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- one apple a day…: Get ready to get big bucks from Apple. Kyle When Brian Peeling off the cover reveals the consumer tech giant’s M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, packed with power. This chip will be available in his 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros. If you’re looking for a new computer, the M2 Mac Mini launches on his January 24th starting at $599.
- Cloudy with built-in analytics potential: Nothing but blue skies so far for Cumul.io, a low-code embedded analytics platform for SaaS companies. The company has raised his $10.8 million to continue developing its business intelligence platform. user,” Pole writing.
- the headline says it all: I had to steal from the TC+ section. TimThe headline is very good. No more messing around.
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ChatGPT, an AI that can create poems, emails, spreadsheet formulas, and more, has attracted a lot of negative publicity lately. Kyle writing. This is probably why Israeli startup AI21 Labs, which is developing text-generating AI systems along the lines of ChatGPT, has tried something different with its newly released supplemental writing tool Wordtune Spices. Part of AI21’s expanding suite of generative AI, Wordtune Spices doesn’t compose emails or essays like ChatGPT. Instead, it suggests options that change the voice and style of already written text, and provides statistics from web-based sources to “enhance the argument.”
Writing Robots… Following last week’s $1 billion valuation funding, DeepL has announced a new language product. This is the first extension for the startup that made its name from the popular AI-based translation tool. Ingridteeth, write. Write is a new tool for correcting sentences. It catches grammatical and punctuation mistakes, suggests clearer and more creative phrasing, and (soon) gives you the option to change your tone.
There’s been so much fun startup news on the site over the past few days that it’s been hard to pick just five to load into our little recommendation engine, but here’s what I came up with:
7 Space Technology Predictions for 2023
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As of this writing, there have been eight successful space launches so far this year, according to Wikipedia.
A new spaceport is now operational and mobile phone users will soon be able to connect from space. The NASA-backed Artemis program is his one of several ventures to bring robots (and eventual human crews) to the moon.
Mark Bogett, CEO and co-founder of Seraphim Space Manager LLP, said:
Three more from the TC+ team:
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As a bonus, read all about how Royal Mail confirmed the cyberattack that disrupted the UK postal service. curly It wrote that the confirmation came a week after Royal Mail announced it had suffered an unspecified “cyber incident” and was unable to ship items internationally. CEO Simon Thompson said he doesn’t believe customer data has been compromised, but has notified authorities in case the situation changes LockBit ransomware He reports the group is behind this There is also, and Carly is working to confirm that.
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