Many tech startups are seeing a decline in business activity due to the COVID-19 outbreak. That’s not the case for Jenny Life, a Seattle life insurance startup that is experiencing an 800% spike in customer engagement since the novel coronavirus began spreading in the U.S. Jenny Life today announced a $3.5 million investment round to[…]
The number one show on Netflix in the U.S. right now is a television series called “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” and American audiences are eating it up like candy. While the docuseries costar Joseph Maldonado, aka “Joe Exotic,” spends 22 years behind bars, costar Carole Baskin is still the owner of the Big[…]
Researchers hailing from Amazon, SenseTime, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong detail in a new paper OmniSource, which scrapes web videos to train AI.Read More
The Spanish tax authority has reportedly started sending notices to about 66,000 cryptocurrency owners in the country. This number represents a massive increase from the 14,700 tax letters the agency sent to crypto owners last year. The letters will continue to be sent until the end of June despite the coronavirus crisis Spain is facing.[…]
Satoshi Nakamoto has been an enigma for well over a decade and there’s been a number of suspects and self-styled Bitcoin inventors. One particular suspect is the computer engineer Wei Dai, the creator of the b-money system and the Crypto++ cryptographic library. Since the Bitcoin network was launched in 2009, a number of people have[…]
In a paper, Microsoft researchers detail Suphx, an AI system that beat 99.99% of human players in a series of online matches.Read More
Trans World Entertainment raised $5.2 million for its subsidiary etailz, a Spokane, Wash.-based company that helps brands sell on huge platforms run by companies such as Amazon, Walmart and eBay. The extra funding comes after etailz landed $25 million in debt funding this past February. Publicly-traded Trans World Entertainment acquired etailz in 2016 for $75 million in[…]
A cryptocurrency investment scheme called Bitcoin Revolution has recently garnered interest worldwide with its claim that investors could easily earn over $1,000 a day. They could even become millionaires within 61 days using the Bitcoin Revolution app. However, this is a scam and it recently ran into trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission of[…]
Microsoft Image A new service from Microsoft will connect its Azure cloud services to 5G wireless networks inside data centers operated by wireless carriers, aiming to boost the performance of devices and mobile applications such as online gaming, remote virtual meeting and urban infrastructure. The first of the “Azure Edge Zones with carriers” will be[…]
In a paper, LinkedIn describes its internal approach to preventing inequality in new product features and business decisions.Read More