Dutch founder raises $1M for app he built for his deaf parents

Jul22
by on July 22, 2024 at 2:34 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence


Growing up, Jari Hazelebach was a full-time interpreter. Both of his parents are deaf, and from a young age he helped them communicate in a world largely oblivious to the struggles of the 430 million people suffering from disabling hearing loss.    “While my parents could lip-read, their hearing disability made group conversations almost impossible,” Hazelebach told TNW. Even family Christmas gatherings were a struggle. That’s what drove Hazelebach to found Speaksee: so people suffering from hearing loss could carry an interpreter in their pocket, everywhere they go.   The Speaksee microphone kit links to a mobile app. Credit: Speaksee The young…

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Dutch students cross North Sea in hydrogen boat — but you won’t ride one anytime soon

Jul19
by on July 19, 2024 at 2:49 pm
Posted In: Insider


A team of students from the Technical University of Delft have made history by crossing the North Sea in a fully hydrogen-powered boat.   TU Delft’s Hydro Motion team set off from Breskens, Netherlands on July 11, with 160km of rough ocean ahead of them. Shortly into the trip, however, the vessel suffered a failure in its cooling pump and had to dock in Belgium for repairs. After a bit of tinkering, the issue was resolved and the crew set sail once more. They arrived at Ramsgate, UK, 12 hours later. The boat, which cruises at 40km/h, made the trip using…

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Businesses are harvesting our biometric data. We need new protections

Jul19
by on July 19, 2024 at 2:28 pm
Posted In: Future of Work


Imagine walking through a bustling railway station. You’re in a hurry, weaving through the crowd, unaware that cameras are not just watching you but also recognising you. These days, our biometric data is valuable to businesses for security purposes, to enhance customer experience or to improve their own efficiency. Biometrics are unique physical or behavioural traits and are part of our everyday lives. Among these, facial recognition is the most common. Facial recognition technology stems from a branch of AI called computer vision and is akin to giving sight to computers. The technology scans images or videos from devices including CCTV cameras…

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Proton launches ‘privacy-first’ AI email assistant to rival Google, Microsoft

Jul19
by on July 19, 2024 at 11:56 am
Posted In: Insider


Swiss app developer Proton has launched a new “privacy-first” AI email writing assistant that could be a more secure alternative to similar offerings from Google and Microsoft.  Proton Scribe, integrated in Proton Mail, allows users to compose emails with simple prompts. The large language model (LLM) can also proofread your drafts before they’re sent.  To use the feature, all you have to do is draft an email in Proton Mail and click the pencil icon displayed at the bottom of the textbox. Tell the tool what you want to say and it will create a draft for you. You can…

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UK approves first cultivated meat sales in Europe — but only for pet food

Jul18
by on July 18, 2024 at 3:48 pm
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Cultivated meat is now approved for sale in Europe — but don’t break out the fine China just yet. The first dishes are exclusively reserved for pets. Our furry friends can now legally dine on cultivated chicken from Meatly, a startup based in London. The company announced on Monday that British regulators have rubber-stamped sales of the product. By providing the green-light, the UK has become the first European country to commercialise lab-grown meat. “It’s the start of a viable and sustainable alternative to traditional dog food,” Meatly’s CEO and founder, Owen Ensor, told TNW. That sustainability derives from bringing the…

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