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A survey of 20+ professionals finds all but one do not plan to buy the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, citing Apple’s cheaper and similarly powerful laptops and desktops (Monica Chin/The Verge)

Monica Chin / The Verge: A survey of 20+ professionals finds all but one do not plan to buy the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, citing Apple’s cheaper and similarly powerful laptops and desktops  —  Apple’s latest Mac Pro targets professionals with highly demanding computing workloads.  But we talked to those professionals …

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Austin-based Cart.com, which sells end-to-end e-commerce services, raised a $60M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after raising $240M in February 2022 (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Austin-based Cart.com, which sells end-to-end e-commerce services, raised a $60M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after raising $240M in February 2022  —  Cart.com, an Austin-based company providing end-to-end e-commerce services, entered unicorn territory following a $60 million Series C round …

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Wind-to-Heat: A Lot of Hot Air?

Heating is one of the greatest uses of energy in human society today. Where we once burned logs to stave off the brutal winter chill, now we lean on gas and electricity to warm our homes and keep us safe and toasty. In some colder climates, like the UK, heating can make up 60-80% of

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AI’s Impact on Advertising: Unreliable News Websites and Brand Safety

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized various industries, including advertising. However, the rise of unreliable AI-generated news websites poses a challenge for brands in maintaining their reputation and ensuring brand safety. In this article, we will explore the implications of AI on advertising, the risks associated with unreliable news websites, and strategies for brands to navigate

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Prosus, a top shareholder in Byju’s, cuts the value of its Byju’s stake, implying a $5.1B valuation, far below the Indian edtech giant’s recent $22B valuation (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Prosus, a top shareholder in Byju’s, cuts the value of its Byju’s stake, implying a $5.1B valuation, far below the Indian edtech giant’s recent $22B valuation  —  Prosus, the largest non-founder shareholder in Byju’s, has drastically slashed the worth of its stake in the edtech giant …

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French and Dutch police say the ~115M communications obtained by cracking the encryption of EncroChat phones, announced in 2020, has so far led to 6,558 arrests (Mike Corder/Associated Press)

Mike Corder / Associated Press: French and Dutch police say the ~115M communications obtained by cracking the encryption of EncroChat phones, announced in 2020, has so far led to 6,558 arrests  —  Investigations triggered by the cracking of encrypted phones three years ago have so far led to more than 6,500 arrests worldwide …

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Israeli autonomous cloud security startup Cyera raised a $100M Series B led by Accel with Sequoia and others participating, a source says at a $500M valuation (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli autonomous cloud security startup Cyera raised a $100M Series B led by Accel with Sequoia and others participating, a source says at a $500M valuation  —  The Israeli company’s data security platform learns an enterprise’s unique data and business purpose using large language models …

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How routine drug use by Silicon Valley executives moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate culture, causing issues for boards and tech leaders (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: How routine drug use by Silicon Valley executives moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate culture, causing issues for boards and tech leaders  —  Entrepreneurs including Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are part of a drug movement that proponents hope will expand minds, enhance lives and produce business breakthroughs

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A look at Newark Public Schools’ test of AI chatbot Khanmigo, one of the first in the US, and concerns over the tool doing too much of the students’ thinking (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Natasha Singer / New York Times: A look at Newark Public Schools’ test of AI chatbot Khanmigo, one of the first in the US, and concerns over the tool doing too much of the students’ thinking  —  Newark public schools are cautiously trying out a new automated teaching aid from Khan Academy.  The preliminary report

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TikTok is discontinuing its BeReal clone

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok is killing off its BeReal clone TikTok Now, according to notifications being sent to users. Multiple Twitter users have posted screenshots of the message in different languages, which says that ByteDance is “updating the TikTok experience and [is] discontinuing TikTok Now.” News of its discontinuation comes a

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Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud

Image: Microsoft Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365, but the software giant also wants to do the same for consumers. In an internal “state of the business” Microsoft presentation from June 2022, Microsoft discuses building on “Windows 365 to enable a full Windows operating system

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