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Humane, a startup founded by former Apple employees, has had a Series C funding round  raising $100 million taking its total VC funding to date to $230 million. Humane’s  aims are murky. It says it is building an  “integrated device and cloud services platform” for AI.  Investors include  Kindred Ventures, SK Networks, LG Technology Ventures, zMicrosoft, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, ...

QuantWare, the Dutch  quantum processor developer, has announced a €6 million Seed round. Investors were Forward.One, QDNL Participations, and Graduate Entrepreneur. QuantWare will use the funding to scale its team to support the production and development of its new 64 qubit processor ‘Tenor’. The device claims to ‘open the door to quantum processors with thousands of qubits’. QuantWare’s aim is ...

To speed up design times for customers, sureCore has launched a range of off-the-shelf, ultra-low power memory IP that is available for use at the most popular industry nodes. “Customers invariably want a certain amount of customisation to precisely fit their project’s needs,” says sureCore CEO Paul Wells, “however, we have found that certain memory configurations keep coming up time ...

OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT AI chatbot, has announced new APIs for both its ChatGPT and Whisper offerings. The latter being a speech-to-text model it open-sourced in September 2022. The new ChatGPT API calls the gpt-3.5-turbo model, which is now being used in the ChatGPT product. The company also describes it as its best model for many non-chat use ...

The Satellite Applications Catapult has announced its chief executive, Stuart Martin, has decided to stand down from his role. He has held the position since January 2013, with the inception of the catapult. Before then he had a 23-year career in the space industry. The search for his successor will begin immediately and is expected to be completed by the ...

Review Display Systems (RDS) of Westerham is shipping a range of multi-touch Panel PCs from Kontron. The Web Panel Line has three high resolution, widescreen IPS (in-plane switching) TFT displays, in 7.0-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) , 10.1-inch (1280 x 800 pixels) and 15.6-inch (1366 x 768 pixels) sizes, integrated PCap (projected capacitive) touch technology, and flexible, scalable performance from ...

Latina women in the U.S. had to work all the way through 2021 and into October 2022 to earn the equivalent of the 2021 wages of white, non-Hispanic U.S. men. October 5 marked Latina equal pay day, the second-to-last in a row of equal pay days for different races and ethnicities published by AAUW, also comprising Black Women’s equal pay ...

BeagleBoard has stepped into Raspberry Pi territory with a quad-Arm-core board called BeaglePlay, and at the same time has released a wireless microcontroller module called BeagleConnect Freedom. BeaglePlay “has built-in wired and wireless connectivity, including innovative single-pair Ethernet and sub-GHz wireless options, enabling it to connect to a vast selection of sensor and prototyping systems with thousands of options,” according ...

Allegro MicroSystems has announced an ASIL C safety rated magnetic field beased current sensor for electric vehicle power trains and automotive battery management systems. The company “has developed the ACS37601 programmable linear Hall-effect current sensor IC with over-current, over-temperature and self-test capabilities,” it said. The part “is Allegro’s highest-accuracy field current sensor for applications requiring measurement capability greater than 200A”. ...

Microchip is aiming at satellite designers with a development kit built around its radiation tolerant RT PolarFire FPGAs, for which MIL-STD-883 Class B qualification has been gained and both Class Q and Class V qualification have been sought. The kit is centred on the 481,000 logic element RTPF 500 FPGA, which includes 33Mbit of sram, 1,480 DSP blocks and 24 ...