Despite continuing talk about a possible recession, slumping tech stocks and a slowdown in the world of startup investing, the business of funding was positively humming last week. After slowing way down last spring, venture outfits disclosed a stunning $8 billion in new capital commitments in the span of just five days. Consider the following: NEA … Read more
Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate highly accurate forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Forecast is applicable in a wide variety of use cases, including estimating supply and demand for inventory management, travel demand forecasting, workforce planning, and computing cloud infrastructure usage. You can use Forecast … Read more
It isn’t clear whether a 25-year-old European Union law means you should be allowed to get refunds on your NFTs.
The fund took a 23% hit in November in the aftermath of FTX’s collapse.
The company also made public its first product, Pre-Cog, a platform aiming to uncover cyber, economic, governance and community threats before they can have an impact.
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Sovereign Labs has raised $7.4 million in seed funding led by Haun Ventures, co-founders Preston Evans and Cem Özer told TechCrunch. The startup is building an “open, interconnected rollup ecosystem” with a software development kit (SDK) to provide a framework for secure and interoperable zero-knowledge rollups (ZK-rollups). “Sovereign’s goal has always been to make scaling … Read more
The fundraise was led by Haun Ventures and included Maven 11, 1KX, Robot Ventures and Plaintext Capital.
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According to CoinShares, digital asset investment products saw $117 million in inflows last week.
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta has given its professional Meta Quest Pro headset a temporary $400 discount, bringing its cost down to $1,099 in the US. The deal, which, according to CNET, runs for one week in the US and two weeks in the UK at a price of £1,299, at … Read more
Even though it came out in late 2020, the $799 MacBook Air should still satisfy a lot of people. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Even though Apple’s M1 MacBook Air laptop is well over two years old, we still highly recommend it, especially when stores like Best Buy knock its price down … Read more
“I can’t explain it. It’s weird,” Alphonzo “Phonz” Terrell said. After losing his job at Twitter when Elon Musk took over, the former global head of Social & Editorial didn’t want to rest — he wanted to build. “Coming straight out of it, I was just like, ‘Oh, it’s time. It’s time to build, whether … Read more
Arrival is going through another restructuring — this time led by a newly appointed CEO — that will slash its workforce by about 50% as the the U.K.-based commercial EV company attempts to reduce operating costs and preserve cash. The company said Monday that Igor Torgov, former executive VP of digital at the company, has … Read more
A bug in a new centralized system that Meta created for users to manage their logins for Facebook and Instagram could have allowed malicious hackers to switch off an account’s two-factor protections just by knowing their email address or phone number. Gtm Mänôz, a security researcher from Nepal, realized that Meta did not set up … Read more
The crypto lender’s quest to get its hands on $580 million of Robinhood shares originally owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has taken another turn, the court was told.
While some NFT marketplaces have switched to royalty-optional models, artists behind PFP collections, one-of-one designs and music NFTs share different thoughts on the future of royalty fees.
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La tarjeta permitirá realizar pagos con 13 criptomonedas, incluyendo bitcoin, ether y Binance USD.
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to appear before Congress in March to face questions from lawmakers over US user safety and security on the popular video app, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The Energy and Commerce Committee confirmed the hearing in a press … Read more
Meta is killing off yet another project from its in-house R&D group, the NPE Team, following the company’s sizable layoffs announced in November, impacting 13% of its workforce. The latest experiment to be wound down is the social to-do list app called Move, launched last spring, which allowed users to earn points for completing tasks … Read more
Last year’s Nothing Phone 1. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Nothing’s next smartphone, the Phone 2, will be getting an official US release, the company’s CEO Carl Pei has confirmed in an interview with Inverse. Although the Phone 1’s transparent rear design and flashing light strips didn’t see a US release after … Read more
