Controversial US facial recognition company, Clearview AI, has won an appeal against a privacy sanction issued by the UK last year. In May 2022, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a formal…
Tech Crunch – Biden further chokes off China’s AI chip supply with Nvidia bans
In August last year, a ban on Nvidia’s chip export to China sent the country’s budding artificial intelligence startups scrambling for alternatives. A momentary sense of relief came when Nvidia unveiled chips…
Tech Crunch – Snap partners with edtech company Inspirit to bring its AR tech to 50 US schools
Snap is partnering with edtech company Inspirit to bring augmented reality into classrooms to help students better understand STEM lessons, the company announced on Wednesday. The two companies are working together to…
Tech Crunch – Passwordless authentication startup SecureW2 raises $80M from Insight Partners
Passwordless authentication offers a host of advantages over traditional pins, passphrases and passcodes. Surveys around the web show that compromised passwords cause an estimated 81% of all breaches and that the average…
Tech Crunch – Darwinium brings digital security and fraud prevention to the perimeter
Back in 2018, LexisNexis acquired the digital identity platform ThreadMetrix for just under $820 million in cash. In 2021, ThreadMetrix co-founders Reed Taussig and Alisdair Faulkner returned to the world of startups…
Tech Crunch – Peak XV invests $35 million in wealth and asset management startup Neo
Peak XV Partners has invested $35 million in Neo, a fintech startup founded by industry veterans that is increasingly challenging incumbents including IIFL, Edelweiss and Waterfield Advisors, as the largest India-focused VC broadens…
Tech Crunch – Meta consolidates options to manage your Meta data
Meta is rolling out new options to better manage your data related to its own platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. The company now has a single place in the Accounts Center…
Tech Crunch – Objective emerges from stealth to deliver multimodal search to developers as an API platform
Objective (previously named Kailua Labs), a multimodal search platform built by machine learning experts from Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon and Twilio, emerged from stealth today with $13 million in venture funding. Objective…
El Paso News The Accessibility Corner: White Cane Day
White Cane Day in America was celebrated on Sunday, October 15. It is celebrated annually. It is a day to recognize the achievements of people who are blind or visually impaired and…
Tech Crunch – OpenAI formally brings web search to ChatGPT as DALL-E 3 integration arrives in beta
OpenAI has formally launched its internet-browsing feature to ChatGPT, some three weeks after re-introducing the feature in beta after several months in hiatus. ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot that has taken the…