Niantic aims to build a richer 3D map of the world with a new version of Scaniverse app

Niantic is releasing a new version of its Scaniverse app to let users capture objects around them with more details. Scaniverse 4 will allow users to capture places and objects in 3D through a Gaussian splatting technique, which captures more data points about an object for accurate and rich repres

Apple iPhone 16 event set for September 9 with ‘Glowtime’ invite 

Apple will unveil its iPhone 16 lineup on September 9, as the company has started sending out press invites on Monday for the upcoming event. The official announcement comes as previous reports had claimed that the event would take place on September 10. Apple is using the tagline “It’

Tidal launches royalty tracking features for artists

Music streaming service Tidal has launched new features that let artists track royalties and manage the music they have songwriting credits for on the platform. Music royalties are Byzantine in their complexity. In the U.S., all collaborators on a given track, including the composers and performer

Red Hat’s OpenStack Services are now generally available on its OpenShift platform

Red Hat offers a number of major infrastructure platforms, with offerings like the Ansible automation service, the Kubernetes-based OpenShift container platform and the OpenStack platform for those who are looking for an end-to-end service that can manage an entire data center. Last year, the compa

Cancer survivor launches Oncology Ventures to improve care

Ben Freeberg was an associate at venture firm Alpha Partners when he suddenly passed out in the middle of the day. He sought medical help, and after running a few diagnostic tests, doctors didn’t find anything wrong with him. “They told me I was overreacting,” Freeberg told TechC

Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi

Inflection will cap free access to its AI chatbot Pi in the coming months, the startup tells technewss. Users can also now export their conversations off the AI chatbot, as the new CEO shifts the company’s focus toward enterprise products. The usage caps come just a year after Inflection ra

Viggle makes controllable AI characters for memes and visualizing ideas

You might not know Viggle AI, but you’ve likely seen the viral memes it created. The Canadian AI startup is responsible for dozens of videos remixing the rapper Lil Yachty bouncing onstage at a summer music festival. In one video, Lil Yachty is replaced by Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker. In an

Loft Orbital forms joint venture with UAE-based firm to scale satellite production in the Middle East

A holding company affiliated with an Emirati royal family is injecting a new joint venture between Abu Dhabi-based Marlan Space and startup Loft Orbital with over $100 million to grow the region’s domestic satellite manufacturing capabilities.  The joint venture, called Orbitworks, will

In 2024, it really is better to run a startup in San Francisco, according to data and founders who've relocated

San Francisco's AI startup boom is so big, even international founders who don't run AI startups are relocating there to help their companies grow, according to several founders who recently moved.  This is largely because the tech talent and investor money is still overwhelmingly con

The Port of Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport say they've been hit by 'possible cyberattack'

The Port of Seattle, which also operates the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, said it was hit with a “possible cyberattack” that appeared to affect websites and phone systems. The port first noted the outages via social media on Saturday morning, with the airport then posting that it had

Travly lets travelers submit videos for a chance to earn a 5% commission from hotel bookings

Travly is a new social-first discovery and hotel booking platform designed to cater to the growing number of travelers who rely on short-form video content for trip ideas.  The platform features user-generated content that provides authentic reviews of hotels instead of generic information and of

Stephen Wolfram thinks we need philosophers working on big questions around AI

Mathematician and scientist Stephen Wolfram grew up in a household where his mother was a philosophy professor at Oxford University. As such, his younger self didn't want anything to do with the subject, but an older and perhaps wiser Wolfram sees value in thinking deeply about things. Now he w

TPG nears $150M funding in India’s Eruditus at $2.3B valuation

Eruditus, an Indian edtech startup, is in advanced stages of talks to secure about $150 million in new funding, two sources familiar with the matter told technewss, in what would be the largest fundraise by an Indian education firm in years. TPG, a major private equity player, is discussing to l

The fallout after Bolt's aggressive fundraising attempt has been wild

This past week was a wild one in the world of fintech as Bolt surprised the industry with a leaked term sheet that revealed it is trying to raise $200 million in equity and an unusual, additional $250 million in “marketing credits.”  As part of this deal, Bolt wanted a $14 billion valuati