Month: October 2022

Reddit acqui-hires team from ML content moderation startup Oterlu

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Reddit announced today that it’s bringing on the team from Oterlu, a startup from Gothenburg, Sweden that develops machine learning-powered content moderation tools. The Oterlu team will join Reddit’s Safety team and develop native machine learning moderation models that can quickly and accurately detect harmful content across a range of languages, Reddit says. The Oterlu … Read more

Edtech’s honeymoon might be over, but expect a second boom

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Rhys Spence Contributor Share on Twitter Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund. More posts by this contributor Despite creaky markets, European edtech is showing its resilience European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021 Carla Napoleão Contributor Share on Twitter Carla Napoleão is an edtech analyst … Read more

Google begins rolling out its iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets

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Google’s anticipated iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets have now begun to arrive. Alongside the launch of Apple’s new mobile operating system, iOS 16, the search giant last month had teased its plans to support the iPhone’s newest feature that allows users to place widgets directly on their phone’s lock screen, offering information and easy access … Read more

Someone is tricking Chinese YouTube users with a spyware version of the Tor Browser

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Researchers at Kaspersky have found malware hidden in a modified version of the anonymity-preserving Tor Browser, distributed in a way that specifically targets users in China. According to details published in a blog post on Tuesday, the malware campaign reaches unsuspecting users through a Chinese-language YouTube video about … Read more

SingleStore raises $30M more to brings its database tech to new customers

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Months after bagging $116 million in an extension of its Series F round, database vendor SingleStore this week announced that it raised an additional $30 million from investors including Prosperity7, the venture arm of Saudi Aramco. The Series F — or “Series F-2,” technically — now stands at $146 million, bringing SingleStore’s total raised to … Read more

3 takeaways from the Poshmark-Naver deal

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Naver buying Poshmark for $17.90 per share is a fascinating deal, featuring elements of cross-border M&A, a sector on its back foot, and stock-market dynamics making some formerly expensive companies perhaps cheaper to pick off than they may ever be again. TechCrunch+ asked yesterday why we weren’t seeing more software M&A in light of depressed … Read more

Xiaomi’s latest flagship has a 200-megapixel sensor — so don’t think spec race is over

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Xiaomi just launched the 12T Pro, a flagship with a 200-megapixel main camera. The company is using Samsung’s HP1 sensor with a base pixel size of 0.64μm and f/1.69 aperture. The sensor, which was launched last year, uses pixel binning in different ways: it can combine 16 pixels to produce a 12.5-megapixel image (2.56μm pixel … Read more

Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York

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Micron plans to start constructing its new hub in 2024. | Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Semiconductor company Micron is pledging $100 billion to build a chip factory near Syracuse, New York, the company announced in a press release on Tuesday. Micron says it’s the “largest semiconductor fabrication facility in the history of the United … Read more