Pitch Deck Teardown: CulturePulse’s $1M seed deck
Sentiment analysis, which means generalizing a feeling expressed by people in, say, online reviews, has been around for a hot minute. It’s a powerful feedback and quantitative analysis tool with wide-ranging political, commercial and social applications. Slovakian company CulturePulse recently raised just short of a million dollars to move the
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Read moreSequoia does to itself what the Biden administration wants to do with Google
Mary Ann and Alex are back, and once again this week they tapped the TechCrunch roster for expert input. This week the Equity crew were thrilled to welcome Jacquie back to the show! All the cool kids are filling out the Equity listener survey. We want to hear from you! It was
Read morePutting the ‘Pro’ in Apple Vision Pro and other TC news
At WWDC this week, Apple revealed its new Vision Pro headset, a platform it described as the advent of spatial computing. The company clearly put a lot of work into building Vision Pro, and VisionOS, the software that powers it, but is it as revolutionary as Apple marketing would have
Read moreThe Overflow #181: More on our AI future
Welcome to ISSUE #181 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: how we built course recommendations (and a whole new data platform), the stars of heavy metal, and the big bets of big tech. From
Read moreAnother huge US medical data breach confirmed after Fortra mass-hack
Hackers stole another half a million people’s personal and health information during a ransomware attack on a technology vendor earlier this year. Intellihartx, a Tennessee-based company that handles patient payment balances and collections, said in a notice filed with the Maine attorney general’s office that 489,830 patients had information stolen
Read moreMeta to appeal court ruling declaring content moderators as its employees
Meta is set to appeal Kenya’s court decision declaring it as the primary employer of the moderators that review content on its platforms in sub-Saharan Africa. Meta has filed a notice of appeal against the ruling made last week on orders issued in March. This comes after 184 moderators sued
Read moreSpotify is officially testing an offline mix
Music streaming company Spotify is finally and officially testing a playlist that automatically downloads some of your recent favorites a couple of years after starting working on such a feature. In a tweet, the company’s CEO Daniel Ek said that Spotify has been testing “Your Offline Mix.” But beyond that
Read moreEventKitUI Framework in iOS 17
WWDC brings some changes to EventKit and EventKitUI framework. In iOS 17, one's app can add events to the Calendar without prompting the user to access using EKEventEditViewController.If the purpose of your app is to create, configure, and present calendar events in an editor UI, consider saving events to Calendar
Read moreShell Recharge security lapse exposed EV drivers’ data
Oil giant Shell said it is investigating after a security researcher found an exposed internal database spilling the personal information of drivers who use the company’s electric vehicle charging stations. Security researcher Anurag Sen found a database online that contained close to a terabyte of logging data relating to Shell
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