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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

TechCrunch

Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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Haus, a VC-backed apertif startup, is up for sale after Series A falls through

TechCrunch

A digital-friendly, healthier alternative that replaces wine memberships set up the company to have a strong social presence. “It was difficult to build the business that I wanted to build during the pandemic considering we were building a social product,” Hambrecht said.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

TechCrunch

.” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. “This trains our AI, which is then refined with user feedback, making it better.”

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2018: A Year in Review for Storage Systems.

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

2018 was a very busy year for Hitachi Vantara. This new company will unify the operations of these three companies into a single integrated business as Hitachi Vantara to capitalize on Hitachi’s social innovation capability in both operational technologies (OT) and information technologies (IT).

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Apiumhub is hiring software developers! Join us!

Apiumhub

We are hiring software developers! We are growing our software development team and we want essential people to be part of it. We need more software experts in Apiumhub. We have different interesting projects from all over the world, but what we always do the same – we build goal-driven working software. . Data science.

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10 celebri disastri provocati dall’intelligenza artificiale

CIO

Dopo che le storie sono state derise sui social media, Gannett ha deciso di sospendere l’uso di LedeAI in tutte le edizioni locali che utilizzavano il servizio. L’EEOC ha dichiarato che più di 200 candidati qualificati sono stati automaticamente respinti dal software. “La

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Now In Tech: AI, Assessments, And The Great Over-Correction

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Companies across the board are reviewing their team structures, looking for removable cushioning, cutting down on middle management, and wanting to do more with less. Tech leaders are relooking at their performance review processes and reformulating their hiring. At the same time, we have embedded generative AI into our code editors.