[[{“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
[[{“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…
ARM to sign $250M chip deal with Malaysia
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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….
Darwinbox, the HR upstart from India, raises $140M to take on Deel and Rippling
[[{“value”:” Darwinbox, an Indian startup building a SaaS platform for hiring, onboarding and employee administration, has raised $140 million to take on the likes of Rippling and Deel as it seeks to expand internationally, especially in the U.S. The funding is being co-led by KKR and Partners Group, and is a mix of primary and secondary […] © 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
[[{“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….
Meta brings its anti-fraud facial recognition test to the UK after getting a thumbs up from regulators
[[{“value”:” Last October, Meta dipped its toe into the world of facial recognition — an area where it has had a tricky track record — with an international test of two new tools: one to stop scams based on likenesses of famous people, and a second facial recognition feature to help people get back into compromised […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Defense tech startup Epirus raises $250M Series D to counter drone swarms
[[{“value”:” Defense tech startup Epirus has raised a $250m Series D to expand its counter-drone solutions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]