The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

AI has become an integral part of every tech company’s pitch to consumers. Fail to hype up machine learning or neural networks when unveiling a new product, and you might as well be hawking hand-cranked calculators. But judging by its recent WWDC performance, Apple has adopted a smarter and quieter approach. . | Image: Apple.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A true “metaverse” may not yet exist , but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores. However, mobile game publishers led the adoption of the keyword, as 107 apps in the Game category now reference the term, or 19% of the apps studied.

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Candid

AUGUST 10, 2023

While the tech sector pours in tens of billions in a race for dominance and future profits, how should nonprofits and philanthropists be thinking about our role? Before we get completely swept up, let’s not forget the previous technology hype cycles that have come and gone. has likely put it near the peak of the hype cycle.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Viva and Yammer chief vice president Murali Sitaram explains: “Over the last several months we’ve heard your feedback that having two apps surfacing similar experiences and the same services and content has introduced confusion and made it challenging to drive adoption and create clarity for end users.” Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. From the way construction projects are funded to complicated local regulations, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution for the construction industry’s tech problems. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

But roboticists are a pragmatic bunch, offering projects for adoption more than a decade into the future. No one can accuse the category of being a hype bubble. It hasn’t entered the hype cycle the way things like crypto and generative AI have. And there’s not a lot of gray area here. This is closer than you think.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

While VR tech itself has been around for decades, Bent posits that the metaverse gained traction as a concept last year because it offered one thing classic VR games like Second Life did not — the ability to transfer in-game currency to fiat currency. “These hyped areas look really nonobvious.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The combined companies will have the ability to provide satellite collected data to optimize crop management and adoption of conservation practices along with site-specific analysis and custom interventions for different crops, fields, farms and regions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

But the field of architecture is notoriously slow to adopt new processes. A recent survey from the American Institute of Architects found that only 10% to 11% of architects have adopted building performance technologies like lifecycle assessment software, plug-ins or other measurement tools. ” Competition in the market.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Mario Ciabarra, founder and CEO of Quantum Metric , is a computer scientist and tech entrepreneur helping organizations align the entire product lifecycle for many major global brands with a single version of customer-defined and quantified truth. Mario Ciabarra. Contributor. Share on Twitter. What if our customers weren’t able to pay us?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

There’s been a lot of hype about “web3”, but the reality is that it’s still a largely nascent and fragmented concept, and that has led to web3 startups building platforms to engage with it more easily getting a lot of attention. Or, indeed, build a whole site using an engine like WordPress or Wix. ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

It’s that time of week again — the time for Week in Review , where we recap the past five days in tech news. most read ChatGPT in API form: OpenAI introduced an API that’ll allow any business to build ChatGPT tech into their apps, websites, products and services. (As TGIF, my TechCrunch homies.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The hype around generative AI is real, and data and ML teams are feeling the heat. And tech giants like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have been flooding the market with features driven by large language models (LLMs) and image-generating diffusion models. Image courtesy of author.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

” The report had many interesting findings, but here’s the one that left the biggest impression on me: Startups that adopt USP and product-led growth strategies pay back customer acquisition costs faster and have higher net-dollar retention. But govtech and civic tech has a greater social impact than burger-flipping robots.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They include EQT Ventures, Atomico, strategic backer Volvo Car Tech Fund, Lifeline Ventures and Tesi, the Finnish government VC and PE fund; with new backers Mirabaud and Foxconn also participating. ” Within that spectrum, Varjo is among those that took a position early on that the first adopters (and perhaps the main ones?)

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Natural language processing ( NLP ), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks in large part to the generative AI hype train that is ChatGPT. Our goal is to bring the advancements of modern NLP to data teams regardless of their current tech stack, and thus our platform is modular.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

They’re using GPT-3’s language model as the core AI tech — but have also, recently, begun to use their own accumulated data to “fine tune it”, with Isosaari noting: “Already we’ve built a lot of things on top of GPT-3 so we’re building a wrapper on it.” million seed raise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

“If Upstart hits its 2021 numbers, we will be able to read into them broader adoption of AI among old-guard firms,” says Alex. Dear Sophie: A friend and I founded a tech startup last year. If that trend continues, he estimates that the region’s tech companies will exceed the $1.4 Can it outlive the hype?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

