Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine: Profile of BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, who served six months of house arrest for US Bank Secrecy Act violations; sources say he’s still in control of BitMEX — Arthur Hayes rubbed success in the Feds’ face and got busted. Now he’s returning to a […]
Monthly Archives: February 2023
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Katie Adams / MedCity News: CodaMetrix, which uses AI to automate the process of translating patient records into codes for health care providers, raised a $55M Series A led by SignalFire — CodaMetrix, an AI platform for hospital revenue cycle management, recently closed a $55 million Series A funding round.
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: Dell updates the XPS 15 and 17 laptops with Intel’s 13th-Gen H-series CPUs and Nvidia’s RTX 40-series GPUs, starting at $2,949 and $3,399, available on March 2 — Dell sticks to chip upgrades for the latest models. — Dell has begun refreshing its popular XPS […]
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Salesforce is still paying Matthew McConaughey $10M a year to act as a “creative adviser” despite thousands of layoffs and multiple activist investors — The $160 billion business-software company has joined the tech industry’s retrenchment, laying off thousands
Alex Heath / The Verge: Internal roadmap: Meta to release three new Quest headsets, smart glasses with a display in 2025 alongside a neural interface smartwatch, and AR glasses in 2027 — During an internal presentation, Meta execs laid out plans for three new Quest headsets, AR glasses in 2027, […]
Enlarge (credit: Google) On Tuesday, Google made client-side encryption available to a limited set of Gmail and Calendar users in a move designed to give them more control over who sees sensitive communications and schedules. Client-side encryption is a generic term for any sort of encryption that’s applied to data […]
Elad Gil / Elad Blog: Mid-to-late stage tech startups will likely face a reckoning in late 2023 to 2024, as companies run out of cash from “free rounds” fueled by low interest rates — The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled […]
PYMNTS.com: Robotics startup Fulfil, which offers automated micro-fulfillment centers for online grocers, emerges from stealth with a $60M Series B led by Eclipse — As grocers look to escape reliance on aggregators, tech providers are offering new automated solutions.
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with iHeartMedia’s Conal Byrne on overseeing podcasting at the company, the industry maturing, RSS, radio and podcast ads, subscriptions, and exclusivity — Amid layoffs and a looming recession, folks are concerned about the audio industry. iHeart’s podcast head Conal Byrne is not worried.
Enlarge (credit: Klaus Vedfelt) An unfortunate feature of science is that two experiments that are ostensibly looking at the same thing can produce different results. Often, the different results are greeted unhelpfully as the experimenters—and sometimes even the entire field—are accused of being garbage. A more helpful response is to […]