El Salvador plans to build a “Bitcoin City” initially funded by a $1B “bitcoin bond”, with $500M to build mining infrastructure and $500M to buy more bitcoin
El Salvador, the only country in which bitcoin is a legal tender, is going to build an entire city based …
Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages
A month after the fall of the democratic government. — In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement …
Twitter's AI ethics researchers on getting public feedback about algorithmic bias, why responsible AI is hard, why they think algorithms can be saved, and more
While other tech giants hide from their internal researchers, Twitter is doing its failing — and fixing — in public
Head of safety says Meta doesn't plan to finish the global rollout of e2e encryption by default across all of its messaging services until sometime in 2023
Move comes as child safety campaigners express concern plans could shield abusers from detection — The owner of Facebook … Source: Telegraph .
Inside “Bitcoin Week”, a series of events in El Salvador that let industry experts and crypto proponents celebrate their bitcoin allegiance
Bitcoin bulls, as undeterred as ever, flocked to a week of events and revelry in the first country to make the cryptocurrency legal tender.
ConstitutionDAO, which crowdfunded over $40M, loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to a $43.2M bid from Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin
The Apple Podcasts app's review score went from 1.8 to 4.6 stars after Apple began prompting users for ratings, confusing some into rating individual podcasts
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Ultraleap, which develops ultrasound-based hand tracking tech and touchless interfaces for VR/XR headsets, raises an $82M Series D from Tencent and others
It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as weas) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology … Source: PR Newswire and Media4growth .
NY city council passed a bill that bans employers from using AI hiring tools unless a yearly bias audit shows they won't discriminate based on race or gender
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A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their conversion ads to iOS users after Apple's ATT change, down from 63.6%
Tatenda Musapatike is as familiar as anyone with the way Facebook's political ad system works. During the 2016 election and the 2018 midterms … Tweets: @carnage4life , @somospostpc , @codinghorror , ...
Brazil-based global payments network CloudWalk raises a $150M Series C led by Coatue at a $2.15B valuation, bringing its total funding to $365M
Brazilian financial technology company CloudWalk said on Wednesday it was valued at $2.15 billion after a funding round led by Coatue …
Square's TBD division releases a white paper detailing tbDEX, a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets
France-based Owkin, which helps medical researchers build and train AI models, raises $180M from pharmaceuticals company Sanofi
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SVT Robotics, which develops software for simplifying robot deployment at warehouses and factories, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global
SVT Robotics, a provider of software that orchestrates robots in warehouses and factories, has raised $25 million in series A funding led … Source: SCMR Editorial .
A look at projects like the Voguverse and companies like Pixel Vault that are trying to build media franchises around their NFT collectibles
There's a long way to go — In the online auction market OpenSea, you can pay around $600 to buy a portrait of a robot in streetwear — and, if you're lucky, a stake in a new media empire.
Extended threat detection and response startup Stellar Cyber raises a $38M Series B led by Highland Capital Partners with Samsung and others participating
Extended detection and response startup Stellar Cyber announced today that it has raised $38 million in new funding to expand its Open XDR platform. Source: Stellar Cyber .
Thirty startups attained $10B+ valuations globally in 2021 so far, compared to 15 new decacorns in 2020 and five in 2019
More new startups valued at $10 billion or above have been minted in 2021—far more than in any prior year, and double the number created in 2020 … Tweets: @davemcclure and @robmonster Tweets: Dave McC...
Sao Paulo-based social commerce marketplace Facily raises a $250M Series D at an $850M valuation, bringing its total funding to $366M
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Kettle, a reinsurance startup that uses ML modeling on weather, satellite imagery, and other datasets to predict climate change risks, raises a $25M Series A
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ourkettle , @alitamaseb , @trueventures , @acrewcapital , and @homebrew Tweets: Kettle Reinsurance / @ourkettle : Announcing our Series A. Many 🙏 to @AcrewCapita...
Japan-based VR startup Hikky raises a $57M Series A led by NTT Docomo to expand its web-based virtual events platform Vket Cloud
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Executives at Disney, Qualcomm, Coinbase, and other companies tried to weave their unrelated businesses into the metaverse discussion on their Q3 earnings calls
Alex Sherman / CNBC : Tweets: @sherman4949 , @mayhem4markets , @sherman4949 , @markhachman , and @sherman4949 Tweets: Alex Sherman / @sherman4949 : What is the metaverse? What isn't the metaverse? ht...
Berlin-based neobank N26, which was recently valued at $9B, to exit the US on January 11 after over two years, following its UK departure in April 2020
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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.
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