Bumble announces Slack CEO Lidiane Jones will be its new chief exec
In a fast-moving news cycle, a personnel change wouldn’t seem to catch our attention, but this morning dating app Bumble announced a doozy: It’s replacing founder CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd with Slack CEO Lidiane Jones. Jones only started as CEO at Slack last year, replacing another founder CEO, Stewart Butterfield.
Read moreEarth mover’s distance
There are many ways to describe the distance between two probability distributions. The previous two posts looked at using the p-norm to measure the difference between the PDFs and using Kullbach-Leibler divergence. Earth mover’s distance (EMD) is yet another approach. Imagine a probability distribution on ℝ² as a pile of
Read moreThe product approach to open source communities
A business wouldn’t take its product development for granted, so why would you neglect the OSS community that’s fundamental to the project’s very existence?
Read moreLuxury clothing distributors get into virtual try-on tech; bag $15M Series A on a $100M valuation
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Read more20GROWTH secures $5M to invest in early-stage startups, provide growth strategies
The idea for 20GROWTH came from Harry Stebbings bringing together heads of growth and product from various companies to talk to his portfolio founders. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreApple says it’s not planning a 27-inch iMac
If you’ve been waiting on a new 27-inch to upgrade your desktop setup, maybe consider the new 24-inch iMac or a Mac Studio instead. Despite reports to the contrary, Apple this morning said it won’t be releasing a larger screen all-in-one desktop. The company is positioning the 24-inch M3 iMac
Read moreAmazon’s code-generating tool gets MongoDB-specific upgrades
Between open source and cloud-hosted, more proprietary solutions, there’s an abundance of AI-powered code-generating tools to choose from. So how does one choose? That’s a nuanced question. Beyond stronger performance on particular sets of programming languages or logic problems, there’s not a lot to differentiate one code-generating tool from another.
Read moreApple 16-inch M3 Max MacBook Pro review: A desktop among laptops
This thing is a beast — in pretty much every sense. It’s a big, heavy, powerful system, with a bright display, massive battery life and impressive power under the hood. After opening the box, I immediately ported all the contents over from the 15-inch Air I’ve been using daily for
Read moreJoe Puglisi on Digital Transformation Leaders: Calm Teachers and Helpful Simplifiers
When you meet Joe Puglisi, see him moderating a panel on stage, or participate in his SIM members in transition calls, you instantly know he’s someone you can learn a lot from. Joe was one of several key contributors to a recent Coffee with Digital Trailblazers, where we discussed who
Read moreBored Ape NFT event attendees report ‘severe eye burn’
Several event attendees saught medical attention after experiencing eye and skin injuries. | Image: @CryptoJune777 / Yuga Labs Several people have reported experiencing eye pain, vision problems, and sunburnt skin on Sunday after attending ApeFest, a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection event in Hong Kong that ran from November
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