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Erik Buell on the future of electric motorcycles The future of mopeds and motorcycles is electric, Erik Buell says. He sees mopeds and motorcycles playing a greater role in transportation. https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/17/the-future-of-electric-motorcycles/

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Asteroid mining startup AstroForge will test its metal refinery tech in space this year • TechCrunch

Asteroid mining startup AstroForge will head to space twice this year, as it attempts to do what no other company has been able to before: unlock the potentially limitless value of precious minerals in deep space. When TechCrunch covered AstroForge’s seed round last April, we noted that the company was planning a demonstration mission sometime this year. Today, AstroForge released more details on…

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sad reminder that a "core group of users who love the product" is not enough these days, somehow

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"It will be interesting to see how amenable that long tail is to succumbing to the will of the algorithm. Albazaz said that AI-generated stories, based on catchy treatments crafted by talented humans, is very much part of what it hopes to do more of in the future, along with personalizing stories using AI algorithms.

Personalizing is still very much a work in progress, he added, with Inkitt trying out different degrees of changes that it might implement on an original work, or even potentially giving over the controls to readers themselves."

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Dutch startup Monumental is using robots to lay bricks | TechCrunch

A gépek elveszik a kőművesek munkáját!

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The characteristic that they’re looking for is that willingness and eagerness to take risks, because that’s what the economy needs. The economy doesn’t need sound investment that’s going to return 5% or whatever. If they wanted to do that, they could build solar panels, right? We need something that offers real growth potential for this money, that can absorb hundreds of billions of dollars. The real challenge is coming up with some kind of story that can absorb that much capital. Because they don’t have anywhere to put it.

They’ve got to offer something that’s going to offer unbelievable returns. And who can do that? A con man, you know, that’s who can do that. And we saw that definitely with crypto and NFTs, which was sort of that to the nth degree. We saw that with the metaverse, which is the same thing: a whole industry just based on the idea of hyping things. I think it’s more or less the same thing with what I hesitate to call “AI” or generative software that I think ultimately people are going to realize doesn’t do anything, doesn’t make anything. And it’s possible that its uses are actually way, way, way more constrained than people are imagining.

That sounds like every hype cycle I’ve ever lived through.

It’s been pretty amazing that since this book has come out, we’ve gone through like three of these: the speed is clearly increasing. When I published, the first thing people said was, “Oh, don’t you wish you wrote about cryptocurrency?” And I was like, “No, I don’t think it’s gonna last — I don’t think that’s going to keep my book on the shelf.”

Now people don’t even remember to ask that.

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Black founders received 1% of all venture capital last year and women-founded startups raised 1.9% of the total. We’ve been bemoaning the lack of representation in tech for decades: Can this system be reformed?

I don’t think so. Even if you were able to reform the personnel, they’d still be running the same system, and it’s a system that’s based on increasing labor exploitation.

We know that all people have an equally distributed chance of aptitude for everything because humans are one species. Which means there’s like a big growth opportunity there for investing in women-led startups in theory, right? You look at that number, and you say, “Their irrational sexism is causing them not to invest in these firms; I should invest in them. Let me fix this in terms of market efficiency.”

People have been making that argument for a long time now. And to see that it hasn’t happened, I think suggests that story isn’t true and that there is something about capitalism that is based on this kind of cartel action that is about intentionally limiting the range of opportunities that are allowed to people [who are] outside certain circles.

The racial and sexual division of labor in tech is foundational to its existence. And I don’t think a personnel change is going to fix that

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He's too plague-stricken to write about robots

THE ACTUATOR newsletter

By Brian Heater

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Image Credits: Brian Heater

Covid, CES, saying goodbye

It gets cold here in the high desert. Visitors are advised to pack lotion, lip balm and a heavy jacket — the cold, dry air will turn your skin into fine ash. Colleagues have told me about their portable humidifiers for a decade, and this was the year I finally broke down and picked one up — or rather, had one delivered.

It’s been almost three full days since I’ve stepped foot outside this hotel room. Blackout curtains do a fine job making day blend seamlessly into night when you can barely be bothered to walk the two feet to down your twice daily dose of Paxlovid. It’s a bit like one of those scenes in the back end of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” only without all of the fun preamble.

That’s one of the reasons this is an issue of Actuator I hoped I wouldn’t have to write. The other is that the newsletter is going away, and I’m going to miss popping into your inbox every Thursday afternoon. This has been an extraordinarily valuable experience for me, and I hope some of you can say the same.

