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Engineers Adam Keating and Jeremy Andrews were tired of using spreadsheets and screenshots to collaborate with teammates. So we started the startup Colab to build a better way. The two met as undergraduates at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where they studied mechanical engineering together. As they were completing their final internships before graduation (Andrews at Tesla and Keating at medical startup Reflection Medical), they learned that professional engineering teams needed to collaborate with clunky tools: spreadsheets and PowerPoint. I realized that it depends on the deck. “We experienced firsthand the downside of compiling critical design reviews by emailing design screenshots…

Poshmark, the social commerce site that lets people buy and sell new and used goods to each other, launched a paid marketing tool on Thursday that allows sellers to promote their entire store at once. Poshmark's new feature called “Promoted Closet” uses machine learning to automatically promote individual product listings from a seller's entire inventory, identifying shoppers' search terms and targeting them for promotion. Match with the product. Promoted Closet works like the “pay-per-click” model of Etsy, Amazon, and Google Ads. Merchants can set the budget they want to pay each week and only charge when shoppers select promoted items.…

Google recently announced a slew of new Gemini products at the Google I/O developer conference, and its Education suite is also getting AI enhancements. The company is launching the Gemini add-on for educational institutions through Google Workspace. There's a basic plan called Gemini Education, available in English for educators and their students over 18, that allows users to tap Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet and chat with the AI. Additionally, Gemini Education Premium offers all the features of the basic plan, plus features like AI-powered note taking and summarization in Meet, data loss prevention, and more. The company…

Reddit announced Wednesday that it is reintroducing the awards system after shutting down the program last year. The company said that most of the mechanics related to awards will remain unchanged, but some new additions will be made. Examples include a new design for awards, a new awards button below eligible posts, and a leaderboard to show you the top awards earned by comments and posts. Earlier this month, Reddit talked about the return of its recognition program during its first earnings call as a publicly traded company. Image credit: Reddit Last year, the company discontinued its awards program as…

In 2014, Jason Frantz and Rob Woolen co-founded Sigma Computing, a platform that overlays data stored in data platforms such as Snowflake and Google BigQuery with a spreadsheet-like interface for data visualization and analysis. Established. The two former software engineers used Sigma to tackle what they perceived as the unwieldy data challenges faced by large enterprises: unwieldy tools and unmanageable data stores. In Oracle's 2023 survey, a majority of business leaders say they don't believe their employers' current approaches to data and analytics are meeting their needs. 77% say the dashboards and graphs they get are irrelevant to the decisions…

Enforcement authorities for the European Union's online governance system, the Digital Services Act (DSA), said on Thursday that disinformation campaigns on the Elon Musk-owned social network He announced that he would be closely monitoring the situation. Fico. The organization has been formally investigating X since December over a variety of concerns, including disinformation in public discussions and the effectiveness of the platform's crowd-sourced “Community Notes” content moderation feature. No sanctions have been indicated so far. yesterday musk I responded personally A post on X by right-wing political influencer Ian Miles Chong sought to link his suggested views to those of…

Wind is the largest source of renewable energy in the United States, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but wind farms have an environmental cost, as wind turbines can wreak havoc on bird populations. Meet Spoor, a startup that uses AI to help wind farms reduce risk. Spoor is software that uses machine learning to detect birds on videos, while also recording their movements and predicting their flight patterns. Ask Helseth, co-founder and CEO of Spoor, told TechCrunch that government regulations in some countries limit the impact wind farms have on birds, especially in areas with endangered species. He…

The key to competing with legacy players in the financial technology industry may be to expand into areas they have never gone before. That's what Chicago-based Aeropay is doing. The provider of enterprise banking payment solutions started by helping cannabis retailers and gaming companies with payments, and now it's moving into the Visa and Mastercard space by innovating its payment network. Co-founder and CEO Dan Muller has a background as head of product for companies that built digital solutions for brands and retailers. At the time, mobile was coming online, and he ended up building native mobile apps for brands…

Spencer Gore is battery powered. But, at least for now, he doesn't want his batteries to be installed in electric cars. “There are a lot of interesting down-market segments in automotive that are underserved today that you can get into faster than, say, traction batteries in EVs,” he told TechCrunch. Consider a conventional 12 volt lead acid battery. It's now under the hood of every fossil fuel vehicle on the road. Although it was surpassed in production capacity by lithium-ion only a few years ago, it remains a huge market. “So we're still relying on 150-year-old technology,” Gore said. By…

Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has announced that its security information and event management (SIEM) company Logrhythm will merge with rival cybersecurity firm Exabeam, which is backed by Cisco, Lightspeed Venture Partners and others. SIEM is a business that uses real-time data collected from servers, network devices, and applications to flag anomalous activity and stop potential security threats before they spread. Integration within spaces is rampant. News of the LogRhythm and Exabeam merger comes on the same day that Palo Alto Networks confirmed it would acquire the assets of IBM's SIEM business QRadar, which IBM itself acquired in 2011. This…