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PRESS RELEASE. Palo Alto, October 18, 2021 – LTNM, the next generation insured asset-backed cryptocurrency, continues to gain momentum and expand its global acceptance as it announced today it will … Read More
The digital currency exchange FTX Trading Limited announced the firm has raised more than $420 million in a Series B-1 fundraise. The capital raise follows the crypto exchange’s financing round … Read More
Juggling tasks is key for entrepreneurs, especially when it comes to selecting priority marketing channels. For many new entrepreneurs, sticking to the tried and tested social media platforms like Facebook … Read More
Juggling tasks is key for entrepreneurs, especially when it comes to selecting priority marketing channels. For many new entrepreneurs, sticking to the tried and tested social media platforms like Facebook … Read More
Juggling tasks is key for entrepreneurs, especially when it comes to selecting priority marketing channels. For many new entrepreneurs, sticking to the tried and tested social media platforms like Facebook … Read More
Last year, Charlene Xia ’17, SM ’20 found herself at a crossroads. She was finishing up her master’s degree in media arts and sciences from the MIT Media Lab and … Read More
Pimco, an asset manager with $2.2 trillion under management, is looking to start trading cryptocurrencies. “We’re trading from a relative value perspective,” the firm’s chief investment officer said. Pimco’s clients … Read More
Tesla is currently holding bitcoin worth $1.26 billion on its balance sheet, the company’s third-quarter earnings report shows. The electric car company reported a bitcoin-related impairment of $51 million in … Read More
Fast-growing fintech Brex has raised $300 million in funding that propels it to decacorn status, just six months after it was valued at $7.4 billion, according to people familiar with … Read More
Relax and unwind in a calming VR experience complete with guided meditations on anxiety, depression, sleep, and more. Originally released on the Oculus Go in 2016, developer Cubicle Ninja today … Read More
If you’re standing at the water’s edge of the San Francisco Bay, chances are that you have half a dozen high-speed internet providers clamoring for your attention, eager to give … Read More
HP announced today that it’s launching an updated version of its Reverb G2 headset in the US that brings improvements to controller tracking, eye-relief, and AMD compatibility. Alongside the headset’s … Read More
The $5.5 billion pension fund for the U.S. city of Houston’s firefighters has announced an investment in bitcoin and ether. “This investment marks the first announced investment in digital assets … Read More
Leen Kawas. (Athira Pharma Photo) Leen Kawas has formally resigned as CEO and president of Athira Pharma and is stepping off the board after an investigation found the biotech executive … Read More
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So Plaid now calls itself a payments company. It was only a matter of time, really. Earlier today, the data and connectivity startup announced a new payments partner ecosystem that … Read More
Earlier today, the bitcoin price temporarily dove from $65,820 to a meager $8K on Binance.US, losing some mind-boggling 87% in value before making up those losses in the span of … Read More
Vector space models are to consider the relationship between data that are represented by vectors. It is popular in information retrieval systems but also useful for other purposes. Generally, this … Read More
MCO2 is a carbon credit token traded by Moss.Earth. One MCO2 token is equivalent to one carbon credit. It is now possible to find this asset available on the largest … Read More
Pete Knowlton Contributor Share on Twitter Pete Knowlton is the senior director of operations and community at Ghostery, a digital privacy company. When you think of today’s internet landscape, Google’s … Read More
On October 20, the iconic rap star Snoop Dogg announced he’s participating in a non-fungible token (NFT) sitcom with the popular basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters. According to the announcement, … Read More
The unlocked Oculus Go operating system build announced last month by John Carmack is now available to download and sideload. Go launched in May 2018 as Facebook’s first standalone headset, … Read More
You don’t have to go back to school or spend a fortune to acquire the skills you need to break into the tech industry. You can take self-paced courses, even … Read More
The global cryptocurrency market capitalization has soared beyond $2.5 trillion for the first time. An array of positives including rising altcoins and the approval of a bitcoin futures ETF are … Read More
