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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….

Improving police performance by training officers to manage stress

​[[{“value”:” Improving police performance by training officers to manage stress Published: Policing is a high-stress occupation in which making mistakes can have serious consequences. Dr Judith Andersen, a Canadian researcher specialising in psychophysiology and health, has teamed up with Dr Harri Gustafsberg, a Finnish retired police officer who now works as a mental resilience coach, and Dr Joseph Arpaia, a…

The new Kia EV3 will have an AI assistant with ChatGPT DNA

​[[{“value”:” The Kia EV3 — the new all-electric compact SUV revealed Thursday — illustrates a growing appetite among global automakers to bring generative AI into their vehicles.  The automaker said the Kia EV3 will feature a new voice assistant that is built off ChatGPT, the text-generating AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. The Kia EV3, and its […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Bing’s API was down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too

​[[{“value”:” Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, was working improperly for several hours on Thursday in Europe. At first, we noticed it wasn’t possible to perform a web search at all. Now it seems search results are loading properly. This outage also affected Bing’s application programming interface (API), which means that other services that relied on Bing weren’t […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures

​[[{“value”:” If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. The “autonomous navigation” market — where ships steer themselves guided by AI, resulting in fuel and time savings — is projected to grow from $4.46 billion in 2023 to $5.33 billion in 2024 alone.  Orca AI is a London-based startup that claims to have […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Meet the Finnish biotech startup bringing a long lost mycoprotein to your plate

​[[{“value”:” The best known mycoprotein is probably Quorn, a meat substitute that’s fast approaching its 40th birthday. But Finnish biotech startup Enifer is cooking up something even older: Its proprietary single-cell fungus-based protein, branded Pekilo, was originally developed in the 1960s and ’70s — by, of all things, the local paper industry. The focus back then […] © 2024 TechCrunch….