Google DeepMind uses GNoME to find 2.2M crystal structures, over 45x more than all such substances ever found, and plans to make 381K available to scientists
An interview with Philip Rosedale, who launched the online world Second Life in 2003 and says his vision predates Neal Stephenson's 1992 coinage of “metaverse”
Mark Zuckerberg's grand vision for an online existence has been laughed off as a corporate folly. https://twitter.com/... Forums: Hacker News : Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the pe...
A year on from Meta hyping the metaverse in a dystopian Super Bowl ad, enthusiasm for a virtual future has evaporated and Meta is now more focused on efficiency
Enthusiasm for a virtual future is draining away — and so is investment — Remember when we were all going to ditch our humdrum lives … Tweets: @jimpethokoukis , @mattnavarra , @t...
A look at little-known UK-based fintech Transactive, which processes €1B+ monthly and has UK and Lithuania licenses, and questions about staff ties to scammers
In the space of just five years, a little-known company on the outskirts of London has grown into a payments-industry powerhouse … Tweets: @donalgriffin1 , @fleming77 , and @silver...
How hacker Joe Grand used a fault-injection attack to crack a Trezor One hardware wallet to recover $2M in cryptocurrency for two friends who forgot the PIN
In early 2018, Dan Reich and a friend decided to spend $50,000 in Bitcoin on a batch of Theta tokens, a new cryptocurrency then worth just 21 cents apiece.
DuckDuckGo launches a new Email Protection service that forwards emails from a free “@duck.com” address to users' regular inbox after scanning them for trackers
This is your chance to get an ‘@duck.com’ email address — DuckDuckGo is launching a new email privacy service meant …
PandaDoc, which provides a fully digital sales document workflow, raises a $30M Series B extension, bringing the total raised in the round to $50M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @fleming77 Tweets: Jane Fleming / @fleming77 : PandaDoc, the startup that provides a fully digital sales document workflow from proposal to elect...
Stockwell, the AI-based vending machine formerly known as Bodega, which had raised at least $45M, will be shutting down July 1
Stockwell AI entered the world with a bang but it is leaving with a whimper. Founded in 2017 by ex-Googlers, the AI vending machine startup formerly known … Tweets: @kevintkrueger...
Toronto-based Top Hat, which makes software tools for teachers in higher education, raises $55M Series D co-led by Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital
Toronto-based Top Hat, a company that makes a number of software tools for teachers in higher education, today announced that it has raised …