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TikTok is testing a feature that would allow users to upload 60-minute videos, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The feature is available to a limited group of users in some markets, and TikTok says it has no immediate plans to make the feature widely available. The feature was first discovered by social media consultant Matt Navarra and marks a shift from TikTok's original format. The app allowed users to upload 15-second videos at launch, but TikTok has increased that limit in recent years. Although the company gained popularity with its short-form video format, it has slowly adopted long-form…

Flock Safety is a multi-billion dollar startup that is gaining attention from all over the world. As of Wednesday, the company's new Solar Condor cameras make installation much easier, as these eyes run on solar power and use wireless 5G networks. Adding solar power to this means the company's mission to cover the country with cameras becomes much easier. The company says its Condor camera systems are equipped with “advanced AI and ML that constantly learns with cutting-edge video analytics” to adapt to changing needs, and that “with solar power, Condor You can put cameras anywhere.” But the company has…

From an early age, Bar Mor knew it was inevitable that he would do something in real estate. His family was involved in all types of real estate projects, from foundation construction to managing residential, commercial, and retail properties. However, unlike his parents, Mol also had a passion for technology. His interest in technology further grew when he became commander of Unit 8200, the Israeli Defense Force's elite cyber intelligence division known for training technology entrepreneurs. After leaving the military, he decided to combine his two passions. Mol found that many real estate investors did not have a dedicated system…

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…

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.…

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…

More funding for the generative AI boom: Y Combinator-backed developer infrastructure startup Recall.ai announced Thursday it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round, bringing total funding to more than $12 million . The startup has built infrastructure and integrated APIs that allow businesses to access raw data from virtual meeting platforms such as Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Huddles, and Zoom, as well as platforms without APIs. Using video and audio data, users can build apps such as her AI-powered meeting bot, sales coaching, meeting note taker, and daily standup his bot. Recall.ai said the new funding…

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…