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Losing the horn: VCs think majority of unicorns aren’t worth $1 billion anymore

The past few years have been a rollercoaster for the startup world’s herd of unicorns. Two years ago, we saw…

2 years ago

This gentle drone collects loose DNA from swaying tree branches

Understanding the biodiversity of forests is crucial to their conservation or restoration. Collecting “external DNA” left behind by animals is…

2 years ago

Wikipedia gets its first makeover in over a decade…and it’s fairly subtle

Wikipedia, one of the world’s top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting…

2 years ago

Wallapop, the circular marketplace out of Spain, raised $87M more at a $832M valuation led by Korea’s Naver

Wallapop, a peer-to-peer marketplace based out of Barcelona that made a splash at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic with…

2 years ago

Zack Snyder’s ‘Rebel Moon’ is set to arrive on Netflix in December

“Rebel Moon,” Netflix’s highly anticipated space fantasy epic, is coming to the streamer on December 22, 2023, the company announced…

2 years ago

Lidar companies face a ‘make it or break it’ year

That nagging deja vu feeling kept creeping in earlier this month during CES 2023 in Las Vegas. At every turn,…

2 years ago

Mailchimp says it was hacked — again

Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers’ data was exposed. It’s the…

2 years ago

DOJ charges founder of crypto exchange Bitzlato for processing $700M of illegal funds

In a press conference on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has arrested Anatoly Legkodymov, founder of…

2 years ago

Decodable wants to take real-time stream processing mainstream

Decodable, the well-funded real-time data engineering and stream processing platform based, in part, on the Apache Flink open-source project, is…

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Solana co-founder sees potential for devs to lead its network in 2023

As the crypto developer ecosystem expands, major ecosystems outside of the top two cryptocurrencies — Bitcoin and Ethereum — are…

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