ILLINOIS — The Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal awards $4 million in grants to fire departments across the state, including in the Metro East. The grants allow departments to purchase small firefighting and ambulance equipment. The office received more than four hundred applications.
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Microsoft is launching a browser-based store to make sure it's "accessible across all devices, all countries, no matter what."
DEEPX is a South Korean on-device AI chip (NPU, or neural processing unit) startup that makes hardware and software for various AI applications in electronic devices. The company announced this week that it has raised $80 million (KRW 108.5 billion) in a Series C round at a valuation of $529 million (KRW 723 billion), which has surged more than eight times from its Series B funding, about $15 million, in 2021. The Series C funding, which brings its total raise to around $95 million, will go toward mass production of the startup's inaugural products — DX-V1, DX-V3, DX-M1 and DX-H1 — in late 2024 for global distribution.
Frank Vogel's out after one season in Phoenix failed to produce a playoff win.
The gambling scandal involving Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, who stole $17 million from the superstar to cover betting losses, is in development as a TV series.
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Here's a tidbit of startup history that may not be widely known outside of the tech firms themselves: The first versions of popular Android apps, like Twitter, were built by Google itself. In a podcast hosted by Lightspeed partner Michael Mignano, Beykpour reminisces about her role in Twitter's history. Later, Beykpour moved to work on mobile at Twitter around the time when other third-party apps were growing in popularity on other platforms, like BlackBerry and iOS.
How does Amazon CTO Werner Vogels — a man worth untold millions, who during the COVID-19 pandemic outright bought the small Central Amsterdam Airbnb he'd been living in — spend his days? In a post this week on Vogels' personal blog, he details Distill, an open source app he built with his "OCTO" (Office of the CTO) team to transcribe and summarize their conference calls. As one might expect of an app from Amazon's CTO, Distill relies conspicuously on paid Amazon products and services to do the computational heavy lifting.
Former NBA player Glen Davis was sentenced to 40 months in prison after his conviction for being involved in a scheme to defraud the league's healthcare plan.
Bentley just revealed a few Edition 8 models to celebrate its 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 engine.
As modern media becomes more niche driven, teams and even leagues have to balance whether to seek the biggest TV contracts or the biggest potential audience.
Technology giant Dell notified customers on Thursday that it experienced a data breach involving customers’ names and physical addresses. In an email seen by TechCrunch and shared by several people on social media, the computer maker wrote that it was investigating “an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of customer information related to purchases from Dell.” Dell wrote that the information accessed in the breach included customer names, physical addresses and “Dell hardware and order information, including service tag, item description, date of order and related warranty information.”
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This is where Fairgen wants to help. The Israeli startup today launched a platform that uses "statistical AI" to generate synthetic data that it says is as good as the real thing. The company is also announcing a fresh $5.5 million fundraise from Maverick Ventures Israel, The Creator Fund, Tal Ventures, Ignia and a handful of angel investors, taking its total cash raised since inception to $8 million.
Call centers are embracing automation. According to research firm TechSci Research, the global market for contact center AI could grow to nearly $3 billion in 2028, from $2.4 billion in 2022. Meanwhile, a recent survey found that around half of contact centers plan to adopt some form of AI in the next year.
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