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Paris transit passes now available in iPhone’s Wallet app
[[{“value”:” After multiple delays, Apple and the Paris area transportation authority rolled out support for Paris transit passes in Apple Wallet. It means that people can now use their iPhone or Apple Watch as a Navigo pass to ride the metro, train, tram or bus. This is important news for Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) — the transportation […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Redwood Materials is partnering with Ultium Cells to recycle GM’s EV battery scrap
[[{“value”:” Redwood Materials, the battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, will be recycling production scrap for batteries going into General Motors electric vehicles. The company announced Thursday that it’s working with Ultium Cells, the joint battery manufacturing venture between GM and LG Energy Solution, to recycle cathode, anode and cell scrap from […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Lumos helps companies manage their employees’ identities — and access
[[{“value”:” Andrej Safundzic, Alan Flores Lopez and Leo Mehr met in a class at Stanford focusing on ethics, public policy and technological change. Safundzic — speaking to TechCrunch — says that the class drove home the point that few people, particularly in the corporate sector, have control over their online identities. “The future of software is […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Auggie’s new app helps parents find community and shop
[[{“value”:” A new startup called Auggie is aiming to give parents a single platform where they can shop for products and connect with each other. The company’s new app, which launched this week, offers parents a platform where they can share product recommendations, shop vetted products and find community amongst each other to get real-time advice […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Remark puts thousands of human product experts into AI form
[[{“value”:” Remark trains AI models on human product experts to create personas that can answer questions with the same style of their human counterparts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
ZeroPoint’s nanosecond-scale memory compression could tame power-hungry AI infrastructure
[[{“value”:” ZeroPoint claims to have solved compression problems with hyper-fast, low-level memory compression that requires no real changes to the rest of the computing system. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Finout lands cash to grow its cloud spend management platform
[[{“value”:” In 2021, Roi Ravhon, Asaf Liveanu and Yizhar Gilboa came together to found Finout, an enterprise-focused toolset to help manage and optimize cloud costs. (We covered the company’s launch out of stealth in 2022.) Ravhon, Finout’s CEO and previously the director of engineering at observability platform Logz.io, says that he was spurred to start Finout […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops
[[{“value”:” On the heels of raising $102 million earlier this year, Bugcrowd is making good on its promise to use some of that funding to make acquisitions to strengthen its security chops. The company — which crowdsources skills from more than half a million hackers to find and fix security vulnerabilities and other operational loopholes in […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia
[[{“value”:” Google is preparing to build what will be the first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia. The news comes as the major cloud hyperscalers battle it out for business dollars, with Google playing catch-up with AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. Google’s announcement follows widespread outages across Africa, which have been attributed to […] © 2024 TechCrunch….