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I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

Last December, I closed my eyes and tried to visualise a potoo. This tropical bird has a “round, kind...

Gen Z Is Increasingly Turning to This Field, Which Offers $75K Starting Pay and High Job Placement Rates

Key Takeaways Accounting majors are landing near-perfect job placement rates.Most graduates secure jobs or further education within six months of finishing their degrees.Entry-level accounting salaries are hovering around the high five figures, or around $75,000.At a time when workers everywhere...

A teenage Minecraft YouTuber raised $1,234,567 for a meme prediction market called Giggles. It broke me. | TechCrunch

I cannot say with 100% certainty that nineteen-year-old Justin Jin is not pulling an elaborate prank on me. In my defense, Jin’s company Giggles – which he describes as “putting a trading app and TikTok together” – started as...

AI Training Goes Off the Grid With Solar Homes and Spare GPUs

Artificial intelligence harbors an enormous energy appetite. Such constant cravings are evident in the hefty carbon footprint of the data centers behind the AI boom and the steady increase over time of carbon emissions from training frontier AI...

Over-the-Air Computation Uses Radio Interference to Crunch Data

Picture a highway with networked autonomous cars driving along it. On a serene, cloudless day, these cars need only exchange thimblefuls of data with one another. Now picture the same stretch in a sudden snow squall: The cars rapidly...

He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up

If you haven’t heard of UpScrolled before, a brief primer: It’s a social media platform not too different from, say, Instagram or TikTok. You can share photos or short videos, follow accounts, comment on posts, and amass a following...

AI startup Rocket offers vibe McKinsey-style reports at a fraction of the cost | TechCrunch

Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build. It has launched a platform that produces consulting-style product strategies.The startup, based in Surat, India,...

OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund  | TechCrunch

A new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI has made its first close on its $100 million goal, the founders tell TechCrunch. The partners have already written a couple of checks. The fund is called Zero Shot (a...

Why ‘Just Start’ Is Dangerous Advice for Entrepreneurs

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Many founders skip planning and end up making reactive decisions, chasing opportunities that don’t move the business forward and confusing busyness with real progress. A business plan doesn’t have to be long...
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Driver arrested after chasing young boy riding bike in Washington

A driver was arrested after trying to hit a boy who was riding his bike in a neighbourhood in...
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