That feeling really hit me at last year’s ProMat and Automate events, when so many readers stopped me to pass along a kind word. I’ve been writing about technology for longer than I care to mention, and those sorts of moments are both few and far between. We’ve spoken with many of the biggest names in the industry on these pages, and explored the ethical, sociological and financial impact of this growing industry.

“Growing” probably does it a disservice. I started writing about robots for TechCrunch in 2016, having covered the industry with less regularity a decade before that. These past few years have seen a veritable explosion in the robotics and automation spaces. After more than a decade of feeling almost frustratingly on the cusp, this was the moment the space truly started flourishing.

For the first time in I can’t remember how long, I was very much looking forward to this CES. Trust me when I say the event has become a dreaded date on the calendar for many of the people who do what I do for a living. But the lead-up to this year’s event felt different. Robotics and startup talk was everywhere. I packed my calendar as full as my degenerative discs would allow.

So, of course I got COVID. I knew it was a distinct possibility. Everyone who goes to these events understands it’s a calculated risk. Heck, I’d already contracted various other variants at three separate work events. What I couldn’t possibly anticipate, however, was getting it before CES started. Given my luck of late, however, it certainly tracks. That and the fact that we’re staying in the one hotel in Las Vegas that doesn’t do room service.

I’m excited to take a fuller dive into the subject once I’m on the other side of this. I have a lot to say on the subject of robotics at CES but will need to be able to sit up for longer than 15 minutes in a go to do it service.

As mentioned above, however, it will not be in Actuator, as this is the final issue. Publishing platforms are a tricky business. I will still, however, be very much devoted to bringing you the most import robotics news over on TechCrunch.com. I plan to keepTechCrunch’s robotics tag extremely active. After all, if 2023 was the year of generative AI, then 2024 is very much the year of the robot. I haven’t covered the category this hard for this long to abandon it now.

TechCrunch is still very much giving me the freedom to write the stories I believe are important. They’ll just be coming to you on a single platform. This year is going to be a memorable one for TechCrunch robotics coverage, and that’s not just the Paxlovid talking (judging by the taste, it’s aluminum cans from the early industrial revolution).

CES has been a perfect distillation of this moment in robotics. Lots of excitement and lots of hype. More than ever, we need people separating the facts from the marketing. I’ve been in this industry long enough to know how appealing these sorts of technologies are for those attempting to make a quick buck.

Brad Porter offered a helpful bit of insight into demos over at LinkedIn, including things like realistic simulation and “Wizard of Oz,” wherein there is a human orchestrating things behind the curtain.

“Unfortunately, it’s really hard to know if someone is doing this or not, but it’s a really low-integrity thing to do to show a robot doing something and not reveal the human controller behind it,” says the Collaborative Robotics founder. “But people do it. If you’re considering a significant investment in a robotics company, never go just off the video . . . go see it first-hand.”

My guess is we’ve seen a little bit of each this week. In an ideal world, improved technology would negate the need for such trickery, but that’s not how things work in this world — especially not in this age of movie-quality viral clips and technologies that are increasingly indistinguishable from CGI.

I’m excited to dive back in. Thanks to everyone who’s supported Actuator, and thanks, Carrie, who has edited my typos with minimal judgment. Please bookmark the TechCrunch robotics tagfor more. You can also follow me on LinkedIn, Bluesky and the artist formerly known as Twitter. It’s going to be a wild decade for robotics, and I’m happy to have you along for the ride.

