Every smartphone in LA accidentally received a wildfire evacuation alert

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Techme101

As wildfires rage for the third consecutive day through parts of Los Angeles, now including the Hollywood Hills, several neighborhoods have been forced to evacuate for safety purposes. But on Thursday afternoon, a wildfire evacuation alert was mistakenly sent to the smartphone of every resident in Los Angeles County, a region with more than 9 […]
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This security system shoots paintballs at intruders

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Techme101

Doorbell cameras are standard fare these days. More and more people have invested in connected security systemss, as the technology has become both cheaper and more user friendly. There’s one important thing these system won’t do, however: shoot people and animals with paintballs. That is, however, pretty much the Eve PaintCam’s whole M.O. Carrying the […]
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Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments on challenge to TikTok ban

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Techme101

The Supreme Court on Friday will hear oral arguments in the case involving the future of TikTok in the U.S., which could ban the app as soon as next week.

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TikTok to make final plea at Supreme Court against US ban

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Techme101

TikTok is hoping to win a challenge against law that would see it banned from the US this month.

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Hippocratic AI raises $141M for creating patient-facing AI agents

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Techme101

Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $141 million Series B at a valuation of $1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins, the company announced Thursday. The funding comes nine months after Hippocratic AI raised a $53 million round from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz and five […]
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Nvidia’s AI avatar sat on my computer screen and weirded me out

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Techme101

Nvidia unveiled a prototype AI avatar at CES 2025 that lives on your PC’s desktop. The AI assistant, R2X, looks like a video game character, and it can help you navigate apps on your computer. The R2X avatar is rendered and animated using Nvidia’s AI models, and users can run the avatar on popular LLMs […]
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Nvidia’s tiny $3,000 computer steals the show at CES

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Techme101

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was greeted as a rock star this week at CES in Las Vegas.

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Defense startup Epirus in talks to raise over $150M, potentially cutting valuation 

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Techme101

The round could give the company a valuation of about $1 billion, a decrease from the company’s previous $1.35 billion valuation. 
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Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robot gets to work at CES 2025

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Techme101

CES 2025 has been a mixed bag for humanoid robots. The form factor had a watershed moment, as images of the top players flanked NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang during his Monday keynote. Of these, Agility’s Digit also showed up alongside a miniature conveyer belt at a closed access NVIDIA booth. It was a nice return […]
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Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Techme101

One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.

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