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01/28/2023
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Putting the AI in domains: Why the new era of artificial intelligence inspires this startup founder Smartynames uses AI to generate a list of available domain names from free-form descriptions of businesses and projects.
01/27/2023
The news comes after several months of apparent struggles at Stripe. In November, it laid off 14% of its staff, or around 1,120 people, saying it had “overhired for the world we’re in.” And the company slashed its internal valuation more than once over the past year. Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported that Stripe had cut its internal valuation to $63 billion. That 11% cut came after an internal valuation cut that occurred six months prior, which valued the company at $74 billion.
Report: Stripe tried to raise more funding at a $55B-$60B valuation Payments giant Stripe last raised venture capital -- $600 million at a staggering $95 billion valuation -- in 2021.
01/26/2023
Fintech startup Stripe has set a 12-month deadline for itself to go public, either through a direct listing, or pursuing a transaction on the private market, such as a fundraising event and a tender offer, according to sources familiar with the matter. The news, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes as a surprise considering the rather dry public market activity in the tech world.
Stripe declined to comment on the record about the deadline or current revenue.
The payments giant was founded in 2010, so the fact that it’s exploring avenues for exit is not entirely surprising. Most recently publicly valued at $95 billion, Stripe has not been immune to the global downturn, however. In November, it laid off 14% of its staff, or around 1,120 people. And the company has slashed its internal valuation more than once over the past year. Earlier this month, TechCrunch reported that Stripe had cut its internal valuation to $63 billion. That 11% cut came after an internal valuation cut that occurred six months prior, which valued the company at $74 billion.
Stripe eyes an exit over next 12 months Payments giant Stripe is exploring whether it should go public or pursue a transaction on the private market.
01/26/2023
01/25/2023
Netflix Says It's Finally Cracking Down on Password Sharing. Here's What to Know Attention all Netflix freeloaders: The streaming service is cracking down on password sharing after working on a way to limit users from accessing accounts that don’t belong to their household.
01/25/2023
Proud Boys viewed themselves as "foot soldiers for the right," ex-member says at riot trial The former Proud Boys member flipped on his alleged co-conspirators.
01/25/2023
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01/25/2023
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01/25/2023
Peruvian families demand reparations for protester deaths amid reminders of a painful past | CNN "If something happens to me, don't cry," Leonardo Hancco told his wife, Ruth Barcena, the morning of December 15 in Peru's southern city of Ayacucho.
01/25/2023
When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed the algorithm, the stock photo and media giant also hinted that it would soon be bringing its own generative AI tools to users. Today the company took the wraps off that product. Customers of Shutterstock’s Creative Flow online design platform will now be able to create images based on text prompts, powered by OpenAI and Dall-E 2.
Key to the feature — which does not appear to have a brand name as such — is that Shutterstock says the images are “ready for licensing” right after they’re made.
After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts Customers of Shutterstock's Creative Flow online design platform will now be able to create images based on text prompts, powered by OpenAI and Dall-E 2
01/25/2023
The 1619 Project Is Our Black TV Pick Of The Week The real history of America is what's Black on TV.
01/25/2023
You know the technological singularity, the theoretical idea of a future moment at which AI starts to upgrade itself so rapidly that everything after that point shifts forever?
Well, now a group of Italian AI scientists have come up with a new means of estimating how far away humanity is from reaching that point. And, as Popular Mechanics reports, their calculations indicate that we're not far off.
Startup Predicts Year That Technological Singularity Will Happen Italian AI scientists have come up with a unique means of measuring how far away we are from technological singularity. By their data, we're not far off.
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01/22/2023
This Black Couple, Married For 53 Years, Has Raised 100 Foster Daughters Meet Al and Ann Hill, a couple from Cincinnati, Ohio who have been married for 53 years and have been foster parents to nearly 100 girls over the past three decades.
01/21/2023
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01/21/2023
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Investor Peter Thiel Made $1.8 Billion Cashing Out on Crypto Early Founders Fund, a venture capital firm founded by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, closed out its bet on crypto before the market crash last year, according to The Financial Times.
01/21/2023
Ice Cube's $160M Fortune Is Impressive, But His Role As A Husband And Father Of Four Is Priceless - AfroTech Ice Cube has certainly come a long way from his time in the groundbreaking, and seminal, Hip-Hop group NWA. Now considered an “elder statesman” of...
01/21/2023
For at LEAST 150 years, there has been a call for Black folks to use their economics as leverage and power, but you STILL won’t listen.
You’re tried praying, politics, voting, begging, marching, educating yourself, dressing “decently”, and even apathy.
Anything not to engage in community economics.
🤦🏾♂️ The power is right in front of you.
01/20/2023
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01/19/2023
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01/18/2023
Howard University student who asked for financial help gets $22K from Kyrie Irving Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving donated $22,000 to Destiny Thompson to help her pay for her tuition at Howard University.
