Month: February 2023
Never take meeting notes again
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US Blacklists Bitcoin, Ether Addresses Tied to Russian Sanctions-Evasion Efforts
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), its sanctions watchdog, has blacklisted a bitcoin and an ether address tied to sanctions evasion.
DeFi Marketplace Archimedes Raises $4.9M in Seed Round Led by Hack VC
The decentralized finance lending and borrowing platform is launching in February.
Quirks of the Page Visibility API
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Netlify acquires Gatsby
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Report: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks
Microsoft is working to incorporate a faster version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, into Bing in the coming weeks in a move that would make the search engine more competitive with Google, according to a new report from Semafor. The integration would see Bing using GPT-4 to answer search queries. People familiar with the … Read more
Snap hints at future AR glasses powered by generative AI
Social media company and Snapchat maker Snap has for years defined itself as a “camera company,” despite its failures to turn its photo-and-video recording glasses known as Spectacles into a mass-market product and, more recently, its decision to kill off its camera-equipped drone. But that hasn’t stopped the company from envisioning a future where AR … Read more
Federal judge bars SBF from contacting FTX and Alameda employees, using Signal
Sam Bankman-Fried could also be barred from accessing FTX and Alameda funds as part of his bail conditions, with a judge scheduled to discuss the matter in a Feb. 7 hearing.
Pakistan ‘degrades’ Wikipedia, warns of complete block over ‘sacrilegious’ content
Pakistan has “degraded” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warned of fully blocking the site if the online encyclopedia fails to comply with the directions. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the nation’s telecom regulator, said Wednesday afternoon that it had approached Wikipedia to block or remove certain “blasphemous” contents … Read more
Waverly Labs launches a translation app called Forum with support for 20 languages
Waverly Labs, the company behind wearables focused on translation, has launched an app called Forum that helps users translate and transcribe audio in real time. The company says the solution is useful for lecturers, auditoriums and theaters. What’s more, it is also compatible with video calling apps like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. Forum … Read more
Data-Free Disneyland
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The Cost of Shadow Work
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Doodles 2 NFT Mint Opens, Dooplicators Price Soars on OpenSea
The Doodles 2 collection allows users to create custom wearables for their original Doodles avatars on the Flow blockchain.
Decentralized Exchange Dexalot Starts a Hybrid DeFi Subnet
Dexalot’s users will be able to deposit and withdraw assets via its app on the Avalanche C-chain, and then trade on the Dexalot subnet.
VC Dayna Grayson tees up a talk on TAM at TechCrunch Early Stage
Do you dream of becoming a dominant player and capturing your total addressable market (TAM)? Who can blame you? But one of the most common mistakes many early-stage startup founders make is calculating a TAM that’s not necessarily accurate or obtainable. Understanding TAM is essential for startup success — especially in a down market when … Read more
Web3 could seize on the decades-old software-as-a-service business model
Web3 needs to set off toward new horizons to continue disrupting traditional industries, and B2B SaaS can enable that.
Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
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