[[{“value”:” True Fit, the AI-powered size-and-fit personalization tool, has offered its size recommendation solution to thousands of retailers for nearly 20 years. Now, the company is venturing into the generative AI space with “Fit Hub,” a new tool that aims to improve the way online shoppers find clothing that fits their body type. Sizing issues continue […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Discord and TuneIn partner to bring live radio to the social platform
[[{“value”:” Audio streaming service TuneIn is teaming up with Discord to bring free live radio to the platform. This is TuneIn’s first collaboration with a social platform and one that is likely to help it reach a larger audience. Discord has a vast user base of 200 million, while TuneIn today touts 75 million monthly active […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang is coming to Disrupt 2024
[[{“value”:” The early victors in the AI gold rush are selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence. Just take a look at data-labeling startup Scale AI — and its long and diverse list of customers and investors. The San Francisco-based startup, founded in 2016, developed software that labels image, text, voice […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Engineer brothers found Forge to modernize hardware procurement
[[{“value”:” Try to imagine the number of parts that go into making a rocket engine. Now imagine requesting and comparing quotes for each of those parts, getting approvals to purchase the part you eventually do select, and tracking those parts until they arrive at your HQ. It’s exactly as complex as it sounds – but it […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Raspberry Pi partners with Hailo for its AI extension kit
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Fivetran launches a managed data lake service
[[{“value”:” Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake Service aims to remove the repetitive work of managing data lakes. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
How a couple of former Pinterest search experts caught Biz Stone’s attention
[[{“value”:” Lance Riedel and Nigel Daley both spent decades in search discovery, but it was while working at Pinterest that they began trying to understand how to use search engines to do personalized searches for online shopping. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Stacklet sees demand grow as companies take cloud cost control more seriously
[[{“value”:” When Stacklet’s founders, Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu, came out of Capital One in 2020 to launch their startup, most companies weren’t all that concerned with constraining cloud costs. But in the ensuing years, as they experienced economic headwinds, first from the pandemic, and then rising interest rates, it became an imperative. As such, Stacklet’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Exposing environmental injustice through maps and stories
[[{“value”:” Exposing environmental injustice through maps and stories Published: Often, it is society’s poorest and most vulnerable people that are most exposed to environmental harm. This injustice is the subject of much research, but getting the evidence needed to bring about major change can be challenging. Dr Stephanie Rutherford, at Trent University, and Dr Michael Classens, at the University of…
GetWhy, a market research AI platform that extracts insights from video interviews, raises $34.5M
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