Can we get more crypto partnerships and less crypto layoffs, please?

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Twitter rival ‘T2’ raises its first outside funding, $1.1M from a group of high profile angels

It hasn’t decided on a name, it’s still on the hunt to fill some important roles, and its early alpha has less than 100 users as of today. But,... Read more »

Robot or fauxbot?

This is my week of debriefs. CES has a way of hurling you into the new year, kicking and screaming, and it can be hard to find your bearings... Read more »

VALL-E’s quickie voice deepfakes should worry you, if you weren’t worried already

The emergence in the last week of a particularly effective voice synthesis machine learning model called VALL-E has prompted a new wave of concern over the possibility of deepfake... Read more »

FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. Because they’re relatively affordable and can be programmed for a range of use... Read more »

Pitch Deck Teardown: Mint House’s $35M Series B deck

Life has been pretty brutal in hospitality over the past couple of years, but that hasn’t stopped Mint House from bubbling to the top with a series of tech-forward... Read more »

TikTok fined in France for manipulative cookie consent flow

TikTok is the latest tech giant to be schooled by France’s data protection watchdog for breaking rules on cookie consent. The €5 million penalty announced today by the CNIL... Read more »

Web3 could help fashion become more sustainable

Actually, there is one industry that could use web3, and that industry is fashion. Hear us out. Fashion is one of the most polluting sectors in the world, and,... Read more »

Career Karma’s latest layoff underscores edtech’s new challenge

Learning navigation platform Career Karma has laid off another 22 people across its global and domestic workforce, less than five months after it cut 60 staff members, according to... Read more »

DeFi startups need to experiment with new use cases and build solutions, investors say

Although the crypto ecosystem has faced its fair share of bumps, venture capitalists are still bullish about the space and continue to look at decentralized finance (DeFi) as a... Read more »
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