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Binance made crypto perfume in a baffling attempt to woo women

March 6, 2024

What does crypto smell like? Ozone, salt and moss, according to Binance’s new fragrance, “CRYPTO.” Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world by volume, but the company is facing serious challenges. The company and its co-founder, Changpeng Zhao, pled guilty to money laundering charges and agreed to pay $4.3 billion in fines to […]

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This Korean startup wants to take on Carta in cap table management

March 6, 2024

A South Korean startup called QuotaLab is on a quest to follow in the footsteps of Carta, the cap table management company that’s used by a host of startups and investors in the U.S. Carta started life as “eShares” in 2012 as a cap table management service that startups could use to issue equity to […]

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Amazon teams with recycling robot firm to track package waste

March 6, 2024

Amazon generate a lot of trash. Precisely how much is a matter of some debate. In 2021, the company says it used 214 million or so pounds of single-use plastic in its packaging. Nonprofit ocean conservation firm Oceana, on the other hand, put that figure at approximately ~700 million pounds. That’s a huge gulf, but […]

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Elevate Your Portfolio With These 3 Steel Stocks

March 6, 2024
Following a slowdown in demand and destocking measures undertaken last year, the global steel industry is expected to see demand recover this year. Given this backdrop, investors could consider buying…

Political deepfakes are spreading like wildfire thanks to GenAI

March 6, 2024

This year, billions of people will vote in elections around the world. 2024 will see — and has seen — high-stakes races in more than 50 countries, from Russia and Taiwan to India and El Salvador. Demagogic candidates — and looming geopolitical threats — would test even the most robust democracies in any normal year. […]

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Apple releases a new API to fetch transactions from Apple Card and Apple Cash

March 6, 2024

Apple’s iOS 17.4 update is primarily about adapting iOS to EU’s Digital Market Act Regulation. But the company has also released a new API called FinanceKit that lets developers fetch transactions and balance information from Apple Card, Apple Cash, and Savings with Apple. At launch, the company has partnered with YNAB, Monarch, and Copilot. In […]

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LLMs are poised to make lumbering business intelligence tools easier and faster to use

March 6, 2024

At the moment, large organizations often employ ‘business intelligence’ (BI) tools to figure out what the heck is going on side their operations. This has spawned many lumbering leviathans of the software world. Now a UK startup Fluent has closed a $7.5 million seed investment round led by Hoxton Ventures and Tiferes Ventures to apply […]

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