Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 6, 2023
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 6, 2023.
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AI can help predict air quality, but it can’t always account for wildfires
Machine learning models can show where and when high pollution levels are most likely, but they generally cannot deal with more random events.
Wildfire smoke from Canada’s extreme fire
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San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill
Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach
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iRobot’s Roomba j7 Plus, our favorite robot vacuum, has hit an all-time low
The Roomba j7 Plus offers everything you could want in a robovac, including an auto-empty dock. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
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Ukrainian Scouts Are Inside Robotyne, The First Russian Strongpoint On The Road To Melitopol
Liberating the city of Melitopol from its Russian occupiers is one of the main objectives of Ukraine’s long-anticipated southern counteroffensive.
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An Uber-backed robot delivery company is going public—but the industry has yet to really deliver
Serve Robotics needs a lot of money to grow its fleet of robots. On Aug. 10, the autonomous delivery robot company announced that it raised $30 million and went public
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Outcast – A New Beginning gets new trailer showing its gorgeous open world
Outcast – A New Beginning just got a brand-new trailer thanks to the THQ Nordic 2023 Digital Showcase, and we know a whole load of fresh details about it, too.In
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Zoom rewrites its policies to make clear that your videos aren’t used to train AI tools
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Zoom has updated its terms of service and reworded a blog post explaining recent terms of service changes referencing
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From robots to recycled vapes, Ukraine’s war effort gets inventive
THE science conference had all the hot topics you’d expect, from artificial intelligence (AI) to gene therapy. But this year’s annual gathering of brains in Kyiv had a decidedly Ukrainian
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Heart of Stone director wants a sequel – but its Rotten Tomatoes score suggests that won't happen
Editor’s note: this interview took place prior to the actors strike, which began on July 14 and which has effectively shut down Hollywood.Heart of Stone’s director thinks that the Netflix
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Journalists seek regulations to govern fast-moving AI technology
SEVERAL news organizations, writers and photographers groups are pushing to be involved in creating standards for the use of artificial intelligence, particularly as it concerns intellectual property rights and the
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Olis Robotics raises $4M to take systems for remote robot management to next level
The Olis Connect system can monitor the operation of industrial robotic equipment securely via a tablet or any browser-capable device. (Olis Robotics via YouTube)
Seattle-based Olis Robotics
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