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Capacity, formerly Jane.ai, raises $13.2M Series B for its AI tech that can help companies maintain a searchable index by consolidating info from various apps (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Capacity, formerly Jane.ai, raises $13.2M Series B for its AI tech that can help companies maintain a searchable index by consolidating info from various apps  —  Capacity (formerly Jane.ai), a startup developing a platform that indexes data from apps, teams, and more and enables users … Capacity, formerly Jane.ai, raises .2M

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Stolen fingerprints could spell the end of biometric security – here’s how to save it

The biggest known biometric data breach to date was reported recently when researchers managed to access a 23-gigabyte database of more than 27.8m records including fingerprint and facial recognition data. The researchers, working with cyber-security firm VPNMentor, said that they had been able to access the Biostar 2 biometrics lock system that manages access to

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Ally, which makes goal-planning and execution management software for enterprises, raises $8M Series A led by Accel, bringing total raised to $11M (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Ally, which makes goal-planning and execution management software for enterprises, raises $8M Series A led by Accel, bringing total raised to $11M  —  A Seattle startup has raised $8 million to fuel its quest to help companies stay on track and hit their goals in an era of rapid change for

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The Danish Internet Of Hot Tubs

Every hacker camp has its own flavor, and BornHack 2019 in the Danish countryside gave us the opportunity to sample some hacker relaxation, Scandinavian style. Among the attractions was a wood-fired hot tub of gargantuan proportions, in which the tired attendee could rejuvenate themselves at 40 Celcius in the middle of the forest. A wood-fired

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Profile of Rodney Brooks, the Australian roboticist who in 1990 co-founded iRobot, which used to make robots for US army and is now popular for Roomba vacuums (Brian Bergstein/MIT Technology Review)

Brian Bergstein / MIT Technology Review: Profile of Rodney Brooks, the Australian roboticist who in 1990 co-founded iRobot, which used to make robots for US army and is now popular for Roomba vacuums  —  The professor who got robots zipping through the world—and cleaning house—by challenging conventional wisdom in AI. Profile of Rodney Brooks, the

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Profile of Carla Engelbrecht, the director of product innovation at Netflix, whose experiments with interactive kids programs were a precursor to Bandersnatch (Antonia Hitchens/Wired)

Antonia Hitchens / Wired: Profile of Carla Engelbrecht, the director of product innovation at Netflix, whose experiments with interactive kids programs were a precursor to Bandersnatch  —  EARLIER THIS YEAR, Carla Engelbrecht flew to Phoenix, sat on the couch in a stranger’s living room, and observed the stranger watching … Profile of Carla Engelbrecht, the

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