The Mayor of Reno Is Betting Big on the Blockchain
Hillary Schieve invests in cryptocurrencies herself, and she sees the technology as a way to improve government services.
Malt, a freelance marketplace for developers, designers, project managers, and others, raises €80M led by Goldman Sachs, sources say at a €400M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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Malt, a freelance marketplace for developers, designers, project managers, and others, raises €80M led by Goldman Sachs, sources say at a €400M valuation — The world of professional services has…
PE firms KKR and CD&R agree to buy enterprise data cloud company Cloudera in an all-cash deal valuing the company at about $5.3B (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)
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PE firms KKR and CD&R agree to buy enterprise data cloud company Cloudera in an all-cash deal valuing the company at about $5.3B — – Private equity firms agreed to pay $16 a share in cash — …
Sennder, a digital freight forwarder that focuses on moving cargo around Europe, raises $80M extension to its $160M Series D at a $1B+ valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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Sennder, a digital freight forwarder that focuses on moving cargo around Europe, raises $80M extension to its $160M Series D at a $1B+ valuation — Freight forwarding — the process of organising how …
Peanut the Waiter Robot Is Proof That Your Job Is Safe
Restaurants are struggling to hire people, so one Jersey Shore grill employed a machine. It confirms that humans remain indispensable.
Indie Video Games Have Finally Embraced the Tabletop Scene
Video games like Monster Train, Slay The Spire, and Gordian Quest use decks, cards, and dice rolls to stake their claim.
This Arcane Manual Could Lead to More Human-Friendly Cities
For decades, the federal government has issued a guide for designing streets. Activists want to make it better for pedestrians and cyclists.
UN report: a Turkish-made autonomous weaponized drone “hunted down” and attacked a human target without instructions to do so during a 2020 conflict in Libya (Alyse Stanley/Gizmodo)
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UN report: a Turkish-made autonomous weaponized drone “hunted down” and attacked a human target without instructions to do so during a 2020 conflict in Libya — A “lethal” weaponized d…
Alienware unveils its thinnest 15-inch and 17-inch X-Series gaming laptops with 11th-gen Intel CPUs and Nvidia 30-series GPUs, starting at $2,000 and $2,100 (Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo)
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Alienware unveils its thinnest 15-inch and 17-inch X-Series gaming laptops with 11th-gen Intel CPUs and Nvidia 30-series GPUs, starting at $2,000 and $2,100 — It’s been a few years since the last time Alien…