Fetii’s group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YC
When he was a senior studying at Texas A&M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no good options for transporting groups of people. Fellow college students heading out for the night together didn’t have access to on-demand rides with the same convenience, accessibility, and affordability of typical ride-hail platforms,
Read moreWindows 10 Reaches EOL: Here’s What You Need to Know
As the calendar pages roll, a significant milestone for Microsoft’s popular operating system, Windows 10, approaches. Microsoft stated that “starting October 14, 2025, Windows 10 will no longer receive support updates or free software updates.” This signals the end of support for one of the world’s most popular operating systems,
Read moreHightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered by AI
Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch — co-founded by a former engineering manager at Segment — is announcing $80 million in funding for the next chapter: a platform
Read moreElon Musk doesn’t work for DOGE
Elon Musk is — according to a new legal filing from the US government — not running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), despite his leadership appointment by President Donald Trump. In fact, claims the new White House declaration, he isn’t technically even a DOGE employee despite representing himself as the key
Read moreLingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers
Monolinguists wanting to communicate with the global masses have never had it so easy. Trusty old Google Translate can convert the content of images, audio, and entire websites across hundreds of languages, while newer tools such as ChatGPT also serve as handy pocket translators. On the back end, DeepL and
Read more6 Key Tips for Avoiding Online Scams
Raising awareness about the critical importance of online safety for women has never been more pressing. Documentaries like The Tinder Swindler and TV shows such as Catfish highlight how digital crimes disproportionately affect women. It’s important to be aware of the tactics employed by cybercriminals, who craft enticing emails, messages,
Read moreAs US newspaper outages drag on, Lee Enterprises blames cyberattack for encrypting critical systems
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Read moreElon Musk’s xAI adds ‘Big Brain’ reasoning to Grok-3
Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled Grok-3 on Tuesday, announcing that the new artificial intelligence model has “more than 10 times” the compute power of its predecessor. xAI said its latest flagship outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Google’s Gemini, and DeepSeek’s V3 models in early testing, and now features “advanced reasoning” capabilities. So-called reasoning
Read moreLegal tech startup Luminance, backed by the late Mike Lynch, raises $75M
Generative AI is getting better at interpreting dense texts, and this progress has proven to be a boon for startups attacking one of the most complex sets of texts there is: the law. It makes sense then that we’ve been seeing a new burst of activity in the legal tech
Read moreLevel Zero Health banks $6.9M to prove wearable medtech can take the strain out of hormone testing
Level Zero Health, a female-founded medical device startup that’s aiming to break new ground by developing a device for continuous hormone monitoring, has closed an oversubscribed $6.9 million pre-seed funding round despite being only a little over a year old. The startup wants to do away with the need for
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