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Musical toy startup Playtime Engineering wants to simplify electronic music making for kids

Troy Sheets began making music at 15 years old in his home studio with a keyboard synthesizer, drum machine and four-track cassette recorder — an impressive setup for a high school sophomore. However, it’s rare for young, up-and-coming musicians to … Continue reading

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SEC scores big win in lawsuit against crypto exchange Coinbase

The ruling in favor of the SEC comes as Coinbase has become a go-to partner for big Wall Street assert managers looking to offer cryptocurrency trading options.

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Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza

The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.

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Orchard vision system turns farm equipment into AI-powered data collectors

Agricultural robotics are not a new phenomenon. We’ve seen systems that pick apples and berries, kill weeds, plant trees, transport produce and more. But while these functions are understood to be the core features of automated systems, the same thing … Continue reading

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What is ETL? (Extract, Transform, Load): The Ultimate Guide

Explore data transformations, ETL processes and ETL tools in this introduction to ETL for data management professionals.

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Observe, the data observability platform, raises $115M with Snowflake investing

Enterprises today store and use data across an ever-growing number of applications and locations — making it challenging — if not impossible — to manage and query that data in a holistic way. That spells opportunity for startups building tools … Continue reading

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Century Health, now with $2M, taps AI to give pharma access to good patient data

Century Health is applying AI to clinical data to uncover new applications for drugs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Inside the Creation of DBRX, the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model

Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta’s Llama 2.

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Amazon will have to publish an ads library in EU after all

Amazon will have to provide information about the ads running on its platform in a publicly accessible online archive after all, following a decision by the European Union’s highest court Wednesday. The ads transparency requirement is contained in the bloc’s … Continue reading

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Databricks spent $10M on new DBRX generative AI model, but it can’t beat GPT-4

If you wanted to raise the profile of your major tech company and had $10 million to spend, how would you spend it? On a Super Bowl ad? An F1 sponsorship? You could spend it training a generative AI model. … Continue reading

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