Style recommendation startup Stylitics raises $15M: Anthony Ha
Stylitics, a startup powering outfit-based shopping recommendations for online retailers, is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The company was initially known for ClosetSpace, a mobile app that provided consumers with outfit recom…
Nvidia and VMware team up to make GPU virtualization easier: Frederic Lardinois
Nvidia today announced that it has been working with VMware to bring its virtual GPU technology (vGPU) to VMware’s vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. The company’s core vGPU technology isn’t new, but it now supports server virtualization to enable enterprises t…
India's FreshToHome raises $20M to grow its fish, meat, vegetable, and milk e-commerce platform: Manish Singh
FreshToHome, a Bangalore-based e-commerce startup that sells fresh fish, chicken, and other kinds of meat, has raised $20 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprint in the nation. The Series B round for the startup was led by Iron Pi…
India’s BharatPe raises $50M to help merchants accept digital payments and secure working capital: Manish Singh
BharatPe, a New Delhi-based firm that is enabling hundreds of thousands of merchants to start accepting digital payments for the first time each month and also giving them access to working capital, has raised $50 million as it looks to scale its business in …
Megvii, the Chinese startup unicorn known for facial recognition tech, files to go public in Hong Kong: Catherine Shu
Megvii Technology, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup known in particular for its facial recognition brand Face++, has filed for a public listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Its prospectus did not disclose share pricing or when the IPO wil…
Web host Hostinger says data breach may affect 14 million customers: Zack Whittaker
Hostinger said it has reset user passwords as a “precautionary measure” after it detected unauthorized access to a database containing information on millions of its customers. The breach is said to have happened on Thursday. The company said in a blog post i…
Original Content podcast: Netflix's 'Red Sea Diving Resort' awkwardly mixes fiction and reality: Anthony Ha, Jordan Crook, Darrell Etherington
“The Red Sea Diving Resort,” a new film on Netflix, is based on the true story of Mossad agents who took over an abandoned holiday resort in Sudan to smuggle Jewish Ethiopian refugees out of the country. As we explain in the latest episode of the Original Con…
The risks of amoral A.I.: Kyle Dent
Kyle Dent Contributor Kyle Dent is a Research Area Manager for PARC, a Xerox Company, focused on the interplay between people and technology. He also leads the ethics review committee at PARC. Artificial intelligence is now being used to make decisions about …
Crypto means cryptotheology: Jon Evans
Cryptocurrencies are a religion as much as they are a technology. They almost have to be, given their adherents’ gargantuan ambition of fundamentally changing how the world works. This means they attract charlatans, lunatics, frauds, and false prophets, and f…
Week in Review: Google rips out its sweet tooth: Lucas Matney
Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. Last week, I …
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