Month: April 2022

LinkSquares, which provides contract management tools, raises a $100M Series C led by G Squared at an $800M valuation, bringing its total funding to $161.4M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: LinkSquares, which provides contract management tools, raises a $100M Series C led by G Squared at an $800M valuation, bringing its total funding to $161.4M  —  Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares, a company developing intelligent software …

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Gemini survey: nearly half of all crypto owners in the US, Latin America, and Asia Pacific purchased the digital assets for the first time in 2021 (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

Hannah Lang / Reuters: Gemini survey: nearly half of all crypto owners in the US, Latin America, and Asia Pacific purchased the digital assets for the first time in 2021  —  Almost half of all cryptocurrency owners in the United States, Latin America and Asia Pacific purchased the digital assets for the first time in

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How Does the IoT Reduce Manufacturing Downtime?

Unplanned manufacturing outages can be significantly costly and cause massive workflow disruptions. However, the Internet of Things (IoT) can help companies reduce manufacturing downtime in numerous ways. Although using the technology requires financial and time-related investments, the associated positive outcomes are often worthwhile. Downtime Could Have Many Ramifications Something that often gets overlooked is that

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Fortnite raises $144M for Ukraine relief, after Epic Games announced two weeks ago that all proceeds from the game would be donated to humanitarian efforts (Andrew Webster/The Verge)

Andrew Webster / The Verge: Fortnite raises $144M for Ukraine relief, after Epic Games announced two weeks ago that all proceeds from the game would be donated to humanitarian efforts  —  The fundraising effort has ended after two weeks  —  In two weeks, Fortnite has raised a total of $144 million for Ukraine relief efforts.

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SAMD11 Provides Two Serial Ports For Price Of One

While the average computer user likely hasn’t given much thought to the lowly serial port in decades, the same can’t be said for the hardware hacker. Cheap serial-to-USB adapters are invaluable for snooping debug ports or programming chips, and if you ask us, you can never have too many laying around the bench. [Quentin Bolsée]

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