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Humane, a stealthy hardware and software startup co-founded by an ex-Apple designer and engineer, raises $100M

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5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies. ” Meanwhile, the company currently has nearly 50 job openings listed, including engineers with camera and computer vision experience, hardware engineers, designers and security experts, among many others. One sign of where all that funding will be going.)

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

TechCrunch

As with Alchemist’s last few Demo Days, today’s presentations will be entirely virtual and streamed on YouTube. PDT, with 19 companies presenting in all. A list of the companies presenting today follows below plus a bit about what each is doing as I understand it. Pitches are scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

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How to talk to your board about tech debt

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Present a balanced solution Here’s where many CIOs stumble: presenting technical debt as a problem that needs to be eliminated. This balances debt reduction and prioritizes future strategic innovations, which means committing to continuous updates, upgrades, and management of end-user software, hardware, and associated services.

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mmhmm, Phil Libin’s new startup, acquires Memix to add enhanced filters to its video presentation toolkit

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What can be done to put the same kind of tech you get with all that hardware into the hands of a massive audience?” That presents an interesting opportunity not just for the biggies like Zoom, Google and Microsoft, but also players who are building entirely new platfroms from the ground up.

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Reduce ML training costs with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

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As cluster sizes grow, the likelihood of failure increases due to the number of hardware components involved. Each hardware failure can result in wasted GPU hours and requires valuable engineering time to identify and resolve the issue, making the system prone to downtime that can disrupt progress and delay completion.

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

TechCrunch

New York-based Latch sells “LatchOS,” a hardware and software system that works in buildings where access and amenities matter. Latch’s hardware works with doors, sensors and internet connectivity. Indeed, here’s its financial data per its investor presentation : Image Credits: Latch. from 2019 to 2020.

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El gasto mundial en IA para 2025 rondará los 644.000 millones de dólares

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Una paradoja que, a su juicio, persistir durante el presente 2025 y el siguiente 2026. Los dispositivos de consumo con IA impulsan el gasto El gasto en IA generativa previsto para este 2025 estar impulsado en gran medida por la integracin de capacidades de IA en hardware , como servidores, telfonos inteligentes y ordenadores personales.

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