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Sources: as German car trading service Auto1 plans its IPO, Sequoia and Lone Pine will each buy 50M shares from existing investors and put 50M+ into its IPO (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:Sources: as German car trading service Auto1 plans its IPO, Sequoia and Lone Pine will each buy 50M shares from…

2 years ago

Q&A with Dogecoin developer Ross Nicoll about its coming upgrade, and working with Elon Musk, who Nicoll says has been in touch with Doge developers since 2019 (Adriana Hamacher/Decrypt)

Adriana Hamacher / Decrypt:Q&A with Dogecoin developer Ross Nicoll about its coming upgrade, and working with Elon Musk, who Nicoll…

2 years ago

Apptopia: since Trump was banned from Twitter, daily use of Twitter has remained remarkably consistent (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:Apptopia: since Trump was banned from Twitter, daily use of Twitter has remained remarkably consistentTrump's presence…

2 years ago

G.E. Wind Turbine Prototype: 853 Feet Tall, Can Generate 13 Megawatts

Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from the New York Times:Twirling above a strip of land at the mouth…

2 years ago

Nashville-based XSOLIS, which uses AI to improve healthcare operations and communication between hospitals and insurance companies, raises $75M (Joel Stinnett/Silicon Valley …)

Joel Stinnett / Silicon Valley Business Journal:Nashville-based XSOLIS, which uses AI to improve healthcare operations and communication between hospitals and…

2 years ago

Interview with the head of Intel Labs, Dr. Richard Uhlig, on Intel’s moonshot ideas involving integrated photonics, neuromorphic and quantum computing, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/AnandTech)

Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech:Interview with the head of Intel Labs, Dr. Richard Uhlig, on Intel's moonshot ideas involving integrated…

2 years ago

Q&A with Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell on meeting pandemic demand, relationships with Apple and Amazon, killing the Harmony remote line, USB-C, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:Q&A with Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell on meeting pandemic demand, relationships with Apple and Amazon, killing…

2 years ago

Vestiaire Collective, an online marketplace for pre-owned luxury and fashion items, raises $216M led by luxury group Kering and is now valued at $1B+ (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:Vestiaire Collective, an online marketplace for pre-owned luxury and fashion items, raises $216M led by luxury group…

2 years ago

A look at Ethereum Name Service DAO token holders’ vote to remove Brantly Millegan over his bigoted views by re-delegating their tokens away from him (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Casey Newton / Platformer:A look at Ethereum Name Service DAO token holders' vote to remove Brantly Millegan over his bigoted…

2 years ago

In his Epic v. Apple trial testimony, Tim Cook offered a carefully tended ignorance that left many of the lawsuit’s key questions unanswered, or unanswerable (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:In his Epic v. Apple trial testimony, Tim Cook offered a carefully tended ignorance that left many…

2 years ago