Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay
Cockroach Labs, the business and core developer behind the eponymous distributed SQL database known as CockroachDB, is changing its licensing once again — five years after it moved on from an open source model. The company revealed today that its consolidating its self-hosted product under a single enterprise license, a
Read MoreKlarna takes on banking with new savings, cash-back offerings
Swedish fintech giant Klarna is rolling out two new products on Thursday that could make its buy now, pay later offerings more enticing to use. The company is offering consumers in the U.S. and 11 European countries the ability to store money in a Klarna “balance” account, where they can
Read MoreGoogle Launches Feature to Limit School Hours Distractions
Google has introduced School Time, a new feature for Android devices, designed to minimize distractions for children during school hours. The feature, developed in response to parental feedback, aims to balance schoolwork with the need for emergency connectivity. School Time enables parents to configure a dedicated home screen with limited
Read MoreMastercard Highlights Economic Growth at Tanzania Forum
Mastercard held its inaugural Tanzania Industry Forum in Dar es Salaam, bringing together key stakeholders and fintech industry leaders to discuss the country’s financial and technological landscape. The event emphasized Mastercard’s commitment to promoting economic growth through innovative digital payment solutions and strategic collaborations, given Tanzania’s projected real GDP growth
Read MoreMimecast Acquires Aware for Advanced AI Security
Mimecast, a global HRM platform, has acquired Aware, an AI collaboration security platform, to revolutionize human-centered security risk management and mitigation in organizations. “In the current digital workplace, firms’ most vital data and communications are stored online. While email and collaboration services such as Slack® and Microsoft Teams are essential
Read MoreBinance restarts services in India after seven-month regulatory halt
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has resumed operations for users in India after a seven-month hiatus imposed by a local authority for operating “illegally” in the country. The exchange said Thursday it has registered as a reporting entity with India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), a government agency tasked with
Read MoreVideo of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for
Read MoreMeet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator
Elon Musk’s Grok released a new AI image-generation feature on Tuesday night that, just like the AI chatbot, has very few safeguards. That means you can generate fake images of Donald Trump smoking marijuana on the Joe Rogan show, for example, and upload it straight to the X platform. But
Read MoreFilmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition
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Read MoreBiden tells creators they have something traditional media does not: ‘You’re trusted’
At the first ever White House Creator Economy Conference, the most popular man to drop by was not a TikTok superstar or a YouTube sensation. It was President Joe Biden, who emphasized social media creators’ role in shaping public opinion. “Until about three, four months ago, I didn’t pay very
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