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Once scammed for ten grand, this VC is building a crypto security vault
One of the barriers to bringing cryptocurrency into the mainstream is the frequency of fraud in the space. Last year alone, over $3.9 billion worth of crypto was “lost”, according to an industry report, even though the number was already down roughly 50% from the year before. Francois Le Nguyen, an angel investor and former […]
Once scammed for ten grand, this VC is building a crypto security vault by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Fine-dining meals delivered to your home are just an Entrée order away
Entrée chefs prepare restaurant-quality meals that are delivered in packaging to prevent food from arriving soggy or cold.
Fine-dining meals delivered to your home are just an Entrée order away by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Grafana acquires Pyroscope and merges it with its Phlare continuous profiling database
Open source observability platform Grafana Labs today announced that it has acquired Pyroscope, the company behind the eponymous open source continuous profiling platform. Founded in 2020, the Y Combinator-backed Pyroscope raised a seed round in 2021 and counts the likes of Sensor Tower, Confluent, Line and Plaid among its customers. Grafana plans to integrate Pyroscope […]
Grafana acquires Pyroscope and merges it with its Phlare continuous profiling database by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Quora’s Poe is launching subscriptions to let you chat with GPT-4 powered bot
Yesterday, OpenAI unveiled its new GPT-4 model and competitor Anthropic unveiled its own ChatGPT competitor Claude. Parallelly, Quora announced that its chatbot app Poe will now have a paid tier that will let you ask questions to bots powered by these models. Poe subscriptions will set you back $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year, […]
Quora’s Poe is launching subscriptions to let you chat with GPT-4 powered bot by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices
GitHub has published its own internal guides and tools on how to go about setting up an open source program office (OSPO). The new GitHub-OSPO repository on GitHub (where else?) is aimed at businesses in the first year of setting up their inaugural OSPO, and includes everything from policies covering contributor license agreements (CLA) to […]
GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
This couple just got married in the Taco Bell metaverse
China just set up a new bureau to mine data for economic growth
Torch is building solar-powered outdoor sensors to spot wildfires early
The Nest Protect is the single best piece of smart home hardware I’ve ever purchased. Not everything in your home would benefit from being connected, but smoke detectors really do. They go a long way toward providing peace of mind when you’re away from home. Hopefully you’ll never need it, but if you do, it […]
Torch is building solar-powered outdoor sensors to spot wildfires early by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
LexxPluss expands into US with its warehouse robots
When Masaya Aso worked on autonomous driving technology at Bosch in Japan and Germany, he realized that “many tasks were still manual as over 85% of warehouses have almost no automation at all.” To help address the problem, Aso co-founded LexxPluss, a now two-year-old, Japan-based startup that designs and develop autonomous mobile robots to transport […]
LexxPluss expands into US with its warehouse robots by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch