Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Overhaul, which uses AI to help secure physical supply chains for freight companies, raised a $38M Series A led by Edison Partners and $35M in debt  —  Businesses dependent on the physical supply chain face a number of potential roadblocks.  Customers expect fast deliveries with visibility into each step … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Internal FBI and Pentagon documents detail early research to improve AI to aid with identifying or tracking Americans, later folded into the Horus search tool  —  Internal documents released in response to a lawsuit show the government was deeply involved in pushing for face-scanning technology that could be used for mass surveillance Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vish Gain / Silicon Republic: A report by Ireland’s DPC: 17 large inquiries concluded in 2022, resulting in €1B+ fines; 10K+ cases concluded in 2022, including 246 cross-border complaints  —  Helen Dixon said the DPC issued two-thirds of fines issued across Europe last year on foot of ‘detailed and comprehensive investigations’. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Marino / The Verge: Q&A with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence and producer Giles Martin on the new Era 300 and 100 speakers, spatial audio, Atmos, sustainability, Google lawsuit, and more  —  They join The Vergecast to discuss Sonos’ new Era 300 and 100 speakers, the ins and outs of spatial audio, and why this is the time to get behind it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Spangler / Variety: TikTok launches Series, letting select creators sell Collections of content of up to 80 videos, each up to 20 minutes; creators initially get 100% of earnings  —  TikTok is opening up a new monetization spigot for creators on the popular short-form video app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Apple announces a yellow finish for the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, the latest new spring color after “alpine green” in 2022, shipping on March 14  —  Unlike last year, the new color variant won’t be available for the Pro models and will only ship with the base iPhone 14 and the 14 Plus. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vish Gain / Silicon Republic: A report by Ireland’s DPC: 17 large inquiries concluded in 2022, resulting in €1B+ fines; 10K+ cases concluded in 2022, including 246 cross-border complaints  —  Helen Dixon said the DPC issued two-thirds of fines issued across Europe last year on foot of ‘detailed and comprehensive investigations’. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Salesforce announces Einstein GPT, bringing OpenAI-based generative AI to Customer 360, Slack, Tableau, and its other products using data from its Data Cloud  —  – Salesforce clients will be able to exchange Slack messages with a ChatGPT chatbot that can show data from Salesforce. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: In 2023, almost all TV streaming boxes suck, turning into ever-cheaper, ad-supported commodity items and failing to surpass smart TVs, themselves hardly great  —  There are no good streaming boxes, and I blame everybody. … Streaming boxes had so much potential. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Investor document: Stripe seeks to raise ~$2.3B to cover Q1 tax withholdings and plans to withhold an additional $500M in 2023 and $700M in 2024  —  Stripe Inc., one of the world’s most valuable startups, told investors it plans to use money it receives in its latest round of fundraising to help cover a roughly $3.5 billion tax bill. Lees verder op Tech Meme