Category: Enterprise
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Smartcat secures $43M for its AI-powered translation platform
Smartcat, founded in 2016, is among the vendors providing automated translation tools geared toward enterprises, and its co-founder and CEO, Ivan Smolnikov, says business is good. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Can AI ever fully replace translators? Not likely. AI translations tend to lack the lexical richness of their…
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Hardware companies dominate a list of promising climate tech startups
A new report from Congruent Ventures and SVB highlights startups that could significantly reduce carbon emissions, mitigating climate change. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. What will it take for a startup to make a dent in climate change? The most promising candidates tend to be hardware startups that have…
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Here are all the devices compatible with iOS 18
iOS 18 will be available in the fall as a free software update. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Apple’s new version of the iPhone operating system, iOS 18, is officially arriving on September 16, the company announced at its latest iPhone 16 event. As previously announced at WWDC 2024,…
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Apple sets lower iPhone 16 Pro prices in India
The iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max models now start at 119,900 rupees ($1,428) and 144,900 rupees ($1,725) respectively, compared to their iPhone 15 Pro counterparts which were priced at 134,900 rupees ($1,606) and 159,900 rupees ($1,904) at launch. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Apple will sell the just…
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Confluent acquires streaming data startup WarpStream
Confluent plans to use WarpStream’s cloud-native solution to fill out its portfolio by offering a new service (Confluent WarpStream) that can sit in between its fully-managed Confluent Cloud and self-managed Confluent Platform. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Streaming data and Kafka specialist Confluent on Monday announced that it has…
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Climate change was a lot less prominent in this year’s iPhone event
The lack of climate announcement’s at Apple’s annual event shows just how hard meaningful progress on carbon emissions can be, even for one of the world’s most valuable companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Last year, Apple couldn’t say enough about the reduced climate impact of its products, going…
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Audible recruits voice actors to train audiobook-generating AI
Audible, Amazon’s audiobook business, on Monday announced that it’ll use AI trained on professional narrators’ voices to generate new audiobook recordings. A select, U.S.-based cohort of audiobook narrators will be invited to train AI on their voices starting this week, Audible said. The trained AI will be used to make recordings, and narrators will have…
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Why Apple added yet another button to the iPhone 16
With another new iPhone comes another new iPhone button: Camera Control, which was announced at Apple’s “Glowtime” event on Monday. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Apple giveth and taketh away — particularly when it comes to ports and buttons. The company has long taken a “less is more” approach…
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iPhone 16, Apple Intelligence, AirPods 4 and more: Everything revealed at Apple Event 2024
Apple’s lineup of announcements echoed many of the anticipated hardware reveals, including the new iPhone 16, AirPods 4, the Apple Watch Series 10 and more. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Apple’s biggest event of the year has arrived, and with it, the iPhone 16 lineup and a slew of…
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TechCrunch Space: Boeing’s Starliner returns to Earth
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