VC firm Fuse closes $250M fund to invest in Pacific Northwest startups

September 25, 2023
Funding for startups in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) fell precipitously early this year. From January to March, PNW financing dipped 80% to $246 million, down from $1.2 billion during the same period in 2022. But one venture capital firm is anticipating a recovery. Fuse, a Bellevue, Washington-based early-stage venture outfit focused on PNW companies, today […]

Decade of newborn child registry data stolen in MOVEit mass-hack

September 25, 2023
Ontario’s government-funded birth registry has confirmed a data breach affecting some 3.4 million people who sought pregnancy care, including the personal health data of close to two million newborns and children across the Canadian province. BORN Ontario said in a statement on Monday that hackers copied more than a decade’s worth of data including fertility, […]

Snap partners with Microsoft on ads in its ‘My AI’ chatbot feature

September 25, 2023
Snapchat has a new advertising partner in Microsoft for the ads it’s inserting into its AI product, My AI, an AI chatbot introduced earlier this year to the wider Snapchat user base. The company in May said it would begin testing Sponsored Links in My AI — link suggestions that are paired with the user’s […]

7 Tips To Avoid Burnout As An Entrepreneur

September 25, 2023
Entrepreneurship can be an exhilarating journey, but it’s crucial to acknowledge that burnout is a real and prevalent challenge in this pursuit.

X will make audio and video calls a premium subscriber-only feature

September 25, 2023
Last month X CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed that video calls would be coming to the app formerly known as Twitter as part of its transition into an “everything app.” Now, new code in the X app reveals that both audio and video calls will be supported. However, the feature will not be available to all […]

These new tools could make AI vision systems less biased

September 25, 2023
Computer vision systems are everywhere. They help classify and tag images on social media feeds, detect objects and faces in pictures and videos, and highlight relevant elements of an image. However, they are riddled with biases, and they’re less accurate when the images show Black or brown people and women. And there’s another problem: the…