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SpaceX gets FCC green light for Starlink direct-to-phone deal with T-Mobile

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to go forward with plans to offer a direct-to-phone version of its Starlink satellite internet service, with T-Mobile as its provider and a few provisos in place. The proposal dates to summer 2022, when … Continue reading →

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AWS re:Invent 2024: What to expect and how to watch Amazon’s biggest event of the year

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) biggest conference of the year is around the corner, and all signs point to it being an eventful one. AWS re:Invent 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas on Sunday, with sessions scheduled to run through December … Continue reading →

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ServiceTitan could be the first of many ‘dirty’ term-sheet IPOs, VCs believe

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

Rather than opening an IPO window, ServiceTitan’s IPO could be the first of something else entirely, VCs warn. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Uber is building a fleet of gig workers to label data for AI models

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

Uber is expanding its fleet of gig workers and creating a new category: AI annotation and data labeling. The ride-hailing company has started hiring contractors for a new AI and data labeling division called Scaled Solutions. These workers complete projects … Continue reading →

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FTC finds that smart device makers fail to make clear how long their products will be supported

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

A new paper from the Federal Trade Commission found that many smart device makers fail to disclose to consumers how long they will provide software updates for their products. The agency looked at 184 different smart devices, ranging from hearing … Continue reading →

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Bluesky verification could look a lot different from X’s blue checks

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

The rapidly growing social networking startup Bluesky, a Twitter/X alternative built on open web principles, revealed in a livestream on Monday how its approach to user account verification will differ from existing services, like Meta and X. While traditional social … Continue reading →

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YC-backed Circleback is out to become the best meeting notetaker

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

As the number of startups offering speech-to-text services is increasing, meeting transcripts are becoming a common offering. There are plenty of tools that offer AI assistants that either join the meeting or capture your system’s audio to transcribe and summarize … Continue reading →

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From $19M to $1.5M, here’s how much Anduril pays top execs like Palmer Luckey in cash and stock

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

Beyond patriotism, there’s another huge reason to join a defense startup: it pays really, really well. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OpenAI’s Sora appears to have leaked

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, in protest of what they’re calling duplicity and “art washing” on OpenAI’s part. On Tuesday, the group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemingly … Continue reading →

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Perplexity mulls getting into hardware

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Techme101

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to get into hardware — kinda sorta. Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s founder and CEO, posted on X yesterday that he was considering making a “simple, under $50” device to “reliably answer” questions “voice to voice.” … Continue reading →

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