OurX adds tech spin to Black hair care regimen
Ceci Kurzman has spent much of her career building and investing in brands and serving as one of the few Black female board members for companies, including Lanvin, Revlon and Warner Music+. While investing on behalf of some clients interested in beauty and personal care, Kurzman saw a gap in
Read MoreHow to Get Better at Risk Taking
Risk taking involves courage and confidence. You should be willing to step out of your comfort zone and put a step into the unknown.Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read MoreGreycroft co-founder Ian Sigalow on investing $1B in this market
Greycroft, the now 17-year-old, New York and Los Angeles-based venture firm, has grown up in more ways than one. What began with three founders has evolved into a 60-person team. What began as a $30 million fund has grown into an enterprise that is today managing more than $3 billion
Read MoreHow Evroc plans to build sovereign, hyperscale data centers in Europe
While cloud computing has transformed just about every industry on Earth, a burgeoning backlash has led some businesses to seek alternatives to the Big Tech-dominated public cloud. Vendor lock-in, spiralling costs, security concerns, and a lack of control over how their data is processed are just some of the reasons
Read MoreMosaicML: Deep learning models for sale, all shapes and sizes (Ep. 577)
Ben and Ryan talk with Jonathan Frankle and Abhinav Venigalla of MosaicML, a startup trying to make artificial intelligence efficient and accessible for everyone by lowering the cost, time, and complexity it takes to train a powerful AI model. Episode notes: MosaicML is a platform for training and deploying large
Read MoreEscape dynamically scans APIs to find security flaws
French startup Escape has raised a $3.9 million (€3.6 million) funding round shortly after ending Y Combinator’s winter 2023 cohort. The company provides a cybersecurity product focused on securing APIs before they are rolled out publicly. French VC firm Iris is leading the round with Frst also participating. Existing investors
Read MoreByju’s sues ‘predatory’ lenders
Indian edtech giant Byju’s has filed a complaint in the New York Supreme Court to challenge the acceleration of the $1.2 billion term loan B, calling their demands for prepayment of the entire amount “high-handed,” and sought to disqualify Redwood, who it alleges has conducted a series of predatory tactics. The
Read MorePoint Clouds Visualization With Three.js
Do you know how to achieve perfection? Just combine Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, depth maps, face morphing, and a little bit of 3DHouse in the cloud of points | Image generated by MidjourneyFor some time, I have been working on an internal project whose output, among many other things, is point clouds.
Read MoreFirst impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good.
After a roughly 30 minute demo that ran through the major features that are yet ready to test I came away convinced that Apple has delivered nothing less than a genuine leapfrog in capability and execution of XR — or mixed reality with its new Apple Vision Pro. To be
Read MoreCombining Interface Builder With JavaScript for Server-driven Apps
Building dynamic UI with nibs and storyboards (Part 2)Image from freepikIn the first part of this series, we saw building dynamic UI leveraging loose coupling of IB-built UIs. If you have not read it, go through it first. This article will build up on the major limitations it had. The main one
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