Nominal, which offers tools for data analysis, testing, and more to startups building advanced hardware like drones, emerges from stealth with $27.5M in funding (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Nominal, which offers tools for data analysis, testing, and more to startups building advanced hardware like drones, emerges from stealth with .5M in funding (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Nominal, which offers tools for data analysis, testing, and more to startups building advanced hardware like drones, emerges from stealth with $27.5M in funding — – Lux Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund among investors — Software… Continue Reading →

23/04/2024

Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits — Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) on Friday said it will roll… Continue Reading →

20/04/2024

Tel Aviv-based Bridgewise, which uses AI to provide investment analysis to brokerages, wealth advisors, and exchanges, raised a $21M Series A led by SIX Group (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Tel Aviv-based Bridgewise, which uses AI to provide investment analysis to brokerages, wealth advisors, and exchanges, raised a M Series A led by SIX Group (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based Bridgewise, which uses AI to provide investment analysis to brokerages, wealth advisors, and exchanges, raised a $21M Series A led by SIX Group — – Bridgewise uses AI to do research of global securities … Continue Reading →

16/04/2024

A US official says the OFAC is investigating several US and foreign companies for shipments of chips with military applications that ultimately end up in Russia (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A US official says the OFAC is investigating several US and foreign companies for shipments of chips with military applications that ultimately end up in Russia — – US, EU increasingly concerned about Russian sanctions evasion — US analyzing… Continue Reading →

13/04/2024

A look at Android 15’s Private Space feature, similar to Samsung’s Secure Folder, which creates a separate profile for hiding apps and data (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: A look at Android 15’s Private Space feature, similar to Samsung’s Secure Folder, which creates a separate profile for hiding apps and data — With Private Space in Android 15, you can hide your most… Continue Reading →

09/04/2024

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube’s $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

<div>Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made .4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's .8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)</div>

Peter Kafka / Business Insider: Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube’s $28.8B in ad revenue that year — – Instagram generated $32.4 billion in ad… Continue Reading →

06/04/2024

NYC-based Web3 infrastructure company Xion raised $25M, reportedly a Series A, from Animoca Brands, Laser Digital, Multicoin, Arrington Capital, and others (MK Manoylov/The Block)

NYC-based Web3 infrastructure company Xion raised M, reportedly a Series A, from Animoca Brands, Laser Digital, Multicoin, Arrington Capital, and others (MK Manoylov/The Block)

MK Manoylov / The Block: NYC-based Web3 infrastructure company Xion raised $25M, reportedly a Series A, from Animoca Brands, Laser Digital, Multicoin, Arrington Capital, and others — – The web3 infrastructure firm Xion raised $25 million in funding. — Animoca… Continue Reading →

02/04/2024

NYC’s Microsoft-powered MyCity chatbot, launched as a pilot program last October, often gives inaccurate info, including telling businesses to break the law (Colin Lecher/The City)

<div>NYC's Microsoft-powered MyCity chatbot, launched as a pilot program last October, often gives inaccurate info, including telling businesses to break the law (Colin Lecher/The City)</div>

Colin Lecher / The City: NYC’s Microsoft-powered MyCity chatbot, launched as a pilot program last October, often gives inaccurate info, including telling businesses to break the law — The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords… Continue Reading →

30/03/2024

An investigation details the growing black market for Starlink kits being traded and activated illegally, including in regions subject to US sanctions (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: An investigation details the growing black market for Starlink kits being traded and activated illegally, including in regions subject to US sanctions — Starlink’s effectiveness as a communications tool makes the satellite internet service a target for a growing… Continue Reading →

26/03/2024

A breach seller dumped a dataset of 73M AT&T customers online, three years after a hacker teased such a leak; AT&T won’t say how its users’ data was leaked (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

<div>A breach seller dumped a dataset of 73M AT&T customers online, three years after a hacker teased such a leak; AT&T won't say how its users' data was leaked (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)</div>

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A breach seller dumped a dataset of 73M AT&T customers online, three years after a hacker teased such a leak; AT&T won’t say how its users’ data was leaked — Three years after a hacker first… Continue Reading →

23/03/2024

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