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Ursa Major nabs $12.5M from U.S. Navy, DoD for 3D printed rocket motors

Ursa Major, a startup that produces rocket motors through 3D printing, received a $12.5 million grant to develop new solid fuel rocket engines © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Snap’s extremely large Spectacles bring impressive AR to developers at $99 a month

The Spectacles 5 are designed specifically for developers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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AWS shuts down DeepComposer, its MIDI keyboard for AI music

AWS’ weird AI-powered keyboard experiment, DeepComposer, is no more. In a blog post today, the company announced it’s shutting down the five-year-old DeepComposer, a physical MIDI piano and AWS service that let users compose songs with the help of generative … Continue reading

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Snap’s new AI feature lets you create Snapchat Lenses by simply describing them

Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, is expanding its suite of AI tools for creators. At this year’s Snap Partner Summit in Santa Monica, Snap announced a new feature, Easy Lens, that translates plain-English descriptions into Lenses, Snap’s brand of augmented reality … Continue reading

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Epic Games Store — and Fortnite — now available on iPad in the EU

Just a day after third-party app stores were officially allowed on the iPad in the European Union, Epic Games announced on X that the Epic Games Store can now be installed on iPadOS. However, you need to live in a … Continue reading

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IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost

Tuesday’s announcement follows IBM’s $4.3 billion acquisition of Apptio in 2023, another company in the FinOps space. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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iOS 18 lets you replace Apple’s camera app with Halide or Obscura on the lock screen: Here’s how

With iOS 18, users can replace the default camera app on the lock screen with a third-party app. Halide and Obscura — two popular camera apps designed as alternatives to Apple’s default camera app with manual controls and different image … Continue reading

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SocialAI offers a Twitter-like diary where AI bots respond to your posts

Can AI help you to break your social media addiction? That’s one of the questions raised by an odd new app SocialAI, which offers its users a private social network where they can post their thoughts and receive AI-generated comments … Continue reading

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Workday acquires AI-powered document platform Evisort

Workday today announced it’s acquiring Evisort, an AI-powered contract management platform, for an undisclosed amount. In a statement, Terrance Wampler, group general manager at Workday, said that Evisort’s tech will enable Workday to add a range of AI-powered document processing … Continue reading

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Cisco’s second layoff of 2024 affects thousands of employees

Cisco’s executives made tens of millions in compensation, while cutting thousands of jobs in two separate rounds of layoffs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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