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オーストラリアのテクノロジーエコシステムは成熟段階に達しているが、それを維持するにはスタートアップ企業の規模拡大を支援する必要がある。 オーストラリアでは 2022 年に初期段階の投資が急増しましたが、後期段階では投資全体が減少しました。 それはオーストラリアに限ったことではありません。 昨年は世界的に、インフレと景気後退への懸念の中で投資家はより慎重になった。 しかし、オーストラリアの後期段階の取引の件数は、2019年の資金調達額と比較しても減少した。 問題の一部は人材の問題であり、スキル・イン・デマンド・ビザのような取り組みが役立つのです。 パウンダー氏は、「経験豊富で技術力の高い人材を求める市場には構造的なギャップがある。これは、テクノロジー関連の仕事の成長率に追いつかないレベルで、数十年にわたって体系的に人材のトレーニングが不足していることの一種だ」と述べた。 「それが時間の経過とともに蓄積され、技術的なスキルだけでなく、10 年の経験を持つ人材が必要であるという問題が発生します。 上級サイバーセキュリティスペシャリストやCEOを探しているのと同様に、経験が数年しかない人を採用することはできません。」 オーストラリアでは、スケールアップの経験を持つ経営幹部は他のスタートアップエコシステムに比べて稀です。 パウンダー氏によると、オーストラリアのテクノロジー部門で働く人々のうち、企業をスケールアップした経験がある人はわずか1％だという。 ちなみにシンガポールは約17％だ。 「グローバル企業を立ち上げ、世界市場向けに作られた製品を早い段階から輸出する場合、これまでの経験は本当に貴重です。」と彼女は言いました。 ここでオーストラリアの人材問題がちょっとした悪循環に陥ります。 オーストラリアのスタートアップ企業は他国のスタートアップ企業に比べてスケールアップの経験が少ないため、シリーズ C を突破して実際にスケールアップするために必要な資金を調達するのに苦労しています。 オーストラリアのエコシステムが若く遠隔地にあることも原因で資金が不足しており、スタートアップ企業が経験豊富な人材を惹きつけて維持する能力も制限されています。 米国での給与がオーストラリアのテクノロジー企業が通常支払う給与をはるかに超えている場合、これは特に当てはまります。 しかし、オーストラリア人が経済的に苦しんでいるわけではない。 テクノロジー業界の給与は依然として高く、オーストラリアの生活の質はトップクラスです。 メルボルンとシドニーは世界で最も住みやすい都市として常にランク付けされており、今年は エコノミスト・インテリジェンス・ユニットの2023年6月調査 で3位と4位となった。 このランキングは、各都市の経済が堅調で、失業率が低く、平均収入が高いことが一因となっている。 世界的な経験を持ち、アメリカの仕事にうんざりしているオーストラリア人は、帰国してノウハウを持ち帰るつもりかもしれません。 そして、政府が新たに技能移民ビザを導入したことにより、他の多くの人が、のんびりとしたライフスタイルや子育てに安全な場所という考えに惹かれるかもしれない。 「オーストラリアでは生活の質が桁外れに高いと思います」とスコット氏は言う。 Airwallex の幹部は、オーストラリアに戻るまで 10 年以上海外の Palantir で働いていました。 「私個人としては、オーストラリアは人生を送るのに本当に素晴らしい国であり、このような素晴らしいテクノロジーのスケールアップの機会を提供できるほど十分な大きさと十分な経済力があるということを認識しただけだと思います。」 このスタートアップは、グローバル企業であるにもかかわらず、製品エンジニアリングと設計のルーツをメルボルンに保持しています。 これは多くのオーストラリアのスタートアップ企業が従う傾向であり、投資家にとっては魅力的かもしれません。 Airwallex は、世界クラスの人材を引き付け、維持するために世界クラスの給与を支払っていると述べていますが、すべてのオーストラリアのスタートアップが同じことを行うためのリソースを持っているわけではありません。 投資家はこれを、より手頃な価格で地元の優秀な人材を育成する機会と見るかもしれない。 「ほんの 10 年か 15 年前までは、米国のベンチャー企業から資金を調達した場合、エンジニアリング チーム全体を米国に移転し、営業チームやマーケティング チームも米国に移転することが期待されていました」と共同創設者兼パートナーのクレイグ ブレア氏は述べています。エアツリー・ベンチャーズにて。 「エンジニアリングチームをオーストラリアに留めておくことが競争上の利点になると私たちは考えています。」 Startup Genome は、オーストラリアのトップエコシステムである シドニーを 「誘致」フェーズに置きます。これは、その主な目標が世界的な才能を引き付け、いわゆる「統合」フェーズに拡大することを意味します。 オーストラリアは、知識とイノベーションの世界的なハブとなり、世界的なビジネスモデルとリーチを備えた自立的な成長エンジンとなるための骨組みを備えています。 この国は何年もの間、世界規模で自国の体重を上回る成果を上げてきました。 今こそ、エコシステムが資金と才能を引き付け、トップで活躍できるほど包括的なものになることができるかどうかを確認するときです。

Why Australia is ripe for VC | TechCrunch

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One of the most notable companies to join Automattic is Tumblr which Mullenweg has big plans for. In this episode, he talks about why it’s important to keep all of these platforms open source and how he thinks Tumblr could begin to compete with Twitter.

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Dubai-based accounting and financial compliance startup, Wafeq, raises $3M • TechCrunch

In 2016, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states signed the Value Added Tax (VAT) agreement paving way for the introduction of the general levy on consumption across the region. The United Arabs Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia became the first member states to adopt the treaty in 2018, and its implementation meant that for the first time businesses in these territories were required to…

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Gaza, despite being one of the most economically challenged regions in the world, has ironically always been a tech hub — not only for Palestine and Palestinians, but for the world: international companies have, for many years, sought out a presence there to collaborate both with with talented tech freelancers, and the startups which gradually emerged from the region.

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