Israeli genAI-focused startup Bria nets $40m series B
Since its series A in 2024, Bria has partnered with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS.
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A show based on Philip K. Dick’s The Variable Man is in the works
According to , Humans writers Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent are working on an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1953 novella, The Variable Man. The show is being produced by Motive Pictures in a partnership with Electric Shepherd Productions, which is run by the late author’s daughter, Isa Dick Hackett. The Variable Man follows a tinkerer…
Air taxis: the latest on the flying electric cars bringing the Jetsons dream to life
There’s a future where we don’t need roads and regular folks like you and me can jump into a boat-sized electric pod and just fly anywhere on a whim. While we’ve been perfecting the miracle of human flight for more than a century, instant air transportation has long been relegated to science fiction. But in…
Launching your first AI project with a grain of RICE: Weighing reach, impact, confidence and effort to create your roadmap
A new framework inspired by the RICE scoring model balances business value, time-to-market, scalability and risk for your first AI project.Read More
Inside ‘The Unusual Suspects’: A Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell and Kenya Barris
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell and award-winning creator Kenya Barris sat down with Fast Company’s KC Ifeanyi at the FC Grill at SXSW. The trio discussed The Unusual Suspects, Gladwell and Barris’s latest podcast series, as well as their business partnership and creative process. Stay tuned for key takeaways from their conversation and why The Unusual…
Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28
Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the company’s cloud. Ars Technica reports that on Friday, Amazon sent an email to customers who have “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo smart speakers and…
Japan’s top-funded tech companies in the last decade
Our automated tracker can help you keep an eye on the funding activities of Japan’s tech firms as they close in on the billion-dollar mark.
See Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander bathed in red during solar eclipse captured from the moon
The lunar eclipse this week had many of us gazing up at the night sky to marvel at the red-tinged moon, and now we can see what that eerie effect looked like from the other side thanks to images captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander. From the lander’s perspective on the moon, the phenomenon on…
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is planning a new Starship Troopers movie
Columbia Pictures has tapped District 9 director Neill Blomkamp to write and direct a new Starship Troopers film, according to The Hollywood Reporter, giving the franchise its first live-action entry since 2008’s Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. The movie will be based on Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 book of the same name, not a remake of…
Angry Americans are hitting Trump where it hurts the most: Elon Musk
As the Tesla backlash grows, the president held an infomercial at the White House to shore up the fortunes of his biggest supporter. Earlier this week, Donald Trump staged what historians believe to be a presidential first: a stilted, fumbling White House press conference convened to boost the fortunes of a valuable donor’s floundering car…