Bloomberg:Nielsen: Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing in the US every month and between 70% to 80% of the top 10 shows in the US every week — Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend’s birthday. Lunch was interrupted by huge news […]
Deel review
Deel software is a one-stop platform aimed at streamlining all of your business issues from HR through to payroll
Cloud infrastructure company Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (Meir Orbach/CTech)
Meir Orbach / CTech:Cloud infrastructure company Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies — Volumez’s controller-less architecture composes direct Linux data paths between media and applications, helping companies convert knowledge into intelligence quickly and at scale
Braun Series 9 Pro review: a beast of a trimmer with an equally beastly price tag
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China building cyberweapons to hijack enemy satellites, says US leak
Document assesses Beijing’s ambitions to disrupt communications during wartime.
The Download: AI paternalism in health care, and Nigeria’s answer to Tesla
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Artificial intelligence is infiltrating health care. We shouldn’t let it make all the decisions. Would you trust medical advice generated by artificial intelligence? It’s a question raised by […]
Silver Lake agrees to buy Germany’s Software AG, a developer of business and application integration software, for €30 a share, valuing the company at ~€2.2B (Andrew Pollack/Bloomberg)
Andrew Pollack / Bloomberg:Silver Lake agrees to buy Germany’s Software AG, a developer of business and application integration software, for €30 a share, valuing the company at ~€2.2B — Private equity firm Silver Lake Management has agreed to acquire Germany’s Software AG for €30 a share in cash …
Musk vows to sue as Microsoft drops Twitter from its ad platform
It would open a new front in Musk’s feud with OpenAI, a company he helped start.
The Download: recycling batteries, and augmented reality hits stores
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why your iPhone 17 might come with a recycled battery Lithium-ion batteries power most of our personal electronics today. Mining the metals that make up those batteries can […]
Austin-based cybersecurity company Halcyon, which provides protection against ransomware, raised a $50M Series A, including $6M in debt, led by SYN Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Austin-based cybersecurity company Halcyon, which provides protection against ransomware, raised a $50M Series A, including $6M in debt, led by SYN Ventures — Following the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021, Jon Miller and Ryan Smith wondered why, with the widespread adoption of security tools …