Anker’s Eufy deleted these 10 privacy promises instead of answering our questions
A Eufy camera in the rain. | Image: Eufy It’s been two weeks since we reported that Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras, and we’ve been pushing the company for answers ever since. But the company hasn’t answered a single one of our questions — in fact, I haven’t … Read more
With IT spending forecast to rise in 2023, what does it mean for startups?
Although we’re in a period of economic uncertainty, I come bearing good news: All signs point to IT spending going up in 2023. By all rights, that should be outstanding tidings for startups. But it’s not all rosy, however, because in times of turbulence, startups really have to prove their worth. Companies recognize that they … Read more
Best practices for Amazon SageMaker Training Managed Warm Pools
Amazon SageMaker Training Managed Warm Pools gives you the flexibility to opt in to reuse and hold on to the underlying infrastructure for a user-defined period of time. This is done while also maintaining the benefit of passing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing compute instances in to Amazon SageMaker Model Training. In this post, … Read more
Sony is making a multiplayer Horizon game
I can’t wait to take on some robot dinos with my friends. | Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment Horizon Zero Dawn developer Guerrilla Games is working on a new Horizon online multiplayer game, according to a tweet about jobs at the studio (via Kotaku). “A new internal team is developing a separate Online Project set in … Read more
Apple’s rumored NFL Sunday Ticket deal might not happen this year
Seems like we’ll be waiting a little bit longer to hear about the next home for NFL Sunday Ticket. | Photo by Christopher Mast / Getty Images Apple’s long-rumored deal for NFL Sunday Ticket may not happen this year after all. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said this summer that the NFL expected to pick where … Read more
TechCrunch+ roundup: New VC rules, AI biotech investor survey, Instagram ad case study
When a cat is scared, it may hide under the couch; a startled fish will swim into a dark hole. And when humans feel uneasy, we tell ourselves stories. An example: “growth at all costs” is a fairy tale made possible by cheap money that helped venture capitalists set expectations for founders — and each … Read more
Elon Musk temporarily suspends Twitter Spaces after being confronted by banned journalist
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Last night, Elon Musk popped into a Spaces chat discussing his move to ban a bunch of journalists’ accounts from the platform. Confronted by Buzzfeed News’ Katie Notopoulos and The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell (who was one of the banned reporters) on how he can claim to support … Read more
2023 Will Be the Year of Dapps – Here’s What to Expect
The greatest areas for decentralized application (dapp) development will be across gaming, identity and the evolution of Web2 apps.
Amazon acquires film/TV rights to ‘Warhammer 40,000’ IP
Amazon announced today that it signed a deal with Games Workshop (GAW), giving it IP rights to the “Warhammer 40,000” universe, a massively popular tabletop miniature wargame. This is the first deal of its kind for Amazon, the company claims. “Warhammer 40,000” takes place in the distant future, where humanity is threatened by aliens and … Read more
2023: The Year DAOs Follow the Law?
Decentralized autonomous organizations should make the necessary handshake with the existing legal system in order to mature and integrate with the rest of the global economy.
Solo GP Nichole Wischoff raises $20M fund backed by Peter Thiel to invest in ‘unsexy businesses’
Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. However, not many of these are led by solo general partners (GPs), and although that trend is on the rise, even fewer are led by women or people who don’t come from venture capital. The above makes Nichole … Read more
How to evaluate the quality of the synthetic data – measuring from the perspective of fidelity, utility, and privacy
In an increasingly data-centric world, enterprises must focus on gathering both valuable physical information and generating the information that they need but can’t easily capture. Data access, regulation, and compliance are an increasing source of friction for innovation in analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). For highly regulated sectors such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, … Read more
Augment fraud transactions using synthetic data in Amazon SageMaker
Developing and training successful machine learning (ML) fraud models requires access to large amounts of high-quality data. Sourcing this data is challenging because available datasets are sometimes not large enough or sufficiently unbiased to usefully train the ML model and may require significant cost and time. Regulation and privacy requirements further prevent data use or … Read more
Bitcoin targets $16.7K amid fear BNB may ‘drag whole crypto market down’
Binance Coin “has nothing but air below it,” one analyst warns as BTC price action goes from bad to worse.
How to upgrade to the new Apple Home architecture
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge With the release of iOS 16.2 this week, you can now upgrade your Apple HomeKit smart home to a new underlying architecture, which Apple says “will improve the performance and reliability of the accessories in your home.” This new foundation for Apple’s smart home was first announced at … Read more
Basel Committee Endorses Global Crypto Banking Rules to Be Implemented by 2025
The rules suggested that a banks exposure to certain crypto assets must not exceed 2% and should generally be lower than 1%.
The Faulty Moral Universe of Sam Bankman-Fried
His legal-scholar mother, Barbara Fried, believed personal responsibility was an outdated concept. Did those ideas create a monster?
Audit firm Mazars ceases proof-of-reserves work for Binance and others
Global audit firm Mazars has deleted the website that hosted proofs-of-reserves work for cryptocurrency exchanges. The company told Bloomberg that it is suspending its work with crypto companies on proofs-of-reserves reports going forward. Mazars appeared a few times in crypto news over the past few weeks because it started issuing those reports for cryptocurrency exchanges. … Read more
FTX and Crypto Bust Show Capitalism’s Limits
Investors have been led astray by misleading signals from the market. It enticed them to go “all in” on centralized exchanges rather than focusing on real-world use cases for tokenized value exchange.
Collegiate entrepreneur hubs look to provide first support for would-be startups
It seems like a lot of startups are born from an idea someone had while in college. But what if, instead of being honed years later at an accelerator, that initial idea was supported on campus while the dreamer was still enrolled? For example, David Lin started food delivery service Duffl two years ago while … Read more
FTX liquidators’ legal team urges cooperation with Bahamian authorities amid favoritism allegations
According to lawyers representing FTX’s provisional liquidators, allegations that Bahamian officials were giving residents preferential treatment were “wholly without merit”.