May 1, 2018
ZeroCater raises $12M to rule the fridges and pantries of an office
ZeroCater may have made its name in bringing restaurant food to offices for lunch (or other meals), but it has now raised a new fresh round of funding…
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May 1, 2018
ScienceLogic release gives IT view across entire stack
It’s tough being part of IT Ops these days. Your company could be operating across public and private clouds, and in many cases, an internal datacenter too. Meanwhile…
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RedHat’s CoreOS launches a new toolkit for managing Kubernetes applications
CoreOS, the Linux distribution and container management startup Red Hat acquired for $250 million earlier this year, today announced the Operator Framework, a new open source toolkit for managing…
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Suki raises $20M to create a voice assistant for doctors
When trying to figure out what to do after an extensive career at Google, Motorola, and Flipkart, Punit Soni decided to spend a lot of time sitting in…
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Chinese authorities dish out $5M in fines for developers of PUBG hack software
There has long been speculation and evidence of cheating software for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), but action is being taken to stamp it out. The makers of the smash-hit game have…
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WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum quits Facebook due to privacy intrusions
“It is time for me to move on . . . I’m taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled…
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Covee uses blockchain to allow experts worldwide to collaborate
Solving complex data-driven problems requires a lot of teamwork. But, of course, teamwork is typically restricted to companies where everyone is working under the same roof. While distributed…
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Spam filters and AI help figure out what animals do all day
The pond-dwelling Hydra is not a very complex little animal but it does have a complex repertoire of moves that aren’t clear until after extensive human observation. Examining…
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There’s something called Bacoin now
To paraphrase a saying popularized by countless dorm room stoners: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you use the hype…
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Chinese government admits collection of deleted WeChat messages
Chinese authorities revealed over the weekend that they have the capability of retrieving deleted messages from the almost universally used WeChat app. The admission doesn’t come as a…
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