With liquidity rare, VCs may get creative to return investor cash
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Read moreEquity Shot: All about the Reddit IPO!
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Weekend team, we have something both short and sweet for you: A dig into the Reddit IPO filing that came out
Read moreA very accurate logarithm approximation
The previous post looked at an efficient way to approximate nth roots of fractions near 1 by hand. This post does the same for logarithms. As before, we assume x = p/q and define s = p + q d = p − q Because we’re interested in values of
Read moreApproximate roots of fractions
This post will discuss a curious approximation with a curious history. Approximation Let x be a number near 1, written as a fraction x = p / q. Then define s and d as the sum and difference of the numerator and denominator. s = p + q d =
Read moreStellantis CEO says there’s still life in Waymo deal for self-driving delivery vans
Stellantis, the automaker that owns 14 brands including Chrysler, Jeep and Ram, and autonomous vehicle technology company Waymo are not only still working together, the companies are deepening the partnership, CEO Carlos Tavares told TechCrunch in a recent interview. This “deepened” partnership will focus on commercial self-driving Ram delivery vans,
Read moreThis Week in AI: Addressing racism in AI image generators
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, Google
Read moreMiranda Bogen is creating solutions to help govern AI
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Read moreByju’s founder, ousted by shareholders, says rumors of his firing ‘greatly exaggerated’
Byju Raveendran, the founder of eponymous edtech group Byju’s, told employees on Saturday that he continues to remain the chief executive of the startup and that rumors of his firing have been “greatly exaggerated,” a day after a shareholder group voted to remove him at an emergency general meeting. In
Read moreHow Much Data Does Streaming Use?
Video streaming is the next big thing in the entertainment business. More consumers are developing a preference for streaming films and audio. To fulfill this demand, companies such as Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify have launched on-demand streaming services. The growing popularity of streaming means we’re consuming more internet bandwidth than
Read moreQuick thinking and a stroke of luck averted a moon lander disaster for Intuitive Machines
Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft touched down yesterday on the lunar surface . . . sideways. CEO Steve Altemus confirmed during a press conference Friday that, while it wasn’t a perfect landing, it’s nothing short of a miracle the spacecraft landed intact at all. Using a small model of the lander, Altemus demonstrated how engineers believe the
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