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Gurman: 'Several New Macs' to Be Announced in 'One of Apple's Longest Ever' WWDC Keynotes Next Week

Apple will focus on three main topics during its WWDC keynote next week, including "several new Macs," composing one of the company's longest-ever events, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman today said. Last week...

May 2023

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Solana launches ChatGPT plugin to help users interact with its network

As the artificial intelligence market continues to heat up, a number of crypto players -- big and small -- are diving in.The Solana Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the layer-1 blockchain...

May 2023

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Review: Nocs Field Issue Binoculars

[photo1]Scott Gilbertson8/10Nocs Provisions, which makes some of our favorite binoculars, has a new 32-mm binocular dubbed Field Issue. The Field Issue slides into the Nocs lineup between the original...

May 2023

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Apple Seeds First Beta of watchOS 9.6 to Developers

Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming watchOS 9.6 update to developers for testing purposes, with the software update coming a day after the launch of watchOS 9.5.Once installed, ?watchOS 9...

May 2023

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Despite messy IPOs, there's good reason to be optimistic about insurtech startups

It wasn't a surprise to learn that former scooter unicorn Bird is pursuing a reverse stock split. The company isn't treading new ground here -- it isn't the only tech firm that has IPO'd in the past c...

May 2023

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Traefik Labs launches Traefik Hub, a Kubernetes-native API management service

Traefik today announced the general availability of Traefik Hub, its cloud-native API management solution for publishing, securing and managing APIs. Founded in 2016 by Emile Vauge, Traefik Labs had a...

May 2023

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Renowned investor Elad Gil on how the great AI race will likely shake out

Elad Gil, a successful founder and prolific investor, has already been called Silicon Valley's biggest solo venture capitalist given the massive amounts of capital he has been investing in recent year...

May 2023

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Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare

AI, specifically generative AI, has the potential to transform healthcare.At least, that sales pitch from Hippocratic AI, which emerged from stealth today with a whopping $50 million in seed financing...

May 2023

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11 investors predict a colorful, if difficult, future for psychedelic startups

How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months? Well, it depends on where you look.If you look at the stock market, the view isn't very good: the charts are all down and ...

May 2023

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Elon Musk appoints new Twitter CEO, NBCU's Linda Yaccarino

The rumors are true: Elon Musk has chosen NBCU leader Linda Yaccarino as the next CEO of Twitter.Musk confirmed Yaccarino's new role in a tweet this morning, a day after he announced that he had compl...

May 2023

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6 strategies to maximize your marketing budget

[photo1]In today's uncertain economic times, it's important to be strategic about where you spend your marketing dollars to generate the highest returns and position your business for a strong rebound...

May 2023

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Eight Signs Your Kid Is Starved for Attention

It always seems to happen at the worst time: Our kids get into some mischief just as things get stressful or busy. And because we're so occupied with our careers, making dinner, or simply trying to re...

May 2023

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How Shopify bungled its latest layoffs and made employees feel like NPCs

Shopify laid off 20% of its global workforce today - its second sizeable employee culling after a reduction of 10% announced last July. This latest downsizing also includes the wholesale divestment of...

May 2023

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Shopify to reduce workforce by 20%, sells logistics business to Flexport for 13% equity

Shopify revealed today that it's laying off 20% of its workforce, impacting more than 2,000 people, and is selling its logistics business to Flexport for roughly 13% in stock.The news comes some 10 mo...

May 2023

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Dark Mode's Shadowy Promises

Lauren ColleeAround 2016, "Night mode" or "night shift"--a screen display option that features a light-on-dark color scheme--began cropping up all over our devices. That year, Apple and Twitter releas...

Apr 2023

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Google: Page experience is not a ranking system, but it is a ranking signal

Google page experience was never a ranking "system" but is still considered a ranking "signal," Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, said this morning. Google emphasized that just because page exp...

Apr 2023

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The SEO hierarchy of needs for local businesses on a budget

Up to 98% of people used the internet to find information about a local business in 2022, according to BrightLocal research. And 87% of consumers used Google to evaluate a local business. For local bu...

Apr 2023

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Lyft to make 'significant' cuts across ride-hailing company

Lyft's newly appointed CEO David Risher told employees in an email Friday that the company is significantly reducing its workforce as part of a restructuring effort.Risher said the restructuring is pa...

Apr 2023

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Threading the needle: 5 questions for National Grid Partners' Lisa Lambert

The Arctic is melting, while hurricanes, blizzards and heat waves leave millions of people and animals in disarray. Lisa Lambert, the head of National Grid's CVC National Grid Partners, told TechCrunc...

Apr 2023

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Climate tech VC firm closes $300M fund after LPs push for broader investment opportunities

Climate tech may have started the year with a down quarter, but don't count it out just yet.Amid a backdrop of depressing figures from much of the venture capital sector, climate tech deals were lower...

Apr 2023