Month: September 2021

New lizard species discovered!

Scientists have discovered a new lizard species in Peru, the national conservation agency said Tuesday. The new species, called Liolaemus warjantay, was found in the Peruvian Andes at an altitude of 4,500 meters (14,700 feet), according to a statement from the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State. “A valuable contribution of Peru’s

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EquityBee, which runs a marketplace with ~12K investors to help startup employees exercise their stock options, raises $55M Series B led by Group 11 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: EquityBee, which runs a marketplace with ~12K investors to help startup employees exercise their stock options, raises $55M Series B led by Group 11  —  Stock options can hold a lot of potential reward for employees when their company is doing well, but not every person will have the funds …

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Google says it is improving Search using the MUM AI model, with features like “Things to know”, which gives users additional context about searched topics (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)

Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Google says it is improving Search using the MUM AI model, with features like “Things to know”, which gives users additional context about searched topics  —  At its Search On event today, Google introduced several new features that, taken together, are its strongest attempts yet …

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UK study: ~0.4% of artists generated enough streams in 2020, around 1M/month, to make a living, up from 0.1% in 2015, with 65%-75% of streams from back catalogs (Cherie Hu/Water & Music)

Cherie Hu / Water & Music: UK study: ~0.4% of artists generated enough streams in 2020, around 1M/month, to make a living, up from 0.1% in 2015, with 65%-75% of streams from back catalogs  —  This article is part of Extended Play, our new free weekly briefing built around contextualizing music-industry data.

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