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GitHub’s Annual Developer Survey Finds Remote Developers Aren’t Returning to the Office

GitHub's annual report on its user community "combined telemetry data from over four million repositories with direct survey from over…

2 years ago

Retain.ai, a service that gives enterprises a view of customer engagement across teams, processes, and apps, raises $23M Series A led by Emergence Capital (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Retain.ai, a service that gives enterprises a view of customer engagement across teams, processes, and apps, raises…

2 years ago

Progress Continues On Recreating the Babbage Programmable Computer

Long-time Slashdot reader RockDoctor writes: A project to create a working example of [english mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage's]…

2 years ago

Bitcoin falls to ~$43.7K after an all-time high of ~$68K in November 2021, after the Federal Reserve confirmed plans to increase interest rates in March 2022 (Jordan Finneseth/Cointelegraph)

Jordan Finneseth / Cointelegraph:Bitcoin falls to ~$43.7K after an all-time high of ~$68K in November 2021, after the Federal Reserve…

2 years ago

A Pentagon audit from May cleared the use of two DJI drones built for government use, after the Interior Dept. grounded its fleet of China-made drones in Jan. (The Hill)

The Hill:A Pentagon audit from May cleared the use of two DJI drones built for government use, after the Interior…

2 years ago

South Africa-based mobile games publisher Carry1st raises a $20M Series A extension led by a16z, the firm’s first investment in an Africa-headquartered company (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:South Africa-based mobile games publisher Carry1st raises a $20M Series A extension led by a16z, the firm's…

2 years ago

Report: March was Twitch’s biggest month to date, with 2B+ hours watched, helped by “sleep streaming,” where popular streamers film themselves while sleeping (Thomas Wilde/GeekWire)

Thomas Wilde / GeekWire:Report: March was Twitch's biggest month to date, with 2B+ hours watched, helped by sleep streaming, where…

2 years ago

California’s Fair Political Practices Commission proposes to fine Lyft $3,371 for failing to properly disclose what it paid for ads supporting Prop 22 (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)

Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:California's Fair Political Practices Commission proposes to fine Lyft $3,371 for failing to properly disclose what…

2 years ago

Labelbox, which develops data annotation and labeling software, raises $40M Series C led by B Capital Group, bringing its total raised to $79M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Labelbox, which develops data annotation and labeling software, raises $40M Series C led by B Capital Group,…

2 years ago

Postscript, which helps Shopify merchants stay in touch with customers via SMS, announces $35M Series B led by Greylock, with participation from YC and others (Greg Kumparak/TechCrunch)

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:Postscript, which helps Shopify merchants stay in touch with customers via SMS, announces $35M Series B led…

2 years ago