Bringing bitcoin to the TradFi market in a manner that is already well-understood could unlock lots of demand for the cryptocurrency in the near-term.
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Thursday, August 17, 2023
ProjectDiscovery raises $25M to launch a cloud version of its threat-scanning platform
ProjectDiscovery, a platform that detects new, exploitable vulnerabilities in codebases, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by CRV with participation from Point72, SignalFire, Rain Capital, Mango Capital, Accel and Lightspeed. ProjectDiscovery began as a collaboration between four security engineers — Rishiraj Sharma, Sandeep Singh, Nizamul Rana and […]
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Amplitude’s CEO feels his company would be “in a world of hurt” if it hadn’t gone public in 2021
'There would be all this pressure to go public, but then there wouldn't be an appetite for it. And so [it would] be harder to get out.'
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Google’s new Transparency Center outlines its product policies, reporting tools and more
Google is launching a new Transparency Center to make it easier for users to learn more about its product policies. The central hub collects existing resources and policies to inform users on how Google creates and enforces them. With the new hub, users can learn more about Google’s policy development process, transparency reports, policies by […]
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Agility Robotics’ Damion Shelton and Melonee Wise will discuss the future of warehouse automation at TC Disrupt 2023
Agility Robotics is on a steady march toward commercialization, thanks to the continued growth of robotics in warehouse fulfillment and logistics and the expanding feature set of its bipedal robot. We’re excited to announce that Digit — escorted by co-founder and CEO Damion Shelton and Melonee Wise, the company’s new CTO — will join us […]
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WhatsApp adds support for HD photos, says HD video coming ‘soon’
WhatsApp is getting an upgrade that will allow users to share HD photos through the messaging app, according to an announcement shared by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his Instagram broadcast channel and via a Facebook post. The feature, which allows users to preserve the high-def resolution of the photos they share with friends and […]
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X, formerly Twitter, now sorts posts by like count on profiles when signed out
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point
How do you critique functional art? Do you base your assessment on its capability or the resolution at which it solves a problem? Is it more important that it succeeds as art? Or is it the overall statement of purpose that matters, balance between form and function be damned? Not questions I expected to grapple […]
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Armed with new execs, dLocal rebounds from a short seller attack in a big way
Uruguayan fintech company dLocal saw its stock surge by over 30% on Wednesday on the news that the payments outfit had tapped former Mercado Libre CFO Pedro Arnt as its new co-CEO. Shares closed up nearly 32% at $20.45, after climbing as high as $24.22 earlier in the day, giving the company a $6 billion […]
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BNPL vendor Splitit moves to go private in exchange for fresh funds
As the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market continues on its slow decline, one of the major players, Splitit, is embarking on an effort to reorganize and pivot. Splitit today announced that it has a $60 million “capital commitment” from strategic investors including Thorney Investment Group, Parea Capital and Motive Partners. Bringing the startup’s total […]
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As unicorns grow rarer, maybe it’s time to look towards revenue, not valuations
We should forget the whole unicorn debate and instead ask: How many startups can reach the $100 million revenue mark for a given period?
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Snapchat’s My AI goes rogue, posts to Stories, but Snap confirms it was just a glitch
Snapchat’s My AI feature, an in-app AI chatbot launched earlier this year with its fair share of controversy, briefly appeared to have a mind of its own. On Tuesday, the AI posted its own Story to the app and then stopped responding to users’ messages, which some Snapchat users found disconcerting. “My Snapchat AI posted […]
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OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination
OpenAI, the AI company behind the viral AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, has acquired Global Illumination, a New York-based startup leveraging AI to build creative tools, infrastructure and digital experiences. It’s OpenAI’s first public acquisition in its roughly-seven-year-history. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI […]
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Women-led firms are a bright spot in 2023’s fundraising slump
While we don't have the data to prove it outright, it feels like women-led funds have had a particularly strong year for fundraising.
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Photo layout app Series makes it easier to post your panos to Threads
Series, an iOS photo app that helps you layout your photos in creative ways for posting on social media, is now shaping up to become the must-have companion app for users posting their photos to Instagram Threads. On Threads, users soon realized that you could view images full screen and, with the right formatting, you […]
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