The 5 most interesting startups in this IndieBio cohort
IndieBio (part of SOSV) is a biotech investor and accelerator that has started shifting more and more toward climate tech in recent years. The current cohort is batch 13, for fall 2022, and we’ve taken a closer look at the five that stood out the most. IndieBio tells us that this batch is going big … Read more
Nasdaq Joins BlackRock as TradFi Defies the Bear Market and Embraces Crypto
Bear market hasn’t stopped the TradFi push into crypto as large players continue to pile into the industry, following Buffett’s famous rule “be greedy only when others are fearful.”
Jump-Backed Wormhole, Pyth Launch on Aptos Blockchain
Aptos co-founder Mo Shaikh says Jump Crypto has been “spending a lot of time” in the Aptos ecosystem.
How to automatically change your Slack status when you have a meeting
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge A lot of people work remotely these days, which makes work apps like Slack crucial for good communication. Slack status updates provide a particularly helpful and easy way to let colleagues know you’re busy — for example, when you’re in a meeting and can’t see each other in … Read more
Disrupt 2022’s climate tech and health tech sessions
Between the climate crisis and global pandemics, we’re living in remarkably fraught times. Undaunted by the magnitude of the challenges, Silicon Valley has been hard at work seeking to mitigate the threats, extend help to the overlooked, and prepare for a new kind of future. Some of the most promising and cutting-edge advancements in climate … Read more
Majority of crypto exchange leadership should be comprised of citizens, say Indonesian regulators
Officials with Indonesia’s Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency could implement a rule for two-thirds of directors and commissioners at crypto firms to be citizens.
Riot Blockchain Sues Northern Data Over Disclosures Related to Texas Bitcoin Mine Acquisition
This is the second lawsuit related to the Texas mega mine that Riot acquired last year.
Tech is at the heart of the biggest chess drama in years
The chess world is currently consumed by a drama as lurid and compelling, in its way, as the Don’t Worry Darling fracas. Involving implications of cheating at the highest levels of play, the feud between the world champion and an upstart challenger has prompted speculation on the existential threat to chess posed by an AI … Read more
Microsoft announces a Surface event for October 12th
New Surface devices are on the way. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft is holding a Surface event next month. The software giant is officially labeling the event “Microsoft Fall 2022 Event,” where it says it plans to “talk about devices.” The Microsoft event will kick off at 10AM ET on October 12th, … Read more
Checkmate: Cheating Detection
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A Call to the SEC: Treat Crypto Assets as if Clients Matter
Asset managers either risk violating the letter of the law, or breaching fiduciary duty by denying clients token rights, including voting and revenue.
Twitch plans to cut subscription revenue for some top streamers in push toward ads
Twitch plans to standardize its revenue sharing agreement with streamers, reshaping the earnings landscape for top creators who have historically been able to pocket a bigger portion of the money they generate through paid subscriptions on the platform. In a blog post on Wednesday, Twitch President Dan Clancy explained that while the “vast majority” of … Read more
Selling physical items as NFTs, explained
A growing number of physical items are being immortalized in NFT form. What are the opportunities here… and the challenges that need to be addressed?
Hodlonaut’s Tweets a ‘Reckless Campaign’ Against Craig Wright, Lawyers Say, as Satoshi Trial Reaches Conclusion
Accusing the self-proclaimed bitcoin founder of being a mentally ill scammer shouldn’t be allowed in a democracy, Wright’s lawyers said on the final day of the Oslo trial.
This site tells you if photos of you were used to train the AI
Deepfakes, AI generated porn, and a thousand more innocent uses — there’s been a lot of news about neural network-generated images. It makes sense that people started getting curious; were my photos used to train the robots? Are photos of me in the image-generating training sets? A brand new site tries to give you an … Read more
CoinFund’s Seth Ginns on why the crypto downturn has spared early-stage startups
Crypto token prices have been trending downward for the past year, with BTC and ETH both down over 50% since last September. Yet despite the downturn in cryptocurrency prices, early-stage web3 startups have shown remarkable resilience in their valuations, Seth Ginns, managing partner and head of liquid tokens at digital asset investment firm CoinFund told … Read more
Apple to move 25% iPhone production to India by 2025, 20% iPad and Apple Watch to Vietnam, analysts say
Apple began assembling some of its devices in India and Vietnam a few years ago, slowly cutting its reliance on China. The Cupertino-giant is now gearing up to make the two nations key global manufacturing hubs, according to analysts at JP Morgan. In a report they sent to clients Wednesday, JP Morgan analysts said Apple … Read more
Meta and Google are cutting staff
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Raising a glass to Satoshi’s Place and the challenge of running Bitcoin businesses
A Bitcoin-themed bar and education center has popped up in Northern England —Cointelegraph swung by to interview the founder and raise a glass.
OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system
Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English. Countless organizations have developed highly capable speech recognition systems, which … Read more
Run machine learning enablement events at scale using AWS DeepRacer multi-user account mode
This post was co-written by Marius Cealera, Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, Zdenko Estok, Cloud Architect at Accenture and Sakar Selimcan, Cloud Architect at Accenture. Machine learning (ML) is a high-stakes business priority, with companies spending $306 billion on ML applications in the past 3 years. According to Accenture, companies that scale ML across … Read more
Enable intelligent decision-making with Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon QuickSight
Every company, regardless of its size, wants to deliver the best products and services to its customers. To achieve this, companies want to understand industry trends and customer behavior, and optimize internal processes and data analyses on a routine basis. This is a crucial component of a company’s success. A very prominent part of the … Read more