Month: April 2022

How to watch ‘Pinecone & Pony’ on Apple TV+

What you need to know “Pinecone & Pony” is now streaming on Apple TV+. It is the latest animated children’s series on the streaming service. Another animated children’s series is now on Apple TV+. “Pinecone & Pony” is now streaming on Apple TV+. The new children’s series, which hails from Dreamworks Animation, is based on

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Russia Threatens to Fine Wikipedia For ‘False Information’

(Photo: Subhashish Panigrahi/Wikimedia Commons)Russia’s censorship authority—the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, or Roskomnadzor for short—has issued a warning to Wikipedia threatening to fine the nonprofit for publishing “false information.”  The agency demanded Tuesday that Wikipedia “limit the dissemination of unreliable socially significant information.” It vaguely described this as “frankly

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US judge sentences Denys Iarmak, a Ukrainian and member of the FIN7 hacking group, to five years in prison; FIN7 has stolen 20M+ credit card numbers since 2015 (Tonya Riley/CyberScoop)

Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: US judge sentences Denys Iarmak, a Ukrainian and member of the FIN7 hacking group, to five years in prison; FIN7 has stolen 20M+ credit card numbers since 2015  —  Denys Iarmak, a high-level member of the criminal hacking group FIN7, was sentenced to five years in prison today by a U.S.

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Built Robotics, which makes autonomous construction equipment, raises a $64M Series C led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $112M (Greg Kumparak/TechCrunch)

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: Built Robotics, which makes autonomous construction equipment, raises a $64M Series C led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $112M  —  If you’re still wrapping your head around the idea of self-driving cars, get ready for something that might seem even wilder …

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Kumo, whose AI platform uses graph neural networks to help companies predict better, raises a $18.5M Series A led by Sequoia Capital at a $100M valuation (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: Kumo, whose AI platform uses graph neural networks to help companies predict better, raises a $18.5M Series A led by Sequoia Capital at a $100M valuation  —  Modern businesses possess complicated networks of data, connecting information like customer behavior to marketing campaigns or fraud detection.

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Stress-Testing An Arduino’s EEPROM

Every time one of us flashes an Arduino’s internal memory, a nagging thought in the backs of our minds reminds us that, although everything in life is impermanent, nonvolatile re-writable memory is even more temporary. With a fixed number of writes until any EEPROM module fails, are we wasting writes every time we upload code

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Viz.ai, which uses AI to quickly detect signs of stroke and other diseases, raises a $100M Series D led by Tiger Global and Insight at a $1.2B valuation (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Viz.ai, which uses AI to quickly detect signs of stroke and other diseases, raises a $100M Series D led by Tiger Global and Insight at a $1.2B valuation  —  The Israeli startup develops an AI-powered disease detection and care coordination platform which is already in use in over 1,000 hospitals, serving

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Activision Blizzard confirms that Raven Software QA workers who recently organized as Game Workers Union won’t be able to take advantage of new pay minimum (Ash Parrish/The Verge)

Ash Parrish / The Verge: Activision Blizzard confirms that Raven Software QA workers who recently organized as Game Workers Union won’t be able to take advantage of new pay minimum  —  Raven Software QA workers organized under the Game Workers Alliance will not be able to benefit from the new pay raises

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China’s Zhiyi Tech, which provides AI tools to help fashion brands better predict bestsellers for e-commerce livestreaming, has raised ~$100M over three rounds (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: China’s Zhiyi Tech, which provides AI tools to help fashion brands better predict bestsellers for e-commerce livestreaming, has raised ~$100M over three rounds  —  In China, live streaming promotion is emerging as a popular way for brands and influencers to reach consumers …

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Twitter CEO tells staff in an email that Elon Musk will hold an internal AMA, to address employee concerns that Musk will sabotage culture (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Twitter CEO tells staff in an email that Elon Musk will hold an internal AMA, to address employee concerns that Musk will sabotage culture  —  Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees after a week of internal outcries over his appointment …

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