While the launch of Meta’s direct challenge to Twitter has received widespread media attention and celebration, it didn’t take long before Threads started to censor anyone with unapproved thoughts, raising new concerns about the platform’s censorship practices. A Twitter user, […]
Hashed Emergent is thrilled to announce the upcoming flagship event in its week-long series of web3-focused conferences in Bangalore, the vibrant hub of India’s thriving tech and startup ecosystem. Often referred to as the “Silicon Valley of the East,” Bangalore […]
Gooten, a New York-based tech startup that provides automated fulfillment to e-commerce brands and retailers, today announced it has raised $11 million in Series A funding to fuel the growing demand for its on-demand manufacturing solutions. The round was led by […]
OpenAI, the maker of the popular ChatGPT, has found itself in hot water again for allegedly scraping “300 billion words from the internet, including books, articles, websites, posts,” and personal information of people without consent. The lawsuit was filed in […]
Over the weekend, Twitter owner Elon Musk imposed limits on the number of posts that users could read in what he described as a temporary move that targets “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation” by other companies and […]
Amsterdam-based tech startup Aito has secured a new round of funding backed by existing investors KBC Focus Fund, FORWARD.One and Innovation Industries as well as individual high net worth investors. The latest round, which brings the company’s total funding to […]
Remember some of the fake 5-star reviews you read online? Now, they may also be illegal if the newly proposed rules by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) become law. According to a study conducted by Invesp, 82% of consumers have […]
While cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum continue to surge in popularity, a growing crypto trend that has received less attention is crypto derivatives. Just like traditional derivates, crypto derivatives are financial instruments that derive value from an underlying crypto asset. […]
Just less than a month after launching its AI chatbot to take on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft-backed AI startup Inflection announced today it has raised $1.3 billion in funding, from investors including Microsoft and Nvidia, as the AI boom continues with […]
It’s been a while since we covered Flare. Back in January, the data-centric Layer 1 blockchain startup made headlines after it successfully initiated its long-awaited of over 4 billion tokens to millions of recipients. Since then, the Flare team has […]
We covered BobaBNB last month after the startup set a new record with 2.8 million transactions processed, surpassing 45,000 wallets. Now the startup has just broken its previous record and achieved a new significant milestone. Today, Boba Network, the only […]
Over the years, Ethereum has faced scalability challenges due to its growing user base and transaction volume. While Ethereum 2.0 introduced Proof of Stake (PoS) to address some of these issues, the challenge of achieving decentralization, security, and scalability simultaneously, […]
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan announced on Thursday it’s acquiring artificial intelligence (AI) startup Light Year from its co-founder and former director Wang Huiwen, as it aims to develop its own generative AI. The move comes at a time when […]
The future of blockchain technology is interoperability. But historically, blockchain interoperability hasn’t come easy. The Bitcoin whitepaper was published in 2008 but it wasn’t until the last few years that the concept even began to emerge in any practical form. […]
The ongoing global economic downturn has led to a funding drought, forcing tech startups to lay off some of their employees and freeze hiring while also making it difficult for them to raise new funding. One of the startups feeling […]
While the spotlight remains on generative AI, the funding landscape for automation and robotics startups is also thriving. Investors continue to pour billions into the space as companies like BMW leverage solutions from some of these startups to enhance speed […]
The impact of climate change is undeniable, encompassing the entire globe and reaching an unprecedented scale. Extensive research reveals that about 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions, the main contributor to climate change, stem from the combustion of fossil fuels. […]
Chipmaker Wolfspeed announced on Monday it has raised a total of $2 billion in private funding from a group of lenders led by private-equity firm Apollo Global. The debt financing, which includes a $1.25 billion secured note with an accordion […]
Popular fact-checking website Snopes found itself in hot water on Tuesday after publishing an article titled “Was the Missing Titanic Submersible Using Satellites from Elon Musk’s Company?” In what many considered a hit piece, Snopes took a jab at Elon […]
In what will surely be remembered as the most epic Pay Per View showdown ever, two tech moguls are gearing up to face off against each other. Elon Musk took to Twitter on Wednesday that he would be “up for […]
