Month: May 2020
India’s contact tracing app is going open source
India said it will publicly release the source code of its contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu, in a relief to privacy and security experts who have been advocating for this ever since the app launched in early April. Ajay Prakash Sawhney, secretary in the ministry of electronics and information technology,…
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Sony’s ZV-1 is a vlogger-focused take on the RX100
As it teased, Sony is going all-in on vlogging with the ZV-1, a video-centric compact that fuses features form the popular RX100 V and RX100 VII cameras. It has a 20-megapixel 1-inch sensor that’s big enough to deliver decently blurred backgrounds, a… Source
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Baton raises $10M Series A to organize post-sale implementation
Baton, an early-stage startup that wants to help customers organize the post-sales implementation process, emerged from stealth today with a $10 million Series A investment. Activant Capital led the round with help from Global Founders Capital and Hybris founder Carsten Thoma. Like so many startups, the idea for Baton stemmed…
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SpaceX’s first crewed launch: all the updates on the company’s historic mission for NASA
After more than six years of intense development, SpaceX is set to launch its first people to space on the company’s newly developed Crew Dragon capsule. It’s a major flight test for SpaceX as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, an initiative to have private companies — not the government…
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Equity Morning: Remote work startup fundings galore, plus a major court decision
Good morning and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a brief jumpstart for your week. This is a messed-up edition, because we are both hosting Equity Monday on Tuesday (because that makes sense) and our normal host Alex Wilhelm is on vacation, leaving (editor’s note: poor and massively underpaid) managing…
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The four habits of highly effective organisations in AI
The habits organizations adopt in how they approach artificial intelligence have the power to speed them to its use – or to slow them down. The most successful companies and governments (who say they are using AI now, not just piloting or experimenting) are substantially more likely to also report…
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