Climate startup CUR8 raises $6.5M from GV for its market-making platform for carbon removals
The IPCC, has said the world needs to remove 10 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by 2050 in order to avoid a climate cataclysm. And, yes, there are now multiple methods for carbon removal today such as planting more trees (afforestation), sucking CO2 out of the
Read moreThe first episode of ‘Black Mirror’ S6 is a subscriber’s worst nightmare
Netflix announced Wednesday the official release date of “Black Mirror” season six alongside an unsettling new trailer. The series is set to premiere on the streamer on June 15. The trailer kicks off with a preview of the first episode, showing viewers a haunting scenario that – much like every
Read moreBlink launches Blink Copilot to bring generative AI to security operations
Blink CEO Gil Barak says there have been three distinct periods when it comes to security operations automation. The first required experts to code workflows, taking weeks or months to produce a single one. More recently, low code approaches let users drag and drop components into a workflow, creating the
Read moreSocial mapping platform Atly launches with $18M to be a Reddit for real-world locations
From Foursquare to Zenly, there hasn’t exactly been a shortage of location-centric social networks outside the usual Big Tech ecosystems, but for one reason or another things have never really worked out. Snap acquired Zenly and eventually shut it down despite its enduring popularity, and Foursquare is still chugging along
Read moreVartana lands a $20M investment to scale its sales closing platform
Vartana, a business-to-business (B2B) sales closing and financing platform, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Activant Capital with participation from Mayfield and Audacious Ventures. The financing, which brings Vartana’s total raised to $39 million, will be put toward hiring and expanding
Read moreA Keyframe-style Learning Rate Scheduler for PyTorch
When it comes to defining learning rate schedules in PyTorch, you have plenty of options. 15 different scheduler classes, to be exact.Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreTwitter launches Community Notes for images
In an effort to put more onus on crowdsourced moderation, Twitter has launched Community Notes for images in posts. The company is aiming to address scenarios of morphed images or AI-generated images across the platform where the photos are posted. In other words, the platform wants to flag content like
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