January 2024

Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching the top 10; X falls to No. 36

January 30, 2024

Instagram Threads is gaining traction after growth stalled last year, which had some prematurely wondering if the app was already dead. New data indicates that’s not the case — in fact, Threads is continuing to grow, having tripled its downloads month-over-month in December, which gave it a place in the top 10 most downloaded apps […]

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SMOK VC’s second fund is another signal that Poland’s tech scene is hitting its stride

January 30, 2024

In 2007 I was running late for my speech at the Polish Stock Exchange, but the cool reception I received there suggested I should perhaps not have bothered. Speaking about the new wave of tech startups emerging from Silicon Valley and how Europe was next, I was met with a lot of puzzled blinking. That […]

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PadSplit, a marketplace for affordable shared housing, surpasses 10K+ units

January 30, 2024

PadSplit aims to address the lack of supply, access and affordability in the rental market with its co-living marketplace designed specifically for lower-income workers, which includes flexible commitment terms and payments as well as no minimum credit score or expensive security deposit. Now, the company has created more than 10,000 rooms in 18 cities across […]

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Airfocus bags $7.5M for its take on project management software

January 30, 2024

In 2017, Malte Scholz, then a project manager at a 200-person startup, was struggling to find a product management tool that worked both for him and the teams under his purview. After piloting a few solutions, he eventually decided to create his own — and built a business around it. That turned out to be […]

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The Download: how to combat deepfake porn, and Neuralink’s first implant

January 30, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Three ways we can fight deepfake porn Last week, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, went viral online. Millions of people viewed nonconsensual deepfake porn of…

Inference.ai matches AI workloads with cloud GPU compute

January 30, 2024

GPUs’ ability to perform many computations in parallel make them well-suited to running today’s most capable AI. But GPUs are becoming tougher to procure, as companies of all sizes increase their investments in AI-powered products. Nvidia’s best-performing AI cards sold out last year, and the CEO of chipmaker TSMC suggested that general supply could be […]

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4 Biotech Stocks With Massive Buy Potential

January 30, 2024
The biotech sector is poised for robust long-term growth, driven by significant developments in drug approvals, innovative therapies, and government-backed initiatives. Hence, investors might consider buying fundamentally solid biotech stocks…