5 mn readTechnology start-ups worth $1 billion, once as rare as unicorns, are now plentiful enough and old enough that there’s a new generation behind them — one that looks very different. Silicon Valley’s current crop of highly valued tech start-ups, which include now-household names like Uber and Airbnb, all benefited from the spread of smartphones and […]
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2 mn readAbout 12 years ago, not long after Tesla began delivering the Model S, chief designer Franz von Holzhausen started to think about what an autonomous vehicle might look like. Von Holzhausen played a central role at Tesla leading the design team on the Model 3 and Model Y, as well as the Tesla Semi. But […]
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3 mn readSometimes you go in for a Handshake, but they refuse to let go and end up buying your entire company. Well, at least that seems to be the case with European virtual and hybrid recruiting platform Talentspace, which just got acquired by a talent network Handshake. It is Handshake‘s first acquisition to date and follows […]
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2 mn readBluesky, a social network that’s experiencing a surge in users this week as users abandon X, says it has “no intention” of using user content to train generative AI tools. The social network made the announcement on the same day that X (formerly Twitter) is implementing its new terms of service that allow the platform […]
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< 1 mn readU.S. phone giant T-Mobile said it was hacked as part of a broad “industry-wide attack” on U.S. and international phone and internet companies in recent months. T-Mobile said it was “closely monitoring this industry-wide attack, and at this time, T-Mobile systems and data have not been impacted in any significant way, and we have no […]
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5 mn readFor Brandon Mintz, it was the text messages and calls that started rolling in from friends and colleagues asking how high bitcoin prices could go. For Lee Bratcher, it was the surge in ticket sales for his annual North American Blockchain Summit. They were signs, the two bitcoin industry executives said, that the next era […]
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