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Vigile Hoareau is a musician, cognitive psychologist, and computer programmer. Jimmy Thomas is a multi-platinum rap producer who has worked with Tupac and Motown Records. The two co-founded Crowdaa, a French company that makes it easy for non-developers to create and release mobile apps. The two met eight years ago and hit it off over their desire to give control of the platform to rising creators, especially content creators. At the time, O'Arrow had already launched a prototype of Crowdaa in his hometown of Réunion, an island in France. “We shared the same vision of the role and contribution technology…
TLDR: BNED is considering pulling out of the Greenhaven deal, which would cancel the 17-for-1 stock issuance. This could drastically drive up the share price due to limited supply and high demand. With strong strategic moves and investor interest, BNED shows potential for significant gains. We estimate BNED may reach a conservative share price between $5 – $7 having striking similarities to GME and AMC being a household name and we believe a meme-like run is in store for the family friendly bookstore. Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (BNED) has been the focus of intense market activity, with its stock…
Spotify's addition of an AI DJ feature that provides users with personalized music selections was the company's first step toward an AI future. Currently, Spotify is developing an alternative version of Spanish-speaking DJs. References to the new AI DJ were discovered in the app's code by tech veteran and reverse engineer Chris Messina. He found signs indicating that users could switch his AI DJ's language from English to Spanish, as well as references to the new DJ's name, “DJ Livi.” The code also suggests that this AI DJ will be available in Mexico as well. Image credit: Chris Messina Assuming…
Arc Search, a new app from The Browser Company, introduces a way for users to get faster answers on the go using voice. Call Arc, an AI-powered feature, essentially works by asking users to make a quick phone call and get answers to their questions. Arc Search already offers voice search, but this new feature is designed to be a fun way for people to get quick answers on the go. The company says Call Arc helps answer quick, quick questions. To access the feature, open the app, hold the phone to your ear and start asking a question, and…
After numerous delays, Apple and the Paris Regional Transport Authority have launched support for Paris Transit Passes in Apple Wallet. This will allow him to use his iPhone or Apple Watch as his Navigo pass to ride subways, trains, trams, and buses. With millions of people expected to descend on Paris this summer for the Olympics, this is big news for transport authority Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) For a while now, Android users have been able to use their phones as Navigo Passes. The integration with Apple is also the result of years of negotiations with the technology company. IDFM does…
A new startup called Auggie aims to provide a single platform where parents can buy products and connect with each other. The company's new app, released this week, provides a platform where parents can share product recommendations, shop vetted products, and find a community to get real-time advice on a range of parenting issues. Auggie was founded in August 2023 by Lily Walla, an entrepreneur who previously founded an edible branding startup called SPOTS NYC and sold it to 1-800-Flowers food retailer Branded Treats. Walla came up with the idea for Auggie while pregnant with her first child. She sought…
Andrej Safuncic, Alan Flores López, and Leo Mare met at Stanford University in a class on ethics, public policy, and innovation. Safunzik told TechCrunch that his class drove home the point that very few people, especially in the corporate sector, have control over their online identities. “The future of software is in fully automating manual workflows, end to end,” Safuncic says. “Approval decisions are probably one of the first workflows that lend themselves to this, because they're a very simple, yet very frequent need that has a real business impact.” This seed of an idea led Safunzik, Lopez, and Mair…
Shopping is fun, but choosing a set of skis from thousands of options is not. That's where Remark comes in. Remark co-founder and CEO Theo Satloff said the two-year-old startup is helping shoppers make purchases with more confidence. It does this by pairing shoppers with high-quality product experts via asynchronous live chat with one of its 50,000 experts – artists, musicians, stylists, golfers and ski instructors – who can discuss products in the same way they would with retail staff. And here's a little twist: Remark trains artificial intelligence models on these experts, creating personas that can answer questions in…
AI is just the newest and most demanding market for high-performance computing, with system architects working around the clock to squeeze the most performance out of every watt. Swedish startup ZeroPoint, which just raised 5 million euros ($5.5 million) in new funding, wants to help them with a new memory compression technique at the nanosecond scale. And the technique is exactly as complex as its name suggests. Here's the concept: By losslessly compressing data just before it enters RAM, and then decompressing it afterwards, we effectively expand the memory channel by more than 50% by adding just one small section…
In 2021, Roy Lavon, Asaf Riveanu, and Izar Gilboa joined forces to found Finout, an enterprise toolset that helps manage and optimize cloud costs. (We covered the company's stealth releases in 2022.) Lavon, CEO of Finout and previously director of engineering for observability platform Logz.io, says that when trying to understand cloud costs, said that obstacles he personally encountered prompted him to found Finout. “One of the main challenges enterprises face is the widespread adoption of cloud cost management tools, which is first and foremost an organizational change,” Ravhon told TechCrunch. “AI can have significant cost implications, either due to…