Fintech argentina Ualá habilita la compraventa de bitcoin y ether
El servicio estará disponible para 4,5 millones de usuarios en el país sudamericano en las próximas semanas.
Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M seed and new state contracts
Education options during and after incarceration have never been particularly extensive, despite the best intentions of educators. Emerge Career is working on changing that, and its early success in putting formerly incarcerated folks to work is attracting investment from both VCs and government programs. It was only August when Emerge first appeared as it came … Read more
TechCrunch+ roundup: TAM tough love, ‘building in public,’ 6 key SaaS metrics
Are you ready to launch a bajillion-dollar startup? Before you start: Are you planning to build a centaur, a unicorn or perhaps a decacorn? Startup pitching has become an existential drama, in part because so many founders exaggerate the size of the total addressable market (TAM) in which they hope to compete. At TechCrunch Disrupt, … Read more
Don’t Mistake Tech Layoffs for a Recession
If job numbers are so strong, why all the layoffs in technology?
Why Robinhood and Coinbase gained ground after reporting earnings
You’d be forgiven for expecting public fintech companies that facilitate consumer trading to be under pressure this week. And yet, after reporting earnings, the share prices of two pandemic-era highfliers gained ground. Coinbase and Robinhood up? In this economy? Yes. Of the out-of-fashion tech sectors, consumer trading has to be among the most out of … Read more
UK lawmakers open inquiry into NFT regulation — ‘there are fears that the bubble may burst’
According to the DCMS committee, NFT regulation in the U.K. is “largely non-existent,” with lawmakers planning to assess the assets ahead of a review by the treasury department.
Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web
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How to use Continuity Camera on macOS
Samar Haddad / The Verge Continuity Camera is one of the most exciting features of macOS Ventura. It allows you — if you’re taking a call from your MacBook — to substitute an iPhone’s camera for the webcam. The feature can be a bit of a hassle to set up, but once you’ve got all … Read more
Bitcoin Tops $21K, Shrugging Off Unexpectedly Strong US Jobs Report
The bitcoin price rose as high as $21,287 in the past 24 hours, the highest since Sept. 13.
Deploy BLOOM-176B and OPT-30B on Amazon SageMaker with large model inference Deep Learning Containers and DeepSpeed
The last few years have seen rapid development in the field of deep learning. Although hardware has improved, such as with the latest generation of accelerators from NVIDIA and Amazon, advanced machine learning (ML) practitioners still regularly encounter issues deploying their large deep learning models for applications such as natural language processing (NLP). In an … Read more
Zero Hash da el primer paso en América Latina y comienza a operar en Brasil
Tras abrir una oficina en San Pablo, la empresa ahora planea ofrecer soluciones de liquidez a clientes de ese país sudamericano.
Dogecoin trader explains why shorting DOGE now makes sense
The independent market analyst will short Dogecoin even more if Elon Musk goes ahead with his plans to add DOGE payments to Twitter.
Asteroid surveys are on the hunt for ‘city killers’
An artist’s impression of an asteroid lurking inside the orbits of Earth and Venus. | Image: DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/ This week, astronomers announced the discovery of three previously unknown near-Earth asteroids that had been hiding in the glare of the Sun — and one of them is a giant. At nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across, it … Read more
What investors really think about the TAM slide in your pitch deck
We’re encouraged to think of pitch meetings as a trial by fire: If an entrepreneur can negotiate deadly traps and slay the doubt monsters that bedevil tech investors, they’ll be rewarded with a golden SAFE note at the end of their quest. Particularly for first-timers, the pitch has become an existential drama, which can lead … Read more
Why are institutions accumulating crypto in 2022? Fidelity researcher explains
Institutional involvement in crypto, especially in Ethereum, has increased in 2022 despite the bear market, according to the latest findings of a Fidelity Digital Assets survey.
Musk blames ‘activist groups’ for major advertisers pausing spending on Twitter
As mass layoffs begin at Twitter, major advertisers are pausing their campaigns on the social network — a move that’s gotten the attention of newly-minted CEO Elon Musk. In a tweet this morning, Musk blamed a “massive drop” in Twitter revenue on “activist groups pressuring advertisers,” likely referring to an open letter sent Tuesday by … Read more
Should Twitter embrace porn and compete with OnlyFans?
So let’s say hypothetically, you’re an extremely online billionaire who just bought a social media platform for $44 billion, a purchase you presumably regret given the fact that you spent months in legal limbo trying and failing to get out of the deal. You’re probably wondering how you can turn a company that operated at … Read more
At Stake in the US Midterms: The Future of Money
What’s at stake in the makeup of Congress in 2023 is bigger for crypto than it’s ever been, with some seminal regulatory legislation up for consideration, and that this matters not only to crypto natives but to everyone because the laws in question could define the future of money.
The best early Black Friday deals you can already get
The iPad Mini is just one of many Apple devices currently on sale in the run-up to Black Friday. | Image: Dieter Bohn / The Verge Want to get a head start on your holiday shopping before the Black Friday madness begins? Despite the fact it’s still a few weeks away, many major retailers are … Read more
Hulu set to raise the cost of the Hulu Live TV bundle in December
A month after Hulu raised the subscription prices of its on-demand streaming service, it is now targeting the subscribers of its live TV streaming bundle. Parent company Disney announced in August that it would increase the cost of the Hulu Live TV bundle later in the year. Starting on December 8, Hulu Live TV subscribers … Read more
Use Github Samples with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler is a UI-based data preparation tool that helps perform data analysis, preprocessing, and visualization with features to clean, transform, and prepare data faster. Data Wrangler pre-built flow templates help make data preparation quicker for data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners by helping you accelerate and understand best practice patterns for … Read more
Why ButcherBox built two dry ice factories during the pandemic
As a startup, when you’re trying to stay as lean as possible, outsourcing is the name of the game; if you can get someone else to do the work for you (and manage the team, deal with hiring and HR, etc.), that’s a win. The major exception is anything that creates core intellectual property and … Read more
Argentine Fintech Uala Launches Bitcoin, Ether Trading Feature
The service will be available to 4.5 million users in the South American country in the coming weeks.
Uber withdraws petition to annul new ride-hailing regulations in Kenya
Uber has applied to withdraw a petition in Kenya challenging the new ride-hailing regulations that capped commissions at 18%, and required taxi apps operating to acquire licenses. Coulson Harney, the law firm representing Uber, filed the notice of withdrawal, bringing to an end its push to have the new digital ride-hailing regulations annulled. “Take notice … Read more