LucidLink lands $75M for its on-demand file streaming tech
LucidLink, a startup offering a platform that enables teams to work on files without having to download or sync them, today announced that it raised $75 million in a Series C round led by Brighton Park Capital with participation from Headline, Adobe Ventures and Baseline Ventures. The tranche brings LucidLink’s
Read moreSEVA, a new growth equity fund, secures $85M for debut fund in four months
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Read moreGrateful Digital Trailblazers Reflect on Innovation and Lifelong Learning
I love this time of year in the United States when we have a brief pause from our complex lives and get the chance to break bread with family and friends. Thanksgiving means a lot more for me this year, but I will have to leave the story on why
Read moreKepler triangle
A Kepler triangle is a right triangle whose sides are in geometric progression. That is, if the sides have length a < b < c, then b/a = c/b = k. All Kepler triangles are similar because the proportionality constant k can only take on one value. To see this,
Read moreTinder redesigns profile pages with prompts, info tags and quiz
Tinder is revamping its profile pages to make them more informative and create easier starting points for conversations. The company is launching features like profile prompts as conversation starters, profile quizzes, basic info tags, and dark mode. Let’s look at these new features in details. The Match-group-owned app is rolling
Read moreOpen source Notion alternative AppFlowy gets big-name backers and lands on the cloud
A new startup is targeting the lucrative workplace productivity space with an open source approach to project and knowledge management — and it has received backing from a who’s who of investors from across the technology spectrum. AppFlowy, as the company is called, has raised $6.4 million in funding from
Read moreOpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to join Microsoft
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and many of their former OpenAI colleagues will join Microsoft, the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Nadella said Monday, capping an intense three days discussion following the sudden departure of the AI startup’s executives. At Microsoft, the former OpenAI members will lead a “new advanced AI
Read moreCruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns
Kyle Vogt, the serial entrepreneur who co-founded and led Cruise from a startup in a garage through its acquisition and ownership by General Motors, has resigned, according to an email sent to employees Sunday evening that TechCrunch has viewed. In a separate internal email, also viewed by TechCrunch, GM Chair
Read moreDecoupling formal theorem proving effort
Terence Tao has been experimenting with formal theorem proving using Lean and writing about his experience. Here’s something Tao said on Mathstodon that I thought was interesting. It is remarkable how much “decoupling” is achieved by the Lean+Blueprint combo. Contributors can work locally on proving a lemma, without necessarily fully
Read morePartitioning dots and dashes
Given a set of dots and dashes, how many ways can they be partitioned into a set of Morse code letters? There is at least one way, since you could take each dot to be an E and each dash to be a T. If you have a sequence of n
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