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Latest Did We Fall in Love With the Wrong House?

Did We Fall in Love With the Wrong House...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  58

Would the house be around to bequeath to our children, or would it be underwater?

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Technology Nanonets gets Accel’s backing to improve AI-based workflow automation

Nanonets gets Accel’s backing to improve...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  56

Nanonets, a startup using AI to automate back-office processes, has raised $29 million in a new funding round led by Accel as it s...

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Technology Empathy closes $47M for AI to help with the practical and emotional bereavement process

Empathy closes $47M for AI to help with ...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  52

Death, as the famous saying goes, is one of the inevitable certainties of life. But that doesn’t make coping with it any easier — ...

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Technology Apple to allow web distribution for iOS apps in latest DMA tweaks

Apple to allow web distribution for iOS ...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  62

Apple will allow iOS developers located in the European Union to distribute apps from the web, rather then via its App Store. The ...

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Technology DoorDash’s new AI-powered ‘SafeChat+’ tool automatically detects verbal abuse

DoorDash’s new AI-powered ‘SafeChat+’ to...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  50

DoorDash hopes to reduce verbally abusive and inappropriate interactions between consumers and delivery people with its new AI-pow...

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Technology Tierra Biosciences nabs $11 million to create new AI-guided proteins

Tierra Biosciences nabs $11 million to c...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  56

By using cell-free technology, Tierra is able to cut down protein manufacturing from months to weeks and enable customers to order...

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Technology Axion Ray’s AI attempts to detect product flaws to prevent recalls

Axion Ray’s AI attempts to detect produc...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  75

Recalls are costly for — and damaging to — any company, no matter the size or market. For instance, McKinsey estimates that, for b...

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Technology Code suggests that TikTok could be building an app for photos

Code suggests that TikTok could be build...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  52

After rivaling music streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple music with TikTok Music, ByteDance might be looking at creating an...

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Latest My Dream House and the Pond

My Dream House and the Pond

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  59

Would the house be around to bequeath to our children, or would it be underwater?

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Technology Google confirms it’s restricting Gemini election queries globally

Google confirms it’s restricting Gemini ...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  55

If you want to ask Google’s AI chatbot a question about an upcoming election, you will have to do it from a country where there ar...

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Nature & & science How OpenAI's text-to-video tool Sora could change science – and society

How OpenAI's text-to-video tool Sora cou...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  80

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00661-0OpenAI’s debut of its impressive Sora text-to-video tool ha...

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Nature & & science Bullied in science: I quit my job and launched an advocacy non-profit

Bullied in science: I quit my job and la...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  58

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00706-4Ahead of the Academic Parity Movement’s annual conference, ...

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Nature & & science 11 reasons why we’ve stayed in academia

11 reasons why we’ve stayed in academia...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  71

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00724-2Although many postdocs and faculty members are leaving for ...

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Latest Are Gen Z Men and Women Really Drifting Apart?

Are Gen Z Men and Women Really Drifting ...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  78

The much-theorized political rift has yet to show up in actual voting behavior.

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Latest What Do Crossword Puzzles Really Test?

What Do Crossword Puzzles Really Test?

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  62

In her new book, Anna Shechtman argues for puzzles that reflect a broader sense of common knowledge.

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Latest A Winning Romance Between Juiced-Up Bodybuilders

A Winning Romance Between Juiced-Up Body...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  53

Love Lies Bleeding is a refreshingly untraditional love story that flirts with paranormal body horror.

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Technology Generative AI video startup Tavus raises $18M to bring face and voice cloning to any app

Generative AI video startup Tavus raises...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  88

Tavus, a four-year-old generative AI startup that helps companies create digital “replicas” of individuals for automated personali...

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Technology Pienso builds no-code tools for training AI models

Pienso builds no-code tools for training...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  64

AI might be the “it thing” of the moment. But that doesn’t mean it’s getting easier to deploy. According to 2023 S&P Global survey...

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Technology Felicis, Quotient AI and Cellino will dish on TAM at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

Felicis, Quotient AI and Cellino will di...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  53

We’re getting closer to this year’s Early Stage get-together in Boston, which means that it’s time to add three more names to our ...

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Technology Nanonets gets Accel India’s backing to improve AI-based workflow automation

Nanonets gets Accel India’s backing to i...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  58

Nanonets, a startup using AI to automate back-office processes, has raised $29 million in a new funding round led by Accel India a...

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Technology New startup from Postgres creator puts the database at heart of software stack

New startup from Postgres creator puts t...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  58

MIT professor Mike Stonebreaker has been at the forefront of database technology for over 50 years. The former Turing Award winner...

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Nature & & science Daily briefing: Astrolabe shows 11th-century scientific collaboration among Jews, Muslims and Christians

Daily briefing: Astrolabe shows 11th-cen...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  58

Nature, Published online: 07 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00709-1The Verona astrolabe bears Arabic, Latin and Hebrew transla...

