Caller identity company Truecaller has launched its call recording and transcription for paid users in India, the company’s biggest market.
The recording feature will be available to premium users on both Android and iOS, with support for English and Hindi transcriptions.
In June 2023, the company introduced call recording for premium users in the U.S., and now it is expanding the feature in India.
If you are using Truecaller on Android, the app’s own dialer will show a dedicated recording button.
The app calls another recording line, and then you will have to manually merge the calls to start the recording.
Generative AI has done an impressive job in improving productivity in a wide range of areas, including website building.
10web, a company based out of Armenia, is entering the race and believes it has an edge.
10web allows users to quickly generate websites built with WordPress, the widely-used content management system that is notoriously hard to use for beginners, using text prompts.
WordPress still powers around 40% of all the websites on the internet, thanks to its customization options, according to estimates by w3techs.
“We have AI talent, which is probably four times cheaper in Armenia than in the U.S. And here, we can access the best AI talent possible,” the founder suggested.
With deck.blue, Bluesky users can view posts on the social network in the column-based format popularized by TweetDeck, including things like their home timeline, notifications, likes, lists, or even custom feeds.
But when he examined the options available to Bluesky users, he was dissatisfied with the experiences that had been built so far.
The deck.blue project began last August and within a month of writing the first line of code, it launched.
Initially, the app was called Bluesky Deck, but Bluesky suggested that using Bluesky in the app’s name wasn’t the right move.
So Filho renamed the app deck.blue and hired a designer to work on the branding.
Briq, a startup that uses AI to automate finances in construction, brings in $8M extension at a $150M valuationAt a time where many startups are struggling to raise funding, or are raising – but at lower valuations, it’s notable when companies raise at flat or higher valuations.
The startup last announced a fundraise in June of 2021 – a $30 million Series B financing led by Tiger Global Management.
Customers include Briq Choate Construction, Catamount Construction, Fessler and Bowman, and Elder Construction, among others.
Briq deploys that across two products: Briq AutoPilot and Briq CoPilot.
“Usually when we think about robots in construction, we think about machines on a jobsite.
In this edition of WiR, we cover Carta’s allegedly unethical tactics, Samsung’s Ballie home robot, Volkswagen bringing ChatGPT into its cars and Amazon embracing more generative AI.
Saarinen alleged in a LinkedIn post that Carta misused sensitive information that startups entrust to the company in pursuit of its own goals.
Samsung’s Ballie returns: Remember Ballie, Samsung’s spherical home robot from CES 2020?
Volkswagen cars get ChatGPT: Volkswagen is getting into the ChatGPT game.
Enterprises skeptical of GenAI: Generative AI gets a lot of press, from image-generating tools like Midjourney to Runway to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Whispp is working to change the game for individuals with speech disorders and voice disabilities, bringing voice boxes into the current millennium with its groundbreaking AI-powered assistive speech and phone-calling app.
“Voice disabilities and speech disorders like stuttering significantly impact a person’s life and happiness,” said Whispp co-founder and CEO Joris Castermans.
Whispp is a game changer, accommodating a broad spectrum of voice types — from whispers to rough speech resulting from total laryngectomy after throat cancer.
Now, with its new product features, Whispp can accommodate an even more diverse range of voice types and conditions.
It is truly a beacon of hope for individuals with speech disorders and voice disabilities and a testament to the transformative power of technology.
Vivoo brings the answer to that question closer to homeThe trend we noticed at last year’s CES continues: Startups are really curious about your bodily fluids.
The company already offers a broad range of at-home tests, and launched a new test that can detect urinary tract infections (UTIs).
Vivoo’s At-Home UTI Test streamlines the diagnostic process for UTIs, which affect an astonishing 150 million people globally each year.
For women, who represent 60% of UTI sufferers in the United States, Vivoo’s product may prove to be a game-changer.
Vivoo’s journey in transforming personal health management began with the launch of its ‘smart toilet’ at CES last year, which received accolades for its role in early health condition detection.
Remember Ballie, Samsung’s spherical home robot from CES 2020?
I sure didn’t — until Samsung brought it back at this year’s keynote with a few on-trend AI upgrades.
The new and improved Ballie, which Samsung previewed during its press conference at CES 2024 in Las Vegas today, is around the size of a bowling ball, packing a battery that’s designed to last two to three hours.
In the latter case, Ballie will respond with the aid of a chatbot to confirm requests before taking action.
“With its built-in front [and] rear camera, [Ballie] can detect and analyze its surroundings and learn recurring user patterns,” Samsung continues in the press release.
Wandering around the CES preview events, it’s clear that AI and other smart tech is coming to toasters, grills and all sorts of other devices.
“We can cook a one-inch ribeye steak in about 1 minute and 45 seconds” says Jordan Aspley, the company’s founder.
Wave, baby, waveAnother device shown off at CES 2024 is the “Macrowave” from Revolution Cooking.
The instructions are, you know, defrost in your microwave, preheat your oven, take it out of the microwave, put it in your oven.
One example is Spark One — the $1,100 smart grill we featured in our 2020 gift guide — which went out of business by 2022.
Telegram and Line, two of the world’s most popular messengers with hundreds of millions of monthly users, have both been integrating crypto features in recent months.
Backed by all three divisions of Sequoia — Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Capital India and Sequoia Capital China (now called HongShan), Singapore-based EthSign aims to provide a web3 equivalent of DocuSign with the promise of an additional layer of transparency and trustworthiness.
EthSign is deployed on the respective blockchain network that runs on Telegram and Line, TON and Finschia.
EthSign has already rolled out on Telegram as a mini app, which can notify users of a list of pending documents to approve.
Already live on Line as a web app, EthSign has signed a memorandum of understanding with Finschia for further integration in the coming months.
