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The world is in flux. The pandemic has waned, but the definitive trails it left behind still shape the contours of our day-to-day life. The war in Europe promises to prolong. The heat wave is beginning to show its ugly fangs in Europe while California and Alabama in the USA brace for more climatic impacts. Amongst all this, the banking sector in the USA, under the weight of the rising interest rates and poor commercial real estate market (an offshoot of the pandemic), has shown its brittle side. Understandably, in a world…

OpinionA sober perspective as to why boring is best, even for AIOver the last few weeks, we’ve had a trove of custom LLM requests from clients and partners. This excitement, although warranted, is based on tech news inundation, not on getting a fundamental corporate advantage.LLMs, even though they are not conceptually far off from most transformer-based training pipelines, require much more complex machinery to fine-tune and operate smoothly in a corporate setting. All the ones we already tested and deployed for clients…

Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, left us a long time ago — but his archive is slowly being digitized so it can live forever. The latest batch includes an official website that lets you set foot on almost every Enterprise bridge.Spoiler alert: While this story won’t spoil anything, the website in question does contain a spoiler for Star Trek: Picard.It’s not a particularly robust or mobile-friendly website at the moment, perhaps because of all the fans attempting to live out their dreams simultaneously — but if you…

Save for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and—obviously—Star Trek: The Lower Decks, most of the action for Star Trek takes place upon the fabled bridge. Over the course of Star Trek’s over-five decade runtime, there have been more than one fan who has imagined themselves working under lights at their station. You can close your eyes and imagine yourself among a crew of like-minded people sharing in that optimistic hope for the future that the show was known for. Finally, there’s now a way to truly put yourself into the…

The USS Enterprise has gone through several iterations across TV shows and movies, and now Star Trek fans can explore them as much as they want to online. As Deadline reports, the latest update to the Roddenberry Archive adds 360-degree virtual recreations of the famous Starship Enterprise bridge as depicted in various Star Trek properties. It has the bridge from Star Trek: The Original Series, Picard, Discovery and Strange New Worlds, arranged according to timeline in the new web portal. Fans can click on the version of…

Screenshot: OTOY/The Roddenberry ArchiveThe restoration of the Enterprise-D, long thought lost since it was broken up and crash-landed decades prior in Star Trek: Generations, was one of the biggest surprises of Picard’s final season. But now we know that parts of the ship made their way back home to be restored, this touching new short imagines just how.Weirdest Thing Star Trek Star LeVar Burton Has SignedCreated in partnership with the Roddenberry Archive, cloud-rendering graphics company OTOY has released a short…

According to IDC, global spending on digital transformation is forecast to grow 16.3% annually for the next five years, reaching $3.4 trillion in 2026. Not all that investment, however, will be fruitful. A Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study has found that only one-third of digital transformations are successful.  Patients and visitors in Huzhou Central Hospital: Lenovo worked with the facility, which houses 1,500 beds and has an outpatient capacity of 6,000, to build a digital solution to improve the speed and accuracy…

Gita: I think that's a very important observation, and Stephanie's been emphasizing this. It has to be done from the ground up. Her company and others in working with the c-suite, in working with leaders and organizations, they are bringing this notion that it's not just cost-cutting, it's innovation that drives profits. Trying to build a purposeful, sustainable business is actually innovative, and it will grow your business in the long term. At the same time, you are taking into account how you interact with treat your…

A little over three years ago, I said of Picard’s first season finale that it gave its audience everything it wanted—and that that was a problem. Today, for its third and seemingly last season finale, I find myself wanting to tell you a similar thing. But I can’t, because while Picard’s last goodbye does give you everything you wanted, I no longer think that it’s a detriment.Mica Burton on Which La Forge Character She Related to MoreThe thing is, not a lot really happens in “The Last Generation.” A lotis…

Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, I am diving deeper into what generative AI means, or doesn’t mean, for enterprise buyers. I also have some notes on why your company may want to be like Figma, and how the investing side of the market is adjusting to down rounds being the new normal. — Anna Not-yet-unlocked potential When…