Gold-exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been on a downward spiral for the better part of this year, with all the best-performing ones losing by up to 6% in annual return … Read More
Shuffle your way through a collection of newly compatible games and compete in an exclusive NFT tournament. Since the launch of its official Kickstarter back in 2018, Cybershoes have built … Read More
A Senate committee in Australia has made a number of proposals to address the lack of proper regulations for the cryptocurrency space. The lawmakers believe the country needs new rules … Read More
Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor Share on Twitter Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane Investments, investing in cloud infrastructure and security startups. When he is not investing, he is busy … Read More
A top performer just resigned out of nowhere, and you are now at a loss. What might be the reason for it? And how will this impact the rest of … Read More
John Morrow. (Convoy Photo) — Freight marketplace Convoy announced John Morrow as its new general counsel, effective Nov. 1. A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for … Read More
Unplugged is like Guitar Hero, although instead of picking up a dedicated peripheral and jamming away, it relies on Quest’s native hand-tracking to let you shred on an air guitar without controllers. It’s … Read More
Mars4 is a Mars Metaverse that brings users the virtual experience of the red planet, along with unique NFTs and play-to-earn (P2E) games. Mars4 users get to explore the fourth … Read More
AOI, an open innovation program in collaboration with PARTNRS group, INNO, Eric Roux, and Carlo Reding has joined the Tezos ecosystem today, following a recent announcement. Thus, AOI has officially … Read More
The Modern Age team, with CEO Melissa Earner on far right, back row. (Modern Age Photo) Here’s our latest rundown on recent startup investment news in the Pacific Northwest. — … Read More
Spacefolk City is a city building simulator that aims to get you plonking down a dense city landscape in free-floating space. It launches today on the Oculus Store for Quest … Read More
Parking can often feel almost laughably old-fashioned, with some lots still hiring an attendant to collect fees and check for valid tickets. Even when parking lot owners try to modernize … Read More
Nearly six months on from launch, tabletop VR dungeon crawler Demeo finally has a mid-game save feature. The option arrives as part of a free update today as announced over … Read More
The crypto economy has come awfully close to nearing the $3 trillion handle as far as the value of all 10,000+ crypto assets is concerned. Today, crypto market aggregation sites … Read More
If I went to Stanford and worked with some YC-backed startups, chances are that I’ll find it relatively easy to find one or two co-founders, get millions in funding and … Read More
Next Generation Internet (NGI) – Next steps survey 2021 editor_iot 21/10/2021 – 17:27 The Next Generation Internet initiative is deeply engaged in delivering the technologies implementing the vision of an … Read More
Socratic, an early-stage startup that wants to bring data to bear on a developer-focused task management system, announced a $3 million seed investment today from Unusual Ventures, Overtime.vc and a … Read More
Over the past few months at Link Labs, we have been breaking down the differences between Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) and Xtreme Low Energy (XLE), and how these two connectivity … Read More
Unplugged is the biggest and most ambitious game to go all-in on hand tracking on Quest, bringing your air guitar dreams to life. While it has its limitations, the game … Read More
Munich, Germany. 21 October 2021 – Infineon Technologies AG launched CIRRENT Cloud ID, a service that automates cloud certificate provisioning and IoT device-to-cloud authentication. The easy-to-use service extends the chain of … Read More
Unity, the platform that develops 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices, launches a beta version of Unity Gaming Services – a … Read More
Now out of office, news regarding former President Donald Trump has been rather lacking from TechCrunch’s pages. He’s back. News broke yesterday that Trump Media & Technology Group, a concern … Read More
Founded by entrepreneur Parker Conrad in 2013, the HR company Zenefits was quickly anointed one of the fast-growing companies in Silicon Valley, with a valuation that soared to $4.5 billion … Read More
When it comes to the digital world, many professional service firms are still working to get caught up — especially the smaller players. Today, B12, a startup that is focused … Read More
(Image courtesy Wyldwood Bayou grid.) Wyldwood Bayou grid will celebrate first anniversary from Friday, October 29 through Monday, November 1, which coincides with the grid’s second Halloween Bash to be … Read More
