Michael McSweeney / The Block:0x Labs, the startup behind the 0x exchange protocol and a provider of decentralized exchange infrastructure, raises $15M Series A led…
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:A new study that used AI to analyze 2M+ contributions by ~365K developers on GitHub finds users with white-sounding names may have…
South China Morning Post:A look at the rise and fall of Xiami, Alibaba’s Chinese music streaming service, which only had 22.4M MAUs by Oct. 2020…
In the year 2000, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich answered questions from Slashdot’s readers. Late Friday night, the AV Club described Metallica’s appearance at the opening…
BBC:A peer-reviewed study finds UK’s NHS contact-tracing app reduced the second wave by roughly 25%, averting ~594,000 out of 1.89M cases from October-December 2020The NHS…
“Make America weird again,” quipped CNBC, describing Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram post today commemorating America’s national Independence Day holidayMarketWatch explains:Yes, that’s the Facebook Inc. chief executive…
Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:Top500: the US’ AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer becomes the fastest in the world, topping 1.102 exaflops/second, overtaking Japan’s Fugaku by a wide…
“Renting is terrible. Owning is worse. A third option is necessary,” argues a recent article in the Atlantic, “a way to rent without making someone…
Bloomberg:Japan’s Renesas Electronics says it has agreed to acquire UK-based Dialog Semiconductor, whose clients include Apple and Samsung, for ~$5.9B- Transaction marks latest takeover of…
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat:Australian cloud data analytics company Phocas Software raises AU$45M led by Ellerston Capital to accelerate its growth in the US and UKPhocas…
