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Qiara is a new home security service for the French market

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Qiara wants to modernize the good old home security market with live agents. You can also enable a privacy shutter when you’re at home so that the security camera isn’t filming your family. So let’s see if Qiara can start from scratch and capture some market share in the home security market in France.

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As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits

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TechCrunch held events in China as recently as 2019 , following several years of hosting conferences in the country’s hardware capital, Shenzhen. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. In recent quarters, the Chinese market has seen its openings narrow. How quickly things change.

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

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Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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Artificial Intelligence 101: What It Is, Its Evolution and Potential Jobs

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With the advent of big data and advances in hardware during the 2000s, AI began to scale in terms of capability and applicability. AI Sales Managers: Specialize in marketing AI products and services, working closely with product managers and software engineers to understand and promote the capabilities of AI products.

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Want More Runway? Consider Your Infrastructure Costs

Crunchbase News

If you haven’t figured out product-market fit yet, you need more time. Before you find product-market fit, your team is why your business is valuable and you want to keep everyone happy. This means it’s a costly investment that is unlikely to help with product-market fit in the near term, so let’s strike that as an option.

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Keep Technologies wants to turn a cup holder into a security guard for your car

TechCrunch

He had already earned the serial entrepreneur badge with CodeGuard, a website backup startup, and his hardware company Claw Hanging Systems. What he found was a gap in the market and an opportunity to fill it. This isn’t akin to the loud exterior alarms on the market today. Moeller ended up selling assets from Neuromatic.

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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters

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The brainchild of Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko and Kylan Gibbs, the startup’s AI-powered service generates virtual characters primarily for games, but also in broader entertainment and marketing campaigns. “ Inworld is a creative platform for building virtual characters for immersive realities.