Amazon is adding a TikTok-like feed of shoppable content to its app
Image: Amazon Amazon is the latest tech company to take a page out of TikTok’s playbook. The e-commerce giant announced it was launching a new feed in the Amazon app with photos and videos of items users can purchase, first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The feed, which Amazon is calling Inspire, is the … Read more
Waves-backed stablecoin USDN drops further after regulator warning and exchange delisting
WAVES price and its USDN stablecoin lose value after the Digital Asset eXchange Association issues a caution notice and Upbit exchange delists the token.
Women are rising through the ranks at VC firms, new survey shows
The next generation of women venture capitalists are rising through the leadership ranks — though there are some caveats to consider. A new survey looking at compensation for women in the venture industry this year found a higher concentration of women in lower-level firm positions than last year, representing around 43% of directors and principals … Read more
US Watchdog Says Banks Shying Away From Stumbling Crypto Industry
U.S. banks have been cooling off on their crypto interest since this year’s twin eruptions of Terra/LUNA and FTX, said Michael Hsu, the acting chief of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Exafunction supports AWS Inferentia to unlock best price performance for machine learning inference
Across all industries, machine learning (ML) models are getting deeper, workflows are getting more complex, and workloads are operating at larger scales. Significant effort and resources are put into making these models more accurate since this investment directly results in better products and experiences. On the other hand, making these models run efficiently in production … Read more
The hornet formerly known as ‘murder’ hasn’t been spotted in Washington state this year
Dead northern giant hornets, queens, lined up on top and smaller workers below — all samples brought in for research — are displayed with a field notebook on May 7th, 2020, in Blaine, Washington. | Photo by ELAINE THOMPSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Good news! The invasive insect formerly known as the “murder hornet” might soon … Read more
Reddit’s end-of-year Recap experience rolls out with personalized shareable cards
Reddit is rolling out its annual end-of-year Recap experience to give users a way to reflect on the time they spent on the platform in 2022. Your personalized Reddit Recap will show you a variety of stats, including a summary of the time you spent on Reddit, the content you most engaged with and the … Read more
Damage assessment using Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities and custom SageMaker models
In this post, we show how to train, deploy, and predict natural disaster damage with Amazon SageMaker with geospatial capabilities. We use the new SageMaker geospatial capabilities to generate new inference data to test the model. Many government and humanitarian organizations need quick and accurate situational awareness when a disaster strikes. Knowing the severity, cause, … Read more
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Amazon launches Inspire, a TikTok-like shopping feed that supports both photos and videos
Amazon is bringing a TikTok-like shopping experience to its app. The company today announced the launch of Inspire, a new short-form video and photo feed that allows consumers to explore products and ideas and shop from content created by influencers, brands, and other customers. The feature is designed to draw consumers’ attention away from apps … Read more
Deploy Amazon SageMaker Autopilot models to serverless inference endpoints
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning (ML) models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Autopilot can also deploy trained models to real-time inference endpoints automatically. If you have workloads with spiky or unpredictable traffic patterns that can tolerate cold starts, then deploying … Read more
Major Grayscale digital currency funds are trading at 34% to 69% discount to NAV
The firm manages more than $14.7 billion in digital assets through its OTC investment vehicles.
Schrödinger’s blue check: according to Twitter, I may or may not be notable
Twitter is rumored to re-roll-out its flopped Twitter Blue subscription tomorrow, which will once again enable people to pay real cash money to get a blue check next to their name. Hopefully, this time, it won’t lead to mass impersonation and misinformation, but who can say? Yet already, some users are noting that when they … Read more
Ocho wants to rethink (and rebrand) personal finance for business owners
When Ankur Nagpal sold Teachable for a quarter of a billion dollars, he felt lucky. Then, he quickly felt lost when trying to navigate the financial systems of a country he wasn’t born in and learn the institutional language often only spoken fluently by the historically wealthy. It would be a few years of self-employment, … Read more
Broadway’s K-pop musical showed how hard it is to create internet fame
KPOP cast members Min, Abraham Lim, and Luna take their bows on Broadway. | Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images A Broadway musical tried to court extremely online fans of artists like BTS and Blackpink. It didn’t quite succeed. Continue reading…
Chrome gets memory and energy saver modes
Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver. Modern browsers eat up a lot of memory and while that’s not a problem if you have 32GB of RAM, Chrome using multiple gigabytes of your memory can quickly slow your machine down if you’re on a machine with … Read more
Duffl’s David Lin dishes on why traditional rapid grocery delivery is not working
Quick commerce grocery delivery companies are having a moment, and not necessarily a good one. An industry that was on fire at the beginning of the global pandemic, mainly due to people forgoing IRL grocery shopping, has slowed as shoppers returned to brick-and-mortar stores. As a result, several so-called q-commerce companies pumped the brakes. Gorillas … Read more
FX’s Kindred series feels like a pale shadow of Octavia Butler’s seminal story
Mallori Johnson as Dana James in Kindred. | Image: FX FX’s new adaptation of Kindred gets utterly lost as it tries to update Octavia Butler’s classic story for a modern-day audience. Continue reading…