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Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg

​[[{“value”:” Here’s a blast from the past: Digg, one of the web’s early news aggregators, is now back under the ownership of its original founder Kevin Rose. Notably, he’s being joined as co-owner by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (both pictured above). Digg and Reddit were once fierce rivals in the online social news aggregation space, launching […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Evidence-based medicine: placing scientific evidence and patient values at the centre of healthcare

Evidence-based medicine: placing scientific evidence and patient values at the centre of healthcare

​[[{“value”:” Evidence-based medicine: placing scientific evidence and patient values at the centre of healthcare Published: Deciding between different treatment options can be a stressful and unnerving time for patients. To make such a decision, patients need guidance and well-founded recommendations from their clinicians. Professor Gordon Guyatt, at McMaster University in Canada, has spent his career in the field of evidence-based…

Apple is challenging U.K.’s iCloud encryption backdoor order

​[[{“value”:” Apple is challenging a U.K. Government data access order in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the Financial Times reports. The order targeted iCloud backups that are protected by end-to-end encryption. Last month, press leaks revealed the existence of the January order asking Apple to build a backdoor in iCloud’s encrypted backups. U.K. officials are exercising […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste

​[[{“value”:” A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019 in London, Epoch Biodesign now a 30+ strong multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists and software engineers. It will be using the new […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

CoreWeave acquires AI developer platform Weights & Biases

​[[{“value”:” Nvidia-backed data center company CoreWeave has acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases for an undisclosed sum. According to The Information, CoreWeave spent $1.7 billion on the transaction. Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25 billion in 2023, and it recently filed for an IPO. Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt, and Shawn Lewis founded Weights & Biases […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

CoreWeave partner EcoDataCenter racks up half a billion dollars to build more sustainable buildings for AI

CoreWeave partner EcoDataCenter racks up half a billion dollars to build more sustainable buildings for AI

​[[{“value”:” EcoDataCenter, a Swedish company that builds eco-friendly data centers used by major compute providers to handle their AI traffic, has raised nearly half a billion dollars — $478 million (€450 million) to be exact — in anticipation of more demand.  The equity funding, which is coming from a group of unnamed institutional investors, will be […] © 2024 TechCrunch….