Fivetran launches a managed data lake service
Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake Service aims to remove the repetitive work of managing data lakes.
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Puzzle Corner
Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the January/February Puzzle Corner, brought to you with a special Mystery Hunt twist by guest editor Dan Katz ’03. This column includes solutions to three September/October 24 problems. Find solutions to the other three problems here.
How a couple of former Pinterest search experts caught Biz Stone’s attention
Lance Riedel and Nigel Daley both spent decades in search discovery, but it was while working at Pinterest that they began trying to understand how to use search engines to do personalized searches for online shopping.
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The Download: AI for good, and China’s shrinking internet
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. What I learned from the UN’s “AI for Good” summit —Melissa Heikkilä Last week, Geneva played host to the UN’s AI for Good Summit. The summit’s big focus was how AI can be…
10 Online Side Hustles Proven to Boost Your Bank Account
Even the busiest schedules can accommodate finding a precious few hours to create a profitable online venture — something that many are already mastering.
GetWhy, a market research AI platform that extracts insights from video interviews, raises $34.5M
GetWhy helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI.
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Sword Health raises $130 million and its valuation soars to $3 billion
AI-powered virtual physical therapy platform Sword Health has seen its valuation soar 50% to $3 billion.
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WndrCo officially gets into venture capital with fresh $450M across two funds
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Sujay Jaswa, along with three general partners, manage $1.5 billion in assets today through their Build, Venture and Seed strategies.
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Storyblok raises $80M to bring more AI into its ‘headless’ CMS aimed at non-technical people
If content is king, then the focus today is on how the king is expanding the empire: print and traditional media first got augmented by websites, and now websites are being augmented by an exponential landscape of apps, social media platforms, new kinds of screens, and content created not by humans, but by, artificial intelligence. […]
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‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen
The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology.
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Travel app Sékr wants to help you plan your next road trip with its new AI tool
Sékr, a startup that offers a mobile app for outdoor enthusiasts and campers, is launching a new AI tool for planning road trips. The new tool, called Copilot, is available on the startup’s updated website and app, which is used by more than 100,000 users. Sékr was founded in 2016 with the goal of helping […]
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