Radio station gets part-time AI DJ based on its midday host
Live 95.5, a radio station in Portland, Oregon, announced Tuesday that its midday host Ashley Elzinga will broadcast a cloned version of her voice —...
TrueCar lays off 102 employees, taps new CEO amid restructure
TrueCar, a platform where people can research new and used car prices and find local dealer savings, is laying off 24% of staff due to...
Fernride nudges yard trucks towards full autonomy with $31M in new funds
Fernride has figured out a way to launch a commercially viable autonomous, electric truck business today. The secret? Not driving on public roads. Most AV...
Why every EV charging network combined can’t compete with Tesla
It’s no secret that the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles generally sucks. There are exceptions, of course: Tesla has it pretty well figured out, and...
Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human
File this one under inevitable, but hilarious. Mechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans, and indeed researchers show...
Ask Sophie: How much time and money will we need for an H-1B transfer?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the...
Canva introduces new developer tools and $50M investment fund
Canva has been around since 2013, and has been a tremendously successful design platform, raising over $570 million and garnering 135 million users along the...
Former SEC chair Jay Clayton feels ‘vast majority’ of crypto tokens are securities
But there's hope: Something that is once labeled as a security, 'might not always be a security.' Jacquelyn Melinek 7 hours Former SEC Chairman Jay...
Synthesia secures $90M for AI that generates custom avatars
Once the pandemic normalized virtual meetups, the concept of “personalized AI” began to gain steam. Startups creating “AI-driven” avatars — realistic-looking characters with synthetic voices...
EVs are going backwards | TechCrunch
Smaller and greener is the future When you send a rocket into space, you run into a paradox: Around 90% of the weight of the...