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Former Myntra chief’s fashion startup Virgio valued at $161 million in new funding

Fashion startup Virgio, co-founded by Amar Nagaram, former chief executive of Myntra, has raised $37 million in a new financing…

2 years ago

Twitter just banned prominent journalists who cover Elon Musk with no warning

On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended a number of prominent journalists on the platform without warning or explanation. The situation followed…

2 years ago

Twitters suspends Mastodon’s account, making a good case for Mastodon

A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk’s…

2 years ago

Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it

AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach…

2 years ago

Daily Crunch: Major tech firms partner with Linux Foundation to support open map data development

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2 years ago

Tesla Powerwall customers in Texas can now sell their electricity back to the grid

Elon Musk’s plan to “operate as a giant distributed utility” is creeping towards reality. First, Tesla piloted a “virtual power…

2 years ago

Sun King, a provider of solar energy products in Africa and Asia, expands Series D to $330M

Sun King, a provider of off-grid solar energy products in Africa and Asia, has secured a $70 million equity investment…

2 years ago

Juno raises millions to provide family-first healthcare from Inglewood to Harlem

Even after billions of venture capital raised and invested into the digital health space, it’s still difficult to access quality…

2 years ago

SBF’s handcuffs aren’t loosening up anytime soon

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. If you’re reading this, I’m willing to bet you probably weren’t arrested this week and…

2 years ago

The battle over gig worker status is heating up

The fight over whether gig workers are independent contractors or employees has been heating up this week on both state…

2 years ago