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As companies start relying more on AI-powered tools to help increase productivity and efficiency, they need to think about creating policies that can address any ethical, practical or legal issues, writes Richard Marcus, head of information security at AuditBoard. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. According to a Gartner survey, more than half the organizations that use AI have policies in place. But, as Marcus points out, building a solid rulebook now can help prevent plenty of headaches in the future. Thanks for reading! Karyne Pitch…

Neuralink has successfully implanted its flagship brain chip, Telepathy, into a human as part of its Prime trial, which is seeking to develop the technology to allow computers to connect directly with the human brain.Previously described by Elon Musk as “a Fitbit in your skull”, the technology is capable of monitoring around 1,000 neurons, which are responsible for sending signals throughout the body to emit responses in external devices like phones or trigger movement and bodily functions.The electronic device, made up to a tin implant with more than 3,000 electrodes, is designed to connect to the Neuralink app, where it…

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Metapocyrtus (Trachycyrtus) augustanae, the newly discovered species of weevil, is named for the U of A’s Augustana Campus.  Credit: Tom Terzin A University of Alberta researcher has unearthed two species of weevils—one new and one thought to have been extinct—that have managed to survive clearcutting of the Philippines rainforest. The discoveries, published in Topola, are “an encouraging sign” of the potential for wildlife to recover from human-made disruption, says Tom Terzin, an Augustana Campus biology professor who made the identifications. “Nature is amazingly resilient, if we give it a chance for recovery,” he remarks. He made the finds while sifting through…

Long-term forecasts from the area suggest that wintry weather could hit West Sussex on February 10. The forecast states a centimetre an hour of snow is also set to fall overnight on Valentines Day. Forecasting website WXCharts reports that snow is first set to fall in East Sussex around midday on February 10 before moving north towards London and Luton. A weather map of snow on the South Coast on February 14 (Image: WXCharts) A much larger snowstorm is then set to hit Brighton overnight on February 14. Read More: Recap after snow falls and temperatures plummet across Sussex  The large flurry…

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View gallery Image Credit: Shutterstock Glenn Close believes Robin Williams would still be around today if only his friend Christopher Reeve was alive. The Fatal Attraction actress, 76, reportedly opens up about Williams’ and Reeve’s close friendship in the new documentary, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. The doc had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21.  “I always felt that if Chris was still around, Robin would still be alive,” Close says in one scene, according to PEOPLE. In the doc, she is one of several people who were interviewed about Reeve’s legacy. He died at…

SaaS needs a new data system. That’s the driving idea behind Nile, a startup that aims to create this data system with serverless Postgres at its core. Co-founded by Sriram Subramanian, the former head of cloud engineering at Confluent, and Gwen Shapira, the former engineering lead for the Kafka team at Confluent, Nile is building this new data solution with built-in support for multi-tenancy as its core primitives. The company today announced that it has raised an $11.6 million seed funding round led by Benchmark’s Eric Vishria, who was also the original lead investor of Confluent. “While my team built…

“You really need a unique, new product. If you have less than this, don’t bother,” said Co-founder of tiny embedded technology Weeteq Taner Dosluoglu. Although the event was aimed at startups securing investment, ChipStart UK, a two-year pilot program backed by £1.3 million of British government funding, also aims to provide early-stage companies involved in the design of semiconductors with the guidance they need to bring new products to market. Therefore, Dosluoglu story of failure to success was well suited. Having previously co-founded Endura, a fabless semiconductor company that started in San Diego and expanded R&D operations to Dublin, and having…

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