Ransomware is now a crisis, financial conference told
(On Monday I moderated a panel on ransomware at the annual SIBOS conference of the Swift IT messaging financial network, which this year is being held in Toronto. Some 8,000 business and technology executives from financial institutions around the world are here. Panel members included Adam Evans, senior vice president
Read moreIntroducing the 2023 Startup Battlefield Top 20 onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt
I’m thrilled to announce the Startup Battlefield 20 companies, pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. After last year’s big hit, TechCrunch editorial hand-selected 200 startups, out of thousands of applicants, to comprise the Startup Battlefield 200. This year, TechCrunch saw the highest number of applications across the largest spread of countries
Read more6 surveys that will get you prepped for Disrupt
Just in case you're wondering what's happening in the sectors our team's going to talk about at Disrupt, we've put together a handy primer of surveys.
Read moreGoogle wants to map more of the world’s roads with expansion of ‘Road Mapper’ volunteer community
Google announced today that it is opening access to more contributors to participate in Road Mapper, a tool where you can add missing roads to Google Maps in areas of the world that need it most. The company also noted in today’s blog post that its contributors have mapped more
Read moreNews aggregator app SmartNews’ latest feature aims to tackle doomscrolling
News aggregator SmartNews is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help combat the anxiety associated with regularly consuming negative news — something often referred to as “doomscrolling.” Instead of encouraging impulsive scrolling through its headlines, the app’s new feature called SmartTake claims to offer a selection of
Read moreNew SambaNova chip designed to handle 5 trillion parameter model
Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of last year, terms like generative AI and large language models have been on everyone’s lips. But when you dig beneath the hype, large language models generally require a lot of expensive GPU chips to run. SambaNova is introducing a chip today
Read moreHow to Keep Your Internet on During Loadshedding
That great black Friday deal was once something to get excited about, nowadays having the lights come on has got you jumping for joy. Whilst many have taken an alternative route to secure their power supply, some of us are braving it out through the dark and making the most
Read moreZayZoon, which lends employees money for a fee, raises $34.5M
ZayZoon, a fintech firm that got its start charging employees $5 to get paid sooner, has raised $34.5 million in a Series B round co-led by Framework, EDC with participation from ATB Financial. CEO Dary Tuer says that the funds, which bring ZayZoon’s total raised to $75 million, will be
Read moreHow deep tech founders can secure early-stage fundraising in a downturn
Deep tech companies, especially in the early stages in difficult funding environments, should focus first and foremost on closing the deal.
Read moreiPhone 15 Pro Max review
I fell asleep with my phone again. I know it’s bad for me, but work trips will do that to you. The next morning, bleary-eyed, I went to plug it in, spending a confused few moments wondering what had gone wrong. I was attempting to plug a Lightning cable into
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