March 8, 2018
Ovipost wants to help drop the labor cost of building cricket farms
Trina Chiasson says a lot of cricket farmers will talk about how figuring out when they are laying their eggs is an art — and she hopes to…
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March 8, 2018
New DDoS extortions hit the Internet
A 1.3 Tbps DDoS attack – essentially a massive torrent of data aimed at a single target – hit targets on March 1. While the attack itself is…
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Curious Fictions helps readers find (and pay for) short stories
Most of you, I suspect, haven’t read a short story in a long time. Well, there’s a Y Combinator-backed startup called Curious Fictions looking to change that —…
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YC-backed Ropeo brings on-demand fashion to Latin America
As ecommerce grows here in the United States, there are still some significant hurdles for the Latin American market. Credit card penetration is lower than the U.S. and…
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Samsung Galaxy S9+ review
You probably don’t need a 4,000-word review to tell you that the Galaxy S9+ is a good phone. Now that everyone’s got all of the Note 7 jokes…
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Starsky Robotics raises a $16.5 million Series A for its self-driving trucks
San Francisco-based autonomous trucking company Starsky Robotics announced this morning that it’s closed a $16.5 million Series A, led by Shasta Ventures. The news comes as the company…
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Atom Tickets raises $60M Series C for its movie booking app
Atom Tickets, an app that combines online movie ticket booking with social features, said today that it has raised a $60 million Series C led by Fidelity Investments,…
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Qarnot unveils a cryptocurrency heater for your home
French startup Qarnot unveiled a new computing heater specifically made for cryptocurrency mining. You’ve read that right, the QC1 is a heater for your home that features a…
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Banking platform solarisBank closes €56.6M Series B from BBVA, Visa, Lakestar, and others
SolarisBank, the Berlin-based “banking platform” co-founded by fintech company builder Finleap, appears to be on quite a roll. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
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Begin, a new app from Ryan Block, uses natural language to generate tasks from your Slack
Over two years after leaving Aol (now known as Oath) back in September 2015 to build a new startup, serial entrepreneur Ryan Block, with co-founder Brian LeRoux, is…
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