and traditional naval operations. Instead, the US Navy’s Task Force 59 is at the forefront of integrating AI and robotics into naval operations. With a fleet of autonomous robot ships,

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Google will ‘supercharge’ Assistant with AI that’s more like ChatGPT and Bard

Illustration: The Verge Google is planning to update Assistant with features powered by generative AI, according to a report from Axios. In an email obtained by the outlet, Google tells staff members that it has already started exploring a “supercharged” Assistant powered by the newest large language models (LLM), similar to the technology behind ChatGPT

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Leaked Google memo shows it ‘deeply committed’ to Assistant, bringing LLM power

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority A leaked memo shows Google is still behind Google Assistant, even if it seems doomed in the age of ChatGPT. The memo says Google is adding LLM smarts to Assistant to make it “supercharged.” Unfortunately, internal restructuring has necessitated some team members being dropped. Back at Google I/O in

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A US judge denies Terraform Labs’ motion to dismiss an SEC lawsuit, saying the SEC made a “plausible claim” that UST and LUNA may have violated securities law (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: A US judge denies Terraform Labs’ motion to dismiss an SEC lawsuit, saying the SEC made a “plausible claim” that UST and LUNA may have violated securities law  —  Terraform Labs argued that there was no contract in the sale of UST to retail investors.

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A German data watchdog says it has been probing Worldcoin since November 2022 due to concerns over the project processing “sensitive data at a very large scale” (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: A German data watchdog says it has been probing Worldcoin since November 2022 due to concerns over the project processing “sensitive data at a very large scale”  —  A German data watchdog has been investigating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project since late last year due …

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RF Remote Made Easy

The 433 MHz spectrum is a little bit of an oddball. It’s one of the few areas of the radio spectrum which is nearly universally unlicensed, meaning as long as devices using it adhere to the power restrictions and other guidelines about best practices, it’s essentially an open playground. IoT devices operate here, as well

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Microsoft’s repairability push now extends to Xbox controllers, too

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft has started selling controller parts on its online store. Owners of both the Xbox Elite Series 2 Wireless Controller and the standard Xbox Wireless Controller can head to the Microsoft store right now to buy replacement boards, sticks, buttons, covers, and more. Now, if your shoulder buttons

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Bloom Has the Secret to Gen Z Wealth Building

As a company, Bloom is aware of the absence of youth-friendly resources for financial education. Existing platforms may provide free stock or trade transactions, but they often fail to provide users with the fundamental education they need to succeed in the investment world. Inspired by their own struggles, Maman and Yang set out to fill

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Internal email: Google is revamping Assistant to focus on using generative AI, starting with the mobile version, and is reorganizing related teams (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios: Internal email: Google is revamping Assistant to focus on using generative AI, starting with the mobile version, and is reorganizing related teams  —  Google plans to overhaul its Assistant to focus on using generative AI technologies similar to those that power ChatGPT and its own Bard chatbot …

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SpaceX’s ‘Mega Steel Pancake’ Will Protect Starship From Fiery Launches

SpaceX, the renowned aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company founded by Elon Musk, recently conducted a full-pressure test of a new water deluge system for its Starship launch vehicle. This test is a significant step towards resolving one of the major problems that arose during the orbital flight test in April, where the heat and

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BBC launches an ‘experimental’ Mastodon server

Illustration: The Verge The BBC has launched its own “experimental” Mastodon server, marking one of the first major news outlets to establish an instance on the Twitter alternative. You can access the server at social.bbc, which encompasses posts from a handful of BBC accounts, including BBC Radio 4, BBC Taster, BBC Research & Development, and

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Sources: Nvidia has asked some cloud provider startups for their customers’ names; it also ensures some upstart cloud providers get early shipments of new chips (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: Nvidia has asked some cloud provider startups for their customers’ names; it also ensures some upstart cloud providers get early shipments of new chips  —  Nvidia plays favorites with its newest, much-sought-after chips for artificial intelligence, steering them to small cloud providers …

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Uber driver in first-ever deadly self-driving crash pleads guilty

Image: ABC 15 The backup driver in the self-driving Uber vehicle that killed a 49-year-old woman in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018 pled guilty to one count of endangerment and was sentenced to three years’ probation on Friday. Rafaela Vasquez worked as a safety driver for Uber’s autonomous vehicle test program in Arizona. She was behind

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How popular gaming platforms like Minecraft and Roblox are being used to promote Russia’s war narrative, influencing some young and Russian-speaking audiences (New York Times)

New York Times: How popular gaming platforms like Minecraft and Roblox are being used to promote Russia’s war narrative, influencing some young and Russian-speaking audiences  —  Propaganda is appearing in Minecraft and other popular games and discussion groups as the Kremlin tries to win over new audiences.

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Just How Is Voyager 2 Going To Sort Out Its Dish Then?

Anybody who has set up a satellite TV antenna will tell you that alignment is critical when picking up a signal from space. With a satellite dish it’s a straightforward task to tweak the position, but what happens if the dish in question is out beyond the edge of the Solar System? We told you

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Europe’s dark matter-hunting space telescope nabs its first test images

Two early test images from the Euclid space telescope mission. | Image: European Space Agency Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) showed off the first test images taken from the Euclid space telescope as it approaches its final orbit around the Earth (via Ars Technica). Once in place, scientists at the ESA and its partners

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X says Elon Musk will lead product and engineering teams, CEO Linda Yaccarino will lead teams including legal and sales, and both will oversee trust and safety (Sheila Dang/Reuters)

Sheila Dang / Reuters: X says Elon Musk will lead product and engineering teams, CEO Linda Yaccarino will lead teams including legal and sales, and both will oversee trust and safety  —  X owner Elon Musk and Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino will both oversee the trust and safety team at the company formerly known as

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SAG-AFTRA says interim agreements are ‘a vital part’ of its plan to weather Hollywood’s labor strike

SAG-AFTRA’s striking logo. | Image: SAG-AFTRA When the Screen Actors Guild began giving independently produced projects clearance to continue production during Hollywood’s two ongoing labor strikes earlier this month, there was a sizable amount of confusion about how the process worked and why the union was doing it, given that it had called for an

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A Usable Arduino Debugging Tool

For as popular as the Arduino platform is, it’s not without its problems. Among those is the fact that most practical debugging is often done by placing various print statements throughout the code and watching for them in the serial monitor. There’s not really a great way of placing breakpoints or stepping through code, either.

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Ampere Analysis: ad tiers from Netflix, Disney, and others have collectively crossed 100M users in the US; 90%+ of Hulu subscribers are on its ad-supported tier (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)

Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: Ampere Analysis: ad tiers from Netflix, Disney, and others have collectively crossed 100M users in the US; 90%+ of Hulu subscribers are on its ad-supported tier  —  London-based research firm Ampere Analysis estimates that ad tiers from Netflix, Disney and others have collectively surpassed 100 million users

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