Lizcore, a sport tracking startup out of Barcelona, caught our eye on the 4YFN show floor at MWC this week.
Lizcore’s system requires gyms to buy in and install its smart base units and top-out holds for each boulder problem.
It’s activity and progress tracking with minimal effort so climbers can concentrate on the real work — of training, climbing, sending and repeating.
So climbers could even use the minimalist wearable to forget having to bring their own wallets to the gym.
Lizcore says the system gives gyms data about quiet vs busy times for different climbing areas and walls.
Why OnePlus waited three years to release a new smartwatch A OnePlus exec discusses how the company is squeezing 100 hours out of the Watch 2OnePlus’ second smartwatch captured media interest this week, courtesy of its stated 100 hours of battery life.
If the device does its job correctly, users won’t notice the shift, beyond the extra battery life it brings.
The OnePlus Watch 2 is also notable for the three-year gap between releases.
This morning, ahead of the device’s official unveiling, I sat down with Tuomas Lampen, OnePlus Europe’s head of strategy on a pair of folding chairs outside Google’s MWC booth.
In terms of functionality, the first OnePlus Watch more closely resembled pre-Apple Watch smartwatches.
We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized.
Miranda Bogen is the founding director of the Center of Democracy and Technology’s AI Governance Lab, where she works to help create solutions that can effectively regulate and govern AI systems.
For the most part, AI systems are still missing seat belts, airbags, and traffic signs, so proceed with caution before using them for consequential tasks.
Consider how the success of the AI system you are working on has been defined, who that definition serves, and what context may be missing.
Intense competitive pressure to release the newest, biggest, and shiniest new AI models is leading to concerning underinvestment in responsible practices.
Substack is updating its peer-to-peer recommendation system, the company announced today.
With this new update, Substack is helping writers aid other writers in expanding their reach and potentially getting more subscribers and followers, as the company is now allowing writers to curate and share a list of publications for their readers to subscribe to.
Most social media networks currently leverage algorithms for their recommendation systems, but Substack is instead focused on allowing writers to curate their own networks of recommendations.
Substack says the new update will help writers build up goodwill with other writers by helping them reach more people, while also helping readers curate a worldview.
The platform will show writers how many subscriptions and follows they have driven for people in their network.
We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized.
Krystal Kauffman worked as an organizer on political and issue campaigns for a decade before pursuing a degree in geology.
For the next two years, I was able to support myself doing data work in which I completed tasks that helped program AI, build LLMs and so on.
What are some issues AI users should be aware of?
Similarly, the creation of AI legislation has to involve data workers.
TechTaka, a South Korean online shopping fulfillment startup that provides third-party logistics services for e-commerce sellers, has raised $9.5 million (12.6 billion KRW) in a Series B round of funding from a sole investor, Altos Ventures.
The outfit helps e-commerce sellers manage the supply chain, from warehousing, order packing and shipping, so that TechTaka users can focus on product and marketing.
His expertise and interests in logistics and optimization led him to start TechTaka to offer quick and reliable logistics services.
(Coupang has its own fulfillment centers, and Naver bolsters its fulfillment service in collaboration with logistics and fulfillment companies like TechTaka.)
“We tested our service in the U.S. by introducing Korean e-commerce sellers to Amazon, starting in May 2023,” Kim said.
Meet BlueLayer, a new European startup that is building a software platform specifically designed for carbon project developers.
This system of carbon offsetting with carbon project developers is sometimes also called beyond value chain mitigation.
BlueLayer acts as the software backend for carbon project developers.
BlueLayer aims to focus exclusively on project developers.
You might think that there is a limited pool of potential clients, but BlueLayer has already held talks with over 200 carbon project developers.
For example, the MTA transit system in New York collected more than 18,000 lost items from 2018 to 2023 — and that time includes when people were sheltering in place for the pandemic.
Boomerang thinks AI can fix lost and found.
The Miami-based startup built software that uses machine learning to match pictures and descriptions of lost items.
Customers, which can range from gyms to theme parks, upload pictures and descriptions of their lost and found while consumers do the same for the item they’ve lost.
If there is a match, consumers can choose to pick up their items or have them shipped.
On Friday, Microsoft revealed that it had been the victim of a hack carried out by Russian government spies.
In a new blog post, Microsoft said that “the same actor has been targeting other organizations and, as part of our usual notification processes, we have begun notifying these targeted organizations.”At this point, it’s unclear how many organizations the Russian-backed hackers targeted.
Microsoft, however, said that the hackers specifically targeted the company’s senior executives, as well as people who work in cybersecurity, legal, and other departments.
The hackers were able to steal “some emails and attached documents.”Curiously, the hackers were interested in finding out information about themselves, specifically what Microsoft knows about them, the company said.
On Thursday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) disclosed that its Microsoft-hosted email system was hacked by Midnight Blizzard.
The Oppo-owned phone maker just debuted its latest flagship, the OnePlus 12.
Zoom goes up to 120x, but you’re going to start introducing noise into the photo after around 6x.
Meanwhile a new “Master Mode” brings additional options to OnePlus’ Pro Mode feature, including adjustments to things like contrast, saturation, sharpness and tint.
Flagship specs at flagship prices.
If that’s a bit too step, the new OnePlus 12R starts at $500 – less than half the price.
