Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders
Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared.
Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple
Animosity between CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook erupts over privacy and dueling visions of internet
Following Bumble's IPO, CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who is 31, became the youngest female CEO ever to take a company public in the US
[Update 7 pm ET: Whitney Wolfe Herd ended the day Thursday with a net worth of $1.5 billion based on Bumble stock closing at $70.55.]
After researchers raised data privacy concerns, Clubhouse says it is taking steps “to prevent Clubhouse clients from ever transmitting pings to Chinese servers”
The audio chat app “Clubhouse” went viral among Chinese-speaking audiences. Stanford Internet Observatory examines …
House committee says Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and YouTube streamer Keith Gill will testify at GameStop hearing on February 18
On February 18th, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a virtual hearing to look into how GameStop's shares
Microsoft's quantum computing ambitions suffer a setback after its researcher, who claimed to have found the Majorana particle, prepares to retract his findings
In a 2018 paper, researchers said they found evidence of an elusive theorized particle. A closer look now suggests otherwise.
Sources: Qualcomm has told regulators around the world, including the FTC and UK's CMA, that it is against Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm
Qualcomm is not happy about it Bloomberg : Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm Protest Nvidia's Acquisition of Arm Ltd. Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous abou...
Inside “PGM” Facebook groups, the largest of which has 160,000+ members, where Brazilians collect, share, and memorialize the accounts of the recently deceased
Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazilian Facebook users were gathering to memorialize total strangers. Tweets: @garrytan , @decka227 , @cengizyar , @renske_visser , @restofworld , @j_fuller , @res...
Pivotal Commware, which develops mmWave 5G infrastructure products that make use of metamaterials tech, raises $50M Series C led by Tracker Capital Management
Kirkland, Wash.-based Pivotal Commware says it has closed on a $50 million funding round that will help it expand research …
What we want from Facebook and other platforms is not less politics but less of a distortionary effect on politics caused by an algorithmic bias toward outrage
Social networks would love to show users less political content. Here's why that's a problem.
Sharecare, a digital platform that helps users consolidate and manage their health information, announces plans to go public via a SPAC at a valuation of $3.9B
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News :
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing
Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful. — 11 hr ago Tweets: @noahpinion , @brianfagioli , @martinsfp , @ericnewcomer , @noahpinion ,...
A look at the challenges of podcast moderation: the difficulty of finding infringing content, the plethora of players, and philosophical objections to the idea
When former White House adviser-turned-podcaster Steve Bannon called for the beheading of Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray, the tech platforms reacted. Tweets: @mkadin and @ashleyrc...
Sources: ByteDance is exploring a sale of India operations of TikTok to rival unicorn Glance, in talks initiated by SoftBank, a backer of Glance's parent InMobi
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
Google resumes updating its major iPhone and iPad apps, starting with YouTube; Google did not update the apps since before Apple's Dec. 8 privacy label change
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Out of about $150B raised by US companies in VC funding in 2020, only $1B went to Black or African-American startup founders
Last year, U.S. companies raised record amounts of venture capital, at just under $150 billion. But of that capital, only $1 billion went to Black … Tweets: @robinwauters , @pblackshaw , @pauljudge ,...
The founder of Joker's Stash, one of the most popular marketplaces for stolen credit card and identity data, has allegedly retired with a fortune of $1B+
A look at Valuables, a service from crypto company Cent that lets users sell their tweets as non-fungible tokens in exchange for Ethereum
Scott Chipolina / Decrypt :
Report: African startups raised $1.43B in 2020, down 29% YoY, declining for the first time in almost a decade
Bloomberg :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.