French startup Exotrail expands U.S. footprint with two new subsidiaries
French in-space transportation company Exotrail is launching two U.S.-based subsidiaries, one focused specifically on serving U.S. government and defense customers, the company said Monday. Tyler Browder, co-founder and former head of satellite software developer Kubos, was installed to lead the new Exotrail U.S., Inc. He joined Exotrail as a senior
Read morePayPal launches PYUSD stablecoin backed by the US dollar
Image: PayPal PayPal is launching its own stablecoin: PayPalUSD (PYUSD). The company says the cryptocurrency token is “fully backed by U.S. dollar deposits” and can be bought or sold on PayPal’s app or website at $1.00 per PYUSD. With PYUSD, you can make person-to-person payments, fund purchases with the currency
Read morePayPal launches PYUSD stablecoin for payments and transfers
PayPal is rolling out a stablecoin for payments and transfers, the company announced on Monday. PayPal USD (PYUSD) is issued by Paxos Trust Company and is backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term U.S Treasuries and similar cash equivalents. PayPal says the stablecoin is rolling out to US customers gradually. Today’s
Read moreSkyline raises $3.35M to clean skyscraper windows with robots
Sometimes conceptualizing automation requires some stretching of the imagination. It’s not always clear why some tasks are prioritized — or how that automation might be implemented. And then there’s window cleaning. While it’s true that window cleaning safety has come a long way since the birth of the skyscraper, it’s
Read more10+ Awesome LLM and Generative AI Capabilities for DevOps and IT Ops
Over the next few years, we’ll see a seismic shift in how devops organizations, agile development teams, site reliability engineers, and IT Ops will achieve an increasingly complex mission. How can IT improve reliability, performance, and security while deploying more innovations at increasing release frequency and with fewer incidents and
Read moreOne Model lands $41M to bring data science-powered insights to HR
One Model, a platform that uses AI to help employers make decisions about recruiting, hiring, promotions, layoffs and general workplace planning, today announced that it’s raised $41 million in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital. Christopher Butler, CEO of One Model, said that the capital will be used to
Read moreArray Labs is scanning the Earth from space to equip autonomous vehicles with 3D maps
It’s an oft-told story: the boom of space startups today can be traced to dramatically lowered cost in launch and satellite manufacturing over the past ten years. But Array Labs, a two-year-old startup based in Silicon Valley, is also taking advantage other technological developments in its quest to build a
Read moreIndia pushes ahead with data privacy bill despite pushback from critics
India’s lower house of parliament greenlit the revised data privacy legislation presented the previous week, even as the bill has received criticism, with many believing that it grants significant discretionary authority to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which was reintroduced in the lower
Read moreConnected car data is the next big privacy fight, Fisker lays out its future EV portfolio and Waymo ramps up in Austin
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Read moreBetter-than-Cubic Complexity for Matrix Multiplication in Rust
Midjourney: Cubic matrix multiplicationYears ago, I wrote an implementation of the Strassen matrix multiplication algorithm in C++, and recently re-implemented it in Rust as I continue to learn the language. This was a useful exercise in learning about Rust performance characteristics and optimization techniques, because although the algorithmic complexity of
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