Month: April 2023

Tonal, which makes smart, at-home strength training equipment, raised $130M; sources: the company’s valuation fell to $550M-$600M, down from $1.6B in 2021 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Tonal, which makes smart, at-home strength training equipment, raised $130M; sources: the company’s valuation fell to $550M-$600M, down from $1.6B in 2021  —  At-home fitness company’s latest funding round was completed at fraction of prior valuation  —  The founder of Tonal Systems Inc …

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Matt Taibbi’s account, including the Twitter Files, appears to have been shadowbanned after a spat with Elon Musk, preventing users from searching his tweets (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Matt Taibbi’s account, including the Twitter Files, appears to have been shadowbanned after a spat with Elon Musk, preventing users from searching his tweets  —  The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber.  —  Quick(ish) recap:

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Your Multimeter Might Be Lying To You

Multimeters are indispensable tools when working on electronics. It’s almost impossible to build any but the most basic of circuits without one to test and troubleshoot potential issues, and they make possible a large array of measurement capabilities that are not easily performed otherwise. But when things start getting a little more complex it’s important

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The Hello World of GPT?

Someone wants to learn about Arduino programming. Do you suggest they blink an LED first? Or should they go straight for a 3D laser scanner with galvos, a time-of-flight sensor, and multiple networking options? Most of us need to start with the blinking light and move forward from there. So what if you want to

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Bitcoin rises above $30K for the first time since June 2022, rallying 80%+ since the start of 2023, but is still down 50%+ from its November 2021 all-time high (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Bitcoin rises above $30K for the first time since June 2022, rallying 80%+ since the start of 2023, but is still down 50%+ from its November 2021 all-time high  —  Bitcoin climbed above $30,000 for the first time since June 2022, rallying more than 80% since the start of the year.

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The US FTC orders a supplement maker to pay $600K in its first case on “hijacked” Amazon reviews, in which reviews of different products are misleadingly merged (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: The US FTC orders a supplement maker to pay $600K in its first case on “hijacked” Amazon reviews, in which reviews of different products are misleadingly merged  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order in its first-ever enforcement action over a case involving …

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Katie Cotton, Apple’s former VP of worldwide communications for 18 years, who mostly worked directly for Steve Jobs before retiring in 2014, died on April 6 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Katie Cotton, Apple’s former VP of worldwide communications for 18 years, who mostly worked directly for Steve Jobs before retiring in 2014, died on April 6  —  Katie Cotton, a longtime Apple Inc. communications chief who served as a steward for the company’s iconic brand during the Steve Jobs era and

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Wasmer’s WCGI pairs WebAssembly and CGI

Wasmer aims to “revolutionize” server-side web development with WCGI, a technology that combines the WebAssembly binary instruction format with CGI (Common Gateway Interface). Positioned for serverless computing or running apps at the edge, WCGI promises to allow developers to reuse existing CGI applications by compiling them to WebAssembly/WASI (WebAssembly System Interface). Wasmer says that WCGI

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Wasmer’s WCGI pairs WebAssembly and CGI

Wasmer aims to “revolutionize” server-side web development with WCGI, a technology that combines the WebAssembly binary instruction format with CGI (Common Gateway Interface). Positioned for serverless computing or running apps at the edge, WCGI promises to allow developers to reuse existing CGI applications by compiling them to WebAssembly/WASI (WebAssembly System Interface). Wasmer says that WCGI

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Sources: Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss recently made a $100M loan to Gemini Trust, after their crypto exchange tried to raise funds from outside investors (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss recently made a $100M loan to Gemini Trust, after their crypto exchange tried to raise funds from outside investors  —  Billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss dipped into their own pockets to support their crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co. …

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Tests show Twitter, which resumed political ads this year, offers incomplete data on the ads through its “disclosure” tool, missing some promoted tweets (Jessica Piper/Politico)

Jessica Piper / Politico: Tests show Twitter, which resumed political ads this year, offers incomplete data on the ads through its “disclosure” tool, missing some promoted tweets  —  The platform started accepting political ads again in January.  —  Elon Musk took over Twitter last fall with a pledge …

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