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Heating and cooling may sound basic, but after solar power, it is the next frontier in home decarbonization. The group of 25 states has a goal of installing 15 million heat pumps by the end of the decade. Nine of these states hope to have 90% of residential heating, cooling and hot water systems equipped with this technology by 2040. To cope with the workload, the United States plans to add 23,000 engineers by 2032. You'll probably still be overworked though. Part of the problem is that heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment is laborious and time-consuming to install.…
After Instagram's founders' buzzy AI news app Artifact was shut down, a new app called Bulletin also uses AI to filter out clickbait and summarize the day's news. Except in this case, users can customize their news sources, which is a feature of the app, similar to other RSS readers, rather than relying on a curated selection of news like Artifact. Meanwhile, AI integration can help remove clickbait headlines from the news reading experience. Plus, you can access an article or an overview of all articles in your feed with the click of a button. Bulletin was created by developer…
LockBit, a prolific ransomware group, has claimed responsibility for hacking Motilal Oswal, one of India's leading securities firms. Indian authorities said they were aware of the incident and were investigating. Rockbit on Tuesday added leading Indian brokerage firm Motilal Oswal to its dark web leak site, according to a list seen by TechCrunch. Cybercriminal groups often use leak sites to extort ransom payments from victims, threatening to release their stolen data if they fail to pay. Rockbit claims to have accessed “confidential company data.” Motilal Oswal serves approximately 6 million customers across hundreds of cities in India and has approximately…
Google is currently expanding the range of Gemini large-scale language models available to developers on the Vertex AI platform. Gemini 1.0 Pro (Google is good at branding, so just a week ago it was still known as Gemini Pro 1.0) is now generally available after being in public preview for a while. Meanwhile, Google says that Gemini 1.0 Ultra (which you may also remember was formerly known as Gemini Ultra 1.0) is now generally available “via a whitelist,” which means This is different from the general method of acquisition. Google also today announced Gemini 1.5 Pro (not Gemini Pro 1.5,…
Last October, a research paper published by Google data scientist Matej Zaharia, CTO of Databricks, and Professor Peter Abbeel of the University of California, Berkeley, proposed a GenAI model, a model along the lines of OpenAI's GPT-4 and ChatGPT. , a method was proposed that could capture more data. Data is now more accessible than ever before. In this study, the co-authors believe that by removing a major memory bottleneck in AI models, the models can process millions of words instead of hundreds of thousands, the maximum number of most capable models at the time. We have proven that it…
Sequoia Capital plans to fund up to three open source software developers per year as a continuation of a program it launched last year. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm announced the Sequoia Open Source Fellowship last May, initially by invitation only, with only one candidate eligible so far. Going forward, Sequoia is inviting developers to apply for scholarships that cover up to one year of costs so they can work on the project full-time without giving up capital or ownership. lack of funds It's no secret that open source software suffers from chronic underfunding issues, and this fact only…
The concept of knowledge management was born in the 90s. The idea is that the company's memory is locked inside its employees, who know the ins and outs of various systems. The problem was to record and update that knowledge. Scribe, a San Francisco-based startup, has figured out a way to easily capture and document internal processes in an automated way. The company says the idea is clearly resonating with customers, with revenue increasing by a whopping 400% last year. Growth like this will no doubt attract the attention of investors, and the company today announced a $25 million Series…
TikTok has released a “reimagined” app natively on Apple Vision Pro, the company announced Thursday. Vision Pro launched on February 2nd and already has over 1,000 apps designed specifically for this new device, including one of today's most popular social platforms. Vision Pro allows you to watch his TikTok videos via your browser, but the new native app allows for a more immersive viewing experience. The TikTok Vision Pro app moves the navigation bar and Like button off-screen so you can watch the entire video, and the comments section and creator profile appear as an extension next to your feed.…
Today is the shocking conclusion to TechCrunch's early stage audience voting! We carefully fielded a large number of applications from experienced founders and startup luminaries vying for attention in our Audience Choice program. After careful sifting, only six remain. The clock is ticking. Secure your tickets to the show in Boston on April 25th at a discounted early bird rate before they're gone. Audience Choice voting is coming to an end in just a few hours and ends tonight, February 15th at 11:59pm Pacific Time. Today is your last chance to make an impact and decide which candidates will grace…
Hydrogen suffers from the classic chicken and egg problem. That means there isn't enough demand to get suppliers into the game, and there isn't enough supply to drive enough demand. One startup thinks there's a solution for both sides. Chicago-based Celadyne has developed a nanoparticle coating that can be applied to existing fuel cell and electrolyser membranes. Gary Ong, the company's founder and CEO, said the material has the potential to significantly improve the durability of existing fuel cell designs while increasing hydrogen production efficiency by 15-20%. He said there is. Celadyne recently raised a $4.5 million seed round, according…