Fidelity, Schwab, Citadel backing new crypto exchange EDX signals TradFi’s deeper dive into digital assets
Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Earlier this week, EDX Markets launched its digital asset platform, the firm shared on Tuesday. But what has made this launch catch a lot of attention? Its founding investors, which include major traditional
Read moreInfosec talent shortage is ‘manufactured,’ MapleSec panel told
The talent shortage in cybersecurity could disappear if organizations had looser needs and spent more on educating existing staff, Canadian experts say. “I think the resource challenge is actually manufactured,” Michael Glover, former CISO of an online betting firm told this week’s IT World Canada MapleSec Satellite series on Wednesday.
Read moreLife after logistics
You’ll have to forgive me, as this is going to be one of those in-between Actuator weeks. I finally took a couple of days off last week after working through the last few weekends, and today I’ve been rewarded with a throbbing migraine. Isn’t the human body magical? Either way,
Read moreAndreessen Horowitz creates ‘Perennial’ evergreen fund amid market slowdown
Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies including Airbnb, Coinbase and GitHub, has created a new fund to continue growing its business despite the slowdown in traditional VC funding. The evergreen fund is titled a16z Perennial Venture Capital
Read moreTikTok’s COO is leaving the company
TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. Pappas, who previously held positions as the global head of creative insights and audience development at YouTube, has been with TikTok for nearly five years. According to LinkedIn, Pappas first joined TikTok parent company
Read moreCanadian infosec pros wish they’d spent more time on security when migrating to cloud: Survey
Despite storing more than half their data to the cloud, Canadian organizations only allocate 34 per cent of their cybersecurity budgets to cloud security, according to a new survey from Telus. In fact, 99 per cent of respondents admitted that if they could go back and migrate to the cloud
Read moreAWS weighs in on the potential of AI to fight wildfires
Canada is currently facing its worst wildfire season in recent memory, with blazes burning in nearly all provinces and territories. Last week, we saw the air quality index in Ontario swell to unprecedented levels, blanketing skies in the province and the north-east region of the U.S. with a yellowish haze
Read moreRobots learn to perform chores by watching YouTube
Learning has been a holy grail in robotics for decades. If these systems are going to thrive in unpredictable environments, they’ll need to do more than just respond to programming — they’ll need to adapt and learn. What’s become clear the more I read and speak with experts is true
Read moreKibsi raises $9.3M for its no-code computer vision platform
Kibsi is an Irvine, California-based startup that is building a no-code computer vision platform that allows businesses to build and deploy computer vision applications. Among the things that set Kibsi apart from many other players in this space is that it lets businesses reuse their existing cameras to create insights
Read moreWarming public markets are boosting the secondary market for startup shares
The late-stage startup market is sorting out how to value startups that had raised capital during the previous venture boom — Tiger Global Management recently resorted to selling individual stakes in its portfolio companies after failing to sell a basket of its stakes. Frankly, it wasn’t shocking to hear that
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