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Amazon is revamping its Ring video doorbell and camera subscription service. The new service, called Ring Home Premium, includes features like 24/7 recording and AI-powered video search, and starts at $19.99 per month when it launches in the U.S. on November 5. A cheaper tier of Ring Home is bundled with it. It has basic functionality, but it doesn't have 24/7 recording or upgraded search. Ring's subscription shakeup comes as the Amazon subsidiary takes off under new CEO Liz Hamlen, a former Microsoft executive. Ring is now the No. 2 seller of security systems in the U.S., according to research…

For fusion power enthusiasts, reaching the “break-even point” is something of a holy grail. That is, the point at which the fusion reaction produces more power than is needed for ignition. Only one scientific experiment at the National Ignition Facility accomplished this feat, and it took more than a decade to tune the system to achieve this monumental result. “The day the NIF results were announced was clearly this incredibly celebrated scientific result. They all deserve a Nobel Prize,” said Zap Energy Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer ( CEO) Benj Conway told TechCrunch. “But the next day, the question is,…

Glassdoor, the workplace and salary review platform, is taking inspiration from LinkedIn's roadmap and launching short videos, polls, and images to foster community engagement. Seeing the success of consumer apps like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, professional platforms are starting to experiment with short video formats. Earlier this year, LinkedIn introduced a new[ビデオ]We started testing a TikTok-like video feed through Tabs. The company said video is the form of communication its users want. Glassdoor also aims to replicate LinkedIn's engagement metrics through surveys and short videos. In addition to this, the company has also launched Worklife Pro. This is a collection…

Startup employees often continue to find interesting ventures based on new jobs based on the experience they gained when starting a company from scratch. But not all of those experiences are positive, and in some cases, a less-than-satisfying exit can fuel founders' enthusiasm more than anything else. For Forward Earth co-founders Cari Davidson (CTO), Giuseppe Gentile (CPO), and Micha Schildmann (CEO), that's pretty much what happened. All three were previously executives or early employees at carbon accounting startup Planetly, but were none too pleased with their departures when the company was acquired by risk management platform OneTrust in late 2021.…

It's been a big week for the Nobel Prize in the world of artificial intelligence. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Director John Jumper sharing half of the award, with David and David, Director of the University's Institute for Protein Design, I ended up sharing it with Mr. Baker. Secure the other half of Washington. The news comes a day after AI pioneers Jeff Hinton and John Hopfield were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their fundamental research in machine learning and…

While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of ​​using ordinary language to ask artificially intelligent agents to answer questions, write proposals, and draw pictures, Basecamp A London startup called Research has raised $60 million to tackle new frontiers. We are building AI agents that not only answer all your questions about biology and the biodiversity of the natural world, but also generate new insights that humans alone could not achieve. “There are huge data gaps where people are training today. [biology] Glen Gowers, co-founder and CEO of Basecamp Research, said in an interview: “Some of the…

Since its founding, Meta's Threads has attempted to leverage the network effects of other social networks Facebook and Instagram by experimenting with cross-posting and highlighting Threads posts on carousels. The company is currently testing a new feature that lets you share Instagram Reels directly to threads. App researcher Alessandro Paluzzi discovered that Threads is working on a new option for the compose box that will allow you to select Reels from your account and post them to Threads. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it is indeed testing the feature. Paluzzi said that when you tap the Instagram button in…

OpenAI said in a post on . Initiatives for global expansion. The expansion efforts follow the San Francisco-based ChatGPT maker's massive $6.4 billion funding round, announcement of restructuring plans, and a series of executive departures. The company also said managing director Oliver Jay (formerly chief revenue officer at Asana and head of APAC and LATAM at Dropbox) will oversee international operations and drive global expansion from Singapore. An OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company has begun building a team in Singapore that will serve as a hub to support customers and partners in the Asia-Pacific region. The company is…

Atlassian first showed off Rovo six months ago. Rovo is what the company calls “AI Teammate,” which combines smarter search and chat-based AI tools with agents that allow users to automate parts of their workflows in tools like Jira and Confluence. At the Team '24 Europe event in Barcelona, ​​the company announced the general availability of Rovo. Additionally, Atlassian also announced a number of additional new AI capabilities that, like Rovo, are part of the company's Atlassian Intelligence platform. At the core of Rovo, Rovo Search not only combines data from Atlassian's core tools such as Jira and Confluence, but…

This story has been updated throughout with updated details as the story unfolds. We will continue to do so as litigation and disputes are ongoing. There is a lot of controversy going on in the world of WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites. The central issue is a dispute between WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress. WordPress technology is open source, free, and powers a huge portion of the internet (approximately 40% of websites). Websites can host their own WordPress instance or use a…