Defacto gets new credit facility to provide instant financing to small companies

French startup Defacto has closed a new securitization fund that will be used to provide short-term loans to small and medium enterprises via an embedded, API-first approach. This is... Read more »

Android 14’s fourth beta version brings auto-confirm unlock feature

Google released the Android 14 Beta 4 on Tuesday as the company prepares for the final release of the operating system update. The new version mostly includes bug fixes... Read more »

Oritain raises $57M for its forensic, big-data science approach to tracking the origin of goods

Global supply chains have made the world smaller by enabling us to have virtually anything we want at the tap of a finger. But when it comes to things... Read more »

Prolific raises $32M to train and stress-test AI models using its network of 120K people

AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should: if the data used to train models is not... Read more »

Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data

A Nebraska woman has pleaded guilty to helping her daughter have a medication abortion last year. The legal proceeding against her hinged on Facebook’s decision to provide authorities with... Read more »

Full-stack insurtech startup PasarPolis hires former CEO of Allianz Indonesia

PasarPolis, one of Indonesia’s first full-stack insurtechs, has brought on Peter Van Zyl as its president. Van Zyl is former director and CEO of Allianz Indonesia, one of the... Read more »

Everything you need to know about e-bike battery fires

The e-bike revolution started with the pandemic and has been hailed as the answer to everything from traffic congestion to greenhouse gas emissions to fitness to depression. Indeed, it... Read more »

Create context and provide examples to lower AI adoption barriers

Jeremiah Stone Contributor Share on Twitter Jeremiah Stone is CTO at SnapLogic. Every company needs to be thinking about how to make artificial intelligence (AI) a seamless extension of... Read more »

Cybersecurity professional accused of stealing $9 million in crypto

The U.S. government accused a cybersecurity professional of hacking a cryptocurrency exchange and stealing around $9 million in cryptocurrency, in what looks like a case of an ethical hacker... Read more »

Astranis will launch a dedicated internet satellites for the Philippines next year

Space-based internet startup Astranis inked a new deal to launch and operate a dedicated satellite for the Philippines, which will provide enough bandwidth to connect up to two million... Read more »
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