Billionaire brawl: all the latest on the cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge; Photos by Nathan Laine and Kevin Dietsch via Getty The two social media CEOs have agreed to duke it out in a cage match. Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are going to have a cage match, or at
Read moreHow Observability Changed My (developer) Life
Photo by Ben Blennerhassett on UnsplashRecently I was thinking what was the single most important thing that changed my point of view on programming other than switching from PHP to Kotlin, and that thing is observability. I’ll try to share my journey with the concept and provide some experiences and recommendations
Read moreFairphone’s repairable smartphone goes on sale in US for the first time — in a ‘deGoogled’ Murena e/OS variant
European sustainable smartphone brand Fairphone is dipping a toe in the US market by making its flagship repairable handset available to buy there for the first time via another collaboration with e/OS, a French privacy-focused not-for-profit open source OS maker that offers a “deGoogled” mobile operating system. The Dutch ethical
Read moreBlue Origin eyes international expansion
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is looking to expand into international markets, with the company in the early stages of eyeing up a launch site outside of the United States, CEO Bob Smith said earlier this week. Blue Origin is also actively looking for partnerships and acquisitions “in Europe
Read moreEGYM, the Munich-based smart fitness startup, raises $225M from Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners
The technology industry at large might not be in the best of health at the moment, but health and fitness startups appear to be alive and well. EGYM, the Munich-based “smart workout solution” business, has agreed a monster equity investment of €207 million ($225 million), on the back of a
Read moreAn Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Training in Deep Learning
The amount of existing research and technology is overwhelming sometimes. This is why this series of articles was created — to make the information accessible to beginners.So you are training a deep neural network, and it’s slow. But you have multiple GPUs and/or computers available.How do you utilize them? How do you
Read moreMeta’s Threads app is a privacy nightmare that won’t launch in EU yet
Meta’s planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn’t yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare. Information provided about the app’s privacy via mandatory disclosures required on iOS shows the app may collect highly sensitive information about users in order to profile their digital activity — including health and
Read moreTwitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets
Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions. This means you can open Twitter links in a browser without an account. We at TechCrunch noticed that tweet previews are unfurling in Slack and WhatsApp. Folks at Engadget noted that Twitter previews were
Read moreSteering through venture’s global correction with the GPCA’s CEO
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show where we niche down to a single topic and dig deep. All the cool kids are filling out the Equity listener survey. We
Read moreYes, investors will sign an NDA, but only in this specific circumstance
If you’ve tried to get an investor to sign a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) before you pitch them, you’ll often be waved off with something like, “We don’t do that.” That is somewhat sensible: Investors talk to a lot of startups, so signing an NDA could open them up to liabilities
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