01/18/2023
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01/15/2023
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'Deeds Not Words': Spike Lee Launches Fellowship Program for HBCU Students Spike Lee is paying it forward to his alma mater in a major way with the launch of an official fellowship program that will aid HBCU students.
01/14/2023
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01/14/2023
Nvidia says Eye Contact will allow content creators to look away from the camera to read notes, but their gaze will remain focused on the camera and look natural. The new feature is being made available to use in 1.4, but remains in beta as Nvidia needs to perfect it for "millions of eye colors and lighting combinations." You can help with that process by recording a quick video and submitting it to Nvidia(Opens in a new window).
Nvidia Uses AI to Make Our Eyes Always Look at the Camera Your eyes will retain their natural color and blinks, but gaze is automatically adjusted to focus on the camera.
01/14/2023
Unveiled last week, the RayNeo X2 smart glasses use AR to overlay a wearer's field of vision with different types of digital information.
As well as accessing navigation and translation tools, they allow you to receive call and message alerts, take photos or play music using a heads-up digital interface, rather than a device screen.
TCL unveils AR glasses that overlay the world with digital info TCL has launched a pair of AR glasses called RayNeo X2, with augmented-reality features including language translation and GPS navigation.
01/13/2023
In December, Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast (a Hasbro subsidiary) announced plans for a new Open Game License (OGL) in conjunction with its upcoming major rules update, One D&D. At the time, the publisher assured the D&D community that the new OGL would only truly affect a handful of creators—but then the text of OGL 2.0 was leaked to io9‘s Linda Codega, and it was far more restrictive than Wizards claimed.
D&D Releases Statement Walking Back OGL Changes After Backlash | The Mary Sue Wizards of the Coast has finally responded to community backlash about its new proposed Open Game License for Dungeons & Dragons.
01/13/2023
What they're saying: "There's been a paradigm shift from mass produced content to the one-on-one, sort of hyper-personalized content, which is becoming easier and easier with these AI tools," said Anushk Mittal, co-founder of generative AI avatar startup Circle Labs.
TikTok-style video dominates online, causing a creativity crisis Creators are all converging on the same short-video gimmicks in the hunt for viral hits.
01/12/2023
01/12/2023
Microsoft will introduce a new, lower-cost tier of Microsoft 365, its product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services, starting on January 30. Called Microsoft 365 Basic and priced at $1.99 per month or $19.99 per year, the plan will initially include 100 GB of storage, Outlook email and access to support experts for help with Microsoft 365 and Windows 11.
Microsoft 365 Basic launches with 100 GB of storage, Outlook and more for $1.99 per month Microsoft's lower-cost Microsoft 365 Basic plan is an effort to expand its cloud apps and services customer base.
01/12/2023
Blaze makes coding more accessible with AI-driven, no code app builder Blaze, an early-stage startup, launched a no-code app building platform that enables non-technical staff to create applications.
01/10/2023
‘Descendant’ Tells The Lost Story Of The Last Known Slave Ship The powerful Netflix documentary uses stories and records passed down from generation to generation.
01/09/2023
County clerk talks poll worker staffing, absentee data with Muleskinners Lennon said that while the county had enough workers for the last election, there are broader staffing considerations.
01/07/2023
ChatGPT is just the beginning: How advanced AI is set to enter a new era ChatGPT has taken the world by storm with its surprisingly sharp replies to prompts. It could be just the beginning of a new wave of AI.
01/06/2023
Tipping, in some ways, acts as a barometer for all of these complicated feelings, and the technology forces workers and consumers to confront them more frequently than ever. In a sense, we are watching cultural behaviors change in real time in a volatile cultural and economic environment. Tipping feels weird because everything feels weird in America in 2023.
Tipping Is Weird Now Technology and the pandemic have transformed the meaning of gratuity.
01/05/2023
From Elitist To Egalitarian: The #1 Entrepreneurial Pivot For More Unicorns… Everywhere Should Entrepreneurial Development focus on VC-based venturing to benefit a few or Unicorn-Entrepreneurship to boost everyone? U-Entrepreneurship can do more for more than VC. Without U-Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs could wait for capital that may not come, and squander the opportunity that has.
01/04/2023
The best. Bar none. Spike
"Employees often face sidebars of distractions, noise, and workspace clutter that hinder their ability to accomplish tasks." This is the pain we feel every day and is exactly why we created Spike. Thanks for the mention Indie Hackers 💪🏻
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/5-productivity-tools-to-try-in-2023-c2a0cab1de
01/02/2023
How the richest black man in the world turned a $3000 loan into a $19 billion empire In the last decade and counting, Aliko Dangote has emerged as the richest businessman in Africa, per Forbes and Bloomberg calculations.
01/02/2023
Minister Malcolm X visited the University of Ibadan while in Nigeria. In his autobiography, he describes being made an honorary member of the Nigerian Muslim Students’ Society and given a new name, “Omowale,” which in the Yoruba language means “the son who has come home”.
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