Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux

July 11, 2023

Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and that it will develop and maintain an RHEL-compatible distribution. SUSE says that it will invest $10 million into this project over the coming years. One major open source company forking another major open source company’s project is equivalent […]

Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Bill Gates isn’t too scared about AI

July 11, 2023
Bill Gates has joined the chorus of big names in tech who have weighed in on the question of risk around artificial intelligence. The TL;DR? He’s not too worried, we’ve been here before. The optimism is refreshing after weeks of doomsaying. The billionaire business magnate and philanthropist made his case in a post on his personal…

eBay acquires AI-powered product authentication company Certilogo

July 11, 2023

eBay announced today that it has closed its acquisition of Certilogo, a company that provides AI-powered apparel and fashion goods digital IDs and authentication. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Milan-based company will continue to be led by CEO Michele Casucci. Certilogo uses digital technology to help brands manage the lifecycle […]

eBay acquires AI-powered product authentication company Certilogo by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Sustainable Ocean Alliance converts its accelerator into a broader ‘Ecopreneur Network’

July 11, 2023

Startup accelerators are interesting places, but the model of packaging a good idea up and firing it at VCs from a demo day cannon is getting diminishing returns. The Sustainable Ocean Alliance and its own accelerator seem to see this and luckily have grown a community large enough to justify shifting to a new, less […]

Sustainable Ocean Alliance converts its accelerator into a broader ‘Ecopreneur Network’ by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

The UN just set a net-zero goal for shipping. Here’s how that could work. 

July 11, 2023
Ships crisscrossing the world’s oceans are vital to our global economy—everything from the bananas on your countertop to the car in your driveway may have journeyed on one at some point.  But all that travel causes pollution: the global shipping industry is responsible for over a billion tons of greenhouse-gas emissions each year, about 3%…