How Bloomberg’s engineers built a culture of knowledge sharing
Bloomberg is a company synonymous with finance, technology, and media. It has offices across the globe and more than 8,000 engineers working to support everything from real-time data feeds about moves in the financial markets and the company’s journalists to mobile apps and AI models that can analyze financial data
Read moreVirgin Galactic’s first commercial flight set to lift off this morning
Virgin Galactic is gearing up to launch its commercial space tourism service for the first time this morning, a long-awaited debut that puts much on the line for the company. The 90-minute mission, called Galactic 01, will commence sometime after 9:00 AM local time, with the company’s aircraft taking off
Read moreMultiplication via parabola
Here’s a graphical way to multiply two positive numbers a and b using the parabola y = x². Start at the origin, move a units to the left, then go up vertically to the parabola, and draw a point. Go back to the origin, move b units to the right,
Read moreHalo Car launches remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las Vegas
Halo Car, a startup that uses remote operators to deliver rental cars to a customer’s door, has launched driverless operations in Las Vegas. Driverless operations mean something different for Halo than they do for autonomous vehicle companies like Cruise or Waymo because Halo’s vehicles aren’t capable of self-driving. The startup’s
Read moreSocial trading app Shares receives EU stock trading license
Fintech startup Shares has raised $90 million for its stock trading app. And yet, the service is only available to people who live in the U.K. But that’s about to change as the company has received a couple of authorizations from French regulators. With EU passporting rules, Shares could also
Read moreLightspeed makes first investment in Africa, backing Ghana’s Berry Health
Sexual and mental health stigmatization in Africa has evolved over several decades to a point where negligence to address the issue has led to the continent topping the charts in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and mental health cases. For one, around 11 people per 100,000 die by suicide in Africa
Read moreMeta expects recommendation models ‘orders of magnitude’ bigger than GPT-4. Why?
Meta made a remarkable claim in an announcement published today intended to give more clarity on its content recommendation algorithms. It’s preparing for behavior analysis systems “orders of magnitude” bigger than the biggest large language models out there, including ChatGPT and GPT-4. Is that really necessary? Every once in a
Read moreCyware lands $30M to modernize cybersecurity operations
Cyware, a startup developing products to help enterprises modernize their security operations, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series C funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures. Advent International, Zscaler, Emerald Development Managers, Prelude and Great Road Holdings also participated, bringing Cyware’s total raised to $73 million.
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