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Realtor.com Adds Climate Risk Factor Scores

SANTA CLARA — In the United States, 40.4% of homes, valued at $19.7 trillion, are at severe or extreme risk when it comes to heat, wind and air quality. To help consumers make more informed home buying and selling decisions, Realtor.com announces the launch of three new climate risk factor scores on its website including Heat Factor, Wind Factor, and […]

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Lyten Producing Lithium-Sulfur Batteries At Greater Than 90% Yield

SAN JOSE — Lyten, a supermaterials application company and leader in lithium-sulfur battery technology, announced it is consistently surpassing 90 percent yield from its automated battery production line, confirming the manufacturability of its lithium-sulfur battery utilizing a sulfur cathode and lithium metal anode. The lithium-sulfur manufacturing performance has been achieved utilizing standard lithium-ion manufacturing equipment […]

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Reach Security Secures $20 Million Series A

SUNNYVALE — Reach Security, a company using advanced AI to reinvent security operations, has announced $20 million in funding. The Series A is led by Ballistic Ventures, with participation from Artisanal Ventures and industry luminaries, including Mark McLaughlin, former CEO and President of Palo Alto Networks, and Denise Persson, CMO of Snowflake. Existing backers Webb Investment Network, Ridge Ventures, and […]

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Apple iPhone Overtakes Samsung in Fourth Quarter

Apple became the largest smartphone manufacturer on the strength of the new iPhone 15 lineup, overtaking Samsung. The latest data from research firm Omdia found that in the fourth quarter of 2023, the smartphone preliminary shipment total reached 328 million units. This marks an 8.6% increase compared to 4Q22, and highlights 4Q23 as the first […]

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Figure Valued at $2.65 Billion With $675 Million Round

SUNNYVALE — Figure, an AI robotics company developing general purpose humanoid robots, has raised $675 million in Series B funding with investments from Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, and ARK Invest. The new round values Figure at $2.65 billion. In conjunction with this […]

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Google Engineer Charged With Sending AI Secrets to China

A federal grand jury indicted Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, charging him with four counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with an alleged plan to steal from Google LLC (Google) proprietary information related to artificial intelligence (AI) technology. According to the indictment, returned on March 5 and unsealed earlier this week, Ding, 38, […]

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Major League Baseball Returns to Apple TV+ March 29

Apple and Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that “Friday Night Baseball,” a weekly doubleheader, will be available to Apple TV+ subscribers on Fridays throughout the 2024 regular season. Fans in 60 countries and regions can enjoy two marquee matchups over 26 weeks with no local broadcast restrictions. “Friday Night Baseball” will begin on opening weekend […]

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Apple Unveils Transcripts for Podcasts

Apple is introducing transcripts for Apple Podcasts, an innovative new feature that makes podcasts more accessible and easier to navigate. With transcripts, users can read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or phrase, and tap on the text to play the podcast from that point in the episode. […]

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San Jose Water Hires New President

SAN JOSE — SJW Group has announced that Tanya Moniz-Witten will be joining the company on March 25, 2024, as president of San Jose Water (SJW). Tanya will be responsible for leading the regulated utility business in San Jose, driving strategy, financial performance, growth and establishing and maintaining excellent regulatory and customer relationships. “Tanya will […]

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Apple TV+ Greenlights Neuromancer Series

Apple TV+ will expand its slate of science fiction offerings with “Neuromancer,” a new 10-episode drama based on the award-winning novel of the same name by William Gibson. It will be created for television by Graham Roland (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” “Dark Winds”) and JD Dillard (“Devotion,” “The Outsider,” “Sleight”). A co-production between Skydance Television […]

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ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA Release Open Access LLMs

SANTA CLARA— ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA, have announced the release of StarCoder2, a family of open‑access large language models (LLMs) for code generation that sets new standards for performance, transparency, and cost‑effectiveness. StarCoder2 was developed by the BigCode community, stewarded by ServiceNow, the leading digital workflow company, and Hugging Face, the most‑used open‑source platform where the machine learning community collaborates […]

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Intuit Launches QuickBooks for Solo Businesses

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Financial software company Intuit Inc. has introduced QuickBooks Solopreneur, a new product designed to meet the unique needs of one-person businesses. The comprehensive tool provides a number of easy-to-use features to help solopreneurs stay in control of their finances, create trackable goals, manage business expenses to stay tax-ready, and have the confidence […]