And he thinks many proposed applications of the tech to Wikipedia are misguided — like letting people pay editors for the “best” edits with cryptocurrency. We’re still very, very far from mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies”. Wales has an ambivalent overall relationship with blockchain technology. It’s all very hard to enforce.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Searching for a better way, he decided to build tech that could analyze sales calls automatically — powered by AI — and transfer that information directly into a CRM database. The tech grew into a company, Pilot AI , that was accepted into Y Combinator’s summer 2022 batch and recently raised $2.2

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Sam isn’t a real person — she’s a digital human created by Auckland-based tech company Soul Machines. When we’re playing a game, we adopt a certain persona or personality, when we’re coaching our kids’ football team we adopt another persona, we have a different personality when we’re at the pub having a beer with our mates,” Cross explains.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

While that’s not exactly guaranteed — Apple has yet to unveil an AR headset or glasses — Cook’s frequent comments about the tech keep the topic in the news and reassure investors and customers that Apple is working on it. When ARKit launched, The Verge wrote that the tech had the potential to allow Apple to catch rival Google in the AR space.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Cloud computing has seen tremendous adoption in recent years, but only a small fraction of companies currently leverage cloud-based machine learning solutions,” said Charlie Friedland, principal at Glynn Capital, in a statement. MIT professor wants to overhaul ‘The Hype Machine’ that powers social media.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2009

Various media outlets such as the New York Times , Forbes , and Ars Technica are reporting that McKinsey; along with The Uptime Institute, a data center consulting group; released a report this week on the value (and hype) of cloud usage, cloud computing, and cloud services. Those prices have already fallen precipitously in the past 3 years.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We’re so excited to hold this event in the city of Miami, which has encapsulated so much of the recent excitement surrounding emerging tech development and investment in the crypto sector. As crypto markets continue to gain mainstream adoption, regulators globally are watching the young industry with laser focus. Building for Normies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This led to increased adoption rates and revenue. It is a known problem in enterprise tech that products can easily serve the CEO and not the end users. If you limit the degree to which you hype up what your AI can do, you can both avoid irresponsible consequences and sell your product more effectively.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

OK, with that, here’s what I think will happen next year: the return to in-person, five-day work weeks for tech workers. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, helped built ChatGPT (which has been in charge of all those fun prompts and answers that you’ve been seeing all over Tech Twitter). The impact of hype with Clubhouse’s Paul Davison.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I'm still trying to better understand what it all means for nonprofits and maybe we just say to hell with the technology hype & buzzwords and focus on the value of collaborative outcomes that the Web 2.0 (for How to help npos think about this in a way that leads to thoughtful adoption? Poking around J. Kill Cyberspace?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Instead of relying solely on strategic partners, his team visited Japan before ramping up to host events and engage directly with early adopters. Cryptocurrency is having a cultural moment, but we’ve yet to reach mass adoption, despite what marketing campaigns might have you believe.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

Even more impressively, Axie Infinity was supposed to herald a new era of “play-to-earn” gaming built around crypto tech. Combining the freewheeling hype market of crypto with the complicated economic workings of a massively multiplayer game, Axie Infinity’s in-game world has spent months trying to avert a financial crisis.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We’re so excited to hold this event in the city of Miami, which has encapsulated so much of the recent excitement surrounding emerging tech development and investment in the crypto sector. As crypto markets continue to gain mainstream adoption, regulators globally are watching the young industry with laser focus. Building for Normies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

We’re so excited to hold this event in the city of Miami, which has encapsulated so much of the recent excitement surrounding emerging tech development and investment in the crypto sector. As crypto markets continue to gain mainstream adoption, regulators globally are watching the young industry with laser focus. Building for Normies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“There has been hype around community, but also disappointment regarding new tools made to make community-building easier,” Reimer explained to TechCrunch. In truth, Microsoft and its big tech ilk won’t be typical users, due to the fact that most of Crowd.dev’s target customers will be smaller companies seeking growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Customers wanted AI and automation to drive user engagement and adoption,” Sudhakar told TechCrunch in an email interview. But the hype around AI has fueled the rise of startups such as Lang.ai , which automatically tags customer conversations to resolve service issues. upselling). Image Credits: Aisera.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

He said he was also particularly interested to see Affirm’s increased adoption in travel, equipment and auto industries. Other items we are reading : Klarna boasts expansion and growth across Europe as smaller firms ‘dial back’ commitments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. New (To Me) Nonprofit Tech Blogs. More from the Convio Summit this week.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In “The Hype Machine,” Aral explores topics like neuroscience, economics and misinformation before offering potential solutions for resolving what he calls “a full-blown social media crisis.” ” The stories that follow are an overview of Extra Crunch from the last five days. As a result, U.S.

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