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Nature & & science Daily briefing: Inside the room-temperature superconductivity scandal

Daily briefing: Inside the room-temperat...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  57

Nature, Published online: 11 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00770-wThe story of deception in a rising star’s physics lab. Plus...

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Nature & & science Why the world cannot afford the rich

Why the world cannot afford the rich

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  57

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00723-3Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is cl...

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Latest The Myth of the Gen Z Gender Divide

The Myth of the Gen Z Gender Divide

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  59

The much-theorized political rift between young men and women has yet to show up in actual voting behavior.

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Latest Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work?

Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work?

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  64

Two recent books dig into the crisis of modern love—and how we might forge more meaningful connections.

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Latest A Bloody Retelling of <em>Huckleberry Finn</em>

A Bloody Retelling of <em>Huckleberry Fi...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  52

Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’s classic.

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Latest Take Crosswords Seriously

Take Crosswords Seriously

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  60

The puzzle is a site of play, a cultural forum, and even a political entity.

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Latest Stop Trying to Understand Trump Voters as if They Are Aliens

Stop Trying to Understand Trump Voters a...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  53

Readers respond to our January/February 2024 issue.

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Technology Leonardo DiCaprio backs YC alum SolarMente to democratize solar power in Spain

Leonardo DiCaprio backs YC alum SolarMen...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  59

Barcelona-based cleantech startup SolarMente recently added Leonardo DiCaprio to its cap table, hence becoming the actor's and act...

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Technology Peak XV to launch perpetual fund backed by own partners, other leaders

Peak XV to launch perpetual fund backed ...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  65

Peak XV is creating an “evergreen” fund bankrolled by its investment partners and extended team, a source familiar with the matter...

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Nature & & science On the ethics of informed consent in genetic data collected before 1997

On the ethics of informed consent in gen...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  56

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00762-wOn the ethics of informed consent in genetic data collected...

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Nature & & science Pay for trees with carbon credits to deliver urban green spaces for all

Pay for trees with carbon credits to del...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  71

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00759-5Pay for trees with carbon credits to deliver urban green sp...

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Nature & & science Embrace AI to break down barriers in publishing for people who aren’t fluent in English

Embrace AI to break down barriers in pub...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  49

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00761-xEmbrace AI to break down barriers in publishing for people ...

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Nature & & science Water shortages means greening southern European cities won’t be easy

Water shortages means greening southern ...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  60

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00760-yWater shortages means greening southern European cities won...

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Technology Bear Robotics, a robot waiter startup, just picked up $60M from LG

Bear Robotics, a robot waiter startup, j...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  62

LG Electronics may no longer be a household name in smartphones, but it still sees a big future in gadgets like robots. Today, the...

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Technology Applied Intuition lands $6 billion valuation for AI-powered autonomous vehicle software

Applied Intuition lands $6 billion valua...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  63

Autonomous vehicle software company Applied Intuition has raised $250 million in a round that values the startup at $6 billion, as...

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Technology Quick commerce is making fast inroads in India

Quick commerce is making fast inroads in...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  60

Even as quick commerce is slowly fading in many markets and several heavily-funded startups have folded shops in the past two year...

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Technology Inclusivity-focused VC Ada Ventures pulls in $80M for second fund

Inclusivity-focused VC Ada Ventures pull...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  57

UK-based Ada Ventures is an unusual VC. Instead of just talking about SaaS or AI, it hunts down founders addressing inclusivity an...

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Technology French startup Nijta hopes to protect voice privacy in AI use cases

French startup Nijta hopes to protect vo...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  64

France-based startup Nijta, whose flagship product Voice Harbor anonimizes voices for AI, raised €2 million in funding from variou...

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Nature & & science China–US climate collaboration concerns as Xie and Kerry step down

China–US climate collaboration concerns ...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  57

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00692-7The friendship between the two men survived hostile moments...

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Technology Backed by Leonardo DiCaprio, YC alum SolarMente wants to help democratize solar power in Spain

Backed by Leonardo DiCaprio, YC alum Sol...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  62

Barcelona-based cleantech startup SolarMente recently added Leonardo DiCaprio to its cap table, hence becoming the actor's and act...

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Technology Zomato’s Blinkit sprints to quick commerce dominance in India

Zomato’s Blinkit sprints to quick commer...

Vidcon   Mar 12, 2024  0  61

Even as quick commerce is slowly fading in many markets and several heavily-funded startups have folded in the past two years, Ind...

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Nature & & science China–US climate collaboration concerns as Xie and Kerry retire

China–US climate collaboration concerns ...

Vidcon   Mar 11, 2024  0  86

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00692-7The friendship between the two men survived hostile moments...

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Nature & & science Biden seeks to boost science funding — but his budget faces an ominous future

Biden seeks to boost science funding — b...

Vidcon   Mar 11, 2024  0  64

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00340-0The US president proposes a 2025 budget even as negotiation...

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