AI & RoboticsNews

Snorkel AI’s app development platform lures $35M

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. Snorkel AI, a startup developing data labeling tools aimed at enterprises, today announced that it raised $35 million in a series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding marks the launch of the company’s Application Studio, a visual builder with templated solutions for common AI use cases based…
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Reddit for iOS ends support for iPhone 6, now requires iOS 13

Reddit for iOS was quietly updated to version 2021.13.0, and it dropped support for iOS 12. With this change, people with iPhone 6, iPad mini 3, iPad Air, or older will have to use the web version of Reddit. As first spotted by MacRumors, aside from that, this new version…
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Scam iOS apps latest: a VPN that charges $9.99/week, uses ‘Recommended by Apple’ pop-ups

FlickType and Fleksy founder Kosta Eleftheriou has been pretty busy over the past few months exposing scam iOS apps, some of them bringing in millions of dollars of revenue. The latest of these is a VPN app that is promoting itself as “recommended by Apple” and which is estimated to be earning a million dollars a month. Eleftheriou highlights six eye-opening aspects of the app, which not only…
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Tweetbot for iOS adds a new dark theme, PiP video player, more

Tweetbot for iOS has received another notable update with version 6.1 now available on the App Store. With this update, Tweetbot for iOS brings a redesigned video play with picture-in-picture support, a new set of custom icons, a high-contrast Light theme as well as a new…
Cleantech & EV'sNews

Electric Vehicle Spotlight (EVS): Electric Last Mile Solutions

Today Electrek turns its spotlight to the up-and-coming EV company, Electric Last Mile (ELMS), which is targeting one of the hottest EV markets: commercial fleets. While most new EV companies are years away from production, ELMS, headquartered in the suburbs of Detroit and solely focused on the commercial space, plans to launch the first Class 1 EV later this year at a price point of $25,000 after…
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iOS 14 adoption surpasses 90% according to Mixpanel

Apple announced in December 2020 that 81% of iPhones introduced in the last four years were already running iOS 14, which is the latest version of the company’s mobile operating system. Now the analyst company Mixpanel says that iOS 14 adoption among iPhone and iPad users has already surpassed 90%. According to recent data from Mixpanel, 90.45% of iOS users have already installed the latest…
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